Today, we are discussing what legal requirements a recruitment company needs to have with our Recruitment Expert, a Solicitor specialising in the recruitment sector and founder of recLAW, Barry Cullen. In this video and podcast, Barry talks about the legal journey from start-up to scaling and the various stages of growth, from how to handle restricted covenants to having your T&Cs work for you as part of your credit control process, the best way to handle legal issues when they arise so you maintain your valued client relationship, and much more. Below is the full, unedited transcription ..read more

Recruitment BD is on most people’s agenda this year. 2022 was an amazing year for many recruitment and search companies. After crazy Covid, everything felt easy; clients approached recruiters, and candidates weren’t hard to find. 2023 wasn’t quite the same, yet companies did the same things. So why weren’t the same BD strategies working? It’s a question many business owners and recruiters have found themselves asking. This week, we chatted with 20-year recruitment expert Ali Braid, the “Recruitment Trainer” who is passionate about business development. Ali talks about why the same strategies ..read more

In this week’s podcast, Sharon interviewed our client, Paul Card, the MD of Paul Card Recruitment, about hitting the milestone of ten years of running his successful financial recruitment business. Paul started his career as a successful big biller in one of the UK’s most respected and recognised corporate recruiting firms. Then, as Paul and his wife decided to start a family, Paul took the leap to start his own business. It wasn’t easy at first, with a few wrong turns before Paul started to build momentum as he became one of Teesside’s most respected financial recruitment companies. Paul has ..read more

  Today, we have the next in our series of expert interviews with Simon Bliss, serial entrepreneur and the current chair of TEAM. Having built an incredibly successful logistics business that he scaled from a start-up to 100 national branches, Simon had the opportunity to buy a recruitment company. With no industry experience, he went on to scale and sell his recruitment business. Simon started his business career delivering packages from his motorbike as a self employed person. Building and selling two companies has been quite a journey. Here, in today’s video and podcast, Simon shares ..read more

Continuing our April series of guest podcasts, I am delighted to introduce and welcome the fabulous Katy Green from Centred Excellence as a returning guest. Katy has 23 years of experience in the recruitment industry. Following a successful career with Aspire, where she became MD of Aspire Digital, Katy joined Centred Excellence as Nicky Coffin’s business partner. With her business partner Nicky Coffin, Katy specialises in helping business owners who want to scale to 7 and 8 figures. As a result, Katy knows a thing or two about what it takes to build a high-performing team. We cover a variety ..read more

  Miles and Sharon discuss the importance of maximizing client potential in this podcast conversation. Miles shares some of the strategies he implements with his clients as part of their growth plans. He explains the importance of: Building strong client relationships The risks of having too much business with too few clients Adding value to clients through the recruiting process not just filling jobs Adapting to changing client needs Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in the recruitment industry As the co-founder of a recruitment company specializing in using a non-biased process in the ..read more

In this special episode and the first of our April series of expert interviews, we are delighted to interview a true expert in her field. Cheryl Wing is the MD of GSR2R, and a leading award-winning Rec2Rec specialist based in London, and the founder of the GSR2R Masterclass Programme, which helps you attract and retain talent. In the space of five years, Cheryl has empowered over 40 companies to hire their own recruiters, saving them time and money and improving their time to hire while increasing retention. Most importantly, these recruitment organisations now have a pipeline of the right re ..read more

Today we celebrate International Women’s Day with an interview with one of our amazing clients Dawn Bannister the M.D. of KSB Recruitment. A thirty-year recruitment ‘veteran’, midwife, and innovative business owner Dawn has an amazing story to tell today as we celebrate IWD and all things that embrace Equity. Sharon: Hi, Dawn, and welcome to the Recruitment Marketing and Sales podcast. Thank you, first of all, for your time today. We are here in celebration of International Women’s Day and its theme of #EmbraceEquity When I thought about who would be a great client to interview on IWD, you ca ..read more

Today we are celebrating International Women’s Day by interviewing Lynn Sedgwick, the MD and owner of the Clayton Recruitment group. In this candid interview, Lynn shares her inspiring story, including her short-lived accountancy career, studying for her postgrad qualification, becoming a successful corporate recruiter, building multiple high-performing desks, and owning and scaling Clayton into two recruitment teams of over twenty-five billers. Along the way, we hear about the importance of self-development and outside help and Lynn’s eight lessons on successful scaling she has learned throu ..read more

Handling COVID19 was the topic of this Recruitment Expert interviews episode of the Recruitment Marketing and Sales Podcast, I had the pleasure of conducting one of our recruitment expert interviews. This particular recording is with a client of ours, Mark Woffenden the finance and marketing director from Lucy Walker Recruitment. Below is the full transcription. Please excuse any typing errors as the power of AI technology has created this. Denise Oyston: Hi there everyone. This is Denise from The Recruitment Marketing and Sales Podcast with a very, very special podcast today; I’m delighted to ..read more