Ep10: 30 Minutes With Sophie Morris - The Value of L&D in Recruitment Businesses
Description
Welcome back to The Recruitment Entrepreneur Podcast, in today's episode, we are joined by Sophie Morris, Recruitment Entrepreneur’s Learning and Development manager.
Sophie always had a passion for learning and development but decided to start her journey within recruitment at Reed. Reed had their own in-house L&D program and after experiencing life as a recruiter for 2 years, Sophie decided to take the plunge and move into the Learning & Development team.
Sophie joined the Recruitment Entrepreneur team in October 2022 to support our portfolio partners with their L&D Strategies. She joins us today to talk about the value of Learning and Development in recruitment businesses.
Episode Overview:
[01:05 ] How Sophie get into Learning & Development (L&D) in the recruitment sector
[04:06 ] Qualifications to become a L&D Manager
[05:02 ] Difference between in-house L&D to external L&D
[07:54 ] Seeing the difference between those who want to learn to those who had to
[09:55 ] Evolution in L&D post Covid & different ways of learning
[12:48 ] Sophie's roles during and after Reed Recruitment
[14:44 ] The impact of introducing L&D to larger recruitment businesses
[15:57 ] How the RE partners received the new L&D offering
[18:33 ] How has the performance changed with the RE partners since she started this program
[22:23 ] Sophie's experience within her L&D roles
[24:32 ] Sophie's advice about having L&D in your recruitment business
Links
- Sophie Morris' LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/sophietmorris/
Recruitment Entrepreneur's Website - https://recruitmententrepreneur.com/
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