The Matchmaker (or how to tell your child that you are a recruiter)
In every father’s life there comes a time when his child walks up to him and asks: daddy, what is it that you do at work? And unless you’re Superman — lie and tell them you’re Superman. Telling the truth might have unforeseen consequences…
But let’s go the hard way. What does “recruitment” really mean? It’s an excellent question, son, especially for a toddler who can’t really speak yet. Well, do you remember when we sat and watched The Fiddler on the Roof together? Of course you don’t, you’re only 18 months old and you didn’t really do very much of watching per se — anyway, there’s this song that goes:
Matchmaker, matchmaker, make me a match.
Yes, daddy’s a matchmaker. Sort of…
Like in the lyrics, we start with finding a find, in our case — a vacancy. Oh, you don’t know what a vacancy is? Ask Mr Teddy — it’s high time he contributed some valuable insight. Now, where was I? Ah, yes — next, we move on to catching a catch, i.e. the candidate. Right? Right. Then, after we have both the catch and the find, we can look through our book and make a perfect match. It’s as simple as that. We have to be careful, though, because if we don’t approach the matter with enough… enough… hmmm, Mr Teddy, help me out here… diligence? Yes, perfect, thank you. If we don’t use diligence, we might condemn someone to being stuck for good in a dead end job. But if we do it right and the match is strong — then we can proudly say that we took the if out of the “If I were a rich man!” song. Yay! Does that answer your question, son? No? Oh…
Maybe I should have stuck with the Superman option.
