The Recruitment Network Podcast

Joining us on this week's TRN Podcast is Barry Rudden. Barry is the Global 3rd Party Director at Globalisation Partners enable companies to quickly and easily expand their businesses or teams into 187 countries without setting up local branches. In this episode, we dig into how the shift from office to hybrid to remote has affected how employers look at their talent strategies through a more globa...

Joining us this week for the TRN Podcast is Bruce Daisley Bruce is formerly the Vice President of Twitter, a best-selling author and host of the Eat, Sleep, Work, Repeat podcast, which is all about workplace culture and life. Bruce is a workplace culture enthusiast, and we'd describe him as a guru of the subject; he's written one of our favourite books of 2022, which is Fortitude. (Get your copy h...

In September 2019, Sara McPhee decided to go for it launching FIFTEEN WEST with her business partner Lisa Walder. Fast forward three years later, the really robust and focused plan they'd created has come to life; they've got offices in New York and London. In this episode, Sara is going to talk to us about the journey and what she's learnt about building a search-to-search company that's built ar...

Joining us this week on the TRN Podcast is award-winning comedian, author, speaker and podcaster Rosie Wilby! Rosie is an expert in the psychology of human relationships. In this episode, she'll share what she's learnt about interpersonal communication, boundaries and how to create mutual respect and accountability. So if you're in a team or running a team, this podcast will help you get it right....

Joining us for this week's TRN Podcast is Lloyd Gordon, Founder of Focus Cloud. A couple of months after setting up his business in 2015 Lloyd Gordon was down to his last £200. Fast forward seven years, and he has built a multi-brand recruitment group that employs over 110 people. In this episode, we learn what it takes to scale a successful recruitment business, some of the things Lloyd would hav...

Joining us this week is award-winning comedian Stuart Goldsmith! Stuart is the host of The Comedian's Comedian podcast and has interviewed and hosted over 375 of the world's leading comedians. Stuart is going to share with us what he's learnt from over 18 million podcast downloads and how to get podcasts right and we also find out how we can be more resilient as leaders so we can deal with what po...

This week we're joined by Shay Dalton, Founder and MD at Lincon Recruitment Specialists a Dublin based recruitment business that's been running for the last 14 years. In this episode Shay shares, some of his experiences, lessons learnt and how his passion for psychology has influenced some of the things that have evolved his business. Some more fascinating insights into another great recruitment b...

Joining us for this week's TRN Podcast is Nina Lockwood! Nina is the Founder & Director of Intuitive Interim & Executive Search. Nina is a dynamic entrepreneur with a wicked sense of humour, a beaming smile and enormous commercial acumen. In this episode, we dig into how Nina built her business, some of the lessons she's learnt along the way and her advice for those looking to develop thei...

Joining us on this week's TRN Podcast is Harriet Beveridge Co-Author of Will it Make The Boat Go Faster. In this episode, we cover ideas that will help you make your boat go faster and capture the essence of what it takes to motivate teams in organisations to achieve extraordinary results. This was a great chat with Harriet, and we hope it gives you food for thought when it comes to making your bo...

Joining us this week is the multi-award-winning recruitment entrepreneur Simon La Fosse, who has built a fantastic business La Fosse Associates. We're going to be talking about the journey to date, the simple underlying principles that have helped him and his team build this incredible recruitment agency and their simple obsession with caring and raising the standards in the industry. A really int...

On this week's Podcast we are joined by Jennifer Gaster Founder and Managing Director at HR Heads. In this episode, we talk about relationships, reputations, talent intelligence and all the principles that have underpinned the growth of the HR Heads group so far. All the most progressive recruiters should be looking to emulate these principles as we move forward into 2023. We really enjoyed record...

Joining us on this week's TRN Podcast is recruitment legend Greg Savage! Greg has spent four decades owning, managing and growing staffing businesses across the world, and sharing the tactics that work. He's also the author of 'The Savage Truth'. Greg joins us before his trip to the UK and you can watch his presentation live on the 31st of August just click here for tickets - Click here . In today...

