Honoured to welcome industry leader David Monkhouse to the Love Your Career podcast. David has been a friend to Love Recruitment for many years and is someone who’s opinion and guidance is both respected and adhered to within our walls!
We hope you love this chat. David is so generous with his time and opinions always but particularly we believe this really shines through in this chat. We hope you will identify your own highlights, but for us, some of these are below.
- Only had 3 bad days - David is so positive and enjoyed his career so much, he can pinpoint only 3 bad days in his career to date. That’s not bad is it!?
- He describes so well his early steps being very ‘hands on’ - almost the apprenticeship route - ending up learning ‘how to learn’ with lead to more and more qualifications and growth. He talks this through so well and so succinctly. Loved it.
- Volunteering, putting yourself forward. It’s a safe place to learn new skills. Sticking your hand up.
- Succession planning - this is a big part of what makes up David’s job right now. Hear more about how he is learning to do it better and look after the future.
- Books - some great recommendations here. Firstly Black Box Thinking. Also Who moved my cheese, Fish and Think like a Freak.
- Advice for early stages of career and to step into senior roles - great great advice here.
- What’s a great trait is great leaders he knows? Empathy and competency in their development of people.
- “A lot of what I do is about solving problems”. Great quote.
- Advice to people looking to develop their career or find a new role
- Advice for hiring, how to do it better. It starts with retention. Love this.
- How vital the narrative piece is when recruiting.
- Identifying the value add a recruitment company can add to a business.
- Mentorship and the different forms it happens.
- Lastly he recommended the brilliant Sue Anstiss as a future guest. We are on it!
We hope you love this episode and if you have any favourite parts or if anything resonates with you we would love to hear from you. Contact is here or via any of the links below.
You can find out more about David via his LinkedIn below and Active net https://active-net.org/ here
https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-monkhouse-fcimspa-4ba281b/
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https://www.loverecruitmentgroup.com/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/lawrenceeverest/
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If any of the tips around interviews were of interest, you can find out more candidate help with our candidate guide, which point you in the direction blogs, tips and guidance from Lawrence and the team
https://www.loverecruitmentgroup.com/pages/candidate-guide
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