Hishem AzzouzHost Of Recruitment Mentors Podcast

It's a shocking, but maybe all too familiar, recruitment story.

Name: It's a shocking, but maybe all too familiar, recruitment story.
Uploaded: 2025-03-18T17:00:43+00:00
Duration: 55 s
Channel: Hishem Azzouz
Description: A recruitment agency built a strong shortlist for a pre-sales engineer role, but the client rejected it and ghosted them. Days later, a bigger firm…

18 Mar 2025 · 1 min

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A recruitment agency built a strong shortlist for a pre-sales engineer role, but the client rejected it and ghosted them. Days later, a bigger firm placed the same candidate in the role at £120K base salary. The speaker wonders if the client dismissed them for being too small or new.

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So happy. We were really proud of the shortlist that we put together, but ultimately, and then the complete opposite happened. I genuinely thought the words would come out like, this is amazing. And he went, this is not good. He said, this is terrible. And, um, and we were just completely shocked. Uh, anyway, then they ghosted us, which was lovely. Then started getting messages from another recruitment company, a much larger, more established recruitment company, offering the job to them at their salary. So they were like, hi, we're working with X, looking for a, a pre-sales engineer, £120K base. And they told you that? Went back to the company and And they basically said, oh yeah, we did. Well, you know, we didn't take your advice first of all, but then we went to this other agency. They told us it is more senior. So yeah, we're going to work with them at the more senior role. It was just one of those things where I thought, I wonder if we were older, more established, larger, giving that feedback to those founders, would they have maybe listened to it and taken it more seriously?