Colleen Pelly
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first heard Apr 2025
last heard Apr 2025
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Right. And so I think that's probably just an underrated. I mean, when you talk about recruiters, I feel like no one wakes up and is like, I'm going to be a recruiter when I grow up. But I think you're right. There's sort of like, my parents want me to be a doctor or a lawyer or a teacher or whatever it is. And I think there's some underrated pieces that are missing.
Even though my kids are younger, like they're not in school yet, and I just even think about the daycare people. Yeah. I'll leave, I'll drop my kids off sometimes and everyone's crying and I'm like, you're not paid enough. They're not paid enough. I don't know how. I go crazy with two of them.
Yeah. And I think like even maybe less, we did some landscape hiring for a while. And so like maybe not like direct like laborers, but like that can grow into sort of like a more niche trade. But I just think in general, people overlook those essential pieces for things that are needed. Yeah. Yeah, I don't know.
And I think there are key industries, like if you're thinking more on the corporate side, like anything with a commission, so like recruitment's the same way because it's sales, but anything in sales where you have the ability, if you're great at what you do, you're going to do well. Not everyone's going to do well in these industries because-
I think about this all the time. Like when I first started my company and everyone's like, oh my gosh, you're doing it. And you're like, do you know how hard this is? I'm crying in the shower and trying to figure out what to do every day.
And you find your groove, but it's like you go from being... So if I'm an expert in recruitment and then I start a company, all of a sudden I have to be an expert in finance and tech and marketing. And you're not. And you're learning and you're making so many mistakes, but...
If you're – it's not for everyone, but if you have the – like an entrepreneurial spirit or whatever you want to call it, I think really the word is resilience. If you can be a resilient person, you can make it happen. But I don't remember the stat, but it's something like wildly high that the number of people who try to start a business and fail. They do. Yeah.
I love that.
You're not going to get anywhere if you don't fail.
And having something work out. I had somebody, like an old mentor, tell me once to look at... to look at like a setback or a failure as feedback.
And I, it resonated with me at the time. And it's like, if you can find a way to, okay, this didn't go well, but what can I learn from it? Because I'm going to do it again.
truly like, there's so many that go around, but one that I, yeah, we should. But the one I, that always has resonated with me too, which I hate to, it makes you so uncomfortable, but you're not going to grow if you're not uncomfortable. So like growth is going to, whatever that is, growth happens out of your comfort zone or whatever it is.
Well, I think anyone who starts a small business... And it was all about rejection.
It's a lot of no in your face.
Yeah. Like there are I don't know. I can't remember. But you like you could throw a stone and hit like 20 different agencies just within my like area where I live. And I think it's so it's consistently something is somebody told me like a competitor who's a friend of mine told me when I first started my business, there's more than enough work for all of us. You just have to find your lane.
And it's so true. Like, you know, I think even a few years ago, I would kind of work with anyone because I wanted a client, right? And I was like, sure. And then, you know, as I've kind of gained more success, I'm able to be like, I don't actually know that we're right for each other. I don't really like the way you treat your people in a kind way.
So it's like, I'm going to like find my groove and my people and like, find my space in it and sort of like, how can we differentiate? Like if we're not trying to be like everyone else, we don't want to work with everyone. We want to like be, I don't know, like curate kind of the type of clients we want to work with. So that's been cool too.
Yes. So just on like a geographical location, like the remote – If I'm given a role and you see it's remote first, it's always going to be easier. You can cast a wider net. Like, you know, you can even like if they're in a different time zone, even you can shift hours. But like being remote allows for the largest candidate pool. A lot of companies have kind of fallen back into a hybrid model.
So like coming into the office a couple of days. But when we have companies like we have a few clients and they're lovely, but it's sort of like. like demanding five days a week in office, nobody wants that anymore. And so I think, yes, there's some roles like nurses, like there's some roles you have to be in person, that kind of thing.
But I do feel like I'm going to use the word flexibility instead of remote. Like I think the most attractive thing companies can offer is flexibility. And what I mean by that is not just where you work, but also... time, like even my own team, I know recruitment's a little bit like you just need your computer and a phone, but it's sort of like, I don't really care when you work or where you work.
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