The Recruitment Leadership Podcast

In the latest instalment of the Recruitment Leadership Podcast, your host Alison Humphries is joined by expert Recruiting and Leadership Coach, Angela Cripps.   Angela is the Director of Recruiting Gym and a recruitment advocate with 30 years' experience. Angela works closely with recruitment businesses to make them more successful and profitable through the development of their people and process...

In the latest instalment of the Recruitment Leadership Podcast, your host Alison Humphries is joined by Amanda Simpson, CEO and Founder of SVC Solutions.   Following a successful career within recruitment across East Anglia, Amanda’s passion and determination to make a difference led her to establish SVC in 1999. Some of the highlights in her career are achieving Essex Countywide Business Woman of...

This recording is from REC (Recruitment and Employment Confederation), to watch the full webinar please click here: https://bit.ly/3BYhxPZ   Your Host Alison Humphries has been a recruitment industry “lifer” for more than 35 years, Alison was a director of businesses including Hays Plc, Robert Half International, BNB Plc, and Penna Plc, developing a highly successful career spanning contingent, re...

This recording is from TEAM (The Employment Agents Movement). To watch the full webinar, please click here: https://bit.ly/3GAPicE Your Host Alison Humphries has been a recruitment industry “lifer” for more than 35 years, Alison was a director of businesses including Hays Plc, Robert Half International, BNB Plc and Penna Plc, developing a highly successful career spanning contingent, retained, tem...

In the latest instalment of the Recruitment Leadership Podcast, your host Alison Humphries is joined by expert Leadership Coach and author, Zena Everett.    Zena has a rare cocktail of entrepreneurial, head-hunting, organisational psychology and coaching experience. In her early career, Zena founded and developed a recruitment business, and became increasingly interested as to why some candidates...

In the latest instalment of the Recruitment Leadership Podcast, your host Alison Humphries is joined by David Perry, Director of Perry-Martel. After specialising in building out Leadership teams and working for over 32 years in the realm of leadership, David is a guru on what it takes to be a leader especially within the recruitment world.  His novel approach to executive headhunting has been docu...

In the latest instalment of the Recruitment Leadership Podcast, your host Alison Humphries is joined by David Perry, Director of Perry-Martel.   David works with business owners who have a compelling vision for their company’s future. By incorporating a unique blend of strategic thinking and applied creativity, he distills that dream into recruitment activities designed to attract the top-tier exe...

In the latest instalment of the Recruitment Leadership Podcast, your host Alison Humphries is joined by David Garcia, CEO of ScoutLogic Screening.   David "wears two hats" in his professional life. First, as the CEO and co-founder of ScoutLogic. ScoutLogic is a pre-employment background check company designed to improve the recruiter experience so they can focus on finding great talent; they are a...

In the latest instalment of the Recruitment Leadership Podcast, your host Alison Humphries is joined by Michelle Flynn, former recruitment Director and Founder of Michelle Flynn Coaching.    After working in recruitment for over 16 years and owning her own recruitment business, Michelle is now a qualified CBT trainer and integrative nutritional health coach.   She works with individuals and compan...

In the latest instalment of the Recruitment Leadership Podcast, your host Alison Humphries is joined by Geoff Reid-Hughes, head of UK sales for AssessFirst. AssessFirst harnesses the behavioural science and the power of AI technology to eliminate bias and allow you to make the best possible decisions in hiring, management and talent development.  Before moving to AssessFirst, Geoff worked in recru...

In the latest instalment of the Recruitment Leadership Podcast, your host Alison Humphries is joined by Rob Kerr, the Author of Project Future: 6 Steps to Success as Your Own Boss.   Rob currently works closely with leaders delivering M&A integration to enable teams to succeed and businesses to solve more problems that matter. Prior to this, he was a Project Manager for over a decade, which led hi...

In the latest instalment of the Recruitment Leadership Podcast, your host Alison Humphries is joined by Jeff Wald, the Founder of WorkMarket.    Jeff is a best-selling author and entrepreneur. Named "One of the 100 Most Influential People in Staffing" by the Staffing Industry Analysts in 2017 and 2018, he has also written the best-selling book “The End of Jobs: The Rise of On-Demand Workers and Ag...

