Sean Johnston is a founding partner of West Recruitment and an “accidental” Recruitment Scientist. He has 5 children, a hard-working wife, a Golden Retriever and is a devoted Parramatta Eels member.
(Changing tense from the third person to the more unprofessional “me” now because that’s who I am. Jimmy, the character form Seinfeld, killed off the third person in me years ago).
How: I am an “accidental” recruiter because after completing an Economics Degree at Macquarie University, I had good tenure at both the HSBC and St George Bank. Several years later, when well and truly on a career trajectory within banking, I saw an ad for a marketing role that intrigued me. It was of course somewhat of a shop front because as I found out during the first interview, the position was to work in recruitment, not marketing.
After nine (yes 9) interviews with an international recruitment firm, they decided to offer me a job to work in something called recruitment, an industry I knew very little about. Accepting the role at the time was very much against every fibre in my body because talking with people I had never met before, filled me with nerves and flight fear impossible to describe. Yet here I am, all these years later, still going, and able to keep these innate emotions in check.
