Recruitment Journeys: The Podcast Series from Mint R2R

Three and a half years ago, Sean Anderson was trying to work out how to best see out his non-compete contractual agreements, before launching Hoxo Recruitment. Sean had been a very high biller, billing upwards of 700,000 Pounds in his previous role, so there’s no doubt Hoxo Recruitment would have been a huge success. However, during his non-compete period, he realised that very few recruitment bus...

If this podcast doesn’t inspire you, then I don’t know what will. It was only 8 years ago that self-described introvert, Sinead Connolly, walked into a recruitment agency looking for a temp job. Then, roughly 5 years later, she finds herself single handedly owning and running one of the most successful business support recruitment firms in Australia - Lotus People. But it certainly wasn’t all smoo...

Rhonda D’Ambrosio is a woman on a mission to tackle the lack of awareness of mental health in Recruitment, and to help remove discrimination and normalise conversations and action around mental health in our industry.

Sarah Hay is a million dollar biller, but today, we talk to her about the business strategies she usually deploys to become such a high performer, and how she’s redeployed them to survive COVID19.

Andy is a 20 year veteran of the recruitment agency world, and at the peak of his agency career, as a senior leader in the recruitment industry, Andy decided to turn his back on “agency land” and “go internal”. Today, we find out his motivations for making the transition, and how he found it on the other side of the fence.

Rob Millington is a 25 year veteran of the IT recruitment game, and an incredibly respected recruitment leader. Today, he shares with us his story, and a few pearls of wisdom... All shared just before Coronavirus hit us.

Serial recruitment entrepreneur, Jason Roulston, tells us how about the highs and lows of his first decade in recruitment, and why he’s launched not one, but two recruitment firms in that time. And how the valuable business lessons he’s learnt have shaped who he is today.

Veteran of the industry, Claire Teden gives us her honest, down to earth, and very funny view on leadership in Recruitment, and refreshingly, isn’t afraid to laugh at herself!

Simon Faircloth has worked at Michael Page his whole career. Sixteen years, in fact! He tells us why it’s been great for his career, how the business has changed in that 16 year period, and why he dramatically quit after just two years!

Talenza really are on a mission, with 30 staff on board in less than 3 years, they can be defined as a super-charged start up! Sully and Henry tell us all the why’s, what’s and when’s of their fascinating start up story so far!

Recruiter turned Reality TV star, turned Recruiter, Paul Tulip, tells us why he decided to start his own small, specialist Recruitment business, and why he thinks it’s the best gig in the industry!

What’s it really like to start a recruitment business? And what do you need to think about before you take that leap of faith? Michael and Ryan from brand new start up, Iterate, tell us about their journey.

Experienced People Manager, Paul Donovan tells us you shouldn’t enter Management expecting everything to be “rainbows and unicorns”, but if you go into it for the right reasons, it can be super rewarding.

Verge das Neves, Partner at SHK, tells us how he made the bold yet unusual move from contingency recruitment with The SThree Group, to the world of executive search, with the No 1 search firm in the UK.

Matt Cossens tells us, in his very humble way, how he went from fishmonger to Million Dollar Biller, hitting that massive milestone year, after year, after year, and what his “secret sauce” is to achieving such great billing success.

An amazing chat with James Hone from Bluefin Resources, who started his own company, with only (just over) four years Recruitment experience, into one of the best known Recruitment brands in Australia... And then successfully sold it! He tells us how it happened, from beginning to end!

This is a fascinating interview with a chap called Greg Savage, who’s been around a few years, and done a few things in Recruitment. (You might’ve heard of him). He lifts the lid on his 40 year career and tells us what we need to be focusing on if we’re going to get our Recruitment business “sale ready”...

In this great episode, (new) CEO of Six Degrees Executive, Suzie McInerney, tells us how she went from restaurant owner to CEO in less than ten years, and the constant balancing act involved whilst simultaneously raising a young family!

In this, our first episode in the “Recruitment Journeys” podcast series, Founding Partner, Stephen Carter, gives us a detailed insight into the unexpected reason that he started Sharp & Carter, and the values and strategies he’s put in place that have allowed Sharp & Carter to become not only one of the largest, privately owned recruitment firms operating in Australia today, but also, one of the m...