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Now in 2027, the culture is more important to the younger generation and with AI proliferation.

There's a Randstad's work monitor report.

It's a survey of around 26,000 workers over 35 countries and has two straight years of data on this.

74% report a strong relationship with their manager as being a key anchor of stability.

Feel like crying.

Well, I've-- In the meantime, I'm Balazs, coming to you from, uh, Randstad in Germany without any allergies.

I think I don't have a lot of allergies or if anything, to be honest, which I find, uh, strange these days.

But I'm lucky, I guess.

Where did that idea come from? Why did you decide that's what you wanted to do, and how did you get, how did you get it off the ground?

Yeah, so back in 2013 at Randstad, so the company I worked for in '96 got bought a couple times.

Ended up getting bought by a company called Randstad, the number one HR services recruiting company in the world.

And in 2013, they actually moved me into a role called vice president of growth strategy and development.

It was actually a talent acquisition training role, which I didn't know at the time.

Like, I always was that person naturally.

Mm-hmm.

And so my experience at Randstad, uh, built that into that.

Indeed, which is another one which is owned by Recruit Holdings, a Japanese conglomerate.

And then there's three independent staffing companies, which is Randstad, which is Dutch, ADECO, which is Swiss, and Manpower Group, which is American.

Now, these are the aggregators.

This is where people put in their resumes.

And that means that if you're a company and you're wanting to hire somebody in Colombia or Japan or pretty much any country in the world, you would go to a company like deal.

You would look at LinkedIn as a model.

As an HR person, you would know the openings, you would go over to these aggregators, so LinkedIn or Indeed or Randstad or Manpower Group.

You would find potential candidates.

I just, it's the, the problem is like for every one that you catch, there's a hundred that aren't caught, you know, they're flying under the radar that are doing that.

There's plenty of companies out there right now, especially in staffing that are like, we're not like, think all the staffing firms right now that are tanking because they have no contracts, right? And if they don't have an alternative source of income, right? So I look at, for example, Ronstadt has RiseSmart.

Adeko has Lee Hick Harrison.

So they figured out parts of their business where the outplacement, all the people get laid off.

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It's a human resource management course to kick off my career.

And early on, during the co-op, I was very lucky to Randstad, a huge staffing company.

They reached out to me and said, "Oh, I can see that you are a lawyer and you're studying HR.

Have you ever thought about starting a legal recruitment career?" [chuckles] And I said, "Oh my goodness.

Where do you even start? Where was your first step in opening up a temp slash contract desk? Is it exactly the same as perm? Is it completely different?

Yeah, so in terms of what it looked like with my client base, that was introducing the concept to my clients and bringing those conversations forward, trying to figure out, do you use contract? Do you use temp? From my past world, my past, my previous life working for Ronstadt prior to this, I've already seen my clientele use this.

So I did have an idea.

I am operating in a little bit of a different space at a higher level than what I used to do.