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Your Host Alison Humphries has been a recruitment industry “lifer” for more than 35 years, Alison was a director of businesses including Hays Plc, Robert Half International, BNB Plc and Penna Plc, developing a highly successful career spanning contingent, retained, temp/contract, RPO, statement of works and consulting services.

In this podcast, Alison talks about some of the most common mistakes that recruitment business owners make when they think they are on a route to a successful business exit, and highlights what buyers and investors are looking for.

This episode is not one to miss for those who are looking to create a resilient business that has capital value!

Timestamps:

0:47 - Introduction

3:30 - Alison’s experience 

5:43 - Learning curves

11:24 - In today’s recruitment world

15:30 - Sustainable success

21:13 - Why it’s important to get out of your bubble

22:56 - What buyers and investors want to see

If you would prefer to listen to this podcast with the accompanying slides, please email Alison: [email protected]

In the latest instalment of the Recruitment Leadership Podcast, your host Alison Humphries is joined by expert Leadership Coach and author, Zena Everett. 

Zena has a rare cocktail of entrepreneurial, head-hunting, organisational psychology and coaching experience. In her early career, Zena founded and developed a recruitment business, and became increasingly interested as to why some candidates were more confident and successful than others.

To explore this interest further, Zena sold the recruitment business and pursued a master's degree in organisational psychology and psychological training. 

In Zena’s latest book, The Crazy Busy Cure, she draws from her many thousands of hours coaching and speaking to people about productivity blockers and how to shift them.

In this episode, Alison and Zena discuss time management and productivity in the context of the recruitment industry; covering key areas and providing expert advice, this episode is not one to be missed. 

Timestamped guide:

0:46 - Intro 

04:16 - Why did the world need your book

09:03 - Can you give us in brief the benefits of finding a cure for this, and any examples or anecdotes that you can think of?

13:28 What are your biggest techniques and tips? 

19:52 -  People would argue that recruiters are in a different position from other people who can control more of how they spend their time. How would you respond to that?

23:06 - Now, in your book, can you also use an acronym for managing your diary, can you explain exactly what you mean?

29:34 - Do you have any practical advice for people on how to handle those persistent low level interruptions that, in fact, are about other people's priorities rather than your own? 

32:13 Is there anything else you wanted to highlight from your book before we wrap up?

If you would like further insight and advice on time management and productivity, please do not hesitate to get in touch with Zena directly:

👤  https://www.linkedin.com/in/zenaeverett/

If you would like to purchase The Crazy Busy Cure, you can do so on Amazon here:

https://amzn.to/3j08Hdp

For bulk orders, please contact Zena directly.

To find out how Alison Humphries expertise can help elevate your recruitment business, get in touch today: [email protected]

In the latest instalment of the Recruitment Leadership Podcast, your host Alison Humphries is joined by David Perry, Director of Perry-Martel.

After specialising in building out Leadership teams and working for over 32 years in the realm of leadership, David is a guru on what it takes to be a leader especially within the recruitment world. 

In the latest instalment of the Recruitment Leadership Podcast, your host Alison Humphries is joined by Geoff Reid-Hughes, head of UK sales for AssessFirst.

AssessFirst harnesses the behavioural science and the power of AI technology to eliminate bias and allow you to make the best possible decisions in hiring, management and talent development. 

Before moving to AssessFirst, Geoff worked in recruitment for a total of 16 years. He helped to place technical and IT-based staff within organisations, working across a number of well-known recruiting businesses in the UK. Geoff then went on to work for a popular publisher, and now works within his successful role at AssessFirst. 

In this insightful episode, Geoff and Alison discuss the benefits of using AssessFirst and provide examples of how using services like this can aid in differentiating your recruitment business, a key factor of success in both today's world and in the future.

As a special thank you to our listeners, Geoff is offering a 10% discount for AssessFirst services. To qualify for your 10% discount with AssessFirst, book in a meeting with Geoff here:  https://bit.ly/3xmJTSf

If you have any questions, queries or comments, please contact Alison Humphries: [email protected]

Connect with Geoff Reid-Hughes on LinkedIn.

In the latest instalment of the Recruitment Leadership Podcast, your host Alison Humphries is joined by Rob Kerr, the Author of Project Future: 6 Steps to Success as Your Own Boss.

Rob currently works closely with leaders delivering M&A integration to enable teams to succeed and businesses to solve more problems that matter. Prior to this, he was a Project Manager for over a decade, which led him to set up his own business in 2014 to improve his own work and family life. 

Now Rob shares his approach with aspiring entrepreneurs, contractors, and freelancers, supporting them through these critical decisions and showing them how to flourish on their own unique journey. 

In this insightful episode, Alison and Rob discuss their predictions about the future of recruitment and explore some blue sky options both in terms of what will happen to the working world and what might be happening to your career in the time of COVID.

