Global Headhunter - Managing Partner - Bateman Fox. Partnering with VCs/PEs & PortCos to land S-Tier talent. Snowboarding 🏂 | Diving 🤿 | Family Man.
SF | NYC | LDN
Joined May 2014
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Who do you think the candidate will want to work for?
Hiring is a race.
Move fast.
Stay close.
Win better talent. 🚀
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It will pay dividends.
Real example:
Today at noon, we booked an interview within 2 hours of sending a CV.
Meanwhile, a competitor?
Still dragging their heels a week later.
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Want to truly maximise your recruiter relationship?
▶️ Answer their calls.
▶️ Jump on the quick chat.
▶️ Give them the real story.
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▶️ They can’t want the hire more than you do.
▶️ If you’re not showing urgency, neither will they.
Talent moves fast.
If you don’t?
You lose.
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Because endless back-and-forth emails aren't just frustrating.
They cost you weeks.
Sometimes months.
Recruiters lean into hiring managers who are collaborative and present.
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Want it to actually work?
▶️ Be transparent.
▶️ Be responsive.
▶️ Share everything — even the bits you think don't matter.
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The thing is, that critical role you need to fill?
It’s not going to fill itself.
No comms = recruiter guessing.
Guesswork = wasted time. Missed candidates. Slower hiring.
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Most don't know how to get the most out of working with a recruiter.
Especially from a hiring perspective.
And to be fair:
▶️ Busy.
▶️ Back-to-back meetings.
▶️ Fires to put out.
▶️ Recruiter calls not a priority.
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People complain about recruiters all the time.
But sometimes, the people complaining are part of the problem. 🧵
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Drowning in Resumes.
Still can't find good people.
Because more candidates ≠better hires.
A broken hiring process + gut feel = disaster.
Fix the system first. Then hire.
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Real businesses aren’t built by chasing volume.
They’re built by doing the first job right - and every job after that.
#Recruitment #Entrepreneurship #Leadership
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We found the right person.
Placed them.
They’re still with that company today. 15 years later.
One role. One relationship.
It shaped everything we’ve built since.
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At the time, Bateman Fox was a desk in a spare bedroom.
I was making 80 cold calls a day, building everything from scratch.
This wasn’t just about filling a role.
It was about building trust.
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It wasn’t a big celebration.
No champagne. No announcements.
Just a simple brief from one of my first clients:
They needed a T-SQL Database Developer.
And I needed to prove Bateman Fox could deliver.
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The right move isn’t always the easy one - it’s the one that stays true to your values.
That decision shaped everything.
And it still drives how we work today.
#Entrepreneurship #Recruitment
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But I’d seen what recruitment had become - a numbers game.
People treated like transactions.
Promises broken.
The industry needed something better.
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The economy was collapsing.
Starting a recruitment agency then made no sense.
No investors. No brand.
Just a battered desk, an old phone, and 80 cold calls a day from a spare bedroom.
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In 2009, I walked away from everything.
Big clients. Steady income. Security.
All gone - because of a non-compete.
I had a young family and no backup plan.
But I had one thing that mattered more: belief. 🧵
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Check out my latest article: How to Build a Scalable Recruitment Strategy for Scale-Ups linkedin.com/pulse/how-build… via @LinkedIn
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