Recruitment Mentors Podcast

By Hishem AzzouzBusiness Entrepreneurship Careers

Recruitment Mentors Podcast episodes

August 10 £100K Loan Against His House, 2 Rejected Investment Deals: Jay Massey's Year One in Business with Four Five Partners
In this episode, I sit down with Jay Massey, founder of Four Five Partners, to unpack the honest, unfiltered version of building a recruitment business from scratch.
After turning down two investment offers, one requiring him to give up control, the other diluting his equity, Jay borrowed £100K against his own house to fund the business himself, backing his ability to build it on his terms.
Connect with Jay here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jay-massey-b21897a3/
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1 hr 9 min
August 06 Golden Nugget #122 How To Pivot Your Recruitment Market, Niche Selection & Target Client Strategy with Jenny Pontefract:
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13 min
August 03 Only 10% of Recruiters Survive What's Coming: The Barbell Theory Reshaping Hiring with Craig Whiting
In this episode, I sit down with Craig Whiting, co-founder of RLS Search, who has spent 18 years placing technologists into hedge funds and now bills £2.5M off four clients with a team of three.
We get into why he believes 70% of recruitment companies will be gone within two years, and why only the top 10% of recruiters survive what AI is doing to the market.
We cover the knowledge advantage that replaced business development entirely, the June 2024 reset from 14 people back to 3, and the process that takes his team to a 93% offer-to-placement ratio.
Connect with Craig here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/craig-whiting-b75a8ba/
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1 hr 5 min
July 30 Golden Nugget #121 | How We Proved Our Business Was Worth Millions: Recurring Revenue & The Career Path That Kept Top Billers with Craig Harman
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12 min
July 27 She Almost Quit Recruitment. Now She's Chasing $1M Billings. Madeline Brady's Turnaround Story.
In this episode, I sit down with Madeline Brady, a recruiter at InterEx specialising in the SAP contract market, to unpack how she went from nearly quitting recruitment at the end of 2024 to building an $11K weekly GP book and chasing a $1M billing year in 2026.
Connect with Madeline here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/madeline-brady-068b3217a/
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1 hr 7 min
July 23 Golden Nugget #120 | How to Transition Client Relationships Away From the Founder in a Recruitment Agency with Emily Angeloni
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14 min
July 20 £4M Pipeline, 9 Recruitment Companies: Inside the Outbound System at We Have a Meeting with Zac & Jack
In this episode, I sit down with Zac and Jack from We Have a Meeting to unpack how their done-for-you outbound service has generated over £4M in live pipeline for 9 recruitment companies in the last 12 months, without relying on candidate flips or any of the usual recruiter BD tactics.
We dive into their full outbound system: how they build and enrich data before a single call is made, the VAR process that quality-checks every meeting booked, and the "Trojan Horse" strategy they use to break into markets they've never worked in before.
Connect with Zac here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/zac-thompson-33a9a39b/
Connect with Jack here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jack-frimston-5010177b/
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1 hr 14 min
July 16 Golden Nugget #119 | Inside My First Board Meeting: The Metrics That Actually Matter with Ned Menheneott
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12 min
July 13 More Revenue in 3 Months Than the First 15: Brad Lewington on Fixing His Biggest Founder Mistake
In this episode, I sit down with Brad Lewington, who spent seven years as CEO of Spencer Ogden, taking over the business when 80% of its revenue was tied to a collapsing oil & gas market and rebuilding it into a £121M-revenue business that sold to private equity 30 days before COVID hit.
After stepping away in 2023, Brad started again from zero, launching Generative Group from Guildford with an offshore team in Cape Town built in from day one.
We dig into the mistakes he made spreading his new business too thin across too many "islands" in year one, why he'd already given founders the exact advice he then ignored, and how refocusing on a single niche took Generative from £456K to £1.4M in net fee income.
Connect with Brad here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bradlewington/
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1 hr
July 06 They Nearly Gave Away 51%: How Jason & Jev Turned a £25K Loan Into a 100% Owned, Seven-Figure Agency
In this episode, I sit down with Jason and Jev, co-founders of Alexander Barnes, to unpack how they turned two £25K bank loans into a seven-figure, 100% owned fintech search firm, and the moment early on when they nearly gave away 51% of the business to a PE-backed model before choosing a different path entirely.
We dive into the brutal first three months chasing any deal they could get, the shift to a niche, relationship-led process that changed everything, and the two-year candidate relationship that landed them a retained PSL spot ahead of Korn Ferry and Spencer Stuart.
Connect with Jason here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jasonthomas0784/
Connect with Jev here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jevon-barnes-56244a153/
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1 hr 10 min