Timestamped Guide: 

0:46 - Introduction

1:31 - Tell me why you felt that the world needed both a consultant in this field and your book, Project Future?

 3:46 - What are the most common errors that you’ve observed that people make when they are considering setting up a business?

6:10 - There’s an awful lot more to running a successful recruitment business than there is to just be a good recruiter. Some people learn that the hard way, is that something you’ve observed?

8:59 - Are there any general pointers you’d give people in terms of what kind of research they should be doing?

10:27 - In your book, I know you’ve got an acronym for a preparatory framework, 'SORTED', can you talk the audience through that?

18:03 - Infrastructure, company policies and preparation

21:37 - Making the distinction between those who want to build a business and those who want to build a lifestyle choice

24:04 - The amount of effort and commitment upfront to build a genuine business before you actually see any financial reward for it is often underestimated, isn’t it?

26:33 - Do you have any advice for people starting a business their own?

29:28 - So Rob, if people want to buy your book and I do thoroughly recommend it, it’s really good but easy read, where should they go?

If you have any questions, queries or comments, please contact Alison Humphries: [email protected]

Connect with Rob Kerr on LinkedIn. 

In the latest instalment of the Recruitment Leadership Podcast, your host Alison Humphries is joined by Jeff Wald, the Founder of WorkMarket. 

Jeff is a best-selling author and entrepreneur. Named "One of the 100 Most Influential People in Staffing" by the Staffing Industry Analysts in 2017 and 2018, he has also written the best-selling book “The End of Jobs: The Rise of On-Demand Workers and Agile Corporations”.

This insightful episode is a must-listen-to for recruiters - both as business owners, workers and advisors. Expect to gain an understanding of Jeff's predictions for the future of recruitment, what history can tell us about workforce trends, and why the impact of automation on jobs isn't necessarily what you expect.

Timestamped guide:

00:52 - Introduction to Jeff

01:35 - Can we start by you telling us about your experience of growing businesses before you started WorkMarket? 

03:28 - What made you write The End of Jobs? What were the key messages that you felt the world needed to hear?

06:22 - In how much of your future predictions can you really use historical evidence?

09:24 - Now, can you walk us through what you believe the evidence is actually telling us about the future of work?

12:42 - You say that in each case before the end result has been more jobs; what has been the impact of that on how jobs on a more granular level have changed?

17:02 - Interestingly in your book, you make a point about how even though the changing nature of jobs and the removal of those highly repetitive task-based jobs has led to jobs needing to change, it hasn't entirely made companies in effect disappear, has it?

21:31 - Even if you're looking at just the valuation of a company, a lot of that depends on the effectiveness of his workforce, doesn't it? 

23:02 - What do you think the recruitment industry should be aware of when looking for opportunities?

26:41 - What can individuals and leaders of business do now to make sure that they are well equipped to survive any sort of transition into their job becoming automated? And what are the skills that will be most useful for a business leader in the future?

30:40 - Some of the listeners are going to want to get your book, where do they go to do that?

If you have any questions, queries or comments, please contact Alison Humphries: [email protected]

Connect with Jeff Wald on LinkedIn.

Find out more about Recruitment Leadership here.

This podcast is produced by Loaded Hype.

A key take-away from our Business Leader Stories series is that the pandemic has impacted no two recruitment businesses the same.

In our final instalment of the series, we’re joined by Sachin Ruparelia, the Chief Executive of Camino Partners, back-office to boardroom recruitment specialists for people-based service industries

Sachin kindly agreed to share with us what his experiences of running a business through lockdown have been, and what his variances of successful adaptation are.

Time-stamped agenda:

4:18 - How has the pandemic affected your market?

5:19 - Are recruitment businesses looking to the US?

06:48 - It’s part of your commitment not just to take out of the recruitment industry, but also to put back, how do you achieve this?

8:00 - What changes have you made to your business as a result of the pandemic? What has worked and not worked?

10:48 - How reasonable and productive do you think it is to monitor the work of your team during the pandemic?

15:00 - Have you observed any non-typical behaviours surrounding working remotely?

16:57 - In terms of your products, services, processes and marketing, is there anything else that you can identify you have changed since the pandemic started?

19:10 - How have your marketing methods changed?

21:15 - What is an NBO?

25:30 - What do you predict for the future?

28:00 - How well do you think we treat non-sales or back-office staff as an industry?

30:55 - Leadership in the recruitment sector during times of crisis

If you have any questions, queries or comments, please contact Alison Humphries: [email protected]

Find out more about Recruitment Leadership here.

If you would like to get in touch with Sachin Ruparelia for more information, please email: [email protected] 

This podcast is produced by Loaded Hype.