HQ was a similar set up to any LA but more businesses like, more corporate, think private school not state, business not borough council. Says something when civil unrest marks the cultural high point of a town. All 60’s concrete, charity shops and pawn brokers, frankly the riots in 2011 brought some colour and interest to the area. A long trek by train and tram across town to a particularly grey soulless town centre on another particularly grey day. I trooped through London on the following Friday. “Right come over to our HQ I want you to meet my Head of Primary.” He was slick, personable, insightful and frankly impressive. I did as asked and in due course I had a 45 minute conversation on the phone with the CEO. “I’ll book you in for a phone conversation with the CEO, if he likes you then it will proceed to interview, can you send me your CV?” They would look you in the eyes shake your hand and smile all the while knowing they have just charged you you for rags and bones! But we all like to think we are special, enjoy being flattered and can be blindsided. Let’s face it recruitment agents are not the most altruistic of folk, they would sell you the rotting corpse of a fox and tell you it was the thoroughbred greyhound without flinching. What does it say when the recruiter hints that the client he is working for is questionable and that most people won’t go near them? I now realise, with hindsight, that he meant working for this one particular trust. “No” I replied I work for a trust now why would it worry me?” “It would be working for well known multi-accademy trust”, he said conspiratorially, “do you have any moral objections?” My initial reading was that he meant this as regards to working for an Accademy chain, any Accademy chain. He said he was looking to recruit an Executive Head for a large accademy chain. Part flattered, it’s always nice to be sort out, and part intrigued I asked for a few details. Back at my desk working through emails or data or something when I received a call from a headhunter.Ī talent scout who had found my profile on Linkedin and had done some background research on me and based on what he had garnered contacted me to ask if I might be interested in a new post. We drift back over the waves and over time once again to a drizzly day in February. I can look back on my near miss with a crystal clarity that matches the glistening sea. Sat on a plane high amongst the clouds staring down at the sun kissed ocean far below.
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