Recruiter Startup School

Hishem Azzouz is an Employer Branding expert, an engaging podcast host, and a dedicated man that's on a mission: to help the Recruitment community accelerate its growth.  Right now, Hishem is fully invested in a new learning platform for Recruiters, which aims to match Recruiters that are working on learning their trade with experienced Recruitment Mentors. Exciting initiative and very enjoyable talk with Hishem, give it a listen! Get on the Recruitment Mentors wait list here:  https://waitinglist.recruitmentmentors.com/

This week our guest is Graham Ravenscroft, Lead Performance Coach at Gateway HR. Graham has an amazing career history, starting with the fact that he's got 30 years of athlete coaching and development, including the Olympics! In the last 7 years, he's been using his experience and skills to help individuals and teams to perform better and explore the extent of their own potential. Graham is an all-around knowledgeable man when it comes to leadership and how to use it to get the best out of your team. We talked about multiple aspects of how you can gain those few inches that make a big difference in our lives and businesses, how to identify the traits of a performant team,  mentoring, and much more. Enjoy!

Today's guest on the LLN series of the Recruiter Startup Podcast is Del Williams, the Sales Director at JSA Services. Del has come to talk to us about contract recruitment and IR35. If you're curious about some of the preparation you can do and solutions available, this is the episode to listen.  He talks about being proactive and compliant ahead of time and how you can achieve that. JSA is also a founding member of the Lockdown Leadership Network and we're really happy to have them on board and contribute in our community of recruitment professionals. If you're interested in becoming a member of our IR35 group and participate in a relevant conversation with specialists on the subject drop us a message on LinkedIn. Enjoy!

Today's guest is Chris Atiyah from Engtal, a UK-owned recruitment business with offices in Chicago. Chris is from Pompey, but he's been out in Chicago for years. He got out there with Sthree, his career took off & got a great opportunity to work with Mark Znowski, and they've created a great recruitment company! Really fun getting to know Chris, he is part of our leadership community and has been a great contributor to the Bridge WhatsApp group. We talked a little bit about that, and a little bit about what it's like in America right now, Coronavirus, US election, and much more. It's always really inspirational when you see a young guy doing well and living his best life out in The States. Hope you enjoy this one!

Today's guest on the Recruiter Startup podcast is Ryan McCabe, CEO @ Odro, the video software that helps recruitment professionals make more placements. I had quite a few questions on how to make the most out of Odro, so if you want to know how can it help to effectively run retained search or what metrics should we consider to manage Consultants that are using it, listen to this podcast. He gave all the answers and what's left is to implement them. Delighted to have had Ryan on, hope you enjoy it!

Today's guests are John & Sara Gaughan, co-founders of Finlay James. This is the 3rd time John is our guest, first time talking growth in the US and abstractly, remote working - could that be the future? Ironically, today that is the norm. The second time we talked in the early days of Covid about being clever about the new business landscape, cutting costs, improving efficiency and vacancy management, and what to do to survive this period. He was right and we're glad to see each other on the other side. This time around we talk lessons learned and joint decision making with him and Sara, who's a Mental Health In Recruitment Champion. Really great having them, hope you enjoy it!

Today's guest in the new series of the Recruiter Startup Podcast is Will Grashoff, Founder & Managing Director of OX Seven. He is also a member of one of our communities in the Lockdown Leadership Network groups, The Dinghy. Will has been in business for a couple of years, he got funding and scaled up really quickly, and now runs independently. Really interesting hearing the journey and strategy to adapt to the times, all while managing & running a great business. Hope you enjoy it!

Gary Wills is the Founder of Furlearn. He decided he wanted to do something to help other people while being furloughed himself, and his efforts got a lot of media attention that's put to good use in the service of others. We talked about running his own Recruitment business while managing what's to become a fully-fledged charity and lots of plans for the future. Enjoy!

Vern Howard, CEO and Co-Founder at Hallo and part of the Forbes Tech Council,  has created a platform that bridges companies of all sizes and locations with Talent from diverse backgrounds. In this episode he and Siobhan talked about Diversity, Politics, being an agent of change, and how access to information changes not only lives but society.

Richard Gibbard is a Recruitment marketing expert who knows his onions. Rich is helping us win more clients with his email marketing solution.

Depression, suicide, and other mental health issues are sky rocketing within the Recruitment Industry.  Rhonda D'Ambrosio, Founder of https://www.mentalhealthinrecruitment.org/, talks fighting the stigma of mental health in the Recruitment Industry, and what WE can do to help! She's worked in the industry for 23 years and as an advocate for mental health support in the recruitment workplace since 2013.  Through her not for profit she has launched a global Mental Health survey for Recruiters of all levels. With this data she will affect change for us all. Please have a listen and let me know what you think.

Joe believes we are about to enter the golden age of agency recruitment, are you strong enough to survive in the short term? If you are you'll thrive in the long term.

Recruitment industry M&A Advisor to the Asia Pacific Region.

Simon is one of the leading recruitment entrepreneurs in Asia. Often you hear about Japanese buyers of recruitment companies and sometimes he is the man behind the deal. Big thanks to Derek Kenny for the introduction and for adding real-time experience of what it's like now running a scalable global agency headquartered in the region.

Poonam runs corporate finance for high growth recruitment Agencies. We get a glimpse of what it was like earlier in her career at James Caan's Hamilton Bradshaw, her time at Spencer Ogden and what she see in the market right now.

Paul Masters from Sovereign Private walked us through the M&A activity in the Australian market and explained how his clients are rebounding despite the challenging times we are in.

Dualta is joined by this weeks Co-host Andy Hallett and our special guest Philip Ellis from Optima Corporate Finance.

Dualta interviewed Andrew about his journey and unique perspective on leadership.

Enjoying the podcast? Why not come and say hello and have conversations with LinkedIn minded individuals. You will likely fit into one our 3 bespoke WhatsApp groups. The Dinghy ⛵️ is For independent recruiters and those who want to set up. The Bridge is full of the directors / MD's of scalable agencies and owners of boutique agencies across the world. The Bounty is exclusively for Recruitment Investors, CEO's of PLC's and Owners of 50 + seats agency's heading towards an event.

A wide ranging interview where we discussed remote working and managing sales leaders.