RAYE Waited Seven Years to Be Told She Was Good Enough. Most Recruitment Business Owners Are Still Waiting.

RAYE Waited Seven Years to Be Told She Was Good Enough. Most Recruitment Business Owners Are Still Waiting.

Terry Edwards
Published on: 12/11/2026

Friday afternoon. The owner of a search firm is on the phone with a hiring manager he's placed four people with in two years. New role. Head of Engineering. The biggest search this client has run.

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Mercedes Kept Working on Kimi Antonelli for Eight Years After Signing Him. You Stopped at the Invoice.

Mercedes Kept Working on Kimi Antonelli for Eight Years After Signing Him. You Stopped at the Invoice.

Terry Edwards
Published on: 12/11/2026

Monday morning. The owner of a recruitment and search firm opens his CRM and starts building a call list. Forty names. Forty hiring managers who have never heard of him and have no reason to pick up.

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What Ted Lasso can teach you about making placements

What Ted Lasso can teach you about making placements

Terry Edwards
Published on: 12/11/2026

Somebody at a television network looked at Ted Lasso and decided he had run his course. He had done his job. Two adverts, made to sell NBC's new Premier League coverage to Americans who did not watch football. Funny enough

Why The Best Recruiter In The Niche Gets Squeezed Hardest On Fee

Why The Best Recruiter In The Niche Gets Squeezed Hardest On Fee

Terry Edwards
Published on: 16/10/2026

Michael B. Jordan is directing and starring in a new version of The Thomas Crown Affair. Trailer landed a few weeks ago, cinemas next March. It's the third time this story has been filmed. Steve McQueen in 1968. Pierce Brosnan in 1999. Now Jordan.

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