Want to know how to be a better recruiter? Some may say you don’t need an expensive training course or to spend hours being mentored by a recruitment peer. All you really need it to watch these 10 DVDs are you’ll have all the skills you’ll ever need at your fingertips!!
- Glengarry Glen Ross [1992]
- Jerry Maguire [2011]
- Tin Men (1987)
- Boiler Room [2000]
- Secretary [DVD]
- Swimming With Sharks [DVD]
- The Hudsucker Proxy [DVD]
- Working Girl [DVD]
- Trading Places [1983]
- Wall Street Collector’s Edition [1987]
This is part of our 600 Interesting and Useful Things for Recruiters series. Supplied byAlex Martin who is the Editor of the UK Recruiter Newsletter
That’s kind of depressing.
My number one is also Glengarry Glen Ross. I agree with Mitch depressing – but also brilliantly written and observed.
Can’t believe you haven’t mentioned Headhunters – perhaps a “how not to” carry on as a recruiter? 🙂 (or at least not to run a sideline in nicking art…)
Completely agree Rachel. An obvious miss
What about Dirty Dozen or Oceans 11 … films about putting a team together based on people’s skills etc rather than a bunch of films about how to rip people off
Good call on the Dirty Dozen/ Oceans 11 type films, I can feel another (more positive) list coming on. You don’t fancy writing it Robert, do you, full credit and all that?!
Rachel, I confess I have not heard of Headhunters (in my defence, I did put this list together with a group of film buffs who also didn’t come up with it!). Any chance of a link to it?
Also, the Secretary – not really about ripping people off but I’ll let you watch it and discover it for yourselves. But as a disclaimer, no responsibility taken if this is the approach you chose to take in the workplace!
OK films about recruiting teams to work together
Dirty Dozen
Kelly’s Heroes
The Wild Geese
Ocean’s 11
Blues Brothers
Escape to Victory
Maginficent Seven
Reservoir Dogs
The Avengers
Lavender Hill Mob
X Men
Lord of the Rings
I wonder if a recruiter should be graded on if they have seen all 10? (Like a badge of honour?)… I have ;/ (btw, favourite in this list is Boiler Room – remind me of a recruitment firm I used to work for…)
Alex has just pointed out that my intro about these films might not be so appropriate when considering one of them is about S&M!!
Yes, I was wondering why Secretary was in there.