THE MIXED GRILL - Regrets, Recruitment in 2030 & Why 360° Consultants Are Overrated

Welcome back to The Mixed Grill, the official podcast of the Recruitment Curry Club. In this episode, Nitin Sharma and Bobby Banerjee pick up exactly where the last conversation left off and go deep (and sideways) on everything from personal regrets to the future of recruitment businesses – with plenty of laughs, analogies, and tangents along the way.The conversation kicks off with reflections on advice they ignored when they were younger – from looking after your body, to understanding money earlier, to appreciating the sacrifices parents made (especially first-generation immigrant parents). It’s honest, reflective, and very real.From there, things shift into recruitment mode:What the recruitment business of 2030 actually looks likeWhy the traditional 360° recruiter model doesn’t make sense anymoreHow specialist roles (research, resourcing, BD, marketing) outperform “do-everything” consultantsWhy KPIs aren’t the enemy – they’re just often used badlyThe dangers of scaling for vanity metrics and headcount multiplesOutsourcing back-office functions and focusing on retained, subscription, or RPO-style modelsThere’s also plenty of classic Mixed Grill chaos:Celebrity lookalike stories no one asked forSauna chatsCurry Club roadshows, Dublin plans, and milestone birthdaysThe realities of running a business when you don’t fully understand the numbers (yet)As always, the episode wraps with a reminder of what the Recruitment Curry Club is really about: community, no selling, helping each other out, and assembling the biggest group of genuinely decent people in recruitment.Who this episode is for:Recruitment founders questioning traditional agency modelsSolo recruiters and small agencies thinking about scaling differentlyAnyone burned out by 360° roles and unrealistic KPIsRecruiters who value community over cold sellingCurry Club members (and future members) who enjoy honest conversations🔗 Connect with the hostsBobby Banerjee: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bobbybanerjee/Nitin Sharma: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nitin-rectools/Get your fill of curry, banter, and brilliant recruitment minds at The Recruitment Curry Club:https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-recruitment-curry-club/Look out for more episodes of The Mixed Grill dropping on Thursday.Listen on another platform: https://rectalk.co.uk/#TheMixedGrill #RecTalk #RecruitmentCurryClub #RecruitmentPodcast #RecruitmentLife #AgencyOwners #FutureOfRecruitment #RecruitmentCommunity #NoMore360