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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…

On this week's show, I'm joined by Mike Lee, the former founder of a recruitment payroll company called Worker Group. Now, this is not a normal episode where I interview a recruitment founder, but I felt that Mike's experience and relevance to our sector would be a really good story for you guys to listen to. Mike started his career in the industry…

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…

I am excited, delighted, and honored to be joined by Greg Savage in the latest episode of the RAG Podcast. Now, almost everyone in our sector globally knows who this guy is. During his time in recruitment, Greg: -Has built an incredible brand -Has been an advisor to 16 recruitment organisations in the APAC region -Has owned and scaled three organis…

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…

On this week’s episode we wrap up Season 5 of the show in spectacular style! I was honoured to be joined by Ben and Dan, Co-Founders of Edison Search a specialist IoT recruitment firm headquartered in Basingstoke UK with 20 staff within 14 months since inception. Ben and Dan worked together for a long time in their previous company, Ben was head of…

On this week's episode of The RAG Podcast, I was joined by Rogier, the CEO of PCN Recruitment, a payments sector specialist recruitment agency with 30+ staff across offices in Amsterdam, Berlin and the USA. Rogier joined the business as an entry-level recruiter 9 years ago. He knew he wanted to work in sales and was keen on the payments sector - bu…

On this week’s episode, I was joined by Chris O’Connell, a Leadership Coach, NED 🚀 and the host of The Purpose-Led Leadership Podcast. A top billing recruiter at S3, in his early 20s Chris co-founded Timothy James Recruitment, which he and his business partner grew to £25 million in turnover within 9 years. Chris had a life where he focused on the …

On this week's episode of The RAG Podcast, I was joined by Toni, the Managing Director of Digital Gurus, a specialist Tech & Digital recruiter with 66 staff across offices in Manchester, London, Bristol and Birmingham. Toni joined the business as a Senior Consultant 11 years ago. She’d had a successful career in recruitment in Leeds and fancied a c…

On this week’s episode, I was joined by Kyle Winterbottom, the Founder of Orbition Group, a specialist Data & Analytics recruitment agency with 10 staff based in Manchester. Kyle first came on The RAG Podcast in November 2020 when his agency was less than 3 months old. Kyle was a member of the Hoxo Academy back then and was beginning to win busines…

On this week's episode of The RAG Podcast, I was joined by Lawrence & Elliot, the founders of Arto Recruitment, a specialist life science recruitment agency. The business is headquartered in Canterbury, Kent and expanded to more than 23 staff in just over 2 years of existence during the pandemic! Lawrence and Elliot have been best mates since they …

On this week’s episode, I was joined by Matthew Baird, the Founder of Baird & Co Recruitment, which is part of District4. Matt has been in recruitment since 2012 and has worked for a number of agencies recruiting into the social housing sector. During the pandemic, he became disillusioned with working for other people, and at a time of real uncerta…

On this week's episode of The RAG Podcast, I was joined by Jamie & Tony, the founders of The Just Group, a specialist group of construction recruitment brands headquartered in Bromley, Kent with 24 staff which launched in 2012. Jamie & Tony launched the business with a 3rd partner Alan, and up until the pandemic things were going great! However, Co…

On this week’s episode, I was joined by Anthony Webster, the MD of DVF recruitment and Board Member of Career Legal Group - which has several recruitment entities in London with a collective staff of 50 people. Anthony was my colleague for almost 5 years and is also a true friend. Anthony, alongside Amar and I, was originally going to be a founder …

On this week's episode of The RAG Podcast, I was joined by Jez Heard, the founder of Scale-Genesis, a specialist Blockchain & Crypto recruitment agency launched in November 2021 Jez is a 24 -year old lad from South Wales who is direct and honest! He only started in Recruitment in 2020 during the pandemic, and within less than 1 year decided to set …

On today’s episode I was joined by Nader Beshara, the CoFounder and Director of Ingham Jones a start up financial services, risk, technology and compliance global recruitment search firm with 10 people headquartered in Brighton UK. Nader has been an avid listener of The RAG and I was delighted to hear that listening to the show has helped him a lot…

On this week's episode of The RAG Podcast I was joined by Harry Bigwood and Rex Rusling. Along with Ben Leeson, these guys founded The Rec Hub at the end of 2018 originally as a contingent agency. Soon they decided to flip the model to become an “Embedded Talent Partner” to Tech start & scale ups and have since grown to 50 people! In this episode w…

On today’s episode I was joined by Matthew Eames, the Founder and CEO of Eames Group, a global insurance and financial services recruitment agency with circa 140 people across UK, EU, Asia and now the USA Matthew was a guest on The RAG in Feb 2019 and whilst the business was a similar size back then, things were very different. Most notably: - Matt…

On this week's episode of The RAG Podcast I was joined by Jake, my little brother. One of the most charismatic and successful guys I know (and annoyingly good-looking!) We got into recruitment in Melbourne together in 2011. Later in Sydney, Jake became a recruitment owner in his mid 20's, but in 2016 he sold his shares in TheDriveGroup. He was buil…