The next member of our Calibre team we'd like you to meet is our building services consultant, Rob Jones - who you might remember from his collaborative blog post with colleague Simon Owen, 6 Insider Tips for Building Services Engineers.
You can connect with Rob on Linkedin here.
Title: Recruitment Consultant
Sector you recruit to: Building Services
Length of time with Calibre: 2 and a half years
Likes: Football, Tennis, F1, and Golf.
Dislikes: Snakes, heights, and tomatoes.
What do you like about working at Calibre? Great environment to be a part of and everyone gets on well.
What's the hardest part of your job? Finding candidates but that's market driven and why we do well in the sector.
What does a typical day at Calibre look like for you? Sourcing candidates, speaking to clients and putting square pegs in square holes!
Do you have any advice for anyone who wants to get into recruitment? Work hard and treat it as your own little business, it takes time to get off the ground.
What's the hardest question you've ever had to answer? If you were a vegetable what would you be and why?
What are the most common mistakes you see candidates make? Candidates not detailing projects in their CV sufficiently.
What would we find on your desk? Pen, paper, calculator, phone... probably a brew of some sort.
What's your favourite sandwich? Sausage Butty.
What's the funniest thing you can remember happening at work? The MD (who has never seen a gym before) beating my director in an arm wrestle despite him having a gym at home.
Describe yourself in 3 words: Approachable, reliable, informative.
If you were a vegetable what would you be and why? A gooseberry – like me.
What question would you liked to have been asked? Whats the most frustrating part of your role?