Hishem AzzouzHost Of Recruitment Mentors Podcast

The five-by-six rule.

Name: The five-by-six rule.
Uploaded: 2025-09-01T16:00:25+00:00
Duration: 43 s
Channel: Hishem Azzouz
Description: This content was created by Hishem Azzouz. This content was uploaded by Hishem Azzouz. This is a YouTube video titled "The five-by-six rule." (created…

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This content was created by Hishem Azzouz. This content was uploaded by Hishem Azzouz. This is a YouTube video titled "The five-by-six rule." (created 2025-09-01T16:00:25Z; last edited 2026-04-16T00:48:33Z) containing a short, practical talk on recruitment fundamentals. A single speaker (labelled SPEAKER A) explains the "5x6" rule: find 5 key pieces of information about candidates in your network and perform 6 follow-up actions around each (add to CRM, make a sales call, send an email follow-up, send and follow up on a LinkedIn invitation, and identify open-to-work candidates) to build a candidate pipeline. The content focuses on tactical hiring/recruiting strategies.

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Everyone talks about recruitment from a high level. It can sound quite simple, right? But then you get into the guts of it, it's actually really complicated, right? Then you layer lots and lots and lots of things on top, and it gets a lot more complicated and tricky. I think for people who are in a position where we kind of need to go back to basics, I find this really, really helpful. 5x6 is you finding 5 really good bits of information from candidates in your network, and then the 6 is the actions that you take around those. They get added to your CRM, they get a sales call from you, they get an email follow-up, a LinkedIn invitation and follow up, and then you get hold of all the open-to-work candidates that work for that organisation because they're then your candidates for your next day's work. So that to me is a really simple way of going and building out your market. Get 5 really good bits of information, do 6 actions around each of them.