On this week’s show, I'm joined by Scott Brown, the founder of Heriot Brown, a UK-based in-house legal recruitment specialist agency. Scott started his recruitment business almost by accident. He made the switch to recruitment because he felt unfulfilled as a lawyer and wanted to have more control over his career. He wanted to gain sales experience…

I'm joined by an old client of mine, Paul Smith. Paul is the Managing Director of Deploy Recruitment, a specialist infrastructure and technology recruitment business heavily invested in the rail sector. Paul started the recruitment side of this business just over 10 years ago. In this episode, he tells me about the last year and how he completed th…

I'm super excited to be joined by Mirtes Lobaito, the CEO and founder of AGM Tech Solutions, a recruitment firm headquartered in New Jersey in the US. Mirtes shares her inspirational journey from Brazil to the US, where she started her business with no English language skills and worked her way up from cleaning homes to tech sales. She eventually e…

I am so excited to be rejoined by Chriss Abbass, the CEO of Talentful, four years after our first episode together. For those who don’t know, Talentful is the world's leading embedded talent recruitment solution, working with some of the best tech companies on the planet. I had Chris in my studio in London back in 2019. At the time, his business wa…

I'm super excited to be joined by Oliver Legg, the co-founder of Aspiron Search, a specialist headhunter in the cybersecurity market operating from the UK but placing people all over the US. Oliver started his career as a regional sales manager for a home security installation company seven years ago. Today, alongside Joe his co-founder, they gener…

In this episode, Ephram Stephenson, CEO and founder of Collar Talent Group, joins me for part 2 of the Collar Talent Group story! I interviewed Ephram Jan 2023 when his business was just over a year old and he'd already reached a head count of 100. 13 months later, and the business now has 140 people across multiple Australian offices, making them …

This week, I'm super excited to be joined by Alex Woodhead, the founder of a brand new 10-day-old talent and engineering consultancy called Apera. A business that specialises in recruitment for future mobility, space and clean energy. This is a super niche futuristic market with so much space for growth. And it isn’t Alex’s first time attacking it!…

On this week's show, Oscar Orellana-Hyder, the Founder of Cordell Partners, shares his journey from being a sceptic of personal branding on LinkedIn to building a successful recruitment agency in the UAE. I’ve worked with Oscar since 2021. He was a Hoxo client whilst working for Robert Walters. He went from someone who thought that using LinkedIn w…

On this week's show, I'm joined by Jonathan Berry, the director of the Middle East region for Robert Walters Group. I’ve known him for five years and have been working with him for four years. Jonathan was the first staff member at Robert Walters to join my bootcamp. And I'm now working with over 700 recruiters across the Group. Jonathan came to Du…

On this week's show, I'm delighted to be joined by Calvin Lee-Pickett, the CEO and founder of Calvin James Recruitment. Calvin came from the UK to Dubai as an employee of Robert Half Recruitment, a global organisation. A few years later, he decided to start his own business. Without any experience as a business owner, he has grown organically over …

Episode 2 of my LIVE series in the UAE and I'm joined by Abdul Rahman Risilia, CEO and founder of ARC Talent. Abdul is someone I actually worked with when I started my recruitment career in Melbourne in 2011, but I didn’t realise this until the show because, back then, he worked under a completely different name! In this episode, Abdul shares his j…

The first of our 5 x episodes recorded Live in the UAE kicks off with ME as the guest! So Chris Redmond, who's been on our show three times since 2019, approached me about interviewing me and telling both the Hoxo story and my learnings from almost 300 episodes of the RAG on my recent trip to Dubai! In this episode, I opened up a lot! We discuss Th…

In this episode of the RAG podcast, Sean Anderson interviews Richard Morton, the founder of MatchMedics. Richard shares his journey of launching a recruitment company in his 50s and emphasises that it's never too late to pursue your dreams. He discusses the challenges he faced in the early years and the turning point after reading the book 'Tractio…