A key take-away from our Business Leader Stories series is that the pandemic has impacted no two recruitment businesses the same.   In our final instalment of the series, we’re joined by Sachin Ruparelia, the Chief Executive of Camino Partners, back-office to boardroom recruitment specialists for people-based service industries   Sachin kindly agreed to share with us what his experiences of runnin...

After being postponed as the result of the pandemic, the shift in liability under the IR35 regulations will be implemented in April 2021. If you're seeking advice, we hope you find this podcast insightful - contact details for both Alison Humphries (Host) and Anna Sills (Guest, Director of Advance) can be found at the bottom of these show notes. This episode features Anna Sills, Director of Advanc...

In this instalment of The Recruitment Leadership Podcast, we're joined by the Managing Director of Forward Role Recruitment, Brian Johnson.   As part of our Business Leader Stories series, Brian's kindly agreed to share with us what his experiences of running a business through lockdown have been, and what his variances of successful adaptation are.   With talk around team engagement, the power of...

Welcome to the 6th Season of the Recruitment Leadership Podcast!   It's no secret that the majority of the economy has been hard hit by the pandemic - and the knock-on effect on the recruitment sector has been felt widely. In light of the continued aftershocks, we're providing a platform for Recruitment Business Leaders to listen and learn from their peers on the what why and how they are adapting...

In the latest episode of the Recruitment Leadership Podcast, your host Alison Humphries is joined by Mark Overend of Ascentis Accountants LLP.   Mark is a Tax Specialist at Ascentis, having been big 4 trained and is CTA qualified. An expert in the interaction of personal and company tax for the business owner, he's known for always finding an angle.   In our recent survey of recruitment business l...

The latest episode of the Recruitment Leadership Podcast is here, and this time we're exploring the importance of financial mastery and strategic planning in your recruitment business.   Your host Alison Humphries is joined by chartered accountant John Oddy, owner and Managing Partner of Ascentis LLP, for an episode packed with practical insight, explanation and advice.    The current crisis has l...

In this episode of the Recruitment Leadership Podcast, Alison talks to Nemo D'Qrill and Alex Chikhani from Sigma Polaris, who shed light on why using psychometric assessment is a powerful tool that can help fulfil your client's needs in a highly effective yet timely way.   Covering the common questions and scepticism around psychometric testing Alex and Nemo provide real case studies and examples...

 Following on from her article "Why I'm Not Giving Up on Marketing", Alison Humphries speaks to co-founder and Director, Laura Wood on the role marketing plays in recruitment. Please note, this episode was recorded pre-lockdown.   With a focus on those recruitment businesses at the beginning of their marketing journey, Laura and Alison discuss how to really get the most out of your recruitment mar...

**UPDATE**   As you are probably aware, IR35 has now been postponed until 2021 amid the Coronavirus pandemic.   If you're seeking advice, we hope you find this podcast insightful still - contact details for both Alison Humphries (Host) and Simon Whitehead (Guest, Employment Partner at Brabners) can be found at the bottom of these show notes.   We're back with Simon Whitehead, Employment Partner at...

Welcome to Season 4 of the Recruitment Leadership Podcast!   In this season, we’re focusing on a topic that's often slightly enigmatic for recruitment directors. And that topic is marketing!   In this episode, we speak to Kristie Perrotte, the Founder and Owner of Thrive Marketing Communications.   Thrive are a full-service strategic Marketing Consultancy specialising in working those in the recru...

With Ryan McCabe, CEO of Odro.   In this episode of the Recruitment Leadership Podcast, Alison Humphries and Ryan McCabe "shoot the breeze" on the technical and non-technical ways you can innovate and evolve your recruitment business in a market which is increasingly competitive and is constantly changing.   In this episode, they discuss:   03:35 - Why video interviewing has become so current in t...

Ryan McCabe, CEO of Odro, is our guest for Season Three of the Recruitment Leadership Podcast! In this episode, we go from the beginnings of Odro and the basics of how to use a video interviewing tool, right through to making video essential for the three C's and increasing the amount of retained business your agency does. Host, Alison Humphries and Ryan McCabe cover a multitude of recruitment rel...

Welcome to Season Two of the Recruitment Leadership podcast!   In this season, we're talking all things finance for recruitment, with Nick Russell of Sonovate.   As the Commercial Sales Manager of one of the UK's fastest growing FinTech companies, Nick provides a wealth of knowledge on the often tricky topic of finance and investment.   A three-part how-to series, there's something for every recru...