The RAG Podcast - Recruitment Agency Growth Podcast

How to build a thriving solo business while still being the best possible parent: This is Catherine Roughan’s inspiring journey  What if success in recruitment wasn’t about scale or exit – but about happiness, balance, and doing it your way? This week on The RAG Podcast , I sit down with Catherine Roughan , founder of Kidmore Recruitment , a specialist Rec to Rec in the legal recruitment sect...

What does it take to grow a global recruitment company, secure private equity investment, and aim for a £100M valuation – all by the age of 31? On this week’s The RAG Podcast , I’m sitting down with Joe Jani , founder and CEO of Metric Search , one of the world’s fastest-growing recruitment firms. Here’s what we uncover: 🔥 How Joe scaled Metric Search from zero to 90 staff across the US and UK si...

If you are a recruitment founder planning on spending time and money on LinkedIn next year, then chances are, you’re likely to make this one critical mistake – and it will cost you big time.   On this week’s episode of The RAG Podcast, I’m sharing insights from my live talk at the Recruitment Agency Expo in Birmingham. I’m revealing how recruiters can use traditional methods to unlock Li...

This week on The RAG Podcast , I’m sitting down with Jim Sloan, CEO and founder of Navartis a specialist recruitment agency in the infrastructure sector.  Jim’s journey is an incredible story of growth to a team of 110+ across multiple countries and significant profits of £2M EBITDA Here’s what we discuss: 🔑 How Jim started the business as a new brand within a larger group 💼 The pivotal MBO...

On this week’s episode of The RAG Podcast, I’m joined by Craig Whiting, founder of RLS Search, who shares his incredible journey from solo billing to building a 15-member team specialising in tech talent for investment management. In this episode, Craig opens up about his transition from running a small operation with his partner—billing £1.5 million annually over 6 years—to managing a growing tea...

Ever wondered what it takes to build a thriving recruitment business with your partner?  On this week's episode of The RAG Podcast, Kate Cross joins me to reveal the highs, lows, and secrets to creating sustainable contract revenue while maintaining a successful personal relationship. Kate is co-founder of Harvey Jacob, a construction recruitment agency that’s generated over £500,000 in contr...

From no recruitment experience to solo founder billing £1m a year– @Paul de Rozarieux’s Journey in Recruitment This week on The RAG Podcast , I’m joined by an incredible guest, Paul de Rozarieux, founder of Fusion Search.  Paul’s story is truly one of a kind.  With zero recruitment experience, Paul built his business from scratch, growing it into a seven-figure success without formal tra...

AI is set to transform recruitment, and this episode will blow your mind! On this week's episode, I am joined by Jordan Shlosberg, founder of Atlas, to discuss how his AI-powered CRM is set to transform the recruitment industry! Now, Jordan knows a thing or two about building successful businesses. He took his previous company, ProSapient, to a massive $40 million in revenue before exiting. ...

Season 8 premiere!  In this episode, I’m bringing back one of the most talked-about guests we've ever had: Tom Glanfield , the founder of LHi Group (originally Lawrence Harvey).  Last time Tom was on, he shared his hilarious and inspiring growth journey and plans for exiting the business. Now, he’s back after successfully securing a massive exit!  We dive into  what life looks...

Today, I'm excited to look at another of Access Group's products.  This time, it's an automation platform called ELAY that was recently acquired by the Access Group based on its initial success in integrating well with Vincere and its customers.  In this episode, I interviewed Mehdi Este, the founder and automation general manager, and Nick Beecroft, the head of new business for Access R...

What really happened to Volcanic and why they are making huge progress under The Access Group.   On this week's show, I'm joined by Nick Thomson and Rachel Kirton from Access.   Nick is the GM of Access Recruitment, and Rachel Kirton is Senior Product Manager for Volcanic.   Volcanic is an iconic brand in our sector.    Famous for SaaS recruitment websites, they were acqui...

On this week's show, I've decided to completely pause the schedule and remember the amazing Ryan McCabe, who sadly lost his life this week. I really don't have words to describe how amazing Ryan was. I personally didn't know him that well, but we had great interactions.  We spoke semi-regularly about our businesses, and I always felt that we were similar and that we saw the world the same way...

