Podcast di Recruitment Agency

On this week’s show, I'm joined by Kyle Grainger, our newest RAG sponsor and the founder of a six month old recruitment agency, Untapped. Untapped specialise in finding remote, highly experienced recruiters for recruitment agencies in UK, US, Middle East, and Australia, sourced from untapped, low cost locations such as the Philippines and South Afr…

This week’s show is going to be a little bit different. My guest is Mel Kang, the CEO of Mezzle, a consulting law firm, not a recruitment agency. Mezzle takes traditional lawyers who work for traditional law firms and flips the model. They attract lawyers who join them without a set salary but take home 70 percent of their annual earnings/ billings…

This week's show is going to be different. I am featuring a recent webinar I hosted for the recruitment industry where I had over a hundred people turn up and I've had countless messages asking for this information. At Hoxo, we help brand recruitment agencies and their people better. People are your biggest asset in your organisation. Every single …

On this week’s show, I’m excited to be joined for the third time by DSP (David Spencer-Percival!). The founder of Life Science People, a global life science people provider based in the UK with offices in the US and soon to be opening in Europe. They are just under three years old with 100 staff. The first time David was on the show, they were on t…

Part 2 with Ben Wallin and Dan Cox on growing their business to 31 recruiters and being no longer reliant on their own billings within 24 months of trading! On this week's episode, I'm excited to be joined for the second time by Ben Wallin and Dan Cox, who was previously on the show 12 months ago in August 2022. Ben and Dan are the founders of Edis…

On this week’s episode, I'm excited to be joined by an old friend, Joe Curtis. Initially, Joe was the founder of a recruitment company called 3Search, which then led to building a bigger business called 11 Investments. 11 Investments is a series of niche recruitment organisations that work together and share a common goal with a central operational…

On this week’s show I’m sharing one of the most powerful episodes I've ever recorded with a lady called Janette Marx. Jeanette is the global CEO at a company called Airswift, a huge workforce, staffing and solutions organisation headquartered in the US with 62 offices worldwide, 900 employees, and 7500 contractors that they support. Jeanette's been…

I'm super excited to be joined by Alexander Antoniou, the founder of AL Solutions, a Life Sciences specialist recruiter headquartered in London, just over five years old, with 25 staff. Now, the reason I wanted to interview Alexander is because he’s not only grown AL Solutions, but he's also built a portfolio of five other businesses that he does t…

On this week’s show, I am joined by Louise Campbell, Global Head of Learning and Development at Robert Walters. Robert Walters is a global, household name in our sector, with over 4000 employees around the world. Louise is based in Ireland. She was the MD of their Irish business for over 20 years. Recently, she reinvented herself and moved into L&D…

I’m thrilled to have Kevin Frater join me for the first episode of Season 7 of The RAG Podcast! I usually interview founders and leaders of recruitment firms on the show, but this week we’re interviewing our first unemployed guest. Kevin is an absolute legend! He was part of the Frank Recruitment Group (FRG) for over 10 years and left in January of…

On this week's show, I was joined by Stuart Mitchell, the founder of Hampton North, a specialist cybersecurity search firm, headquartered in the US with 3 staff. He's based in Connecticut, just between Boston and New York. He launched the business in September 2022, so we're only nine months into his journey. I wanted to interview Stuart because he…

On this week's show, I'm joined by James Emmett, CEO and founder of Hanover Group. Having recently interviewed Anthony Pitt, President at Hanover USA, I was really excited to welcome James, the original founder, on to the show. James started the business 27 years ago and has now grown to an organisation of over hundred people across multiple intern…

Roheel Ahmad on growing to 80 staff in 8 years and looking at the next phase of growth - to IPO with a £60 million valuation. I'm delighted to be joined by Roheel Ahmad. Roheel is the managing partner and co-founder of Forsyth Barnes. I interviewed his partner, Scott, a few years ago during the pandemic and have watched their journey ever since. Th…

On this week's show, I'm joined by an old client of mine, Matt Green. Matt is the founder and CEO of IDEX, a recruitment organisation with an employer branding arm and an advisory arm working with the insurance industry, the financial services sector, and now the legal sector. Matt founded IDEX 17 years ago and they are now fully remote with 60 peo…

On this week's show, I'm joined by Adam Richardson. Adam is the founder of Strive Sales, a dedicated go-to-market recruitment agency headquartered in Manchester with an office in Tampa in the US with over 20 employees. At 33, he has loads of experience in running businesses. He got into recruitment when he was in his early twenties and, within a co…

Recruitment owners and leaders: struggling in today’s tough market? Well I’m giving you 3 Clever ways to boost your business development using LinkedIn On this week’s episode of The RAG Podcast, I wanted to release a very special episode, which is based on a webinar I recently hosted for the market, all about using LinkedIn to boost your business d…

