Hishem AzzouzHost Of Recruitment Mentors Podcast

The Power of Focusing on the Controllables

Name: The Power of Focusing on the Controllables
Uploaded: 2025-07-01T16:01:02+00:00
Duration: 33 s
Channel: Hishem Azzouz
Description: In this segment, the speaker adopts a numbers‑driven, performance‑obsessed mindset and argues that the most effective way to excel in recruitment is to…

1 Jul 2025 · 1 min

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In this segment, the speaker adopts a numbers‑driven, performance‑obsessed mindset and argues that the most effective way to excel in recruitment is to become the best at activity. He identifies two fully controllable actions—business development outreach to clients and proactive candidate calls—as the non‑negotiable foundations of success. By consistently increasing these activities, recruiters generate more job assignments, which in turn produce more CV submissions, interview opportunities, and overall desk growth. The speaker presents this activity‑centric approach as a clear, measurable pathway to building a high‑performing recruitment pipeline.

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I am extremely numbers-driven, and I'm also obsessed with being the best. What can I be the best at? And I was like, well, I can be the best at activity. So there's two things that you can really control in my mind in recruitment. So it's your outreach to your, your candidates and your clients. They're definitely two things that you can control, right? So it was BD and it was candidate calls, and that was it. And everything else would obviously filter on from that. Like, the more BD you did, the more jobs you got on. The more jobs you got on, the more CVs you sent, the more interviews you get. So you can see how if you filter that down from those two non-negotiables, how you can actually build out your desk.