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Executive Recruitment – You’re Hired!
Finding the right candidates for executive recruitment or candidates who are suited for effective interim management is a difficult art.
When it comes to recruiting the very best staff possible, Sir Alan Sugar certainly knows how to put potential candidates through the mill. Executive recruitment can be a tough business. And searching for the next Apprentice to live up to Sir Alan Sugar is clearly not an easy task. In fact, anyone who watched this year’s series of The Apprentice knows that if it’s not some scheming, unpleasant back stabbing woman giving women in business a bad name, it’s some idiotic hair brained graduate, who may have the highest IQ on the planet, but still somehow thinks he can sell cheese to the French. And not just any cheese – processed cheese from a discount supermarket.
Executive Recruitment – You’re Fired!
Watching Sir Alan fire 10 out of the 12 apprentices may have made excellent TV but it also reveals how difficult executive recruitment can be. Not just for those desperate to get on the executive career ladder, but for the employers desperate for somebody shrewd enough for the job. The 11th candidate – Katie - wasn’t fired because she stepped down after recognising she couldn’t move her family and commit to London, revealing once more the delicate and difficult battlefield of executive recruitment.
Executive Recruitment – A Serious Business
It may seem a little bizarre that in the world of high powered business where executive recruitment is taken extremely serious, that the Apprentice made us howl with laughter. The back biting and Machiavellian tactics left a lot to be desired, showing it really is a dog eat dog world of work out there. Whether the losing candidates will make it in the world and find an executive recruitment company that will help their careers remains to be seen. Especially when you consider some of these classic comic moments:
- Simon’s ‘incident’ with the trampoline legs
- Paul and Katie trying to sell pork sausages to a halal kebab shop
- Rory yelling ‘I am your boss’ to Tre, who was clearly not bothered
And there were some moments that would frankly cross the candidates off the list of any executive recruitment company, including:
- Katie managing to offend the entire of the north of England
- Katie wishing Adam (a northerner) dead
- Katie saying Christina could never win with such an ‘orange’ face
- Just about anything Katie did!
But under the incredible pressure of Sir Alan Sugar, it’s no wonder that a few of the candidates needed to brush up on their business survival techniques. For those who are looking for executive recruitment and a successful business career, Sir Alan’s book might be just the ticket, it’s called: How to get Hired not Fired!
Freestone is a specialist recruitment service for executive recruitment and interim management solutions. At Freestone, we understand securing exceptional business leaders is fundamental to the success of any organisation. Freestone’s unique Microniche Sourcing approach facilitates a faster and more efficient recruitment process than that offered by traditional recruitment firms. To find out more, contact Freestone today on 0207 969 2727 or email: info@freestone-executive.com