If Dragons’ Den favourite and recruitment guru James Caan calls you a Goliath in his autobiography then you can consider yourself well-respected within the industry.
Yet despite his old friend’s biblical assertion about the champion of the Philistines, Doug Bugie, chief executive of Antal International Network, gives new meaning to the saying larger-than-life.
In a booming American voice, full of good cheer and sincerity, 55-year-old Doug enters the room. He doesn’t sit at first, instead pacing purposefully
and hurling nuggets of wisdom around, firstly on how recruiters should be targeting SMEs rather than the same old usual suspects. “These guys get called relentlessly as everybody is going after the same person waiting for the scraps,” he says. “You have got to go after the companies that no-one
has heard of at the moment, go out there and get your fair share.”
