The Recruiter's Recruitment Podcast

David Rolls has been in Sales since 2011 and Recruitment since 2015. After a successful 6 years within Tech Recruitment, where he specialised in building markets from scratch, in late 2022 he decided to act on his dream of becoming an entrepreneur and is now the Founder of DMR Consulting. He's a Business Development + Retained Search Coach to Recruiters. He's helping agencies move away from contin...

This week is an extra special episode as we welcome two guests for an extra long episode - and believe the first rec-to-rec collaboration on a podcast.  Susanna Gray-Jones worked within education recruitment for 13 years, before starting her own rec2rec recruitment business during covid - Chime Search. Founder of Chime Search FZCO. She’s also the host of her own podcast, The Counter Offer Cal...

Happy New Year! What an episode we have for you for our first episode of 2024... Ian Worthington is the Founder, Coach & Managing Director, at GymWolfPT. GymWolf is an online personal training platform - he has a global community and is Turning Busy, Stressed, Unhealthy Professionals into Healthy, Energised & Happy Professionals In this episode, Ian shares his thoughts and expertise on......

It's our final episode of 2023! This week's special episode is from the host herself - Lysha Holmes! Lysha shares her thoughts on how we can all ensure we can maximise every opportunity in 2024! Huge thanks to every single one of you for your support during 2023 on the podcast! Here's to 2024 - the best year yet! We have some exciting plans for next year - keep following our podcast and be sure to...

Dan Cohen is the Co-Founder of Mixxyl, increasing diversity in the workplace through automated demographic data solutions. Mixxyl provides AI led diversity data solutions for Recruiters and Corporate HR to understand their current diversity position and realise their DEIB goals In this episode, Dan speaks about... How DATA is the key to us truly understanding EDI What can recruitment companies do...

Jane Kenyon is a Speaker, entrepreneur, visionary, author, female champion, and Founder at Girls Out Loud. Girls Out Loud is a social enterprise on a mission to raise the aspirations of young girls from the age of 12 - 18. What is GirlsOutLoud Why do we need to think about the lives of teenage girls ?  What is the Big Sister Programme How can we as recruiters help young pe...

Alex Dick is a flexible working evangelist and founder extraordinaire - he's the Managing Director (Sometimes CEO) at Alexander Lyons Solutions. They ar a growing international name in TMT, cybersecurity, construction, sales and marketing (in the US), executive support and HR, and data privacy and compliance, and they're a remote-first business! In this episode, Alex speaks about: How does remote...

Rob Pollington is the Director at CPL technology, a global transformation recruitment business, that's been established for over 30 years. The business has gone through some pretty big changes in 2023, when two businesses - CPL Technology and Ntrinsic Consulting merged together! Before his successful career in recruitment, Rob was an actor and in his spare time today, he's a DJ! In this episode, R...

It's our 200th episode!! Sally Rasmussen made the career journey from recruiter to professional marketeer, and is now the Founder of Fearless Marketing, a strategic niche sector provider within the care industry! In this episode, Sally shares: The story of recruitment into marketing - and back again How we can be better marketers What can we learn from the care industry Why gratitude matters...

This week's episode of the podcast is something a little different... As this week, joining Lysha on the podcast is Shannon Rowlands - the person who has been involved with this very podcast since the beginning - the editor, and producer of the podcast, and Lysha's right-hand woman in the world of recruitment! Shannon started her recruitment career during her placement year at university at a fina...

Ruth is the Resilience Coordinator at Manchester Mind. She designs and delivers courses and workshops to help improve people's mental health and improve their emotional resilience. Specialising in stress management, well-being at work, and confidence building. Manchester Mind is an independent local mental health charity which delivers services to young people and adults. Offering a range of servi...

Sarah Selisko is the Head of People at 11 Investments, and Recruiter Labs . She's an Experienced, strategic and commercial Talent Acquisition leader, who hires the best recruiters for their established brands and also looks for experienced recruitment talent who are interested in setting up themselves 11 Investments is a seed-stage investment and accelerator program based in London, exclusively fo...

This week Kat Reid joins us on the podcast! Kat is an Ethical Recruitment Hacker and HR Specialist. She is the Founder of Truly Reliable HR, and provides HR services for small businesses In this upbeat episode, Kat shares her thoughts to: Why recruiters do HR badly How can we truly be ethical 3 ways you can be more HR-esque Connect with Kat here - https://www.linkedin.com/in/kat-reid-trhr/ Watch t...

