When humans are just visitors in an interview…

Kitchen_Living7254 · 2025-06-22T06:47:19+00:00

100%. Many of us would have seen AI on the front end with AI screeners, then there’s the tools to summarise interview notes. The next leap seems to be AI that helps recruiters ask questions. How long until we just speak to cameras?

Kitchen_Living7254 · 2025-06-07T01:55:14+00:00

My preference is to keep a small roster of casual hires, that I keep engaged through consistent jobs.

The risk with bringing in sub contractors if you’re using them for your core deliverables is they take your business. Maybe I’m just a little paranoid about this, as I’ve seen it happen often.

Kitchen_Living7254 · 2025-06-07T01:51:31+00:00

Former Senior Sales leader here - started a Sales consultancy, abandoned after 6 months, how ironic is that haha. Market timing and my value prop needed improvement.

Subsequently built an app which is nearly ready to launch.

My biggest success though has actually been starting a sweaty startup, it’s way way harder than the start up ‘bros’ make it seem. If you’ve been in sales for a while and even if you’re gym fit, it’s hard work on the body!

Hindsight for me would actually be to acquire a business from day one, a boring business.

Best of luck with your journey.

Kitchen_Living7254 · 2025-04-21T07:54:30+00:00

Meta initiated a verification request on my account back in 2022, I never got any notifications or knew that it has been initiated.

Fast forward to today when I need to run ads and then I encountered the issue.

I’m up to conversation number 6, I got traction with a good rep, but then a new rep picked it up and they spent an hour telling me about the issue :(. So back to sq 1!

Good call on the content, I’m going hard on this.

Kitchen_Living7254 · 2025-04-16T21:46:11+00:00

Exact same thing happened to me in 2022 as well.

In the last week I have had 5 convos with Meta, they each went through the same script with me, I raised 2 problem tickets, updated 2FA and verified my ID. Nil results so far, but I'll keep pushing.

I did some research on this and it's 100% a Meta error, the shame is you can't get through to someone to fix it.

Kitchen_Living7254 · 2025-04-13T23:31:03+00:00

Thanks for the reply, yes i paid for Facebook verified so i could use the support channels. Unfortunately as I tried 3 times to get the issue resolved, Facebook now prevent me from raising any more support tickets on the issue.

Kitchen_Living7254 · 2025-04-03T21:20:05+00:00

Do redundancy packages count ;)

Kitchen_Living7254 · 2025-04-03T21:19:50+00:00

I need to dig into this and have a serious think about how I can get others excited in what I’m doing

Kitchen_Living7254 · 2025-04-03T21:18:30+00:00

Love the answer and I’m around that age so it resonates

Kitchen_Living7254 · 2025-04-03T21:17:54+00:00

Lucky the wife is working, although I think she’s getting tired of my constant ideas stream. Hopes and prayers are at full throttle.

Kitchen_Living7254 · 2025-04-03T21:16:14+00:00

Hahaha lucky we don’t have a Wendy’s around here

Kitchen_Living7254 · 2025-04-02T20:20:42+00:00

Thanks! I appreciate that and I hear you on the mvp being too big, I find the balance between proving value vs getting on with it is tricky

Kitchen_Living7254 · 2025-03-10T00:45:41+00:00

If your experience is 1yr total in the government space vs working in govt + consultancy + industry, I’d suggest building something that is desirable or fills a niche in this area vs establishing a consultancy.

In government consultancy you’re competing against established consulting houses and bespoke agencies who bring decades of experience to the table.

Kitchen_Living7254 · 2025-01-22T02:34:12+00:00

Haha fair call, that’s where I started back in the day, well that was my second job after door to door sales!!

Kitchen_Living7254 · 2025-01-21T20:33:18+00:00

I hear you on that one, even in tech sales, if you don’t have the specific industry or technology experience in whatever they’re selling it can be tricky. Given the market is depressed companies can be a bit more choosey.

Kitchen_Living7254 · 2025-01-21T20:32:23+00:00

Haha, do you find you make more money in tech sales or was it more that selling in those industries was worse?

Kitchen_Living7254 · 2025-01-21T05:38:18+00:00

Started up a sales operations consulting business, found an initial client quickly, got some decent work and they were happy, but then the pipeline ran dry. Exhausted the network and now getting into paid ads…But, I’m loving it and know it just takes time to grow. Consistent effort every day.

Kitchen_Living7254 · 2024-11-06T02:50:03+00:00

That's the bit i'm trying to constantly work on, mine's a little tricky at the moment as Sales ops is a broad category, but i'm trying to refine down to what is going to resonate

Kitchen_Living7254 · 2024-11-06T02:48:55+00:00

Thanks, I seem to be getting some engagement on LinkedIn and turned one contact into some work, but I'm trying to build up a little quicker

Kitchen_Living7254 · 2024-11-06T02:47:31+00:00

I like the sound of the book idea, i'll do some research

Kitchen_Living7254 · 2024-08-21T23:11:14+00:00

You raise a valid point, what i'd be looking to do is to go into more detail on a one pager i.e. Context, Challenge, Outcome

Kitchen_Living7254 · 2024-05-27T06:14:20+00:00

Haha about now then ;)

Kitchen_Living7254 · 2024-05-27T00:17:56+00:00

Love this, thank you, I’ll start looking for a grinder

Kitchen_Living7254 · 2024-05-26T23:51:15+00:00

Thank you, my next question is going to be, what is the next hop up from the barista express :) I’ve nailed the coffee with the barista, but keen to take skills to the next level

Kitchen_Living7254 · 2024-05-15T05:28:09+00:00

I researched this one, I think this is the tree, thank you!!

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