Natasha Olsson-Seeto Guests on Confessions of a Recruiter

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BLAKE: Welcome back to Confessions of a Recruiter we are here joined by Tash from  OnTalent. How are you Tash?

TASH: Very well thank you.

BLAKE: That’s good thank you for coming on in short notice because it’s not very often a senior level executive in recruitment has the ability to shift things around like you do so you must be a woman of many talents to start.

TASH: Well I try I’ve got a very good EA who tells me where to go when to be there.

BLAKE: You know what we spoke to her this afternoon she’s awesome.

TASH: She’s really good, yep Mel is awesome

BLAKE: and so I’m

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gonna let’s just start there because so you’ve got an EA … how long has she worked for you for?

TASH: Yeah so Mel’s worked with us for nearly five years. I think that’s –  yeah nearly five years but she hasn’t always been an EA that’s new. So she was a finance officer; part-time and she came to me about 3 months ago when I had a vacancy and said you know what, I want to go full-time, my kids are ready to not need me as much and I want to do something different and would you give me a go –  as your EA… can I control your world and I said let’s have

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a trial let’s give a crack, so she has been extraordinary. And I think we talk about giving people a go and helping them do things that they didn’t think was possible and she has blossomed out of her shell and is doing such a good job for someone who’s just never done this sort of work before.

BLAKE: That’s really interesting because I never understood the value or the working relationship between someone that’s quite high up and an EA and I probably don’t like when I first started in recruitment well

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first started my recruitment agency you know I was super busy and my parents are like oh you need to get yourself a PA or an EA to make your life easier.. And being at the time a very small-minded, small business mindset, I’m like that’s sunk costs. If I’m paying someone 70 grand a year, that’s not Revenue generating I’m not going to part ways with that money. Can’t justify it and then I ended up kind of biting the bullet so to speak and hiring a pa … her name was Lexi she’s now a consultant for me but

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the amount the volume of stuff you can actually get done it like it was probably the best investment I think I’ve ever made and it completely changed my mind from I’m only going to hire Revenue generating you know people in my small recruitment agency to then also hey actually you know what, you can actually get a whole lot of value out of a support person and it brings everyone results up.

TASH: 100%.

BLAKE: So have you always had an EA did someone leave and then you kind of just tried to manage yourself or?

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