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In this podcast series, we sit down and talk to Recruiters who have all paved their own way, and have arrived at (or are well on their way to) their chosen career destination.
And we hear from them why they made the choices they made, and how those choices impacted their Recruitment careers.
Through honest discussion, we hope you can learn from their successes and failures, as you start, or continue, your own “Recruitment Journey”.
And we hear from them why they made the choices they made, and how those choices impacted their Recruitment careers.
Through honest discussion, we hope you can learn from their successes and failures, as you start, or continue, your own “Recruitment Journey”.
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Serial recruitment entrepreneur, Jason Roulston, tells us how about the highs and lows of his first decade in recruitment, and why he’s launched not one, but two recruitment firms in that time. And how the valuable business lessons he’s learnt have shaped who he is today.
Ryan McCabe was, in his own words and own admission, a failed engineer, then a failing Recruiter.
But during his brief-ish foray into Recruitment, he has a lightbulb moment.
With a wife seven months pregnant, zero evidence that his idea would work, but blind and unwavering belief, he founded Odro, and pioneered video-technology for the recruitment industry.
In today’s candid chat, we chat with Ryan about the 7 year journey so far of launching a tech start-up from Glasgow, not the Silicon Valley, and how he set about getting the recruitment industry to start looking into camera phones all over the world.
Hope you enjoy today’s chat.
Paul Masters is the recruitment industry advisor behind all the big, recent multi-million dollar M&A deals here in Australia.
Paul is the guy who quietly helps recruitment business owners realise the dreams they had many years ago when they started their little companies from kitchen tables or serviced offices across Australia.
Paul is the guy who brokers the deals, that helps these business owners become very, very wealthy, almost overnight.
But there’s a LOT that goes into getting the right deal for everybody. A lot of hard work, a lot of research, and a LOT of emotion. But Paul knows how to navigate through the noise.
In this chat today, we find out what goes on behind the scenes when a business owner is selling their recruitment business, what they need to do to best position themselves to get the best multiple, and what, at the eleventh hour, can cause the deal to fall over.
Hope you enjoy today’s “Recruitment Journeys” podcast titled “The Recruitment Industry Advisor Behind All The Big M&A Deals”.
Ross Clennett has been a recognised name in the Australian Recruitment Industry for many a long year. So it should come as no surprise that he was the 2022 recipient of the RCSA’s CEO Outstanding Contribution Award.
Before he was a recruitment trainer and blogger, Ross was a very successful Recruiter in his own rights, billing around a million dollars a year in today’s money.
In this chat today, he talks about his early years in recruitment, how and when he first encountered Mr Greg Savage, his views on the importance of strong leadership in our industry, and of course, that infamous blog from 4 years ago.
Hope you enjoy todays podcast titled “The Recruitment Blogger With Big Opinions”.
For as long as I can remember, there’s always been a bit of a morbid fascination with what I do within the Recruitment Industry, namely Rec2Rec.
So why not get over 50 years of R2R experience together, on the same podcast, and lift the lid on what we do?
On this episode of “Recruitment Journeys”, we have a bit of a special one…
I’m simply calling this “The Rec2Rec Special”.
Joining me in this chat is Grace Marlin in New York, James Vizor in London and Charlie Bell in Melbourne, and I ask why the hell they entered such a notoriously difficult recruitment sector in the first place… Why they love the R2R space… How they coped through the barren Covid months… What they think we can do better as a Rec2Rec community! And much more!
Hope you enjoy “The Rec2Rec Special”…
Paul Tulip was a Recruiter who liked a drink. He proudly maintains to this day that some of the best friends he met, and best memories he made, were with a beer in his hand.
He’d happily admit that having a drink was not only important to him, but a part of who he was.
Then on one standard Tuesday night, that all changed.
He woke up at 1.30am on a normal school night, drunk and hungover (yes, it’s possible to be both), and said “Nah, I’m done with this!”
