The Recruitment Network Podcast

Joining James on this week's podcast is Basia Kolosinska from C&M Travel Recruitment. James and Basia discuss how C&M navigated through 2020 dealing with recruiting into the travel sector. They also talk about what 2021 has in store for the business and the travel sector. How will it bounce back and what will it look like when it does bounce back. We really hope you enjoy this insight.

Join Gordon on our first Podcast in 2021 with Jon Brooks. Jon is a pricing guru, the founder of Value Advantage and has worked in senior pricing roles in organisations such as Reed. Jon has lots of experience in what recruiters need to do to strike a chord, connect to influence and engage their client base using pricing as a strategy. Enjoy this really interesting conversation and something to set...

Join James and Gordon for this 2020 roundup where they take a look at the extraordinary year that was 2020. James and Gordon look at what has happened for TRN as a business and what they’ve been seeing through the membership and the wider community. 2020 has taught us plenty, but we are ready and raring to go in 2021. See you there! Want to find out more about The Recruitment Network, visit our we...

Join Gordon and Ed Steer for our penultimate Podcast of the year. Ed is CEO of Sphere Digital, a massive success in the recruitment industry. They've built a brilliant business on the foundations of doing simple things brilliantly. In the podcast Ed shares some things he's learnt over the years and that have underpinned the businesses growth. Along with some of his philosophy around BD. Enjoy. If...

We need to be able to prepare for the future of working for ourselves as well as our customers. In this weeks episode, James is joined by Head of Remote at Gitlab, Darren Murph. Gitlab are a fully remote company with over 1200 employees.  We discussed what Gitlab do and have done for a number of years to really embrace work from anywhere and the impact it has had on their productivity. CNBC c...

Joining Gordon on today's podcast is with the legend that is Gerry O’Brion.  Gerry has worked with some of the biggest brands in the world and has spent the last 10 years as founder of What Big Brands Know. Helping organisations and brands around the world to understand what it is we need to do to maximise our influence as a business. Gerry will help answer the 4 questions you need to answer...

Joining Gordon this week is Brett Harned Director Of Education at TeamGantt. Brett has worked with brands from MTV, Ben and Jerrys and Geico so has worked on some very big projects. Brett has lived a life of Project Management and has lots of insights into how SME’s can build their project management philosophy to help them when they're taking on bigger projects. Listen in to learn some tips and t...

This week we’re joined by Rita Clifton CBE, one of the gurus from the world of branding who’s worked with some massive brands including ASOS, Interbrand, Bupa, Nationwide. We also talk about imposter syndrome, what it is, how and why it affects us and also how we can love her imposter. Rita really helps us to understand how we can understand, live with and love our imposter. Hillary Clinton loves...

This week we’re joined by Sandra Patel-Stewart and Alice Chance from TRN Members Transition Partners. Talking all things Diversity and Inclusion.   Sandra set up Transition Partners several years ago and Alice is the companies D&I champion. Between them and with their colleagues in the business they’re doing some fantastic work to make sure their recruitment agency is embracing best pract...

This week Gordon is joined by Hazel Gale.  Hazel became a world champion boxer and kickboxer but realised she wasn’t enjoying the journey. Her inner demons lead her to burn out.   She’s since become a very successful cognitive hypnotherapist, working with business leaders to learn how to manage their mind monsters that sometimes stop us getting the levels of fulfilment, confidence and po...

This week Gordon is joined by Dr Amina Aitsi-Selmi who has some science behind her thoughts and ideas. Amina had a fascinating career working for the UN and within academia, she now spends her life helping business leaders unlock their potential. In this podcast, we talk about our desires and fears and helps us understand some of the things that mean we get stuck in a rut a little bit occasionally...

This week Gordon is joined by Molly Harvey, Molly has experience working with organisations around the world, helping to shape their thinking and approaches. Molly specialises in simplifying some of the issues and challenges we have as leaders especially during these uncertain times.  This podcast will give you some great questions to ask yourselves as well as some fantastic takeaways. Enjoy!

