Confessions of a Recruiter
The show is hosted by Blake Thompson and Declan Kluver who respectively own Vendito Consulting and Blended Employment. Both have been in Sales & Marketing Recruitment for over 5 years. The podcast is about opening the door to the recruitment world and creating a community of recruiters who can share funny stories, educate and have honest conversations about the industry and their experience. All episodes are powered by xrecruiter.
Confessions of a Recruiter
Vulnerability and Business: When Impostor Syndrome Strikes | Confessions of a Recruiter #114 MOMENT
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Probably the biggest one was when I went to Tasha's launch party and then I just wasn't feeling myself. I felt so out of place and I've already spoken about this so I feel comfortable sharing it. But yeah, I felt so out of place. I was like you know, matt's here, he's, this guy's a big dog, he's running the show. I'm like fuck, I don't know what I'm doing.
Speaker 0:It used to be just have a few sales and hang out with partners and now, like this guy's a CEO of a 45 person recruitment agency, these partners are building bigger businesses than me and Blake ever built. Like what the hell's going on here? I don't deserve to be here. Um, and I was just like I would wake up with like heart palpitations through the night, going like fuck, is this whole thing going to implode? Are people going to find out that I'm not that good at business and I don't know how to manage anyone? I'm not managing people?
Speaker 0:Well, you know, the whole delivery of all the projects didn't go to plan. We're working across split offices, getting into a crappy financial position, didn't get a salary for 18 months, put all our money in. Um, you know, I was living a pretty good life before extra credit came about. We just bought a house, sell our fucking house, um, so, yeah, it was probably a backlog of all that stuff Never going to anyone, never talking to anyone, probably not even being truly honest to you, um, just sort of bundling it all up.
Speaker 0:And then, um, um, and then brody called me out on it. He's like dude, you're not yourself, what's what's doing? Like that, you're not the declan that I know. And we obviously got to build a pretty good relationship through doing the coaching and stuff with him and he's like you need to fucking man the fuck up and be honest. And, um, get help. And I'm like, holy shit, okay. And then I just randomly got onto Audible and found Michael Anderson's book. And then I think I came into the office and I was like on a Saturday with you and I think I burst into tears. I was like, mate, this is the problem I've worked out. And you're like, yeah, I've been trying to tell you that for a while. Yeah,