THE MIXED GRILL - Spec CV Chaos, Unicycles at Interviews... Recruitment’s Wildest Stories

Welcome back to The Mixed Grill, the official podcast of the Recruitment Curry Club—where your hosts Nitin Sharma and Bobby Banerjee simmer, roast and occasionally deep-fry the wildest parts of the recruitment industry.In this episode, we dive straight into the absolute carnage of modern recruiting—from rogue speculative CVs to dodgy “send me my fee” emails, using the now-infamous LinkedIn post as a launchpad for a brutally honest chat about what service actually means in a service-based industry.(Yes, recruiters: sending a random CV isn’t a service… shocking, we know. )From there, it descends beautifully into chaos:A candidate who turned up to an interview on a unicycleSomeone sending a Jehovah’s Witness pamphlet instead of a CV—intentionallyA workplace plagued by a serial toilet-floor-sh*tterThe recruiter-candidate who went full “professional stalker” during interview prepHomemade porn sent as “proof of address”And the teacher-turned-candidate with one of the darkest interview confessions ever recorded(Every single one... unbelievably real. )Sprinkled in between the madness, you’ll hear Nitin and Bobby break down the real problem with legacy recruitment habits—why so many agencies copy outdated big-brand processes, why “transaction over relationship” still plagues the industry, and what modern recruiters should be doing instead.A fun, wild, slightly unhinged episode… exactly why The Mixed Grill exists.👂 Who This Episode Is ForRecruiters who love a laugh at the absurdity of our industryAgency owners & billing managers wanting real talk about service vs. salesIn-house talent teams who have definitely been sent unsolicited CVsAnyone who enjoys unbelievable-but-true workplace storiesRCC members and curry-lovers who just want to hang with the community🔗 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/New episodes of The Mixed Grill drop every Thursday.Listen on another platform: https://rectalk.co.uk/#RecruitmentPodcast #RecTalk #TheMixedGrill #RecruitmentCurryClub #RecruiterLife #HRPodcast #TalentAcquisition #StaffingStories #RecruitmentFails #Rectools