Falling into recruitment
So for me now, I started a company. All the networks, all the things I've been exposed to, all the things that I've done, just kept pointing in the direction that I wanted to start my own thing, and be more involved in the results of things. Which you can get in some jobs and in some places, but I just felt that it would still be limiting in some way. And I wanted some kind of flexibility.
But I also found something I was very passionate about. I'm doing recruitment, and me falling into recruitment was also by chance. My NYSC ended up serving in University of Babcock, and I was in the Human Resources Department. It's not like I sat there and I was soaking everything in, thinking this is an amazing place. I was looking at everything and I was like, hell no, this is trash.
But eventually I got an opportunity to be part of some kind of recruitment. And I saw that it aligned to my kind of skills: understanding people, being able to connect to people one-on-one and see what really makes them tick. That's a very big part of recruitment.
And I also had a tech part of it as well. The programming experience I had didn't go to waste, because now, to some degree, I can speak to people that are technical.
I only started to see this opportunity because of all the multiple things I kept on being exposed to.
Said out loud on 20s Convos with Wolé & Tobi, Season 4, Episode 6, “Dreams, Degrees, and Defining Moments”, released 5 April 2021. Trimmed for filler; not rewritten.