Have you seen this site? Client from Hell? It is hilarious! I came across it as I was reading the tweets of a profile I sourced from LinkedIn, and proceeded to waste at least half an hour of my time reading and laughing away. No worries though, i am not invoicing my client for that time. I am definitely not the vendor from hell.

No, this post is not about candidates nor managers from hell; though I reserve the right to do so at a later date. I only wanted to introduce you to the site, in case you needed a comic break during your day. Besides, it is Friday.

I have recently jumped back into the corporate world, accepting a role as a part-time, home-based (yeah), Recruitment Consultant, with a pharmaceutical company (double-yeah). 

After spending the better part of a decade as a corporate recruiter, I have been mainly sourcing, training, doing contingency search for the past two years. I wondered how the transition back to corporate recruitment would go. After two years of listening to, reading, (and silently shaking my head) about the corporate versus agency recruiter, I wondered if, all of a sudden, my skills acquired as an “agency” free agent will suddenly disappear. Nearly two months into my corporate recruiter sting, I can tell you, my spidey senses are still tingling. I am sourcing, qualifying, interviewing and hiring candidates. My skills in all aspects have not disappeared, they have not even diminished.

The corporate versus agency recruiter argument will also never disappear. I doubt it will even diminish. It is, in my humble opinion, an us vs them mentality that has no factual basis, just like the active vs passive candidate argument (don’t get me started!).

Have you ever jumped ship? Did you worry you would loose skills previously learnt? How did you keep skills and knowledge up with the times? Kept abreast of new methods and new technology?

And best of all, are you pro-agency recruiter, or pro-corporate recruiter? Do you even care?