Learning in Recruitment

[00:00:00] Ben Musgrave: Moved back from the Alps. I'd had enough living out there, living out of a suitcase permanently and things moved back to the UK. . Moved to London, needed to find a job, started applying to jobs, and then got approached by some recruitment companies, and was learning about it, trying to figure out what I wanted to do.

[00:00:20] Ben Musgrave: Fundamentally, I needed cash, so I said yes. And I, what I, It's a story as old as time itself. Exactly, yeah. And but I wasn't actually, I guess I wasn't actually a recruiter, I was a relationship manager for for a recruitment company. And so I was really looking after our big clients and it was the, a lot of the big banks where we were on the PSL, for like tech PSLs, risk PSLs, finance PSLs, whatever.

[00:00:45] Ben Musgrave: In general, we were already on them and I was maintaining those relationships, making sure we stayed on the PSL each year. And trying to, convince the client that we were doing a good job so they'd keep us, that we were staying within their rules, and also pushing our recruiters to fill as many jobs as possible and to, the reality was, push those rules to the limits to try and get an advantage over everyone else on the PSL and, there's a lot of jobs come out of them, but therefore there's a lot of people on the PSL, so there's five or six companies.

[00:01:14] Ben Musgrave: That was really interesting, I loved just Learning about all of these different jobs that up until that time I'd never didn't even know they existed, that risk was such a thing that, all, you know, learning about different types of engineering and coding, et cetera. I found that really interesting