Recruitment Mentors Podcast

In this episode, I sit down with Jon and Vic, co-founders of Blue Fox, a self-funded recruitment business in mission critical construction that did £1.5M in revenue in its first year.They had their first perm deal done within three weeks, and they ran Blue Fox like a proper business from day one, with a detailed business plan, SOPs for everything and quarterly OKRs.We get into why their first hire was a contractor care manager rather than a salesperson, how the 70/30 vertical rule brought their billings back after a dip, and why £1.5M in revenue is not £1.5M in the bank.Connect with Jon here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonathan-bochenski-🔵🦊-88454178/Connect with Vic here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vbannon/-------------------------Watch the episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/PlrO2rGnTcw-------------------------Podcast Sponsors: Claim your exclusive savings from our partners with the links below:Sourcewhale - Check Out Sourcewhale & Claim Your Exclusive Offer Here.Atlas - Check Out Atlas & Claim Your Exclusive Offer HereRaise - Check Out Raise & Claim Your Exclusive Offer Here.-------------------------Want more content like this?The Wednesday Debrief is our free weekly newsletter for recruiters who take their craft seriously. Join 7,000+ subscribers here: https://newsletter.recruitmentmentors.com/-------------------------Get in touch with me:Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hishemazzouz/-------------------------

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In this episode, I sit down with Tom Kelly, co-founder and CEO of Evona, the specialist space industry recruitment firm.Tom shares the nine mistakes that came from scaling on headcount to a peak of 68 people, and how the business rebuilt around output to reach £279K NFI per head.We dive into the 180 LinkedIn seats Evona never needed, Tom moving to the US unpaid and being handed the CEO role a month later, and the P25 output measure that now runs the business.Connect with Tom on LinkedIn here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/evonatom/-------------------------Watch the episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/amFIj1wlEPs-------------------------Podcast Sponsors: Claim your exclusive savings from our partners with the links below:Sourcewhale - Check Out Sourcewhale & Claim Your Exclusive Offer Here.Atlas - Check Out Atlas & Claim Your Exclusive Offer HereRaise - Check Out Raise & Claim Your Exclusive Offer Here.-------------------------Want more content like this?The Wednesday Debrief is our free weekly newsletter for recruiters who take their craft seriously. Join 7,000+ subscribers here: https://newsletter.recruitmentmentors.com/-------------------------Get in touch with me:Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hishemazzouz/-------------------------

Walk & Talk episode with Tom Glanfield, founder of LHI Group.We walk around his Sandbanks plot and chat about the £13.5M bidding war to win it, why he never paid himself more than £150K while building LHI, and life after the exit.Connect with Tom here:-------------------------Watch the episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/MHtnRPtxuEI-------------------------Podcast Sponsors: Claim your exclusive savings from our partners with the links below:Sourcewhale - Check Out Sourcewhale & Claim Your Exclusive Offer Here.Atlas - Check Out Atlas & Claim Your Exclusive Offer HereRaise - Check Out Raise & Claim Your Exclusive Offer Here.-------------------------Want more content like this?The Wednesday Debrief is our free weekly newsletter for recruiters who take their craft seriously. Join 7,000+ subscribers here: https://newsletter.recruitmentmentors.com/-------------------------Get in touch with me:Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hishemazzouz/-------------------------

In this episode, I sit down with Fred Forrest, co-founder of Sourcechange. He left a comfortable seat at Pangea, got investment from day one, and built a US energy recruitment business from a box room in Aldgate East to past $2M in year three, with no clients and no track record in the market when he started.We get into the tactical mistakes that made year one even harder, how Fred turned a tiny opening into Sourcechange's biggest client, and why he believes AI is only half the bet without a ferocious sales culture behind it.Connect with Fred here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/frederick-forrest-05916812b/-------------------------Watch the episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/1UA0w7kYy7M-------------------------Podcast Sponsors: Claim your exclusive savings from our partners with the links below:Sourcewhale - Check Out Sourcewhale & Claim Your Exclusive Offer Here.Atlas - Check Out Atlas & Claim Your Exclusive Offer HereRaise - Check Out Raise & Claim Your Exclusive Offer Here.-------------------------Want more content like this?The Wednesday Debrief is our free weekly newsletter for recruiters who take their craft seriously. Join 7,000+ subscribers here: https://newsletter.recruitmentmentors.com/-------------------------Get in touch with me:Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hishemazzouz/-------------------------