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/

Today I was joined by Paul Flynn - an investor in recruitment and mental health businesses and the ex Founder / MD of Staffgroup which he sold in 2015 for over £20m

A warm and open person, I have only ever heard great things about Paul from the market. This was my first ever chat with him in person and he certainly lived up to expectation.

In today’s episode we discussed:

🎙 Paul’s early days at Progressive (S3)

🎙 His journey to launching Staffgroup in 2003 with 2 co-founders

🎙 How he suffered from addiction and by 2006 needed to go to recovery to resolve this

🎙 Running his business as a sober leader, even with the annual trips to Vegas and Ibiza!

🎙 How he eventually sold in 2015

🎙What he did next

🎙His 3 key takeaways from his career for others to learn from

Paul is a recruiter at heart and he clearly loves the industry! One of the success stories of the past 15 years, feel free to contact him directly if you would like to ask any more questions relating to our conversation!

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Today I was delighted to be joined on The RAG Podcast Live with Recruitment Entrepreneur and former Dragon - James Caan CBE!

Although famous for his time on BBC TV, James is the most followed recruitment professional in the world today with over 3million Linkedin followers!

In this episode, we discussed:

🎙Launching, growing and selling Alexander Mann in 2013 for £260 million

🎙How he felt when he had enough money to retire at 42 years old

🎙Growing Humana International and moving into private equity with Hamilton Bradshaw

🎙Launching Recruitment Entrepreneur in 2014, investing in more than 32 founders to date

🎙The impact of his 3 million followers on Linkedin

🎙Why he loves the industry and keeps on going when he simply doesn’t need to!

A fascinating chat with James and for me the realisation that despite his huge success - he truly believes that growing a recruitment business is about investing in people and doing the basics well, every single day!

If you would like to chat to James directly please email him at jb@hbpe.com or via LinkedIn!

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Today I was delighted to be joined on The RAG Podcast Live with CEO and Founder of Dartmouth Partners, Logan Naidu.

Logan is now almost 9 years into the growth of his second recruitment agency and he feels like he is only just getting started!

In this episode, I we discussed:

🎙Leaving a role in Corporate Finance and joining the recruitment sector at 24 yrs old

🎙Why he set up his own agency 1 yr into his career

🎙The growth of his first business and his role as £1m biller

🎙Being diagnosed with cancer on his first year wedding anniversary with a wife who was 6 months pregnant

🎙Exiting the business and launching his own entity that could truly scale in the way he wanted

🎙Dartmouth’s journey pre, during and post PE investment

🎙The acquisition of Pure Search in late 2019 and then the impact of COVID-19

🎙The business today and his vision for future growth!

One of the most relaxed and humble recruitment owners I have ever met, it is clear to see that Logan has his mind set on more amazing achievements in the future. Great advice and honest accounts of the good and the bad, I hope you learn as much from listening to this as I did recording!

If you would like to chat to Logan directly please contact him via LinkedIn!

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Today I was delighted to be joined on The RAG Podcast Live with James Fernandes and Simon Gardiner, the Co-Founders of Carrington West, an award winning agency specialising in technical recruitment for the built environment in the UK.

Launched in Jan 2011, these guys have been on an epic journey!

In this episode, we discussed:

🎙How and why they left to start the business

🎙Their start up story working from a brothers garage with no heating (and fingerless gloves)

🎙The move to bring on more partners to lead the business in the early days

🎙Their secret to getting the best out of their people

🎙The business today and his vision for future growth!

A pleasure to interview such energetic and inspiring founders, they are more than willing to support the next generation of recruitment owners!

If you would like to chat to James or Simon directly please contact them via LinkedIn!

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Today I was delighted to be joined on The RAG Podcast Live with James Cox, the Co-Founder of Bio Talent and the CEO of Trinnovo Group. Trinnovo is a fast-growth, international recruitment company, bringing together three market specialists and our own social enterprise:

• Trust in SODA - digital

• Broadgate Search – governance, finance, change

• BioTalent - life sciences

• Ex-MilitaryCareers.com – enabling ex-military career success (social enterprise)

Launched in Jan 2018, this growth in 3 years has been incredible!

In this episode, we discussed:

🎙How and why he decided to join 2 founders of established agencies and create a new brand - as opposed to launching on his own

🎙His startup story and achieving £900,000 in year 1 revenue!

🎙How the pandemic affected the group brand

🎙His move to CEO of the group

🎙The business today and his vision for future growth!

A super smart leader with huge ambition, if you are interested in launching a multi brand recruitment business then this is one for you!

If you would like to chat to James directly please contact them via LinkedIn!

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