The Recruitment Startup Subject 🟨

Welcome to Season 1, Episode 15 of The Recruitment Startup Subject Podcast with your host, Max Jones. & in this episode, we welcomed Ross Fraser onto the show; a recruitment business owner heading up a global automotive agency across the UK & US markets. Currently at a headcount of c. 50, this episode is all about how that business has gone from 1 recruiter in their back bedroom to the global business you see today. From the challenges that growth has brought to the enjoyment that journey has given him & the team around him. Enjoy! 

Welcome to Season 1, Episode 14 of The Recruitment Startup Subject Podcast with your host, Max Jones. & in this episode, we welcomed Richard Beaumont onto the show; a recruiter building something really special within the education recruitment market. Having launched LTF Recruitment only a couple years ago, the business is now a double-figure headcount with no signs of slowing down. This is a recruiter who speaks very openly & candidly about what it's taken to build LTF to what it is today & I'm really excited to share it with you. 

Welcome to Season 1, Episode 13 of The Recruitment Startup Subject Podcast with your host, Max Jones. Within this episode, we sit down with another superstar recruitment entrepreneur - Ed Bozman. Ed founded 360 Recruitment back in 2014 & since then has successfully built a business well known & respected across the A&F market. This is his story; with pearls of wisdom throughout this episode, it's certainly one for anyone who (perhaps after years of working within their market) feels it's the right time to venture out & start building their own agency. Enjoy!

Welcome to Season 1, Episode 12 of The Recruitment Startup Subject Podcast with your host, Max Jones. Within this episode, we're lucky enough to chat with Mark Bracknall, Founder of Thoe James Recruitment. Since launching back in 2015, Mark has successfully built a business of 15 masterings the manufacturing & engineering space in the North East. The journey has taught him a lot & those learns are things that we delve into in this episode. A real insight in what it takes to run & develop an agency - from people management to effective strategies around growth; all while ensuring that, personally, the business is providing what him & his family need. Enjoy! 

Welcome to Season 1, Episode 11 of The Recruitment Startup Subject Podcast with your host, Max Jones. With the podcast in double digits now, we are so excited to welcome this guest onto the show. Lysha Holmes, founder of Qui Recruitment & R2R extraordinaire knows all there is about starting, developing & progressing your own recruitment startup across various economic & recruitment backdrops. In this episode, we cast our minds all the way back to 2005 & what drove her to start her own agency & explore the hurdles, challenges & realities of what it takes to run your own agency across such a long period of time. 

Welcome to Season 1, Episode 10 of The Recruitment Startup Subject Podcast with your host, Max Jones. & we're really excited to share this episode with you. In this episode we're joined by Simon Monaghan, Founder of Odd Shoes; an agency fixated on changing the image of tech recruitment for the better. A passionate, enthusiastic, honest & humble recruitment business owner who shared a lot with me when we sat down. From the initial drivers to pull him to start Odd Shoes, to his experiences of working with recruitment startup support companies to the reasons why he does what he does, in the way that he does, every day. A really raw episode & one that we're really pleased to share with. 

Welcome to Season 1, Episode 9 of The Recruitment Startup Subject Podcast with your host, Max Jones. & we're really excited to share this episode with you. In this episode we're joined by Chris Booth, Founder & CEO of Findrs; a specialist consultancy focussing across the tech startup space. Chris has had a really interesting journey; after 6+ years working within the agency world, he felt it was the right time to 'make the leap' & start his agency. Fast forward 4 years, it's clear to see he's done way more than just 'start an agency'; Findrs has grown, developed & progressed leaps & bounds since its inception & we were lucky enough to listen to this journey first hand. Enjoy! 

Welcome to Season 1, Episode 8 of The Recruitment Startup Subject Podcast with your host, Max Jones. & we're really excited to share this episode with you. & in this episode, we're joined by Adam Nichols who, back in 2018, made the leap & started his own recruitment agency, Rosslyn David. The Marketing Headhunters have grown organically & progressively over the last few years & I'm so pleased to be able to share their journey with you. Listen is, as you hear a humble, honest & open account of startup life & what it really takes to run an agency with ethics & morals that are simply unbreakable. Enjoy! 

Welcome to Season 1, Episode 7 of The Recruitment Startup Subject Podcast with your host, Max Jones. & we're really excited to share this episode with you. & in this episode, we're joined by Simon Jay who back in 2019 launched his own business, CRF - a specialist funding & payroll broker specifically for the recruitment market. Here we understand more about what pulled Simon to start his own business, the values he holds dear & how they translate into the day-to-day running of the business & his advice to any recruiter thinking about the idea of starting their own recruitment agency in today's market. A slightly different for the podcast this week but one that will add real, genuine & honest value to any recruiter thinking about the idea of starting their own agency. Enjoy!