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The RAG Podcast - Recruitment Agency Growth PodcastSeason 5 | Ep 6 - Nick Vaughan on scaling Hamlyn Williams to 100 people and then leaving the business to build the Bloomberg of the recruitment sector!On this week's episode of The RAG Podcast Live, I was joined by Nick Vaughan, Founder of Hamlyn Williams and now CEO & Founder of Talent Ticker an actionable market intelligence platform for the recruitment industry.Nick’s life began as a 3rd generation farmer in Herefordshire who moved to London to work in the city.After learning his trade with S3 and JCW, he launched Hamlyn Williams in 2011, a specialised STEM focused Recruitment Agency with a HQ in Cardiff.Over the next 7 years Nick managed to scale the business to over 100 people across mu...
2021-11-151h 03The RAG Podcast - Recruitment Agency Growth PodcastSeason 5 | Ep 4 - David Spencer-Percival on his secrets to growing £100m recruitment agencies multiple times and doing so without a laptop, purely operating on his iPhone!On this weeks episode of The RAG Podcast Live, I was joined by David Spencer-Percival, Founder & CEO of Life Science People and serial recruitment entrepreneur.David was in the founding team of Huntress Group in 2000 and exited in 2009 for a life changing sum of money. He then started Spencer Ogden in 2009 and repeated the process all over again! Growing to over 500 people and reaching over £100m in revenue, he then decided his work was done before leaving the company in 2020.He is now back with one of the fastest growing recruitment start-ups in th...
2021-11-011h 05The RAG Podcast - Recruitment Agency Growth PodcastSeason 5 | Ep 2 - Leo Harrison MBA on growing Chapter 2 from 0-33 staff in a Global Pandemic without ever working in the Recruitment Industry!On this weeks episode of The RAG Podcast Live, I will be joined by a friend, client and mentor - Leo Harrison MBALeo is one of the smartest guys I have ever had the pleasure to meetLeo founded Chapter 2 in Jan 2020 and after an obvious slow start, they are now one of the fastest-growing recruitment brands in the worldBut this isn't Leo's first venture, he was a founding member of the team at OLIVER, a Marketing Agency that builds in-house teamsDuring his time in the business, he...
2021-10-181h 03
idibuAccount Development – it’s a marathon, not a sprint.This is the first podcast we’ve released as a way to give you more insight into the people behind idibu. Hazel Walker, Operations Director, APAC and Monika Khanna, Client Services Director, UK talk to Jen Parker about all things Account Development at idibu.
Jen talks to the team about:
* The values that drive them
* How they help people exceed their goals
* Top account development tips
* How they build long term relationships in the current pandemic virtual world
We hope you like it, and we’d love to hear what you think. Get in...
2020-07-1528 minidibuBeyond C19 – Light at the end of the tunnel – Simon MeyerSimon Meyer is a successful serial entrepreneur operating in the recruitment space in Australia just on the cusp of launching his new start-up Compono. Compono represents a group of companies of which Shortlyster, an idibu partner, is one of them.
In this podcast we look beyond the Covid crisis and get focussed on the opportunities that lay ahead – the questions business owners should be asking themselves, and how businesses with true purpose are likely to benefit from the current pandemic.
If you’d like to speak to Simon, contact him via LinkedIn or get in touch via the Comp...
2020-04-2129 minidibuHow you’ll turn social media into your recruitment tool – Rohit, Paiger and fluking recruitmentRohit Kapoor is the Sales Director of Paiger – an organisation with a mission to help you get more job applications from social media, help you to build better relationships & much more.
Rohit was great to talk with, he has lots of energy and passion around what he does, the mission of Paiger and how he arrived there. We discuss topics such as:
* The journey of “fluking” it into recruitment
* The story behind Paiger and what Paiger does as a business
* The good, bad and ugly ways in which social media is deployed in the recruitment indust...
2020-02-1930 min
The Blue MarbleWork happier - improving employee experience and top down thinkingKatherine Tiddy is Founder of The Work Happy Project – an organisation with a simple mission to help people and companies work happier.
This Podcast was originally released by Steve Walker on idibu.com. Steve is Task founder along with co-founder Matt who normally hosts the Task podcast. We decided to release the podcast here as it covered a lot of ground related to employee happiness, and given Task has a key focus around Employee Engagement - it made sense.
