We welcome a big friend of Love Recruitment, James Lorey to this episode of the Love Your Career Podcast. James is the co-owner and Operations Director of the fantastic Your Personal Training businesses, The UK’s most successful personal training brand.
So much expertise, energy, passion and guidance comes through in this incredibly authentic chat. James is one of the great guys of the sector and we are very lucky to have him in the chair. He covers so much, below are just a few of the highlights….
- Importance for your career of getting stuck in early on. Degree or not, this has been a common theme of so many guests.
- So many times he says - “so many learnings!”
- Bravery and backing yourself.
- Early breakthroughs personally at Your PT. Not just recruiting but as importantly retaining them.
- Bravery and steps in their management buy out. Confidence was key!
- Coming out of COVID and still having over 100 pts associated with their brand.
- Pathways in our sector. Hear James’ view in helping the individual find their journey.
- His expert advice and guidance of how to create, guide and help PT’s to be a success. Also what role operators play in this too! Importance of value proposition and what’s in it for them.
- Advice for businesses in this regard…
- Exploring PT models in our sector.
- Desire being a critical reason for his success.
- Books - Black Box Thinking and 10x Rule.
- Guidance for people’s careers - follow your own directions.
- Keep LinkedIn updated. Add your successes!!
- CV advice.
- Advice for interviews.
- Adding science to their recruitment processes and how much value it adds. They have a 10 stage process in their recruitment. Thorough and robust but clear and open.
- Importance of hearing from your teams and how that is integral in building a culture.
- Importance of discipline.
- Always willing to learn and how important that is.
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 James and the Your PT business via the links below.
https://www.yourpersonaltraininguk.co.uk/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/james-lorey-a88b163b/
You can find out more about Lawrence and the Love Recruitment team via the links below.
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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