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The RAG Podcast - Recruitment Agency Growth Podcast

We’re having real and raw conversations with successful recruitment entrepreneurs about what is happening in their businesses right now and their plans to navigate market changes.

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01:24:53

Season 6 | Ep 25 - Gary Redman on growing a business...

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2023/03/15

On this week's show, I was joined by Gary Redman. Gary is the CEO of the Now Business Group, a collection of recruitment organisations in construction, finance, accountancy, services, and most importantly in the education sector.The business is headquartered in the UK with a really strong sales and EBITDA profile. We’re talking between five and a half to six million pounds per year in net profit.Gary started the business 27 years ago. He started in recruitment at 19, quite quickly launched his own

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01:09:49

Season 6 | Ep24 - Jo Sellick on growing business...

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2023/03/08

On this week's show, I was joined by Jo Sellick.In 2022, Jo was the sole founder of Sellick Partnership, a specialist recruitment agency headquartered in Manchester.Over the last 21 years, Jo has worked tirelessly to drive the business forward and has taken the business to £95m in revenue and 105 staff across multiple offices.In 2019, Sellick Partnership was 70% acquired by a French organisation with further plans for growth.. Little did they know that within a few short months, they were about to

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01:19:12

Season 6 | Ep 22 - Paul Sammeroff on how starting a...

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2023/02/22

Season 6 | Ep 22 - Paul Sammeroff on how starting a rec business with two strangers backfired within 3 years!On this week's show, I'm joined by Paul Sammeroff, the Founder and Director of PAS Capital, a specialist recruitment firm headquartered in Glasgow that exclusively operates within the oil and gas markets.Paul’s business is only three years old with just under 20 staff at the moment. What's really interesting is the story that Paul's been through in those last three years.He founded the

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01:18:25

Season 6 | Ep21 - Tom Glanfield on launching Lhi from...

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2023/02/15

Due to unforeseen circumstances, I wasn't able to record this week's episode with a new guest.Rather than leave you with a week of no RAG Podcast, I wanted to bring back an episode that I recorded in 2019, which was one of the best I've ever recorded.My guest is known as Tom Glanfield, founder of Lawrence Harvey, LHi group. This episode was recorded pre-pandemic in an office in London.Tom talked about his business, where he was at the time and how he was looking to exit it. He also told his story of

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01:18:20

Season 6 | Ep20 - Chris Allaire on how his agency was...

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2023/02/08

On this week’s episode of The RAG Podcast, I am joined by Chris Allaire, the founder and CEO of Averity, a specialist technology recruitment agency. Averity was initially headquartered in New York City but is now operating across the USA.They have 30 employees, are completely remote post-pandemic, and were awarded the best staffing firm to work for in the 10 to 20 employees bracket by the Staffing Industry Analyst, SIA, in 2022.Chris has got energy and is a big biller! This is his eighth startup

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01:11:35

Season 6 | Ep 19 - Sinead Connolly on billing $1m AUD...

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2023/02/01

On this week's show, I am joined by Sinead Connolly. Sinead is the award-winning founder of Lotus People, a specialist business support recruitment firm headquartered in Sydney, Australia, with over 22 staff. Now, Sinead and I have known each other for a few years.She’s been a Hoxo client since just after the pandemic, and I've watched her journey go from strength to strength.In this episode, we talked about:- Her journey from Ireland to Australia as a backpacker- How she got into recruitment-

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01:23:20

Season 6 | Ep 18 - Luke McCormack on building a super...

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2023/01/25

On this week's show, I am excited to be joined by Luke McCormack, the founder and CEO of McCormack Partners.Luke owns a specialist recruitment business in Glasgow that focuses on the commercial roofing and cladding sectors all over the UK.Luke reached out to me a long time ago to talk about personal branding, and I've witnessed his journey ever since. I’ve been unbelievably impressed by what he’s achieved.Luke’s got a team of seven billing just under a million pounds this year, and his process is

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01:12:42

Season 6 | Ep 17 - Edmund Blogg on helping rec...

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2023/01/18

On this week’s show, I’m joined by Edmund Blogg, the co-founder of RecruitHub, the newest sponsor of The RAG Podcast.We’ve partnered with RecruitHub because I believe we’re on a shared mission.These guys are a leading service accelerator for recruitment businesses. They provide new founders with the infrastructure to run their business from day one and allow them to focus on building it. They register the company, build the website and take care of all business finance and back office.They don't

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01:07:38

Season 6 | Ep16 - Greg Savage on the metrics you...

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2023/01/11

I am excited, delighted, and honored to be joined by Greg Savage in the latest episode of the RAG Podcast.Now, almost everyone in our sector globally knows who this guy is.During his time in recruitment, Greg:-Has built an incredible brand-Has been an advisor to 16 recruitment organisations in the APAC region-Has owned and scaled three organisations-Has authored a book-Has built his own training academy across the global recruitment communityI interviewed Greg at the beginning of the COVID pandemic

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01:38:37

Season 6 | Ep 15 - Ephram Stephenson on growing to...

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2023/01/04

On this week's show, I am joined by Ephram Stephenson.Ephram is the CEO of Collar Group, a recruitment group based in Australia with nine offices and over a hundred staff.Interestingly, Ephram only started the business in the summer of 2021 and sent his first invoice in October 2021.Since then, he's grown an agency that covers predominantly blue-collar recruitment, but is now moving into white-collar recruitment and exec search.Now, this is not Ephram's first venture into recruitment ownership.He

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01:11:43

Season 6 | Ep14 - Ben Duffill believes you don’t need...

