Hishem AzzouzHost Of Recruitment Mentors Podcast

Managing a team whilst still doing deals in Recruitment

Name: Managing a team whilst still doing deals in Recruitment
Uploaded: 2024-10-11T16:00:27+00:00
Duration: 45 s
Channel: Hishem Azzouz
Description: In this interview segment, the speaker reflects on his experience up to the end of 2022, during which he continued to generate personal revenue while…

11 Oct 2024 · 1 min

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In this interview segment, the speaker reflects on his experience up to the end of 2022, during which he continued to generate personal revenue while overseeing a team of 13 recruiters. He explains that a strong market position meant he didn’t need extensive proactive prospecting; candidates and client opportunities arrived organically, often through referrals from a successful placement that connected him to a major semiconductor firm. He estimates that roughly 35‑40% of his weekly workload was devoted to his own sales activities, with the remaining time focused on developing and managing his team members. The discussion highlights how natural business development, a well‑built client pipeline, and disciplined time allocation enabled him to balance personal deal work with effective team leadership.

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Up until end of 2022, you were still billing? Yeah. And you was managing 13 people. That's crazy. If I was just a fly on the wall, like, what would your week look like? One, I had a very well-built market, so I didn't really have to do a ton of proactive work. I'd have candidates coming to me semi-often. I'd have clients that were built, and it all came from a client I placed with who were like a 20-person startup. Went to one of the biggest semiconductor companies in the world, um, and took me with him. So a lot of the BD was kind of done naturally through the work I already put in. You know, my own business probably took up about 35-40% of the week, and then the rest of the time was on developing and managing individuals in