That was 10 months ago, and aside from one (very beneficial) misstep, Paul has discovered a new life!
Just in time for Dry July, he tells his story here today.
Paul talks with so much no-nonsense clarity and passion, it’s a riveting listen. Even for somebody like me who hasn’t drunk for almost ten years.
If you are in any way “sober curious” you simply must listen to the “Recruitment Journeys” podcast titled “The Recruiter Who Quit Drinking”.
In an industry that’s crammed full of small, niche specialists, all trying to cut through the noise, compete with the big boys, and make a crust… How do you stand out?
How do you ensure that you’re not only seen and heard, but ultimately recognised as the No 1 “Go To” Recruiter in your chosen super tight niche?
We asked Chris Caiger-Watson from Genius People, because I reckon he’s done exactly that.
Hope you enjoy this “Recruitment Journeys’ podcast titled “How to become the No 1 “Go To” Recruiter in your super tight niche.
Niall Clerkin was, as he puts it himself, “fit as a fiddle”. He was running marathons left, right and centre, and living his best healthy life.
He was also a Recruiter by day, and had enjoyed a wonderful recruitment career, proudly listing “million dollar biller” and senior recruitment executive as some of his accolades.
Then, after a relatively inconspicuous visit to the doctors, he found himself, surprisingly, on the wrong end of a quadruple heart bypass.
With no clues for the cause of this life changing event coming from his lifestyle or family history, Niall had to seriously consider whether the stress of being a career Recruiter could have been a factor.
This podcast is an eye opener and a real wake up call to all us “fit and healthy” Recruiters who reckon it couldn’t happen to us.
How did Paddy Flaherty go from dreams of playing in the Premier League, to masterminding the rebuild of an iconic Sydney recruitment brand that had taken a bit of a hiding through covid?
In this “Recruitment Journeys” podcast chat, we speak to Paddy about his own recruitment career, the highs and lows, and what the “secret sauce” is that he attributes to the success of rebuilding Experis NSW almost back to its former pre-Covid glory.
Erin Devlin has had a very jam packed life, and done it all.
From professional ballet dancer, to international cabin crew, to recruitment industry leader, to mother of (soon to be) 3, to author…
There’s literally no limits to Erin’s talents, and everything that she turns her hand to, she seems to do to the highest of standards.
In this new podcast episode, we speak to Erin and find out where that drive comes from to keep reinventing herself, how she juggles her multi-faceted life, and what’s next.
Hope you enjoy this “Recruitment Journeys” podcast episode with Erin Devlin from People2People.
In Episode 47, we look closely at a subject that’s been very topical in the recruitment industry of late, since the arrival of Old Mate Covid… And that’s “working from home”.
Or more specifically, the shorter working week.
A few recruitment businesses have pioneered the four day working week, or the nine-day fortnight with amazing results. And they haven’t looked back.
Today we talk to two such industry trailblazers… Shawn Twomey from The Andersen Partnership, and Simon Hair from Precision Sourcing.
And they tell us how they arrived at the potentially risky decision of giving all of their staff extra time out of the office, and away from their desks.
Hope you enjoy this podcast episode entitled “Reinventing The Week”.
Iterate and Creative Natives were two exciting Australian start-ups, that launched within a few months of each other, in 2019.
Both were set up for great early success, and destined to smash the lights out in their first full calendar year of 2020.
And then Covid hit.
Every single recruitment business on the planet struggled for a period of time. But the firmly established companies probably had a slightly easier ride than others.
But what was it like to be a brand new business, who were barely off the mark, fighting for survival and heading into the toughest economy the world has ever known?
In this episode Michael Boyd and Ryan Lynch from Iterate, and Ryan Kelly from Creative Natives, take us back in time and talk us through what was probably the hardest 12 months of their professional lives.
But, they also tell us what is was like to come through it, to now find themselves thriving in this amazing market bounce-back.
Hope you enjoy “The Start-Ups That Have Survived And Thrived Through Covid”.
