RecTalk Podcast - Explore Recruitment Insights

In this episode, Nitin Sharma sits down with Sarah Higgs of Recruitment Angel to explore what it really means to have the right operational support behind your recruitment business — and why the traditional term “virtual assistant” might not do the job justice. Sarah is part of the RecTalk Media team and a founding member of the Recruitment Curry Club. With her recruitment and operations backgroun...

Can AI make recruitment more human? 🤔 In this episode of Talking Talent meets RecTalk, recorded live at IHR Live London 2026, Sean Kennedy and Nitin Sharma are joined by Pete Van Neste, Chief Revenue Officer at Pinpoint, to discuss one of the biggest questions facing talent acquisition teams today: how can we use AI and automation without losing the human touch? With recruitment teams under press...

In this special episode of RecTalk, Nitin Sharma hosts a TEAM International panel discussion (in partnership with TEAM Network) at Totaljobs HQ in London, exploring one of the biggest opportunities for recruitment businesses today: international expansion. Thinking about taking your recruitment business into the US, Australia, Canada or beyond? Before you invest in new technology, launch a new web...

What’s the point of investing in AI if your recruitment data is a mess? In this episode of RecTalk, Nitin Sharma is once again at Bullhorn HQ in London, to sit down with Tom, Engagement Manager of Customer Success at Bullhorn, to discuss one of the most overlooked challenges in recruitment: getting your data right. With over seven years at Bullhorn and a background in recruitment himself, Tom shar...

This crossover episode of Talking Talent and RecTalk, hosted by Sean Kennedy (The TA Guy) and Nitin Sharma, kicks off our coverage of one of the talent industry's standout events, IHR Live London 2026, bringing together recruitment professionals, industry leaders and suppliers for a day of ideas, conversations and connections. We're joined by three guests who share their perspectives on th...

Is Bullhorn just for the big recruitment agencies, or can smaller businesses get real value from it too? In this episode of RecTalk, Nitin Sharma heads to Bullhorn HQ in London to sit down with Dominic Herbert , Senior Manager of Global Sales for SMB at Bullhorn , to challenge some of the biggest misconceptions about recruitment technology and explore how smaller agencies can build, scale and comp...

RecTalk is back, and this time Nitin Sharma is joined by Ben Fielding and Vinnie Itani representing Nxt Gen IT — a Rectools Recommended technology partner helping businesses get more from their IT, automation, cybersecurity and technology strategy. Ben brings years of experience running and building IT support businesses, while Vinnie brings a software development and automation background to the...

What does the future of sourcing look like when AI can search beyond keywords, analyse context, surface hidden talent and give recruiters hours back every week? In this episode of Talking Talent, hosted by Sean Kennedy (The TA Guy), we dive into the new age of sourcing with Daryl Benson of TryHackMe and Eli Duane , co-founder of NOVA by Dweet . Recorded at the offices of Robert Half in the Shard,...

In this episode of RecTalk, Nitin Sharma heads to the Gazelle Risk Solutions head office to catch up with Gary Brotherton and Gary Williamson — the two Garys behind one of the recruitment sector’s fastest-growing specialist insurance businesses. Since their last appearance on RecTalk, Gazelle has expanded its team, product portfolio and partner network, while earning multiple industry award nomina...

What if growing your recruitment business didn’t mean simply hiring more recruiters? In this episode of RecTalk, Nitin Sharma sits down with Kris Holland , Founder of Kitto to challenge one of recruitment’s most deeply embedded assumptions: that headcount growth automatically equals business growth. Kris argues that recruitment businesses need to rethink how they deploy their money, people, techno...

What happens when your employer brand becomes so powerful that you receive 20,000–40,000 job applications a month? In this episode of RecTalk, host Sean Kennedy is joined by Laura Buckle , Global VP of Talent at SKIMS , and Eli Duane , Co-Founder of NOVA by Dweet , for a candid conversation about what happens when recruitment reaches serious scale — and why more applications don't necessarily...

What really makes a recruitment agency successful in today's market? In this special RecTalk Roundtable Masterclass, Nitin Sharma brings together four recruitment industry experts to debate a series of deliberately provocative “unpopular opinions” about the recruitment industry. Joining the conversation are: Jeremy Snell – Co-Founder of Your People Engine , helping recruitment business owners...

What does it actually feel like to hire and integrate an offshore recruitment resource into your business? In this episode of RecTalk, Nitin Sharma hands hosting duties over to Ross Thompson , Director of Infinity Staff Global , for a candid “voice of the customer” conversation with Jeremy Snell , recruitment trainer and Co-Founder of Your People Engine . Jeremy is a client of Infinity Staff Globa...