On this week's show, I am delighted to welcome back a previous guest, David Spencer Percival, known as DSP. His last episode was one of most listened to episodes I ever recorded! David is the founder of Life Science People, a specialist life science people recruitment firm headquartered in London with offices in LA. They've got over 85 heads and th…

On this week’s show, I am joined by Adrian O'Connor, the founder of Global Accounting Network (GAN) Founded in 2011, GAN is a business of over 27 people headquartered in the UK with an office in Atlanta. In this episode, we talked about his journey of growth during the last 12 years, including: How he has built a remote-first culture with UK headqu…

James Leighton on how you can build a business like his, which is eight years old, in two years! On this week's show, I am finally joined by a good friend and client, James Leighton. James is the founder of Anderson James, a specialist construction and property recruitment firm, headquartered in Manchester with over 30 people operating in both cont…

On this week's show, I was joined by Matthew Wragg, the CEO of Gattaca, an organisation with 500 people, headquartered in the UK. Matt has been with the company for over 21 years. From his first role in recruitment, he's worked his way up. He’s had eight or nine different roles in that time! And then, just over a year ago, in early 2022, he got giv…

On this week's show, I am joined by James Wardle, who is the founder of Alderson James, a specialist talent acquisition and HR recruitment agency headquartered in the UK with seven staff. Now, what was so unbelievable about this episode is how honest and vulnerable James was. We spoke about the 10 years of running this business and how he started l…

This week I was joined for the third time by Elliot Dell. Elliot is the CEO of Salt, a global leading digital recruitment agency with over 400 staff across 20 offices. Now, Elliot joined the RAG in person in 2019, just before the pandemic. At that point, there were 220 people in the company, spread across nine offices. So in three and a half years,…

On this week's show, I don't have a live guest. I have been away, and unfortunately, a few of the guests have not been able to record their own yet. So, instead, I'm bringing back one of the most listened to and interesting episodes I've ever recorded, and that's with James Caan CBE. Most people know James Caan from his time on Dragons’ Den. What m…

On this week's show, I'm joined by Antony Pitt. Antony is the president of Hanover USA and has been in the recruitment industry since 1996. I love this episode because Antony was so candid about his experience. He's running a business in the US with more than 30 staff. Hanover is a global business specialising in financial services recruitment, wit…

Jonathan Field on building a super profitable recruitment business where everyone has a responsibility to drive business On this week's show, I am joined by Jonathan Field, who is the co-CEO of SSQ. SSQ is a niche legal search firm headquartered in London with over a hundred staff across 11 offices all over the globe. They've got offices in Europe …

For this episode, I’m excited to be joined by Daniel Puttick, the founder of LINKS Recruitment Group. They’re headquartered in Cardiff, with 25 staff in offices in Birmingham and Bristol. Dan started the business in 2017 and reached rather quick success. He saw 7 figures of revenue and record profits inside the first few years. In Dan’s words, he g…

On this week's show, I was joined by Gary Redman. Gary is the CEO of the Now Business Group, a collection of recruitment organisations in construction, finance, accountancy, services, and most importantly in the education sector. The business is headquartered in the UK with a really strong sales and EBITDA profile. We’re talking between five and a …

On this week's show, I was joined by Jo Sellick. In 2022, Jo was the sole founder of Sellick Partnership, a specialist recruitment agency headquartered in Manchester. Over the last 21 years, Jo has worked tirelessly to drive the business forward and has taken the business to £95m in revenue and 105 staff across multiple offices. In 2019, Sellick Pa…

Season 6 | Ep 22 - Paul Sammeroff on how starting a rec business with two strangers backfired within 3 years! On this week's show, I'm joined by Paul Sammeroff, the Founder and Director of PAS Capital, a specialist recruitment firm headquartered in Glasgow that exclusively operates within the oil and gas markets. Paul’s business is only three years…

Due to unforeseen circumstances, I wasn't able to record this week's episode with a new guest. Rather than leave you with a week of no RAG Podcast, I wanted to bring back an episode that I recorded in 2019, which was one of the best I've ever recorded. My guest is known as Tom Glanfield, founder of Lawrence Harvey, LHi group. This episode was recor…

On this week’s episode of The RAG Podcast, I am joined by Chris Allaire, the founder and CEO of Averity, a specialist technology recruitment agency. Averity was initially headquartered in New York City but is now operating across the USA. They have 30 employees, are completely remote post-pandemic, and were awarded the best staffing firm to work fo…

On this week's show, I am joined by Sinead Connolly. Sinead is the award-winning founder of Lotus People, a specialist business support recruitment firm headquartered in Sydney, Australia, with over 22 staff. Now, Sinead and I have known each other for a few years. She’s been a Hoxo client since just after the pandemic, and I've watched her journey…

On this week's show, I am excited to be joined by Luke McCormack, the founder and CEO of McCormack Partners. Luke owns a specialist recruitment business in Glasgow that focuses on the commercial roofing and cladding sectors all over the UK. Luke reached out to me a long time ago to talk about personal branding, and I've witnessed his journey ever s…

