Hishem AzzouzHost Of Recruitment Mentors Podcast

Embracing that entrepreneurial spirit.

Name: Embracing that entrepreneurial spirit.
Uploaded: 2025-04-04T16:00:19+00:00
Duration: 41 s
Channel: Hishem Azzouz
Description: In this monologue, the speaker reflects on their early, unconventional approach to building a recruitment firm, High Group. Drawing from experience at a…

4 Apr 2025 · 1 min

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In this monologue, the speaker reflects on their early, unconventional approach to building a recruitment firm, High Group. Drawing from experience at a previous agency (Faden), they observed that many recruitment professionals openly discuss launching their own ventures, even if few actually do so. Recognizing this entrepreneurial mindset, the speaker argues that firms seeking to hire smart, driven talent must accept that such employees will eventually consider starting their own businesses. Rather than resisting this tendency, the speaker advocates leaning into it—embracing the entrepreneurial spirit—to avoid being left behind when employees eventually depart to pursue their own ventures.

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So I was probably kind of radical when I first started the business. I kind of thought that everybody that would work for a recruitment business, because I did when I worked at Faden, and I was always amazed actually when I was there. Most of the people there were plotting to go out and start their own thing. Not many of them did it, but most people were talking about it openly in the pub. And I kind of thought, this is madness. So I thought when I started High Group, I was like, you need to embrace that. Like, you need to accept the fact that people, entrepreneurial people, if you want to hire, you know, smart, driven entrepreneurs, young people, they're going to start conspiring to start their own thing at some point. So unless you lean into it, you're gonna end up on the wrong side of it.