Joining us on this week's TRN Podcast is Chris Barez-Brown, Author, Speaker and Founder of Up Your Elvis, a business that works with some of the biggest brands globally and the Founder of The Talk it Out app. We're going to be talking about energy and how you can unlock yours, why humans aren't designed for business and we'll be talking about how a 10-minute exercise every morning can transform yo...

Neil Simmons MD at TN Recruits joins us on this week's TRN Podcast. TN Recruits recruit quality candidates at all levels across Kent and Sussex. Neil has worked across various sectors before taking the plunge and starting his own business in 2014 mainly due to the frustration of not being able to implement his ideas. He started working from his dining room table like many small businesses do and h...

Joining us on this week’s TRN Podcast is Martin Pickett Co-Founder of Edward Mann Group. In this episode, we dig into Martin’s background, why he got into recruitment and what he’s learnt from his years growing the Edward Mann Group. Delve into Martin’s wealth of knowledge in this episode of The TRN Podcast. Enjoy!

Joining us on this week's TRN Podcast is Michelle Gyimah. Michelle is a pay gaps strategist and specialised in supporting HR Directors in closing their pay gaps in a sustainable way. In this episode, we look at how pay and pay gaps can affect employer brands, our ability to attract the best talent and our ability to attract Gen Z. It's a very interesting space linked closely to D&I. To connect...

Joining us on this week's TRN Podcast is Shola Kaye! Shola is an award winning keynote speaker and author. In today's episode, Shola will be talking about empathy and the impact it can have on the workforce, team and the culture of your business. For all those interested in diversity and inclusion we'll be looking at the role empathy can have on that too. Shola has worked with multiple organisatio...

Joining us this week is Liam Thomas CEO and Co-Founder of Highfield Recruitment. Liam is joining us to share the lessons he's learnt over the years, some of the highs, some of the lows, some of the things he might do differently and those things he would never change. Liam shares with us why he believes they can become the most trusted recruitment business in the world, and what they're doing to g...

Wouldn't it be great if all employers made decisions about talent strategies, both existing and future based on data, intelligence and insights? Wouldn't it be great if recruitment agencies and recruitment consultants were bringing data, intelligence and insights to their clients to help them make the right decisions? Talent intelligence is an art and a science that is only going to get more preva...

You don't build any business without a bit of passion and this week's TRN Podcast guest is one of the most passionate recruitment business leaders we know. Chris Dunning-Walton is the CEO and Founder of InfoSec cybersecurity recruiters based in Cheltenham. Chris is going to share his journey with us. He'll share some of the things he might have done a bit differently, his fundamental principles ab...

We're delighted to be joined on this week's TRN Podcast by David Liddle. David has been voted onto the thinkers 50 radar of 2022 and also voted one of the 15 most influential HR Practitioners. Culture still eats strategy for breakfast, and David is an expert in this space as CEO of the award-winning TCM Group. His vision for TCM was, and still is, to reduce the negative impact of conflict at work...

Joining us this week is Caroline Lansbury Chief People Officer at Stanton House. If you want to understand best practice in experience led leadership in the world of recruitment Stanton House embodies it. In this episode, Caroline shares their people strategy, what they've learnt and how you can implement it into your own recruitment business. Really inspirational, enjoy.

At a time when everybody is trying to hold onto talent and attract talent the one unique thing about any organisation is its culture.  Joining us on this week's podcast is Will Fraser. Will is the founder of 100 and First a consultancy that uses powerful incredible real-life experiences to drive change. Will comes from an elite sporting background having played for Saracens for 6 years and no...

On this week's episode, we're pleased to be joined by Toby Culshaw, who is a talent intelligence leader at Amazon, working in a global capacity. Toby is also the founder of the Intelligence Collective, a community that endeavours to develop, support and inspire its members as well as promote ethical integrity and best practice in all aspects of Talent Intelligence, Talent Research, Labor Intellige...

We know you're going to enjoy this week's episode as we're joined by Matt Alder & Mervyn Dinnen. Who are two of the most respected thought leaders in all things talent. They'll be sharing with us a lot of their findings from their latest book, Digital Talent, which is all about how we find, recruit and retain talent in our businesses in a world of digital transformation. So much research went...