Recruitment Mentors Podcast

By Hishem AzzouzBusiness Entrepreneurship Careers

Recruitment Mentors Podcast episodes

October 22 Golden Nugget #129 | How to Build a £30K Weekly Contract Book: KPIs, Relationships & Process with Liam Moir Holland
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17 min
October 19 From 8 to 34 People in 18 Months: Hubscale’s Road to £7M with Elliot White
In this episode, I sit down with Elliott White, founder of Hubscale, for his second appearance on the pod. When we last spoke in February 2025, Hubscale had 8 people.
Eighteen months on, it has 34 across Manchester, Austin and London, is on track for £7M this year, and is aiming for £50M by 2030.
We get into why he hires the leader before the team, the fee-split model behind nearly half of Hubscale’s revenue, and why he’s earning less now than at any point in his recruitment career.
Connect with Eliott here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/elliottwhitehubscale/
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1 hr 1 min
October 15 Golden Nugget #128 | Recruitment KPIs That Work: From 50 Calls to 1 Placement with Terry Payne
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15 min
October 12 £1.5M in Year One, Self-Funded: Inside Blue Fox with Jonathan & Victoria
In this episode, I sit down with Jon and Vic, co-founders of Blue Fox, a self-funded recruitment business in mission critical construction that did £1.5M in revenue in its first year.
They had their first perm deal done within three weeks, and they ran Blue Fox like a proper business from day one, with a detailed business plan, SOPs for everything and quarterly OKRs.
We get into why their first hire was a contractor care manager rather than a salesperson, how the 70/30 vertical rule brought their billings back after a dip, and why £1.5M in revenue is not £1.5M in the bank.
Connect with Jon here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonathan-bochenski-🔵🦊-88454178/
Connect with Vic here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vbannon/
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Watch the episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/PlrO2rGnTcw
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1 hr 4 min
October 07 Golden Nugget #127 | How to Get Through a Tough Quarter as a New Recruitment Founder with Genie Burgess
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14 min
October 05 9 Recruitment Agency Scaling Mistakes & the Rebuild to £279K Per Head with Tom Kelly
In this episode, I sit down with Tom Kelly, co-founder and CEO of Evona, the specialist space industry recruitment firm.
Tom shares the nine mistakes that came from scaling on headcount to a peak of 68 people, and how the business rebuilt around output to reach £279K NFI per head.
We dive into the 180 LinkedIn seats Evona never needed, Tom moving to the US unpaid and being handed the CEO role a month later, and the P25 output measure that now runs the business.
Connect with Tom on LinkedIn here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/evonatom/
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1 hr 6 min
October 01 Walked Away From a £350K Deposit to Win This Plot: Tom Glanfield on Life After the Exit | Walk & Talk #3
Walk & Talk episode with Tom Glanfield, founder of LHI Group.
We walk around his Sandbanks plot and chat about the £13.5M bidding war to win it, why he never paid himself more than £150K while building LHI, and life after the exit.
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27 min
September 28 Building a US Desk From Zero to $2M: Lessons From the Trenches with Fred Forrest
In this episode, I sit down with Fred Forrest, co-founder of Sourcechange. He left a comfortable seat at Pangea, got investment from day one, and built a US energy recruitment business from a box room in Aldgate East to past $2M in year three, with no clients and no track record in the market when he started.
We get into the tactical mistakes that made year one even harder, how Fred turned a tiny opening into Sourcechange's biggest client, and why he believes AI is only half the bet without a ferocious sales culture behind it.
Connect with Fred here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/frederick-forrest-05916812b/
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1 hr 2 min
September 21 From an Attic to £80M: Tom Glanfield Gave Away Half His Business and Made Several Staff Millionaires
In this episode, I sit down with Tom Glanfield, the founder who built LHi Group from a graduate loan into an £80M recruitment group, to unpack the equity scheme that made several of his staff millionaires and the Employee Ownership Trust exit that followed.
You can connect with Tom here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tomglanfield/
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59 min
September 17 A Surprise Trip to Greece's Best Hotel, a £31K Month & Kayleigh's Rules for Work-Life Integration | Walk & Talk #2
Walk & Talk episode with Kayleigh Prowen from Circle Partners.
We chat about young people getting into the industry, buying two houses by 24 & surprise holidays to Greece.
Connect with Kayleigh here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kayleigh-prowen-a1a540174/
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30 min