We had a great conversation covering lots of ground around happiness and the work place, with to...
2019-11-271h 12idibuWork Happy – A conversation with Katherine TiddyKatherine Tiddy is Founder of The Work Happy Project – an organisation with a simple mission to help people and companies work happier.
We had a great conversation covering lots of ground around happiness and the work place, with topics such as:
* What led Katherine to identify imbalances in her own working life, her personal journey
* Why more stuff doesn’t make you happy
* Understanding your relationship with money, removing the fear that holds you back
* How stress can manifest and how it affects your personal life
* The importance of understanding how you can beco...
2019-11-151h 12idibuChanging faces – stopping bar brawls to tech evolutions in Australian recruitmentCol Levander is Founder and CEO of multi-award winning recruitment technology business, Ratescalc.com. Ratescalc.com™ is a pay/bill rate calculator which automates quotes and employment contracts seamlessly through a 360 degree digital workflow
Col is a charismatic and well-known face in the APAC recruitment industry – it was great talking to him! We cover topics such as:
* The changing face of MSP/ RPO in Australia
Recruitment process outsourcing (RPO) Vs. managed services provision (MSP) Vs. Task Based outsourcing ( TBO)
* “Statement of work” and the growth of this space of which many organisations are unaware
* Changes i...
2019-11-0454 minidibuHow to successfully exit your Recruitment business – key metrics and approachesRod Hore is Director of HHMC Global Pty Ltd who advise recruitment agency owners and managers on growth and equity strategies, as well as execute buy/sell transactions involving private, listed and international organisations.
Rod is a great guy with many years of industry experience – we cover topics such as:
* What are the metrics used for recruitment agency valuations
* What should a startup agency be doing to plan for a future exit?
* How does a recruitment company owner self assess to know where they stand from an attractiveness and value perspective?
* The issues of gro...
2019-07-0236 minidibuCome on in, the waters fine! idibu evolutions with MD Martin BramallA special idibu podcast with Martin Bramall and Steve Walker who together setup idibu in 2007. Martin took over as the Managing Director of idibu around 7 years ago and has been the driver of idibu’s growth.
This was a loose conversation we’d been meaning to have for ages – we see podcasts as a great medium for discussion and getting our thoughts out there – and while we wanted to focus on some areas in recruitment, other subjects came up as well.
If you’re interested in hearing us chat about:
* Why we podcast and how podcasts fit within...
2018-12-0350 minidibuFrom mud-wrestling to recruiting sales hero – Gordon Webb, idibu sales directorPlease meet Gordon Webb our new Sales Director. While we start off a bit nervous in this podcast, we soon get in to the swing of it and in to the life of Gordon – his love of fishing, mud-wrestling and his history in recruitment.
We get in to the state of the industry, new technologies (AI being one of them of course), and a few areas that we think idibu as a business really shines.
Its a casual chinwag!
You can find more out about Gordon on LinkedIn or get in touch with him by contacting us at i...
2018-09-0527 minidibuHigh volume recruiter challenges – Kevin McGrath NES discussionKevin McGrath is the Applications Project Manager and Business Analyst for NES Global.
Kevin and I talk about:
* The biggest challenges faced in sourcing candidates
* The challenges faced in engaging with the candidates sourced and assessing their suitability
* How GDPR has affected sourcing and engagement strategy
* Tech based experiments NES are running and thoughts on AI
You can follow and contact Kevin through LinkedIn or visit the NES Global Talent website.
idibu is all about intelligent candidate acquisition. Contact us if you’d like a demo or free trial – from job postin...
2018-07-1223 minidibuStaying ahead of the recruitment technology curve – Stuart BentleyEnter Stuart Bentley – Stuart Bentley is a longtime partner and collaborator with idibu – an ex-RDB employee who went on to form his own business Needlestack, a business consultancy providing value added services to clients wishing to enhance their recruitment capabilities and increase overall efficiency via appropriate recruitment technology.
Stuart is “obsessed with efficiency improvements”. He believes that technology is there to serve us – and he observes a mass of business inefficiency because people don’t spend the time, or don’t understand how to setup their systems in order to maximiser the return on their technological investments
This is why he’s had...
2018-04-0423 min