Ben James is the Co-Founder and Managing Director at Simpson Judge. Established in 2013, with offices in both Preston and Manchester City centre - Simpson Judge is a specialist recruitment agency covering Accountancy & Finance (Industry and Practice), Legal, IT Systems and Executive Support in both the UK and USA. In this episode, Ben speaks about: Succession planning Training academies Restri...

Martin Dangerfield is the CEO of immersive - an embedded recruitment business. immersive is an in-house recruiter, that works either alongside an existing talent acquisition team or instead of. immersive has professional on-demand in-house talent partners and talent sourcers located across EMEA and North America, helping companies grow their talent acquisition teams. In this episode, Martin s...

This week on the podcast we welcome Rebecca Law! Rebecca is the Director at PSI Global Industrial Services Limited, and the Director of PSI Global Training Limited, a company that helps organisations develop and implement effective CSR and community engagement strategies. In this episode, Rebecca shares: How to transform your business to a partnership-led one in a skill short-market How does ...

Alison Humphries is the Queen of Recruitment and is one of the most well-respected NEDs and Strategic Advisors. Her recruitment career began in 1985, and she's truly transformed businesses across the UK throughout her phenomenal career. In this episode, Alison speaks about: How the recruitment industry has developed into an ecosystem 7:00 Why are recruitment leaders bad at hiring for themselv...

Kieran Gilbert is a well respected Director at Energize Group, based in their head office in Didsbury! Energize Group, now has offices in California, Dallas, and Madrid, and they are an award-winning, customer-centric provider of Digital and Technology talent solutions, operating across Europe and North America. The business has had a phenomenal journey over the years, and in this episode, Kieran...

This week we welcome our first-ever guest from Austria! Simon Severino is the Author of "Strategy Sprints", CEO of a consulting firm Strategy Sprints, and he's also a prolific TEDX speaker. In this episode, Simon speaks about: What are the greatest challenges facing leaders 06:10 How can leaders Maintain core values while achieving scaleability - 17:37 What is Simon's secret hack to busting t...

Welcome back - IT'S SEASON 4!!! This is the first episode of our brand new season, and what a way to start by having one of our proud partners as our first guest! Louise Doyle's career began in recruitment! She’s now the Founder & CEO at Needi. Needi is the new gift marketplace with an innovative twist. A concierge gift matching service using psychology & AI to pinpoint the perfect gift fr...

This is the last of the solo episodes from the host Lysha Holmes before we start season 4 in September! In this episode, Lysha speaks to YOU- the recruitment leader and gives her advice on what you can do to attract and retain the top talent as we face external challenges, and look at the things we can control! This also applies to recruiters - as it's the advice you can give to your clients. What...

Are you maximising your own LinkedIn profile? This is the next solo episode (2/3) from the host Lysha Holmes - before we start season 4 in September! In this short episode, Lysha shares her top tips on how you can maximise and get the most out of your LinkedIn profile! Qui Recruitment embarked on the Hoxo Academy back in 2020 - which we cannot recommend enough - find out more here https://bit.ly/3...

As we come to the end of season 3 and get ready for season 4 starting in September, this episode is the 1st of 3 solo episodes from the host herself - Lysha Holmes. In the episode - Lysha shares her top tips on how to have a holistic approach to well being What advice would you give? ------------ The Recruiter's Recruitment Podcast is proudly sponsored by Paiger and partners to Needi and Inclusion...

Chris Allaire, is the Founder and CEO of Averity - a Technology Recruiting firm based in New York. They have specialised recruiters focusing on Data Science, Data Engineering, DevOps, Application Security Engineering and Back End Software Engineering. For three years in a row, Averity is certified as one of the best companies to work for in North America! In this episode, Chris speaks passionately...

Roheel Ahmad's recruitment journey started in 2010 - he successfully progressed his way through the ranks, became a top biller, and managed teams and offices before he went on to set up Forsyth Barnes with his business partner in 2016! The business now has 3 offices (London, Nottingham and New York) and specialise in mid to exec search level into eTail, FinTech, Sports & Entertainment mar...