The Search Podcast - Inspiring Recruitment

Episode 18 of The Search Podcast is dedicated this week to Mental Health. I had the most amazing discussion with Katie Maycock on the subject. She is the founder of Get Your Sh*t Together as well as an Ambassador for Mental Health In Recruitment. Mental health is such a poignant subject across all industries, especially with the events on 2020. Katy has a focus on the recruitment industry and is a...

Episode 17 of The Search Podcast. What a story this is! Stewart Cherry joins me on this weeks incredible episode. He is the Senior Vice President of the USA for Oliver James Associates. Oliver James Associates specialise in recruiting to both the financial services sector (with a particular focus on the insurance sector) and in particular Actuarial, FARC, Underwriting, Data, Change IT and Risk acr...

Episode 16 of The Search Podcast. This week I was joined by Jidz Khan. Not only is he the Sales Director of Consultia Global, he is an amazing contact and friend of Kayman Recruitment. He made a move right at the beginning of Covid and couldn't be happier. He has 15 years behind him in the world of recruitment across the technology/telco recruitment space. Jidz has so much energy and passion for w...

Episode 15 of The Search Podcast. It was an absolute privilege to have James Osborne on this weeks special episode. James is the Chairman of The Recruitment Network, also know as TRN. As well as being a Chairman of one of, if not the world's largest recruitment networks, James is also an NED, CEO, Speaker and Trainer in the recruitment industry. His experience is phenomenal in the recruitment worl...

Episode 14 of The Search Podcast. On this episode, Olly Thompson and I went through his very quick route to success as a Manager at GQR. Straight out of university Olly joined GQR in their London office on their graduate programme back in 2016. Having been dropped in the deep end after a very strong/successful start in recruitment, Olly was put in a position of management which he was supported an...

Episode 13 of The Search. This week I was joined by Simon Nicholls for an in depth chat about his experience so far in recruitment.    Simon is the Practice Manager for technology contracts at Franklin Fitch in their London office.    With nearly 8 years in recruitment, Simon has progressed through to the management role he is in now. He went into management after 2 years in re...

Episode 12 of The Search. This week I had the chance to talk to Rob Grant who is the General Manager in North America for Harrington Starr.   Rob has been with Harrington Starr now for 5 years. He was brought into the business to launch and build out the US operation based in New York City.    Rob has been in recruitment now for around 20 years having also his own recruitment busine...

Episode 11 of The Search. There was so much energy, passion and drive on this one talking to Joshua Carey who is currently a Managing Consultant at Source Technology in their London office.    He is the head of UK and Germany permanent recruitment and has been in recruitment since February 2016 in the technology recruitment market.   With a strong sporting background, failure is no...

Episode 10 of The Search. I had a fantastic conversation with Emilia Fasano. She is the Senior Manager for Interim Housing, Development and Construction at Deverell Smith in their London office. I went through her career to date and how she made her way into management in recruitment.    Emilia is so inspiring and has such a confident persona about her. She takes everything in her stride...

Episode 09 of The Search. I had the opportunity to discuss the past 20 years of recruitment with Sean Schwarz in 20 minutes. He is currently working for a global recruitment company called Consol Partners based in their London office.    Sean is the contract sales Director for the business and has always worked in the Technology/IT/Telco recruitment space and covers the EMEA market. &nbs...

Episode 08 of The Search. I was joined by Dan Shannon. He is currently working for a recruitment company called Apollo Solutions based in London. Dan is a technology focused senior recruitment manager for the business.    He has been in recruitment now since 2005, has always worked in the technology recruitment space and covers the markets across the UK, Europe and the US.    I...

Episode 07 of The Search. I was joined by Dan Easterbook. He is currently working for a recruitment company called ITECCO based in Manchester, UK. Dan is a technology focused contract recruitment manager for the business.  He has been in recruitment now since 2007 and has worked his way up across 3 different businesses in this time.    Dan and I went through what he saw as the...

Episode 06 of The Search. I was joined by Jessica Hodson. She is currently working for a global recruitment business, Investigo in their London office.  Jessica is covering the financial Crime and compliance recruitment market and has done so for many years. On this weeks episode Jessica went through her career moves and path to where she is now. After nearly 8 years in recruitment and having...

Episode 05 of The Search. I was joined by Stuart Mitchell who heads up Cyber Security across the US and UK for Stott and May.  On this weeks episode Stuart went through his experience, moving to a new role in London before going out NYC and taking on a huge responsibility. He is now in a new role in Los Angeles and has learnt the hard way on how to deal with being a manager in recruitment.&nb...

On this weeks episode I was joined by Samir Prince the SVP of Forsyth Barnes USA along with Managing Partner, Scott Parsons. I was fortunate enough to work with Samir over 4 years ago to place him into Forsyth Barnes as a recruitment consultant. He since grown to be one of the top billers in the business, progressed to management and is now opening up the US office in NYC.     Liste...

This week I had the privilege to talk with Ridha Lachhab in the US. I was fortunate enough to work with Ridha to help him find his new role last year. He is now the business lead for Premier Group Recruitment in Austin Texas.  Listen now as we went through his transition from being an independent contributor and experience managing up to 5 people, to his new role heading up the office for Pre...

James Baker the manager for front office, risk management and quantitative analytics at Eximius and I dived into his journey from being a recruitment consultant back to his first month into management, to how he has progressed to today.   Listen to his journey, his views and his experience to where he is now. "It was challenging and it can be very tricky. It is also very rewarding".  He...

Arj kindly freed-up some time to talk to me about his journey in recruitment and the route he took to management.   Listen to how he talks through his experience over the past 12 weeks as a manager and recruiter during Covid-19 and his plans moving forward at Understanding Recruitment.    He is a big believer in helping others, networking and sharing his views and advice to help eve...