Coffee with a Recruiter

Mark Hothi (Deliveroo, Publicis Sapient) is a design recruiter with over 15 years’ experience. He’s here to share with us the basics of recruiting designers. How do you work best with a hiring manager? What are the basic principles of design? What are the different types of design roles out there? We’ll discuss this and much more on Coffee with a Recruiter. https://www.linkedin.com/in/markhothi/ (...

Hello everyone, and welcome to the coffee with a Recruiter podcast. Today I discuss tips on staying motivated professionally. I draw most of these insights from the book Drive: the surprising truth about what motivates us , written by Daniel Pink. I'll look at intrinsic vs external motivations, and how you can develop your own intrinsic motivations. Also, I launched a website! https://coffeewithar...

Paul Abercrombie is the Global Head of Talent at Bazaarvoice. Paul discusses his approach to recruitment, managing teams and much more on Coffee with a Recruiter (apologies for the muffled sound in the first 3 minutes). https://www.linkedin.com/in/paulabercrombie/ TIMESTAMPS: (5:03) Career history (16:16) Joining BazaarVoice, advice to agency recs (26:45) Managing teams and goal-setting (34:45) Re...

Russell is a former recruiter (Asos, General Pants), job search coach and HR professional. He helps candidates improve their CV, LinkedIn, Telephone / Video / and In Person Interview. He's an industry veteran with 15 years' experience in the creative, digital and retail space. Today we focused on how recruiters can better improve their job search, but the tips are also applicable to any jobseeker....

April Georgia Williams is an ex-recruiter, HR professional, podcaster, and events specialist. She focuses on Diversity and Inclusion, Employer Branding and Training/Workshops. Her podcast, "Candid Conversations", brings HR experts together in order for them to talk transparently about trending topics in our society. In this episode she discusses her podcast, how companies can communicate properly...

Welcome to our first episode of “My Toughest Placement”, a Coffee with a Recruiter series where I ask recruiters “what’s the toughest role you’ve had to fill?”   Our first guest is Marie Therese Nissen, the founder of NOTICE. She is a former colleague, and one of the best executive search headhunters I’ve ever met.   NOTICE is a fast-paced and boutique international search company. &nbsp...

Tempo is a hiring platform that helps companies hire for non-tech, high-volume roles such as sales, PAs, customer support, admin and much more. What are the recruitment problems that Tempo is solving? How does it make the recruitment process better for both candidates and recruiters? I had the chance to speak with Rikke Mikkelsen, Tempo’s head of marketing, to find out more. https://www.heytempo.c...

When Dominic Joyce is not leading recruitment efforts in the banking sector, he’s running https://cvupgrade.com/ - a career coaching service that helps candidates with improving their CVs, cover letters, LinkedIn profiles and interview skills. Dom has run CVupgrade for over 2 years, has helped more than 300 clients, and gathered tons of positive feedback. How did CVupgrade start? How can candidate...

Gareth Pratten is a Talent Acquisition Lead at Checkout.com , but a better way of describing him is as a Talent "Business Partner": Gareth's key skills lie in truly partnering with hiring managers in order to understand their needs, strategising with his team and hiring the best people. https://www.linkedin.com/in/gareth-pratten/ What's Gareth's approach to engaging stakeholders? How did his trans...

Kim Goddard is a former Facebook recruiter who has worked as a contractor for the past 3 years. What's life like as a recruitment contractor? What are the differences between contracting and a permanent role? What are the challenges and lessons of being a contractor? We’ll answer this and more with Kim on Coffee with a Recruiter. Kim’s profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kimagoddard/ Timestamps (...

The role of recruiters is changing! It's not enough anymore to just send CVs and book in interviews. We need to be “hiring advisors” to stakeholders. Bringing in not just candidates, but also important recruitment insights in order for hiring managers to make informed hiring decisions (competitor analysis, salary benchmarks, employer brand comparisons for example). In this podcast episode, I discu...

Employer branding is one of the key aspects of recruitment that companies most often need in order to attract the right talent and lower their cost per hire.  But what exactly is employer branding? Here with us is Megan Newberry - https://www.linkedin.com/in/megannewberry/   She's a talented internal recruiter with experience in employer branding (corporate, construction, medical sectors...

In our current job-hunting landscape, being prepared for interviews is essential. Andrew Mischefski, a talented internal recruiter, joins me in discussing how candidates and recruiters can best prepare in order to be successful when interviewing. We discussed various areas such as techniques to best answer interview questions, dealing with interview pressure, what documents we should send candidat...