Rapping recruiter Honey G has made it through the first stage of the ITV X Factor live shows.

‘Honey G’, the alter ego of Anna Georgette Gilford, managing director of recruitment firm ARG Search, closed the first live show of this latest series of the TV singing competition the X Factor on Saturday with her rendition of the late Tupac Shakur’s California Love.

TV judge Simon Cowell admitted he loved Honey G’s take on the rapper’s 1990s smash hit, which marked a change in fortune for the rapping MD as Cowell was the only judge left unimpressed by her first audition this summer.

Following the broadcast of her first audition Gilford, who has also worked as a consultant at recruiters code iT, Mortimer Spinks and InterQuest Group, told Recruiter training in breaking the ice over her 15 years+ recruitment career held her in good stead when going to her first audition.

Gilford’s successful negotiation of the first round of live shows made it a double for the recruitment sector in terms of TV talent shows. 

In the BBC’s The Apprentice, professional search agent at IBM, Trishna Thakrar, who previously worked for SThree firm Real Staffing and before that technology recruiter TRG, avoided being fired by Lord Alan Sugar in the first episode screened on Thursday. Thakrar was hailed by an ex-colleague as a contender to win the latest series of The Apprentice due to her energy and strong opinions.

Go girls, the recruitment industry’s rooting for you! We think…

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