This week Gordon sits down with David D’Souza, Member Director for the CIPD.  David gives us insights into what the CIPD’s 150,000 members in the talent, people and HR space are currently thinking about and looking at in their businesses. He also shares with us what we as recruitment agencies should be focusing on right now.  Enjoy!

In this weeks episode, we're digging into the TRN's Bounce Summit archive to bring you this interview from Thimon De Jong. Thimon is a social psychologist based in Holland and is the founder of Wheston. In this podcast, Thimon and Gordon discuss behaviours in the workplace, nurse leadership, workplace mentality, changes post-COVID restrictions and how it's going to change human behaviours. Enjoy.

There is so much going on in the world of recruitment, it's evolving, there's revolution, change, adaptions and adoption. It's fascinating to see this industry change into something that's going to look different on the other side of COVID. To understand what's going on we're going behind the scenes to see what recruitment business are doing well and what they're doing badly. In this episode, we s...

This week James spends some time with Jamil Quereshi, a sports psychologist who has taken 100s of sporting legends to the top of their game. We interviewed Jamil as part of the Peak Performance Summit and it allows us an opportunity to understand what we can learn from the world of sport to be better in business. How do we overcome obstacles and adversity? How do we pick ourselves up when we're do...

In Episode 10 of the TRN Podcast, James is joined by Sean Anderson from Hoxo Media, The inbound marketing agency for recruitment businesses. In this podcast, James gets Sean on the other side of the microphone to ask him some questions about what he's been seeing during the COVID-19 period. We find out a lot about the conversations he's been having with recruitment business leader over the last 4...

Today Gordon is joined by Emma Stroud on the Podcast. Emma is a comedian, theatre, speaker, MC and business coach to many organisations on personal effectiveness. Join Gordon and Emma as they talk about personal effectiveness, personal authenticity and how that can help us as leaders. They also delve into how you can learn from the world of stand up when it comes to the crazy zoom world we live in...

In Episode 8 of the TRN Podcast James is joined by Ryan McCabe of TRN Gold Partner’s Odro.  The all-in-one video technology platform for recruitment agencies. In this podcast, James and Ryan discuss how and why Odro was formed, their recently announced working from anywhere policy, the current state of recruitment and what they think recruitment is going to look like post COVID 19. As always...

Join Gordon and ex Major General Paul Nanson who has had an extraordinary career in the military spanning over 30 years. Paul serviced in Iraq and Afghanistan and then went on to lead recruitment and leadership and Sandhurst. Join them as they go over some of the key tips you can take away as a recruitment business leader. Enjoy!

In this episode of The TRN Podcast Gordon is joined by Jahkini Bisselink and Lecyca Curiel from Whetston based in Holland. As employers of multigenerational workforces now is the time to focus on ‘the next generation’ or Gen Z.  We need to understand what they’re looking for, what they’re motivated by and what they expect from an employer to really engage them. Jahkini and Lecyca, have some g...

Gordon is joined by long time friend of TRN Simon Hartley. Simon has spent his life in the world of the psychology of performance, he shares with us some fantastic insight, tips and tricks to make sure the level of performance we require from ourselves and our teams is the level we're looking for as we come out the other side of the Covid pandemic.

In this episode of The TRN Podcast James is joined by Amelia Sordell a brand legend in the recruitment industry. James and Amelia discuss the disconnect between what we're doing as brands and what our customers and candidates are hearing from us. They also look at how do recruiters build and develop proper authenticity, engagement, trust and rapport through their marketing initiative to help you w...

In this episode, James Osborne speaks to Nicholas Bloom from Stanford University. In 2014 Nicholas published a study that looked at the benefits of WFH policies. Nicholas shares with us data around working from home and insights into how we can motivate and engage our teams.

Join TRN’s Gordon Stoddart and Casper Berry in this episode of the TRN Podcast. Casper is a motivational speaker, specialising in the subjects of risk, decision making, innovation and leadership. He's been a professional poker player, actor and was the expert brought in to make the Casino Royale poker scene authentic. In this episode, they’ll be discussing risk taking and decision making in uncert...