Hishem AzzouzHost Of Recruitment Mentors Podcast

Never use a fake job for leads

Name: Never use a fake job for leads
Uploaded: 2025-10-23T16:00:39+00:00
Duration: 38 s
Channel: Hishem Azzouz
Description: In this brief YouTube excerpt, a headhunter (Speaker A) explains his commitment to honesty and transparency, rejecting the practice of using fabricated…

23 Oct 2025 · 1 min

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In this brief YouTube excerpt, a headhunter (Speaker A) explains his commitment to honesty and transparency, rejecting the practice of using fabricated job openings to attract candidates. He emphasizes that reputation and credibility are essential in the market, and his approach is to simply introduce himself as a specialist and ask if the candidate wants a conversation, without pitching a non‑existent role. Speaker B counters that many people believe they must lead with a job offer to start such conversations, highlighting a common industry misconception.

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We're never leading with a fake job. We have complete honesty and transparency in the things we do. So I'm never calling these people trying to pitch a fake job. I don't believe in that because I'm lying to them. All we have in this market is our reputation, and credibility is absolutely key. All I'm doing is calling them saying, I'm a headhunter specializing in this, do you want to have a conversation? And normally they go, wow, a headhunter's calling me, yes please. And then on the call, I'm not pitching them a fake job, I'm simply saying who I am, what they want, right now I'll go and take it to market.
I feel like a lot People may believe that in order to have those types of conversations, they have to be leading with a job or something to talk to them about.