On this week's show, I'm super excited to be joined by Helen McGuire. Helen is the exited founder of Diversely.io, a technology business acquired by Access Group in 2023.  Entering the pandemic in 2020, Helen ran a recruitment business dedicated to helping return-to-work mothers find flexible jobs. Helen understood this cause well, as she’d previously been in this exact position herself.&nbsp...

I'm excited to be joined by Callum Beaumont, the founder of Cordell Beaumont, a specialist recruitment firm headquartered in the UK with an international client base in the shipping and maritime sector. In this episode, we talk about Callum's five-year journey as a recruitment business owner and ultimately focus on the five biggest mistakes he's made in that time.  Callum reached out to me af...

In this episode, I want to walk you through our very own Hoxo inbound lead generation model.  You probably see team Hoxo and I online each month, generating lots of content and engagement… What you may not know is that we achieve an average of 1000 NEW inbound leads every month - all from our series of 5 consistent tactics (1360 leads in May 2024, to be precise :) Our tactics are super simple...

Diane started the business with her husband without ANY experience in the industry. But what she did have was the vision to build a scalable and sellable business. And in this episode, she shares how she did it.  Diane saw the value in focusing on one staffing niche; in this case, they decided on title insurance and mortgage. Listen as she tells how they grew their team, why they hired people...

On this week's show, I'm releasing my talk at this year's Recruitment Agency Expo, all about why AI and automation could be the biggest mistake you make in your recruitment agency in 2024. In March, I was on stage in front of a room full of recruitment leaders who had been subjected to countless suppliers from technology companies promoting their latest AI tools and tech to automate parts of the r...

Leo is the founder of Core3 Finance Recruitment, headquartered in Bristol, with 10 employees. Although the company is only two years old, Leo’s team has already reached just under £1 million in revenue in their second year.  What I love about this business is that they're all about making a positive social impact. They are B Corp certified and believe that business has a greater role to play...

On this week's show, Jake Frazer, CEO and Founder of Precision Talent Solutions, shares his journey of building a recruitment firm specialising in government contracting talent.  Jake is based in Switzerland, but the company is 100% remote, with employees working from 12 countries around the world.  The company's unique talent model involves hiring senior people from the industry and con...

This week’s episode is a collaboration between RAG Podcast and Recruitment Mentors Podcast! Hishem and I host two of the most well-known, highly-regarded podcasts in our sector.  We started them at roughly the same time, and we even used to record them in the same Hoxo HQ studio!   After sitting down together at the recent recruitment expo, we realised that we’ve released well over...

I'm excited to be joined again by Lysha Holmes. Lysha is the founder of Qui Recruitment, a specialist Rec2Rec based in Manchester.  Someone I've worked with since the pandemic who's now built a 100% inbound business.  She went from being an amazing recruiter with incredible integrity who would only represent the best recruiters in the Northwest to carrying on that and building an online...

On this week’s show, I'm joined by Scott Brown, the founder of Heriot Brown, a UK-based in-house legal recruitment specialist agency. Scott started his recruitment business almost by accident.  He made the switch to recruitment because he felt unfulfilled as a lawyer and wanted to have more control over his career. He wanted to gain sales experience. Less than two years later, he launched his...

I'm joined by an old client of mine, Paul Smith. Paul is the Managing Director of Deploy Recruitment, a specialist infrastructure and technology recruitment business heavily invested in the rail sector.  Paul started the recruitment side of this business just over 10 years ago.  In this episode, he tells me about the last year and how he completed the MBO to buy out the original Partners...

I'm super excited to be joined by Mirtes Lobaito, the CEO and founder of AGM Tech Solutions, a recruitment firm headquartered in New Jersey in the US. Mirtes shares her inspirational journey from Brazil to the US, where she started her business with no English language skills and worked her way up from cleaning homes to tech sales.  She eventually entered the recruitment industry and decided...

I am so excited to be rejoined by Chriss Abbass, the CEO of Talentful, four years after our first episode together.  For those who don’t know, Talentful is the world's leading embedded talent recruitment solution, working with some of the best tech companies on the planet.     I had Chris in my studio in London back in 2019. At the time, his business was 4 years old and had alr...