Episode 5 of Wave’s Talent Matters podcast sees Wave CEO Dave Jenkins talk to inspirational business leader Wendy McDougall, founder and CEO of Firefish Software. A former recruitment agency owner herself, Wendy gifts listeners with a raft of insights into setting up a business, what recruiters should look for in their tech, what she wished she’d known when first starting out, and so much more.

Wendy McDougall has worked in the recruitment sphere for many years and founded Firefish Software in 2010 in response to the frustrations within the tech in the market. A combined recruitment marketing and CRM software, Firefish is an organically grown SaaS company with 50 employees, customers in 20 countries and an average 30% ARR growth per annum.

Wave attracts talented candidates to recruitment agencies with three products that together form a complete solution for candidate attraction - WaveTrackR (data-powered multi-poster, analytics platform and application management system), WaveMedia (strategic media buying), and Recwebs (professionally designed recruitment websites to showcase your brand).

In episode 4 of Wave’s new Talent Matters podcast, Wave CEO talks to a man that has experienced it all when it comes to recruitment and now uses that breadth of knowledge and experience to advise SME business owners. Paul Sharpe lends his wisdom on scaling, recruiting recruiters, the importance of investing in self-development as a leader, the growing gig economy, consultative recruitment, and so much more.

Having worked in recruitment for 21 years, Paul Sharpe is incredibly passionate about the industry and in particular helping recruitment SMEs flourish and grow. Paul set up Sharper Outcomes earlier in 2022 as a way to support SME recruitment business through coaching sessions, finance reviews, business planning, operational support, and general business advice.

Wave attracts talented candidates to recruitment agencies with three products that together form a complete solution for candidate attraction - WaveTrackR (data-powered multi-poster, analytics platform and application management system), WaveMedia (strategic media buying), and Recwebs (professionally designed recruitment websites to showcase your brand).

In episode 3 of Wave’s new Talent Matters podcast series, Wave CEO Dave Jenkins talks to someone that has sought a different way to run their recruitment agency, to help ensure they’re using business as a force for good. Dave’s chat with Nick Dean centres on B Corp organisations and how that translates in a B2B recruitment business, the benefits of being employee-owned, and musings on the current state of the market.

Nick Dean is Chair at ADLIB Recruitment and Enable, as well as being a B Corp Ambassador. He is passionate about operating recruitment businesses with purpose, that thrive whilst supporting a vision of a supportive, equitable and regenerative economy.

Wave attracts talented candidates to recruitment agencies with three products that together form a complete solution for candidate attraction - WaveTrackR (data-powered multi-poster, analytics platform and application management system), WaveMedia (strategic media buying), and Recwebs (professionally designed recruitment websites to showcase your brand).

In episode 2 of Wave’s new Talent Matters podcast series, Wave CEO Dave Jenkins talks to a familiar voice in recruitment marketing, Mitch Sullivan. Their chat centres around recruiter branding, job ads as a crucial marketing function, the dilemma of speed versus quality that all recruiters face, and the importance of curating your own talent pool.

Mitch Sullivan runs a hugely respected training academy, offering courses in copywriting for recruiters, and is the author of the brilliantly acerbic On Recruitment.

Wave attracts talented candidates to recruitment agencies with three products that together form a complete solution for candidate attraction - WaveTrackR (data-powered multi-poster, analytics platform and application management system), WaveMedia (strategic media buying), and Recwebs (professionally designed recruitment websites to showcase your brand).

In episode 1 of Wave’s new Talent Matters podcast series, Wave CEO Dave Jenkins talks to a leading authority in the recruitment industry, Louise Triance. Their chat centres around finding a USP as a recruiter, the importance of building a community, the return of in-person events, and the positive feel that the industry has right now.

Louise Triance is a recruitment industry connector, owner and founder of UK Recruiter, event specialist, and of course experienced podcast host herself.

Wave attracts talented candidates to recruitment agencies with three products that together form a complete solution for candidate attraction - WaveTrackR (data-powered multi-poster, analytics platform and application management system), WaveMedia (strategic media buying), and Recwebs (professionally designed recruitment websites to showcase your brand).

In Episode 7 of our Talent Matters webinar series, Dave Jenkins is joined by guest Daniel Fellows, CVO of Get-Optimal, where they talk about the importance of job ad optimisation in order to reach diverse talent.  

// ABOUT DANIEL FELLOWS

Daniel founded Get-Optimal in order to rescue the humble job ad and propel it to greatness. With a background in both tech and marketing, working for international organisations, most recently Indeed, Daniel recognised a need for software that analyses and optimises job advert copy for SEO, gender bias and diversity.

// ABOUT WAVE

We want to help people to attract the right talent using data and marketing experience – we’ll tell it how it is with no fluff or tomfoolery.   We recognise the opportunities in the market but we remain focused on the way to help companies source the talent they need in the fastest, and easiest manner.  Creating a world where talent is never missed.

In episode 6 of our Talent Matters webinars, Dave Jenkins is joined by guest Richard Williams, Global Head of Marketing at Austin Fraser, where they discuss the importance of marketing your recruitment business to stay ahead of the game. When the pandemic took hold and the world stopped, Richard and his team kept going, doubling down on the marketing activity to maintain growth across Austin Fraser’s international operations.  

// ABOUT RICHARD WILLIAMS

As Global Head of Marketing for tech recruiters Austin Fraser, Richard is responsible for the marketing function and brand building across the recruitment consultancy’s nine offices in the UK, Germany and the USA. 

// ABOUT WAVE

We want to help people to attract the right talent using data and marketing experience – we’ll tell it how it is with no fluff or tomfoolery.   We recognise the opportunities in the market but we remain focused on the way to help companies source the talent they need in the fastest, and easiest manner.  

Creating a world where talent is never missed.

In the fifth episode in our series of Talent Matters webinars, Dave Jenkins was joined by guest Ashby Jenkins, founder of Ashby Jenkins Recruitment, to talk about the way the team dealt with the challenges of the Covid-19 pandemic and how pivoting their agency was crucial to ensure they didn’t just survive but continued to grow. They also discussed the importance of promoting diversity within recruitment in order to help improve equal opportunities across the sector.

// ABOUT ASHBY JENKINS

Having previously worked as a corporate fundraiser for two charities, Ashby Jenkins has a deep passion for the sector. She moved into recruitment in 2014 and in 2018 founded Ashby Jenkins Recruitment, working exclusively on not-for-profit sector recruitment. The agency specialises in matching all types of fundraisers, innovations specialists and digital marketers with a huge variety of UK-based charity fundraising jobs.

// ABOUT WAVE

We want to help people to attract the right talent using data and marketing experience – we’ll tell it how it is with no fluff or tomfoolery.   We recognise the opportunities in the market but we remain focused on the way to help companies source the talent they need in the fastest, and easiest manner.  

Creating a world where talent is never missed.

On this episode of our Talent Matters Podcast, Dave Jenkins is joined by Kevin Green to discuss 'Recruitment post Furlough'.

On this episode of our Talent Matters Webinar, Dave Jenkins and Tom Mehmet discuss the official news of the UK recession and why recruitment agency startups are key to restart the economy.