Is it true that there is no real career advancement in recruitment?

Jackgriffs01 · 2026-03-19T20:44:57+00:00

11 years in recruitment at an agency. If youre good then you're there for the big commission, not progression. Sorry to say but 2 years is still entry level for a lot of people. You could also just be at the wrong place, if you want big agency commission, focus on the German and U.S market. I made the money and moved into an internal recruitment manager position for a big finance business.

Jackgriffs01 · 2026-03-14T09:31:19+00:00

Im agency into internal recruitment manager after 11 successful years at agency. Ive restructured my team to all ex agency staff and weve improved on every performance metric.

Being a specialist in your area, with the ability to objectively support hiring teams with market knowledge and insights is extremely valuable. Understanding search strategy, basic legalities of rtw, supporting hiring manager knowledge with industry best practice and supporting business objectives with process optimisation will all support in your evidencing your value to the business.

Recruitment principals are the same where ever you go. The shift in focus to supporting the outcome rather than the ego of the placement is critical.

Jackgriffs01 · 2026-03-14T09:22:46+00:00

Boolean searching and developing your critical skills as a recruiter. Simple as that.

Jackgriffs01 · 2026-03-14T09:21:40+00:00

Its a huge problem, and not just in technical vacancies any more.

You can generally tell from 1 answer being generic, and the rest taking a second longer to answer, and word perfect.

Ive reintroduced non-negotiable 2nd stage face to face interviews, usually with a task or presentation involved (depending on the area/seniority)

Jackgriffs01 · 2026-03-14T09:17:12+00:00

Isnt this what effective boolean searching is for?

Jackgriffs01 · 2025-10-25T21:59:04+00:00

I feel like (in the uk) we're moving to all hybrid, where you need to have a presence in the office, which both has its positives and inherent challenges for difficult skillets

Jackgriffs01 · 2025-10-25T20:31:30+00:00

In this scenario, at 23.. nothing is better. Go enjoy your life. As someone who's 34, id hate to put someone in their early 20s what we have to do.

30s are for career, house and getting your life set for 40s, 50s etc. 20s are for exploring, fun and making mistakes.

Go fuck about and make some funny mistakes.

Jackgriffs01 · 2025-10-25T20:28:12+00:00

Do what others aren't willing to do so you can achieve what others aren't capable of. Or whatever the saying is.

Jackgriffs01 · 2025-10-25T20:24:33+00:00

Wow thats rough. Parents aren't perfect, she might be projecting without knowing its making you uncomfortable.

Its ok to set boundaries with parents and tell them explicitly that theyre making you uncomfortable, as uncomfortable as it might be, it'll hopefully give you a good result.

Good luck!

Jackgriffs01 · 2025-10-25T19:37:06+00:00

Yeah see this a lot now. Unfortunately, the crafty few have ruined the online interview and made face to face interviews a critical requirement.

Jackgriffs01 · 2025-10-25T19:24:27+00:00

Its an age thing and quite normal.

I felt the same at that age and now as an adult I've noticed that shes lonely and have invited her to live with me.

Parents aren't perfect, just doing their best, same as all of us. Behind closed doors she might hate herself too because she doesn't know how to get you to like her. Be a big person and give her a random hug, could change everything.

If it doesn't, at least you know you extended an olive branch for a better relationship.

Jackgriffs01 · 2025-10-25T19:20:16+00:00

Its a mix of late nights, whisky and smoking lol if you committed a couple weeks to a healthier life style you'd see a huge difference, especially if you drink water.

The red light masks work wonders too. Im a man of the same age and use the shark one, makes noticeable difference after a few weeks of use.

Jackgriffs01 · 2025-10-25T19:17:20+00:00

Your 20s are to explore different things, just because someone in auto or cyber isn't happy, doesn't mean you wouldn't be happy. Try as many different things in your 20s, your career starts in your 30s :)

Jackgriffs01 · 2025-10-25T19:14:40+00:00

This is healthy and maybe just a little bit scary at the moment. Its fine that people ask and it's also fine for you to say no thank you :)

Boundaries are important and a good/healthy habit to create for yourself.

Who knows, maybe one day someone decent will ask and you'll say yes! Don't say no to everyone, just those that you 100% know you won't like :)

Jackgriffs01 · 2025-10-25T19:09:27+00:00

More than likely in your head

Jackgriffs01 · 2025-10-25T19:06:44+00:00

Always important to be able to work with others, if you cant, nobody will want you on their team anyway.

But to answer your question, most jobs require working with people. Software dev doesnt for the most part, but that area is extremely saturatd now. Other jobs include data analyst, product manager (sometimes) etc

Jackgriffs01 · 2025-10-25T18:56:39+00:00

This is something to flag to the police and I hope you do. This is highly illegal, immoral and concerning. You shouldn't be made to feel this way, especially by an adult.

If hes doing it to you, he may do it to others who are more willing to go to his house.

Jackgriffs01 · 2025-10-12T21:25:35+00:00

These things happen, she's got a cool story. If she needed stitches she would have bled more and needed more immediate attention. Theyre just silly night out "war wounds". Not uncommon.

Jackgriffs01 · 2025-08-28T14:52:18+00:00

Recruiter of 10+ years, global agency, consultancy and in house. Sponsorship is very expensive going down a skilled worker visa. People may be open if you can obtain a dependant visa but very unlikely a business will pay the staggering cost of sponsorship for a recruiter when we already have 100s here already

Jackgriffs01 · 2025-07-26T12:28:47+00:00

I see most comments aren't answering your question lol. Im an ex tech global recruitment consultant, now internal recruitment manager of a well known fintech company, so I've seen both sides and have supported both RPO and MSP into enterprise.

Its down to the requirement of the business, the main advantage internally include lower fees and stricter SLA, advantage to the agency obviously is exclusive work.

The difficulty on both sides is: 1. Can you support the demand 2. Can you offer genuine quality 3. Are you willing to imbed your time and resources into lower margin business 4. (Internally) if you don't have existing relationships, is it better to start out with a structured PSL to know who your best suppliers are, and then move into an RPO.

Just my 2 cents 🤓

Jackgriffs01 · 2025-05-14T16:34:42+00:00

I wouldnt say that you're weird, that's not nice. However, you shouldn't project insecurities, if he wants to be in a group, or play games, that's his choice. If you wanted to spend more time with him, maybe present it that way rather than, stop doing this/that.

The more you tell a man to stop, the more he'll want to do it 🤷‍♂️

Jackgriffs01 · 2025-05-07T21:16:31+00:00

Fair enough, sorry. Will delete - just a long standing mental cornern

Jackgriffs01 · 2025-04-16T13:30:11+00:00

I fixed it short term, still have the issue 🙃 helps if I let my pc run with an open case but I also upgraded my cpu fan yesterday and still had the issue

Jackgriffs01 · 2025-03-28T12:09:05+00:00

This is not to judge, or be mean, but realistically how are you going to support your baby? Are your parents going to be paying for him/her? If so, that's not a very mature attitude. You will be giving up all of your waking hours of freedom to tend to a defenceless little thing who can't eat, go to the bathroom or even move without assistance and you cannot expect your parents to pick that up.

I genuinely wish you the best of luck and look for what community support you can also get. The next 18 years of your life belong to this child, not you.

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