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2022/12/14

On this week's episode of The RAG Podcast, I am joined by Ben Duffill.Ben is the Managing Director of MRG Group, The Management Recruitment Group.They’re a 60-person recruitment organisation headquartered in London, with multiple global offices.Ben has a really unique and interesting story in our sector.He went to university at 18 years old and quit within six weeks.Back in Essex, he then managed to get himself into a recruitment career with Hays. This decision set him off on a trajectory to be

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01:16:12

Season 6 | Ep13 - Simon Hair on building one of the...

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2022/12/07

On today's episode, I am joined by Simon Hair.Simon is the Managing Director of Precision Sourcing Group, a business headquartered in Sydney, Australia with 31 expert recruiters in project services, SAP, data, and software development.Now, I've wanted to have Simon on for a long time.I've worked with him for over two years and for some reason it just never happened.But the timing is perfect, because last week he got voted Australian Recruitment Leader of the Year at the TIARA Awards.Nominated by his

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01:03:51

Season 6 | Ep12 - Kayleigh Bottomley on only hiring...

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2022/11/30

On this week's episode of The RAG Podcast, I am joined by Kayleigh Bottomley, the Founder and SVP of Storm4.Storm4 is another branch of Levin, the fastest-growing group of recruitment companies in the world.A couple of weeks ago I shared a repeat of a 2021 episode with James Brown, the founder of Leven group.This was one of my highest played episodes since the start of the RAG Podcast, probably because Levin is one of the most talked about organisations in our sector.They are taking the recruitment

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01:14:04

Season 6 | Ep 11 - John Dyson on surviving a major...

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2022/11/23

On today’s episode, I was joined by John Dyson.John is the founder of FJR Group, a specialist recruitment firm headquartered in Manchester with an office in London, operating across financial services, HR, and technology.John started the business in May 2011, the very same month that I personally started in recruitment.In that period of time, he’s grown a business to over 50 people and has opened multiple offices.Recently, during a snowboarding holiday in France, John suffered an accident where he

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01:04:12

Season 6 | Ep 10 - James Brown on owning the...

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2022/11/16

In early 2021, I interviewed James, the CEO of Levin, to discuss his growth plans on The RAG Podcast.Now, almost 2 years later, the company with brands Storm2, Storm3, Storm4, Storm5, and Storm6, published $44m USD NFI in its third year and has grown to over 600 people.This trajectory is remarkable!I am re-releasing my episode with James as so many people loved it.It is still in the top 3 most-played episodes of The RAG and there are so many amazing learnings to take from it!I will be back with

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Season 6 | Ep 9 - Sean Anderson on the 3 fundamentals...

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2022/11/02

On this week's episode of the RAG Podcast, you are stuck with me again!In October, I was invited to the very first recruitment expo in Germany. This was hosted by a company called StaffingPro, in coordination with APSco.This expo was targeted mainly at the agency market, but also at some in-house recruiters. I was invited to Frankfurt for a couple of days and I spoke on stage about the three fundamental things every single recruitment agency needs to consider if they want to stand out on

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01:08:23

Season 6 | Ep 8 - Richard Wright on enjoying his...

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2022/10/26

On this week’s episode of The RAG Podcast I was joined by Richard Wright, CEO of Acre.Acre is a specialist recruitment consultancy focusing on everything to do with sustainability, which includes climate change, social issues, and more.Richard has a long history in the recruitment sector.He originally worked for one of the biggest organisations in the world and later bought into a boutique agency as a partner.Richard was at the helm of that business for a long time and eventually sold the business

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01:15:43

Season 6 | Ep 7 - Laurie Boyall on how he has never...

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2022/10/19

On this week’s episode, I was joined by Laurie Boyall, the Founder & Group CEO of McGregor Boyall, one of the most renowned recruitment agencies headquartered in London.Laurie started the agency in 1987, having never worked a day in recruitment in his life!He was a self trained computer programmer and having found a job via a recruitment agency in 86, he saw the invoice attached to his placement. This was all it took for him to change career path!In this episode, we covered Laurie’s 35 years as

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Season 6 Ep 6 | Sean Anderson on 3 simple things...

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2022/10/12

On this week’s episode of the RAG, I’m excited to be featuring one of my own talks.Last week I presented at the Birmingham Recruitment Agency Expo in a room filled with well over 200 recruitment professionals.I discussed my thoughts and opinions on how LinkedIn is going to change over the next few years and what every recruiter should be doing now to make the most of their own opportunity before it does.I've rerecorded this session live in front of about 35 recruitment professionals as part of one

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01:18:09

Season 6 | Ep 5 - David Morgan on going from sending...

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2022/10/05

On this week’s episode, I was joined by David Morgan, who in 2000 co-founded Morgan Law, a UK specialist public sector recruitment agency with 35 staff.In this episode, we went through David’s 22 years as a founder to unearth the highs, the lows, and the learnings you can take from them.We covered:-The reality of setting up a business in 2000 when the recruitment industry still operated using fax machines!-How his life changed as the business grew-David’s relationship with alcohol and how that's

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