Fantastic springboard to my SHREK career - Consultant One Search Employee Review

Dan McCarthy taught me an unbelievable amount in the 3 years I spent with him before moving on to the shrek world, and I remain in contact with him to this day. I have gone on to run a BU with a major global firm but I still seek Dan’s advice and still sense that he cares for me. I saw some of the attacks against him on this website and wanted to come on to defend him - he is a sitting duck to some cowardly keyboard warriors who in my view are jealous of his success. Building a global brand (and reputation for excellence) from literally nothing is damn near impossible and Dan has done it. Our own Infrastructure focused colleagues admit that One Search has better brand awareness in the sector than any shrek firm does, and that is a remarkable feat. To build a business from nothing you have to be tough, and Dan is tough. This doesn’t always play well with people who struggle to maintain the pace, in what is a pretty unforgiving industry. Dan is in a results business and he gets results but admittedly some relationships have gone by the wayside over the years. But he is fundamentally a good person who has developed countless young people into highly skilled specialist recruiters at the top of their game. Several of his competitors would still be placing back office temps if Dan had not trained them and introduced them to the infrastructure sector, and I know that he rightly wears this as a badge of honor. His haters hide behind their keyboards and make barbed attacks on websites like this because they are jealous of his success and upset that it didn’t work out for them, but don’t let them put you off - One Search is a fantastic firm and I will always be grateful for the time I spent there. Ps - this point that keeps being weaponized around Dan being a “conspiracy theorist”. This is total nonsense. His close friend and colleague (fit, healthy 42 year old) dies of a heart attack in 2021. A few days prior, he had received his 2nd Covid jab. For pointing this out and asking for it to be looked into, Dan was labeled a conspiracy theorist by some. He was also briefly banned from LinkedIn in 2020 for suggesting that the virus may have come from the Wuhan lab but I don’t think too many people still regard that as a conspiracy theory any longer. This is just a lazy slur being used against Dan, but rather than let it get him down he laughs it off - typical Dan - I hear that his slack avatar is Donald Trump in a tin foil hat …