Oliver Wendell Holmes

It's been more than a year since I started my own company "A-SAP International Recruitment".

This year has been a challenging one and there were many occasions when I felt like giving-up and returning to the safety of a regular job. It has been much harder than I initially thought it will be. But I managed to resist and finally things started to change for the better a few months ago. Now I already have a portfolio of nice clients, I have some close partners that I am working with closely, and more importantly, I have some placed candidates. Some people all-over the world, from Mexico to Belgium and from Greece to Singapore, are working at their current jobs in part also because of me.

This is the nicest thing about recruitment - the satisfaction of a candidate that enjoys his/her job. This is the reason why I enjoy working in international recruitment so much - this is the positive impact of my work. I am doing this since almost 10 years. I started placing people in jobs abroad in 2001 and I am doing the same thing since then. Of course some things changed. Back then I was working with students and young graduates. Now I am working with experienced Consultants and Managers. At the beginning I was doing it as a volunteer in a student organization, after that I was working as an employee, and now I am doing it as an entrepreneur.

This is the beauty of entrepreneurship. It's an old idea in a new form. I have been doing international recruitment for 10 years but since I started working on my own it is all so new.

It's wonderful the feeling that a man can get when his job is exactly as he would have imagined it. This is why being an entrepreneur is the best decision one can make. And I think that it would be impossible for me to go back to being an employee again. And if any of you are thinking about starting something on your own, just do it! You will not regret it.

“Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions”