Recruitment round-up

Working in an industry when you deal with so many people, you’re always going to get some, er, ‘unusual’ things cropping up when dealing with phone calls, emails, CVs and the like. This is the start of an irregular column rounding up the funnier stories we hear through our working lives.

For example, there was the client who told us he’d once interviewed a candidate who’d clearly turned up drunk to the interview and, on being asked to leave, tried to start a fight! Not necessarily the best way to make a first impression.

Or there was the candidate who thought it was important to mention on his CV that he had met the Pope. Maybe he thought divine inspiration would take him once he was recruiting. However, on a much more down-to-earth level, one client asked to see one of our (female) consultants’ ‘white bits’. I guess some things never change…