‘I really want to work with people’

This is one of the standard answers given when asked ‘why do you want to become a recruitment consultant?’ This was certainly my answer when I started out in the recruitment field some years ago.

Admittedly I didn’t fully understand where my career might take me but I did know that my strength was in building relationships. So I undertook my new role with gusto under the (now fake) illusion that I would be building relationships, helping…