Welcome to a very special episode of “Recruitment Journeys”.
Today, we’re talking about something that’s been ever present in the recruitment industry since the beginning of time, and certainly since the beginning of my recruitment career. It’s as much a part of the fixtures and fittings of our industry as coffee and compendiums…
And that’s booze.
Seemingly, our industry can’t seem to function without it?
Or can it?
Well, today, seven Recruiters come together who have a very different point of view.
Collectively, we have 111 years of recruitment experience, and 45 years of being on the wagon.
And in this podcast today, very vulnerably, we’re going to share with you why we don’t drink, how we stopped, how we stay stopped, and how not drinking has positively affected our careers in recruitment.
Massive thanks to the six Recruiters who came on and spoke so bravely and openly in this podcast, titled “Can you really work in the Recruitment Industry and not drink?”
Collectively, Verge Das Neves and Shawn Twomey have around 30 years recruitment industry experience.
When we launched the Recruiter’s Mentor Project a month ago, it came as little surprise that these industry long-termers put their hands up to be Mentors. Why wouldn’t they want to share their experiences and learnings with others coming through, right?
However, I must admit I was a little bit taken aback when they both said they also wanted to be Mentees.
I was surprised, but curious, so invited them onto “Recruitment Journeys” to find out why they had decided to be both a Mentor AND a Mentee to/in our industry.
Between the two of them, Matt Cossens and Rob Millington have over 40 years recruitment experience.
They’ve also racked up quite a few extreme challenges between them... Things like ultra-marathons and MMA cage fights!
At some point in time, both Matt and Rob realised that their passion for setting extreme goals and challenges outside of work, could benefit them inside work.
In this chat, we talk to Rob and Matt about why they do what they do, and how their extreme pursuits help shape them as recruiters and leaders.
Both Anika Stokes and Sinead Connolly have, in their careers, been brought to their knees by burnout.
They both managed it badly for years, refusing to acknowledge it, or accept it.
But eventually, both were left with no choice but to tackle it.
In this episode of “Recruitment Journeys”, Anika and Sinead chat openly, bravely, honestly and with great candour, around their battle with burnout, and how they keep it in its box nowadays.
This is vital listening for anybody out there who might be pushing themselves too hard and ignoring the warning signs.
Hope you enjoy it.
Grant Movzowitz from T+O+M Executive and Jason Roulston from Blackroc each head up businesses that are in full growth mode. And as we experience the official Covid “bounce back” period that we all prayed to the Recruitment Gods for for so long, which is creating almost unprecedented demand for Recruiters, it was great to sit down with these two notoriously upbeat and positive characters, and ask them the question that is currently on every recruitment leaders mind…. “How do you effectively scale a recruitment business”?
Between the two of them, Paul Hallam and Steve Carter, have almost 50 years recruitment experience. Most of that 50 years has been spent in recruitment leadership roles, with almost 30 of those years running two of Australia’s most respected recruitment brands, Six Degrees and Sharp & Carter.
So it was great to get these two long term acquaintances in the same chat to find out more about them behind the scenes, to hear a couple of funny stories from yesteryear, and to ask them the question…
When creating success in Recruitment, what is more important? Recruitment excellence or culture?
I asked them both to choose one or the other. No sitting on the fence.
So, without further ado…
Stella Petrou Concha and Andy McGregor are both young(ish), progressive thinking, innovative, “move with the times” recruitment leaders. They’re exactly the types of leaders that would have looked closely at what Covid did our industry, learn from it, and adapted.
They are exactly the right kind of people to ask the question, “How has the role of a Recruiter changed in this post-Covid world?”
Simon Hair from Precision and James Hone from Bluefin get together to chat about all manner of things like meditation, football fights, fishing, recruitment reality TV shows, and even the recruitment industry. The Yorkshireman and the Geordie... Sorry... Mackem discuss everything they learnt about their people, business and themselves during Covid19.
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