Here at Bright Green Talent, we’ve always aimed to do things a little differently – not just the way we go about business, but through the sectors we choose to work in. We want to try to have a positive impact through our efforts.
Yet sometimes it’s hard to determine our impact. A farmer can tangibly and visually see the fruits of his labours. In recruitment, it’s much more difficult. Although we can hear the excitement in someone’s voice when they are selected for a prize job, we rarely get to see them on their first day. Although we work with them closely prior to their beginning work, we often hear very little from the company or the candidate until they want to hire another person. Indication enough that we did a good job, but harder to determine the extent or quality of our contribution.
Occasionally, a client or candidate writes to tell us about the work they are doing. For us, nothing gives us more joy than to hear or even see the tangible benefit that has occurred through a relationship we’ve created. We’ve had some lovely notes from people who’ve told us that without our involvement, they never would have ended up in a certain place. We’ve had clients write to tell us how happy they are with people we’ve helped them hire.
However, it’s extremely rare that we read about the results of our work in the international news. This week we saw that the British Government had created the biggest marine reserve in the world in the Chagos Archipelago, at a whopping 545,000-sq-km:
This is a fantastic piece of news in isolation. It is particularly fantastic for us because we helped the lead environmental organization lobbying the government find their Campaign Manager. Obviously, many, many people played a part in the creation of this reserve. Ours was a tiny contribution to the process. Perhaps another recruiting firm would have found someone just as good. Nonetheless, it’s stories like this that give us a glimpse of the way in which we’re able to help our clients achieve great things and change the world, one person at a time.
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