On this week’s show, I’m joined by Edmund Blogg, the co-founder of RecruitHub, the newest sponsor of The RAG Podcast. We’ve partnered with RecruitHub because I believe we’re on a shared mission. These guys are a leading service accelerator for recruitment businesses. They provide new founders with the infrastructure to run their business from day o…

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On this week's show, I am joined by Ephram Stephenson. Ephram is the CEO of Collar Group, a recruitment group based in Australia with nine offices and over a hundred staff. Interestingly, Ephram only started the business in the summer of 2021 and sent his first invoice in October 2021. Since then, he's grown an agency that covers predominantly blue…

On this week's episode of The RAG Podcast, I am joined by Ben Duffill. Ben is the Managing Director of MRG Group, The Management Recruitment Group. They’re a 60-person recruitment organisation headquartered in London, with multiple global offices. Ben has a really unique and interesting story in our sector. He went to university at 18 years old and…

On today's episode, I am joined by Simon Hair. Simon is the Managing Director of Precision Sourcing Group, a business headquartered in Sydney, Australia with 31 expert recruiters in project services, SAP, data, and software development. Now, I've wanted to have Simon on for a long time. I've worked with him for over two years and for some reason it…

On this week's episode of The RAG Podcast, I am joined by Kayleigh Bottomley, the Founder and SVP of Storm4. Storm4 is another branch of Levin, the fastest-growing group of recruitment companies in the world. A couple of weeks ago I shared a repeat of a 2021 episode with James Brown, the founder of Leven group. This was one of my highest played epi…

On today’s episode, I was joined by John Dyson. John is the founder of FJR Group, a specialist recruitment firm headquartered in Manchester with an office in London, operating across financial services, HR, and technology. John started the business in May 2011, the very same month that I personally started in recruitment. In that period of time, he…

In early 2021, I interviewed James, the CEO of Levin, to discuss his growth plans on The RAG Podcast. Now, almost 2 years later, the company with brands Storm2, Storm3, Storm4, Storm5, and Storm6, published $44m USD NFI in its third year and has grown to over 600 people. This trajectory is remarkable! I am re-releasing my episode with James as so m…

On this week's episode of the RAG Podcast, you are stuck with me again! In October, I was invited to the very first recruitment expo in Germany. This was hosted by a company called StaffingPro, in coordination with APSco. This expo was targeted mainly at the agency market, but also at some in-house recruiters. I was invited to Frankfurt for a coupl…

On this week’s episode of The RAG Podcast I was joined by Richard Wright, CEO of Acre. Acre is a specialist recruitment consultancy focusing on everything to do with sustainability, which includes climate change, social issues, and more. Richard has a long history in the recruitment sector. He originally worked for one of the biggest organisations …

On this week’s episode, I was joined by Laurie Boyall, the Founder & Group CEO of McGregor Boyall, one of the most renowned recruitment agencies headquartered in London. Laurie started the agency in 1987, having never worked a day in recruitment in his life! He was a self trained computer programmer and having found a job via a recruitment agency i…

On this week’s episode of the RAG, I’m excited to be featuring one of my own talks. Last week I presented at the Birmingham Recruitment Agency Expo in a room filled with well over 200 recruitment professionals. I discussed my thoughts and opinions on how LinkedIn is going to change over the next few years and what every recruiter should be doing no…

On this week’s episode, I was joined by David Morgan, who in 2000 co-founded Morgan Law, a UK specialist public sector recruitment agency with 35 staff. In this episode, we went through David’s 22 years as a founder to unearth the highs, the lows, and the learnings you can take from them. We covered: -The reality of setting up a business in 2000 wh…

Hannah was a guest on The RAG in June 2021 and she told the story of growing Meet, an international talent provider to the life sciences sector. At this point the business was 12 years old, 135 staff and multiple offices globally. She ended the episode by telling me that they had significant and strategic growth plans. I wasn’t entirely sure what t…

Lloyd is BACK! This is episode 3 with Lloyd, as he came onto the show twice in 2019. In part 1, he was leading a small agency of 15 staff and spoke mainly about his career as a £1.6m biller and how/why he launched his original agency known as Focus Cloud. In late 2019, he talked about the growth of his agency to over 30 people and how his dream was…

On this week’s episode, I was delighted to be joined by Alex Odwell, Founder of fintech specialist recruitment agency Referment and most recently of tech business - Radar. Alex has been in the recruitment industry for 14 years. Previously a member of the founding team at Harrington Starr group, he left to launch his own agency in 2016. Referment wa…

We are back with season 6 and WHAT a guest to kick this season off! In this season, we will be continually digging into the stories of amazing recruitment founders but also talking about the reality of today’s economy. If any changes are happening in our sector then I want to find out and bring it to you first. On this week’s episode I was delighte…