Recruitment Mentors Podcast

By Hishem AzzouzBusiness Entrepreneurship Careers

Recruitment Mentors Podcast episodes

May 28 Golden Nugget #113 | The Business Partnership That Nearly Broke Me (Business Partner Lessons No One Talks About) with Selim
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32 min
May 25 The Craft and the Graft: Building a £100K Weekly GP Contract Business with Luke McCluskey
In this episode, I sit down with Luke McCluskey, Founder and CEO of Circle Recruitment, to unpack how he built a £100K weekly GP contract business from just £2,000 in the bank, a toddler at home, and maintenance to pay.
We cover the full journey across eight years and four distinct chapters of growth, the frameworks Luke uses to run a high-performance contract sales floor, and the strategic moves he's making now to get from £100K to £180K weekly GP.
Connect with Luke: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lukemccluskey/
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1 hr 11 min
May 21 Golden Nugget #112 | How Amelia Rivas Books 90% of Her Pitches From 3 LinkedIn Signals (Without LinkedIn Recruiter)
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15 min
May 18 From Failed £35M Exit to 50% YoY Growth: An Inside Look at the Deliberate Rebuild of Trinnovo Group with Ashley Lawrence
In this episode, I sit down with Ashley Lawrence, founder and CEO of Trinnovo Group, to unpack one of the most raw and honest rebuilds you'll hear in recruitment.
In 2022, Ash had built a £20M fee business across three brands with a £35M PE offer on the table one week from close, the deal collapsed.
What followed was a complete reset. Ash stepped back in as CEO, sold BioTalent, rebuilt the leadership team from scratch, and made a series of deliberate decisions across culture, systems, product and strategy that drove 40-50% YoY growth and repositioned Trinnovo as a genuinely PE-ready business.
You can connect with Ashley here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ashleylawrencetg/
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1 hr 5 min
May 14 Golden Nugget #111 | I Hadn't Done a Deal in 7 Years. Two Years Later I'd Billed Nearly £1M as a Solo Founder with Hemish Ilangaratne
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24 min
May 11 Three Founders, Three Stages: How To Build a Recruitment Business That Lasts
In this special live episode, recorded at RMP Live London, I sit down with three founders at completely different stages of the journey.
Ricky Burns (Pulse Recruit, 18 months in, £1.1M EBIT year one)
Dan Cox (Edison Smart, five years in, pushing £9M NFI)
Mike Bott (LHI Group, 300 people, £47M GP).
We cover the real challenges, the hard calls, and the strategies each of them are betting on right now to build businesses that go the distance.
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1 hr 47 min
May 07 Golden Nugget #110 | Why Dropping KPIs in a Boom Period Will Destroy You in a Downturn with Sasza Bandiera
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16 min
May 04 From 30 Direct Reports to Back-to-Back $1M Years as a Solo Founder with Zach Creighton
In this episode, I sit down with Zach Creighton, founder of Hemans Talent, a financial services search firm he built from zero in Dallas.
Texas. Zach spent a decade in recruitment, scaling the Selby Jennings Dallas desk to nearly 40 people, before walking away with 30 direct reports to go it alone, self-funded, with no brand behind him.
We cover how he hit $1M in year one and backed it up with another $1M in year two, through relentless face-to-face BD, a disciplined niche focus, and a client strategy built around exclusivity without ever dropping his fees to get it.
Connect with Zach here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/zachary-creighton-14b080a0/
Learn more about launching your recruitment business with Recruithub Here > https://www.recruit-hub.com/
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1 hr 11 min
April 30 Golden Nugget #109 | Retained Search Strategy: How to Position, Pitch & Close Clients at 30% Fees with Elizabeth Kennedy
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38 min
April 27 Two PE Deals. $100M Valuation. Six Years: Inside the Metric Search Story with Joe Jani & John-Joe Walker
In this episode, I sit down with Joe Jani and John-Joe Walker, Founder & CEO and Chief Commercial Officer of Metric Search, the perm-only recruitment business that went from a New York startup to a $100M valuation in just six years across two private equity deals.
We cover the micro-niche strategy and grad-led blueprint that made Metric PE-backable, what actually happens inside a PE roadshow, how they grew 56% in a down market, and what the Southfield majority investment means for the business and the people in it.
You can connect with Joe here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/joe-jani-b5667a57/
John-Joe here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-joe-walker/
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1 hr 41 min