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esterday I had reason to reach for Tony Hall’s excellent book, First Interview.

Published in 2000, the book features twenty-two of the most prominent and successful recruitment agency owners and leaders of that era.

Almost all of them are now retired and, sadly, a handful are no longer with us.

Earlier this year I wrote How I didn’t deal with professional heartbreak in which I chronicled my decades-long unresolved emotions arising from the messy exit at my long-time employer. The post was given a wider audience thanks to Recruiting Brainfood curator, Hung Lee, featuring it in issue 438

Aah, the innocence and naivety of the young entrepreneur who says, “The recruitment industry is stuck in the past,” as she confidently launches her app to “make hiring faster, smarter and more human.”

After the shock of the COVID-19 pandemic and associated lockdowns and border closures, we could be excused for thinking that we had experienced our fair share of ‘interesting times’ for this decade.

27 March 2025 – Blog by Ross Clennett I have spent the past week absorbed in Careless People, a memoir…