15/07/2026
Recruitment has the wrong scoreboard.
Most agencies count starts.
Offer accepted. Invoice sent. Move on.
I get why. It is clean. It is easy to measure. It keeps the lights on.
A candidate I placed many years ago popped up recently. I hadn’t said hello in a while, so I did.
We had a lovely catch-up. She is flying, which was brilliant to hear.
Who else haven’t I spoken to in some time, and how are they getting on?
So I have spent the last week or two getting back in touch with hiring managers and candidates I had lost touch with.
Many of the people I placed are still with the same companies, in a few cases more than 10 years later.
Not the same jobs.
Bigger jobs.
Jobs where the decisions carry more weight.
Some have become part of the furniture, in the best possible way.
And, yes, I had lost touch with some of them. That bit is on me.
Seeing where they are now was a useful reminder.
The real result is not the start date.
It is whether the hire still makes sense years later.
Some of them are now the people making the hiring decisions.
