Recruiting Through Mike Richards: The Treasure of Finding Talent

Often we don't talk recruitment on the podcast, although it's up here. And we. Because we don't make it. That's not the be all and end of. It's one of the reasons I changed the outro, which people are here in a minute, that some people said, do you just do the podcast? I said, no, we're recruiters, we find people. So in a similar situation, you don't have to look for a year to find that person. But then people ask us a lot of the time, hang on, I can just go on LinkedIn. I went, good luck with that. Because they go on LinkedIn and they said, why does LinkedIn work? I said, LinkedIn does work for general jobs. It doesn't work. That's why I've been doing this 25 years. This is one of the bits. And again, I talked to two or three clients recently and they were like. And I said, look, you go on LinkedIn and what you will do is you'll get unhappy people. They said, oh. When I said no, they might have a happy demeanor, but I said that people unhappy where they are, they're leaving a bad situation. They want to get out of their role. They don't care about your job. No, they're coming to join you. Maybe because they don't like their boss. Sometimes they don't like salary. But actually salary is not down there. It's actually about progression. It's about balance of all that stuff. So that was one of the key things. And then people have said to me, how do you get them? I said, I'd get them through the podcast and get them through all the other things. That's why I go and do all the conferences. That's why I reach out to people like yourselves and connect. Because I'm talking to the pool of people that aren't necessarily actively seeking a role, but they'll find a role through me. That's where headhunters exist. That's where we exist by talking to amazing people like yourself, and then we bring your stories to life.