Our Founders' Story.​
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Nick founded Huskky to help founders and leadership teams scale their businesses more effortlessly.
Nick has co-founded, scaled and exited a number of consulting businesses, before going to work as an operational advisor or NED across the globe.
He has 'walked a mile in your shoes', experiencing all the pains of building great teams whilst scaling.
"I didn't intend on becoming a recruiter, it started by helping a client out..."Nick you know the industry, you've built and scaled businesses and teams in this space and we're struggling to get value out of the recruiters. Why don't you help?"
I gave it a go and as ​I don't look or act like a recruiter, I found I could reach talent that others simply can't. Not only that, I could sell my clients' business really well. So I found someone, he loved the opportunity, was hired (he is still there today), and with that I realised there is a problem to fix. It’s the industry that needs transformation, and that's what got me interested."​
"I realised that my experience of recruiters (generally) has been a process I've always had to endure. Generally, recruitment is a transaction, it's not a partnership and definitely not a strategic one, where they actually are interested, motivated (and capable), of helping you scale your business in the long term. "
"You'll be familiar with the following:
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Candidates being presented that aren't relevant
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Pushed to choose a candidate as they are 'wanted elsewhere'
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All candidates presented are immediately available (desperate?)
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You're not sure if you trust what the recruiter is telling you (knowing they just want to make the placement)
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You're not sure if you're interviewing correctly for competency and fit or asking the right questions
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You're not sure you're making the right decisions on hires"
"It is what frustrated me as founder and a hiring manager. So much so I hired my own recruiters when scaling my own businesses, embedded them into the sales team and built out a large database so I wouldn't have to deal with recruiters. Except that it didn't really work.
Back to today, following that first hire I helped with, we've been sought out by others again and again to help. 'I' is now 'we'; Camille was a client and joined forces with me when she saw what we were capable of.
We've blended our deep industry know-how, with recruiting excellence, enabling us to reach further, faster, better build and nurture our 'career-curious' candidate base."
