Bamboo retrospective: Tim on Channel 4’s Battlefront

With youth unemployment still the same hot topic it was in 2012, the Bamboo team trawled through the archives to find Tim’s appearance on the Emmy Award-winning show ‘Battlefront’. 

Tim, who was relatively new to charity recruitment at the time, was targeted by Channel 4 execs to be the perfect foil to the head of recruitment at Microsoft, Gok Wan, and the ‘Fairy Job Mother’ herself, Hayley Taylor. 

With no expense spared, he was whisked off to a warehouse in North London to conduct a recruitment ‘speed date’ event with three unemployed young people to see how they managed under the pressure of an interview. 

Whilst not the polished recruiter he is today, you can see by the insightful questions he asked (in the 30 seconds that didn’t end on the cutting room floor) the instinctive knack for recruitment that would lead him to the upper echelons of senior management at Bamboo.