Giig It A Rest

Welcome Back To The Recruitment Industries Most Informative Podcast!

This week we had another big trip out to record in a big boy studio in Brewdog Waterloo for a couple of beers and a sit-down with Andy Dunne, Managing Director of the TEAM Network.

10 months ago we struck up a partnership with TEAM and it was nice to finally sit down face-to-face with Andy after working together over the last year.

For those who don't know The TEAM Network:They're one of the UK's best-kept secrets in recruitment - a collaborative network that's been supporting recruitment entrepreneurs to make a success of launching solo or growing a recruitment agency.

Instead of the cutthroat, competitive approach, TEAMs trying to flip the narrative and create collaboration between ambitious businesses.

As a Start-Up TEAM are our first partnership and I would say that we've got off to a flyer..

Lots of our Giig users are also members of TEAM and the things that our users love about the network are:

• The sense of community and support you get from other people also experiencing similar challenges.

Around all the TEAM/Giig chit chat we also spoke about:

• When Andy was a Wimbledon Ball Boy

• Putting together flat packs
• Andy's travelling disaster in Thailand
• Andy's journey from solo recruitment founder to the MD of TEAM

• A picture of my feet!

Enjoy x

Welcome Back To The Recruitment Industries Most Informative Podcast.

This week on the podcast, we had an accidental guest... She stuck her head in early doors, we tried to get her to stay but not sure she was overly keen.

After she departed we got down to the important conversation topics:

- If you can smell burnt toast is it a sign you're having a stroke?

- Luke's crash in Sarah's car

- An upcoming charity event

- Chasing the Sun

- Andy's Lunchbox

- Becoming part of Team Muppets

- Thinking about a theme for the TEAM annual conference

Enjoy x

Welcome Back To The Recruitment Industries Most Informative Podcast....

This week on the pod, we're joined by 'Mike Hennan' our weirdest podcast guest so far...

Reason I say Mike is a weird guest is because he's not from the recruitment world..

He actually works in Pumps and Compressors...

I've known Mike for around 15/16 years. I was introd to him by one of my ex girlfriends way back when.

A couple of years ago, Mike, James & I were all building separate businesses at the same time and ended up buddying up to support each other.

A few weeks ago, I'd been called back to Essex to look after the cats for my mum so dropped Mike a text to ask if he fancied meeting up and coming on the pod...

Which is how we've ended up here.

As is common place on this pod the recruitment chat is limited. I would say this episode feels more like a couple of mates catching up but maybe there is the odd sprinkling of something useful in there...

Enjoy x

Welcome Back To The Recruitment Industries Most Informative Podcast!

This week we're back to the two of us!

It's been a while since it's just been the pair of us catching up...

The thought-provoking conversation has be switched back to waffle...

This pod was recorded on my birthday, so there's a bit of birthday chat in there...

Andy forces me to open my presents on the pod... Which resulted in a positive experience that includes a duck...

Enjoy x

Welcome back to the recruitment industries most informative podcast!!!!

This week on the pod we're joined by Nitin Sharma, the founder of Rec Talk, rectools and Rec Circles...

Basically if you find anything with 'Rec' in front of it, there's every chance that Nitin has something to do with it!

As he's the voice of the fastest growing Recruitment Podcast we naturally spent a lot of time talking about content creation and how building a content machine can help you build trust better than an outbound model...

After the initial business chat, we got into the juicy stuff....

Nitin used to be a Pro Wrestler... Now I can't be certain but I am pretty sure he's never spoken about this before, so we got an inside scoop into his Wrestling career!!!

Enjoy x

Last week I was back in Essex, dog sitting for my Auntie and Uncle... One of the benefits of this remote working is I can double up as a dog sitter and as I was back in Essex...

Samwise got the call-up,

I would say the tone of this pod is slightly different... We've dropped Andy for the first time, and we spent our time chatting about:

- Family

- How we met each other

- Why Samwise joined Giig

- Mental health

- Going on holiday

It gets deep and meaningful. I hope you enjoy it!

We went to a farm!!!!

Initially, today's guest cancelled on us,

When he said he was keen to reschedule and asked if we wanted to film it on the farm, we jumped at it.

Packed up all our bits and made our way to an undisclosed location where we were greeted by a man with a beard surrounded by Sheep.

That man was Jeremy Snell, the Founder of Rookie2Recruiter...

In traditional Giig It A Rest Fashion, we spent the majority of this episode chatting about Sheep, Farms, Music, Glastonbury, Moths, and we even had a quiz....

Amongst all of that, we did chat about his journey from starting out as a recruitment consultant through to where he is today running Rookie 2 Recruiter...

He also gave us sausages!

Enjoy x

This week on the Recruitment Industries' most informative podcast....

It's all about holidays,

Andy has been away sunning himself in Italy, and obviously I wanted to hear all about that... So that was the topic of conversation for the majority of today's episode.

Around that we also waffled about:

- Andy's new games

- Andy's run in with a scorpion

- Luke's plan to send saws to the Ukraine

- Some suggestions for our new Giig slogan

- Our new job board partnership

Welcome back to the recruitment industry's most informative podcast!

This week we've had a big weekend out and about. Saturday was our 200K cycle, whilst on Sunday we headed off to Wembley to watch the Shrimpers in the playoff final...

Sorry in advance, as this week's pod might be a little cycling and football heavy, other bits we talk about:

- Sewing badges into your swimming trunks

- Luke making a mess of a puncture

- Making a new friend on our 200K ride

- Meeting the parents

- Watching middle-aged men get rattled by a bunch of kids

- Getting the car back on the road

- Customisation

- Who does Luke remind Andy of?

Enjoy x

This week on the recruitment industry's most informative podcast.... ANDY'S ON THE BEACH ...

Yep, he's decided that he's going to take a week off, so I decided to throw a paddy and have a moan about the fact he's not here...

Anyway, he will hopefully be back soon, and we also have a couple of guest episodes coming up!

We're planning on taking the pod on the road to film something outside...

I hope you enjoy your week off, and we will see you again next Thursday!!!!