In this week’s episode, I’m joined by Jamie Reynolds, a man who’s held some impressive titles in his career but most notably was the Former CEO of PMP Recruitment, a part of the Cordant Group, COO of Halian, and most recently, CEO of The Recruitment Co. In this in-depth episode, he shares his journey from a 17-year-old trainee to his moves toward C…

In this week's episode, I was joined by Laura Clark, CEO of OA Group, who shares her journey of joining the family business and eventually taking over as CEO. She discusses the challenges and rewards of working with her mother and the lessons she learned from her entrepreneurial upbringing. Laura also talks about the growth and operations of OA Gro…

On this week's show, I'm delighted to be joined by Josh Huggins, the founder of GS2, a global sustainability search recruitment firm headquartered in Basingstoke. The business is just over 18 months old, with eight employees. Josh shares his journey from being a professional footballer to starting his own recruitment business. After becoming the se…

On this week's show I was joined by Owen Myers and Jenna Mackie, the founders of Mackie Myers. Mackie Myers is a specialist accounting and finance recruitment firm headquartered in London, two and a half years old with 14 employees. Since launching, the business has doubled revenue year on year and operated in a sustainable way! They've introduced …

On this week's episode I was once again joined by Vincere, specifically their Head of Product, Kristy Gilham. This is a follow-up to the conversation we recorded back in September. In this episode, we focused exclusively on the product roadmap and the things that they're working on right now to improve for you, the customer. You’ll hear some intere…

Today I was joined by Dan Moussa and Kevin Warner, the founders of Telesca. Telesca is an 11 month old recruitment business headquartered in Brisbane with a completely unique model. These guys recruit in the energy and sustainability space and in a short space of time they’ve built a business with the following 100% retained (30% upfront / 70% on s…

On this week's episode, I'm excited as Chris Redmond, the founder and the CEO of RedHolt, is back on the show for the third time. In Q4 2019, he came into my office in East London; we recorded in person together and he claimed that he wanted to be a digital nomad. They’d just got rid of their office, cancelled the lease and were going completely re…

On this week's show, I was super excited to be joined by Anthony Kelly, the founder of DeepRec.ai which is a niche AI recruitment agency, part of the wider Trinnovo group. He joined the Trinnovo group three and a half years ago, as part of the Trust in Soda brand. After seeing early success, he left Ireland, moving to the UK and it was here that he…

On this week’s show, I was super excited to be joined by Stuart Fry & Lloyd Cremer. Stuart is the CEO, and Lloyd is the CRO, of Halian, a recruitment and IT services business headquartered in the UK with multiple offices all over the UK, Europe, and the Middle East. Lloyd joined me from Riyadh in Saudi Arabia and Stuart was in Dubai. They recently …

On this week’s show, you’ve got me again. I know I’ve been sharing solo episodes the last few weeks and had a couple of weeks’ break, but I really wanted to take this time to share my recap of Q3 So personally, and professionally, I feel like it's probably been the most powerfully transformational quarter of my life. In this show, I discuss: Q2 bei…

I’m still on paternity leave, so I'm going to give you another super valuable piece of content from my recent Personal Brand Taster series. In this week's episode, I want to feature the 4 steps that any recruitment company can adopt to become what I call an inbound recruiter. And that is a recruiter that: ✔️ Lives off warm leads ✔️ Is spotting 25 w…

Because I’m away on paternity leave over the next couple of weeks, I’m giving you some super valuable information that I’ve recently shared as part of our Hoxo Academy Taster Sessions. I’m featuring a case study that I recorded about a company called Precision Sourcing. Simon Hair, the MD at the company, was previously on The RAG Podcast and was pa…

On this week's show, I’m speaking directly to our partner, Vincere. Vincere has sponsored the RAG Podcast for the last three years, and I have a lot of love for the brand and a great relationship with the business. I’m really grateful for the support they've given me and our industry. However, about a year ago, they were acquired by The Access Grou…

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…