As our friends over at Cactus Search point out, all of us have dreamt about work at one time or another and, like they suggest, sometimes it’s bad; hence their blog on recruitment nightmares. However, sometimes these dreams are good, fantastic even! They might revolve around the ultimate, £10k pay rise or your office rival being sacked for their lewd behaviour. That’s why Executive Network Sales have decided to put together an opposing blog on a great Recruitment Dream; Our Recruitment Fantasy!

8:20am –  It’s Friday and you arrive at work 10 minutes early after a really good work out at the gym. You’re feeling energised and raring to go. Today you’re excited about recruiting!

9:16am –  A client who you’ve been working with for the past five years is retiring and, as a nice goodbye gesture has written you a great , lengthy referral, detailing your trustworthiness  and professionalism– this will bode well with the boss!

11:12am – The post arrives and with it a thank you card and box of chocolates from a candidate you placed who, after being made redundant three years ago, had been stacking shelves at Tesco’s for £11k a year. After a long, drawn out process you managed to get the candidate an offer of £30k plus benefits (he would have taken £20k). His heartfelt thank youpulls at your heartstrings. THIS is what recruitment is all about; changing lives (and of course a nice, juicy commission fee!).

12 noon – It’s midday and you begin a short new business session, contacting prospective clients to offer your services. As luck would have it the FIRST company you call puts you straight through to the decision maker who brightly claims you’re “Just the person I’ve been looking for” and that he has a number of Area Sales Manager roles he’s struggling to fill. After a pleasant conversation your new client agrees to full fees (that’s 25% of the candidates annual remuneration if they are placed!). Feeling rather smug you realise you have four candidates sitting and waiting (so to speak) who fit the bill! Your new client wants to see these people straight away. That’s four interviews arranged and it’s not even lunch time. Today is turning out to be a good day!

1:30 – Your boss buys you lunch to thank you for the hard work you’ve been putting in recently. Chomping on a duck salad wrap from the local deli that he’s brought you, you  smile to yourself thinking that it looks like all your hard work is paying off.

2:36pm – You’re called into your promotion meeting with your Director and Line Manager – you’ve hit the requirements needed for promotion, exceeded all your targets and your Director even says you’ve been “Setting a good example” to the Trainee Consultants in the office.  Finally, you’ve been promoted to a Senior Consultant! Fantastic news! You’re basic salary has gone up, you’re offered a company car or car allowance and as you leave the meeting thinking about that 2 year old Audi A5 Convertible that fleet have at the moment you’re told that your team have surpassed the number of interviews they needed to arrange this week in order to be granted an early finish. Could this day get any better?!

4:05pm – The day is drawing to a close (since you’re leaving work an hour early!) but 25 minutes before you leave the office you have a call from a client of yours offering one of your candidates a Sales Director position. Well this is good news, you were told your  client had pulled the role! With your fingers crossed you call your candidate and try and close him. Success! Your candidate accepts the offer and that’s a surprise £10k deal in the bag. Not bad for a Friday afternoon!

4:32: As you leave the office, a spring in your step, heading to the pub, reflecting on the wonderful day you’ve head you think to yourself: “Now this is why I LOVE recruitment".