In today’s episode, I was joined on LinkedIn live by Jamie Beaumont, Founder of Fuel Payments - a specialist FinTech organisation that helps recruiters provide alternative payment methods for their SME customers!

I absolutely loved this episode! Jamie is in the first 6 months of the business and is in hyper start up mode!

An ex recruiter who became a tech entrepreneur that massively flopped at the beginning, he knows a thing or two about starting businesses with no prior experience.

He now owns a financial lending company with no prior Financial Services experience, he reminds me of myself when I started Hoxo!

In this episode Jamie talks about his life as an entrepreneur and the relentless workload he is prepared to endure to make this business successful.

His product is super smart and will no doubt be a game changer for Recruiters around the world!

If you are interested in a raw and recent start up journey or want to know how you can better convert perm fees, you can not miss this one!

If you would like to reach out and ask any questions directly, then feel free to contact Jamie on here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jamie-beaumont-4097a253/

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On this week's show, I was delighted to spend time with Elliot Dell, the CEO of Salt - a well known brand in the Digital Recruitment market, globally. Headquartered in London with 220 staff across offices in Asia, Australia, USA and the Middle East, Elliot joined as a recruiter and worked his way up to CEO after 10 years.

Salt didn’t actually exist when he joined, it was a small, family owned exec search business that soon changed with Elliot’s influence. As Salt gathered momentum, they soon acquired another business named 'Salt’ in New Zealand and that’s where things really took off.

Elliot has an incredible energy and passion for growing a fantastic business that can truly change the Digital Recruitment world. Whilst growing international teams at work, he is also the father of 3 children and has a super active lifestyle - an inspirational guy for sure!

Today I was joined by Doeke, the co-founder of WeAreKeen and agency providing in-house recruitment teams to start-ups, scale-ups and large enterprises across the Netherlands.

In this episode, he talked about how his country has reacted and dealt with lockdown and how his business has had to adapt to the change. Being an in-house agency with a relationship focused approach, he revealed how this has enabled them to stay close and support both clients and suppliers through a time that effects us all!

A refreshing chat from a very innovative recruitment owner, you can connect with Doeke and ask any questions here - https://www.linkedin.com/in/doeke/

WOW what an episode to round up 2020!

Alongside co-host Pete Watson, I was joined on LinkedIn live by Stella Petrou Concha, Founder & CEO of Reo Group and soon to be CEO & Co-Founder Reo+Purtell a merger set to complete in January 2021 in Sydney, Australia.

Stella started her recruitment agency 10 years ago with her husband Marcelo, only 2 years into her recruitment career!

I have had the pleasure of working with Stella in 2020 and I don’t think I know a more motivated or inspiring leader.

In this episode she reveals:

• Where her ‘force’ comes from - deep in her childhood
• How she coped in lockdown with her husband and business partner in the same house
• How and why she has merged her agency with Cox Purtell
• How she sees the future of our sector being built on collaboration and mergers of small agencies

I would go as far to say this is my favourite ever RAG episode! Stella is incredible and someone we can all learn from.

If you would like to talk to her directly then reach out to her on LinkedIn, she will no doubt help in any way she can! https://www.linkedin.com/in/stella-petrou-concha-603624b/

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The RAG Is back for Season 4! 2 years after we began this journey from our first office in East London, we are back for another season of Recruitment Agency Growth conversation!

In this short episode I discussed:

• My plans for the show in 2021
• My predictions for the recruitment market this year
• How I want help from YOU regarding regarding topics you want on the show
• The 2021 Hoxo Academy

Thank you to everyone who has listened to this show so far, it has been a truly incredible journey!

Here is to the next step as we fight to come out of the global pandemic even stronger as a recruitment community!

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On this week's episode on LinkedIn Live, I was be joined by our new Hoxo US Sales Lead - Joel Lalgee!

I was so excited to record this!

Joel and I connected in mid 2020 after he had been consuming this very podcast. We have been discussing how we see the recruitment industry evolving ever since!

In this show we talked about:

🎙How he went from 10-40k followers on LinkedIn inside 12 months

🎙How he structures his daily content to generate MILLIONS of views per week

🎙How this helped him in his Recruitment Agency career in USA

🎙Why he joined Hoxo and his plans for our US presence

A great guy and a real asset to our business, I can’t wait to see what we can achieve together in 2021!

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Today I was delighted to be joined on Hoxo LinkedIn Live, by James Brown - Founder of Levin Group and Storm2 to who are without doubt the most aggressively growing start up recruitment brand on the planet.

James joined Phaidon international as a Graduate when the business was only 15 staff and left in 2018 on the board of directors at 500 staff. He and his team know a thing or two about growth!

In today’s episode we discussed:

🎙 How in 18 months he has grown the business to over 60 recruiters

🎙 How they successfully onboarded 30 grads in Aug 2020 and trained them to be profitable remotely

🎙 How and why they plan to hire 130 grads in the next 90 days

🎙 Why they are opening in Singapore, Amsterdam and NYC

🎙 Why Adam Buck has come out of retirement to become their chairman

🎙 How they raised over £4m institutional investment to grow the fastest growing brand in the world

Hilarious at times, James was a pleasure to interview and a truly fascinating guest! One for any recruitment owner with ambition of scale to be watching out for!

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In today's live episode of The RAG Podcast, I am joined by Chris Redmond and Tim Roedel, both recruitment owners who approached me with the exact same idea within 24 hrs of one another!

Today we announce our national initiative - Project 500!

As the UK battles through its third national lockdown, Ofcom estimates that 9% of children in the UK (between 1.1 million and 1.8 million) do not have access to a laptop, desktop, or tablet at home.

It is devastating to hear about the families across the country who are fighting daily to homeschool their children without access to the basic equipment that is required.

We have to do something to help and we have to act now…

Project 500 is a scheme that is designed to help provide some of the UK's most disadvantaged families with the laptops they desperately need.

We have spent time in January sourcing a laptop supplier and having conversations with the Head Teachers of the most impacted schools in the UK.

During February, our aim is to engage our very own recruitment sector in order to supply 500 laptops to some of the families currently struggling. In order to do so, together we need to raise £80,000 in donations.

Between our businesses, we have donated £6,000 to the cause. We need your help to hit our target of £80,000/500 laptops.

We want to bring the recruitment industry together to make a difference!