In this episode of Talking Talent, Sean Kennedy sits down with Hannah Coley, who recently made the move from almost 12 years at HSBC to join Steven Bartlett’s fast-growing organisation, giving her the opportunity to build and transform a talent function from the ground up. The conversation gets into the realities of working within a large corporate environment, navigating bureaucracy, challenging...

In this episode, Nitin sits down with Kan Mallawathantri of Avensys Tech for a wide-ranging conversation about IT, cybersecurity, MSPs, business growth, hidden costs and what recruitment businesses should actually expect from their technology provider. Recorded at the offices of Niyaa People in Birmingham City Centre, this episode gets into some uncomfortable questions around the traditional MSP m...

*Get in touch with Christian or Matt below to learn more about their private workshop event on 14th October.* What does your recruitment business actually need to be worth for you to live the life you want? And what happens if you decide you want out before you're financially ready? In this episode of RecTalk, Nitin Sharma is joined by Christian Mather of One Day Wealth and Matt Fox of Exitus...

AI is moving from assisting recruiters to actually doing parts of the recruitment workflow. But what does that mean for recruiters, recruitment agencies and talent acquisition teams? In this episode of RecTalk, Nitin Sharma speaks with Siadhal Magos , Co-founder & CEO of Metaview , about the rapid evolution of AI in recruitment — and what the next 18–24 months could look like. Siadhal shares t...

Thinking about taking your UK recruitment business into the US? In this episode of RecTalk, Nitin Sharma sits down with Charles Causey, founder of Agile Partnering, to unpack what UK recruitment businesses really need to know before making the move across the Atlantic. The US staffing market is significantly larger, often offers higher margins, and can present less competition in the small-to-mid-...

What does the future of Talent Acquisition look like when AI, skills-based hiring, graduate recruitment and workplace readiness are all changing at once? In this episode of Talking Talent, a RecTalk podcast, host Sean Kennedy — aka Sean the TA Guy — sits down with Jen Hulme, Head of Talent Acquisition at BPP, for a wide-ranging conversation about the realities facing recruiters, graduates and empl...

This week, RecTalk heads to RecFest UK for a lively, unscripted conversation hosted by Nitin Sharma and Sean Kennedy — bringing together some of the biggest personalities from across the recruitment and talent acquisition community. Joining Nitin and Sean is Screenloop founder Akbar Karenga , plus Giulia Sciota , Kalpesh Baxi , Jo Major and Barbara Marinakis for a fun-filled RecFest episode focuse...

We’re still at RecFest UK 2026, and this time Nitin Sharma sits down with Lorna Cobbett , Founder of Blue John , to talk about one of the biggest issues facing employers and talent teams today: people risk . Lorna is bringing a very different perspective to the HR tech space, combining her background in investment banking and reputation management with neuroscience to rethink how organisations und...

RecTalk is back LIVE from RecFest UK, with Nitin Sharma and Sean Kennedy joined by Gita Selli and Daryl Benson for a genuinely unfiltered conversation about the changing role of Talent Acquisition, the relationship between TA and HR, and why recruiters need to get closer to the operational heart of the business. And, naturally, there’s plenty of RecFest chaos along the way. From becoming accidenta...

RecTalk is back at RecFest UK — and this time Nitin Sharma is joined by Sean Kennedy for a very candid conversation with two returning guests: Alexandra Hunt , Senior Recruiter at Highspot , and Chris Woods , Global Employer Reputation Technology Lead at Mars . After a hilarious catch-up about last year’s RecFest, chocolate disasters and life outside recruitment, the conversation quickly moves int...

RecTalk is live from RecFest UK 2026 at Knebworth Park, where Nitin Sharma sits down with Oleeo founder and CEO Charles Hipps , Police Scotland’s Lorna Allison and Sopra Steria’s Richard Burgess-Kelly to unpack one of the biggest challenges facing Talent Acquisition right now: how do you use AI to deal with a huge increase in applications without losing quality, fairness or the human element? The...

What happens when AI moves beyond taking interview notes and starts doing real recruiting work? In this special live episode of RecTalk, filmed at RecFest UK, Nitin Sharma and Sean Kennedy (Sean the TA Guy) sit down with Siadhal Magos and Stephanie Bowker from Metaview to explore how AI is reshaping recruitment — and why the future of recruiting technology could look very different from the ATS-dr...