Honey G’s remarkable performance in this year’s X Factor is down to her fearless attitude, according to the recruiter responsible for giving the rapper her first job in recruitment a decade ago.

Honey G, the alter ego of Anna Georgette Gilford, managing director of recruitment firm ARG Search, worked for IT recruiter InterQuest between 2005 and 2006. Gilford, as Honey G, will compete tomorrow in the third week of live performances of the ITV reality singing show.

Lloyd Moore, who recruited Gilford into InterQuest and has since gone on to set up his own recruitment training provider Mooresby Associates, told Recruiter he was struck by Gilford’s boldness upon meeting her for the first time.

“We gave her the nickname of fearless. She was very, very driven and very motivated to succeed.

“Anna clearly wanted to do well for herself. She would just pick up the phone and speak to anyone.

“You would just give her a call list with CTOs and IT clients and she would just fire off these cold calls but she just had absolutely no fear whatsoever about picking up the phone and making the calls. 

“That was the thing that really stood out when we got her on the job.”

According to Moore, from what he has seen of Gilford’s alter ego Honey G she clearly has no problems putting herself out there – adding she may have the “worst dance moves ever” but at least she is giving it a go.

“That links back to what I saw from her as a recruiter – she would absolutely give it the beans,” Moore added.

And while Moore doesn’t think Honey G will end up winning the show, he added she has come a lot further than anyone thought following her first audition earlier in the year.

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