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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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Season 7 | Ep29 - Oscar Orellana-Hyder on his journey...

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2024/02/28

On this week's show, Oscar Orellana-Hyder, the Founder of Cordell Partners, shares his journey from being a sceptic of personal branding on LinkedIn to building a successful recruitment agency in the UAE.I’ve worked with Oscar since 2021. He was a Hoxo client whilst working for Robert Walters.He went from someone who thought that using LinkedIn was complete nonsense and was billing £350k per year using only traditional methods, to doubling this within 12 months!All through 100% inbound business,

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Season 7 | Ep28 - Jonathan Berry on how building his...

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2024/02/21

On this week's show, I'm joined by Jonathan Berry, the director of the Middle East region for Robert Walters Group.I’ve known him for five years and have been working with him for four years.Jonathan was the first staff member at Robert Walters to join my bootcamp. And I'm now working with over 700 recruiters across the Group.Jonathan came to Dubai after working for Robert Walters in Sydney, and is now running the business in the region.In this episode, he shares his journey from being a lawyer to

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Season 7 | Ep27 - Calvin Lee-Picket on building a...

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2024/02/14

On this week's show, I'm delighted to be joined by Calvin Lee-Pickett, the CEO and founder of Calvin James Recruitment.Calvin came from the UK to Dubai as an employee of Robert Half Recruitment, a global organisation. A few years later, he decided to start his own business.Without any experience as a business owner, he has grown organically over the last five years. And in this past year, things have REALLY changed for Calvin and his team!In this episode, Calvin discusses how he pivoted his business

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01:29:54

Season 7 | Ep26 - Abdul-Rahman Risilia on building a...

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2024/02/07

Episode 2 of my LIVE series in the UAE and I'm joined by Abdul Rahman Risilia, CEO and founder of ARC Talent.Abdul is someone I actually worked with when I started my recruitment career in Melbourne in 2011, but I didn’t realise this until the show because, back then, he worked under a completely different name!In this episode, Abdul shares his journey from door-to-door sales to building a successful recruitment business in Dubai, growing through the various challenges along the way, and his unique

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Season 7 | Ep25 - Sean Anderson: what I have learned...

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2024/01/31

The first of our 5 x episodes recorded Live in the UAE kicks off with ME as the guest!So Chris Redmond, who's been on our show three times since 2019, approached me about interviewing me and telling both the Hoxo story and my learnings from almost 300 episodes of the RAG on my recent trip to Dubai!In this episode, I opened up a lot!We discussThe story of Hoxo to dateThe impact of my personal brand on building the businessWhy I started The RAG PodcastThe impact The RAG has had on the industryMy top

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01:10:16

Season 7 | Ep24 - Richard Morton on why it’s never...

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2024/01/24

In this episode of the RAG podcast, Sean Anderson interviews Richard Morton, the founder of MatchMedics. Richard shares his journey of launching a recruitment company in his 50s and emphasises that it's never too late to pursue your dreams. He discusses the challenges he faced in the early years and the turning point after reading the book 'Traction'.Richard explains how MatchMedics narrowed its focus to specialise in recruiting doctors and the subsequent growth in team size and revenue. He also

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01:06:05

Season 7 | Ep23 - Jamie Reynolds on the changes...

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2024/01/17

In this week’s episode, I’m joined by Jamie Reynolds, a man who’s held some impressive titles in his career but most notably was the Former CEO of PMP Recruitment, a part of the Cordant Group, COO of Halian, and most recently, CEO of The Recruitment Co.In this in-depth episode, he shares his journey from a 17-year-old trainee to his moves toward CEO.During his time at Cordant, he delivered multiple millions in profit through a company wide business transformation programme.Jamie is passionate about

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01:10:21

Season 7 | Ep22 - Laura Clark on her vision for...

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2024/01/10

In this week's episode, I was joined by Laura Clark, CEO of OA Group, who shares her journey of joining the family business and eventually taking over as CEO.She discusses the challenges and rewards of working with her mother and the lessons she learned from her entrepreneurial upbringing.Laura also talks about the growth and operations of OA Group, her early career in recruitment, and the negotiation process of buying out her mother's stake in the business.This episode highlights the importance of

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01:07:26

Season 7 | Ep21 - Josh Huggins on driving a trade...

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2024/01/03

On this week's show, I'm delighted to be joined by Josh Huggins, the founder of GS2, a global sustainability search recruitment firm headquartered in Basingstoke. The business is just over 18 months old, with eight employees.Josh shares his journey from being a professional footballer to starting his own recruitment business.After becoming the second-largest shareholder at Principal People he, alongside Simon Bliss, led the process of selling the business.He had to wait five years and faced many

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01:10:26

Season 7 | Ep20 - Owen Myers & Jenna Mackie on...

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2023/12/13

On this week's show I was joined by Owen Myers and Jenna Mackie, the founders of Mackie Myers.Mackie Myers is a specialist accounting and finance recruitment firm headquartered in London, two and a half years old with 14 employees.Since launching, the business has doubled revenue year on year and operated in a sustainable way!They've introduced a 4-day work week after 12 months, which has been hugely successful.And they are now looking at growing from 14 to 40 - 50 over the next few years.In this

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Season 7 | Ep17 - Vincere part 2 - what features are...

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2023/12/06

On this week's episode I was once again joined by Vincere, specifically their Head of Product, Kristy Gilham. This is a follow-up to the conversation we recorded back in September.In this episode, we focused exclusively on the product roadmap and the things that they're working on right now to improve for you, the customer. You’ll hear some interesting insights into how they decide on which products to put into action, and which ones to leave off the table.Despite the negative press

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01:16:11

Season 7 | Ep18 - Dan Moussa & Kevin Warner on...

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2023/11/29

Today I was joined by Dan Moussa and Kevin Warner, the founders of Telesca.Telesca is an 11 month old recruitment business headquartered in Brisbane with a completely unique model.These guys recruit in the energy and sustainability space and in a short space of time they’ve built a business with the following100% retained (30% upfront / 70% on success)Productised model with clear pricing and delivery structureUtlisation of Offshore experienced recruiters in Philippines.Soon to be 11 staff, every

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Season 7 | Ep17 - Chris Redmond on transitioning from...

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2023/11/22

On this week's episode, I'm excited as Chris Redmond, the founder and the CEO of RedHolt, is back on the show for the third time.In Q4 2019, he came into my office in East London; we recorded in person together and he claimed that he wanted to be a digital nomad.They’d just got rid of their office, cancelled the lease and were going completely remote.This was a pre-pandemic world and I'll be honest, I thought it was a bit mad.Six months later, the world went into lockdown.Fast-forward nine months

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Season 7 | Ep16 - Anthony Kelly on growing his own...

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2023/11/15

On this week's show, I was super excited to be joined by Anthony Kelly, the founder of DeepRec.ai which is a niche AI recruitment agency, part of the wider Trinnovo group.He joined the Trinnovo group three and a half years ago, as part of the Trust in Soda brand.After seeing early success, he left Ireland, moving to the UK and it was here that he realised he wanted to be an entrepreneur.At the start of 2023, Anthony decided that it was this year that he wanted to launch his agency and that he wanted

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01:19:54

Season 7 | Ep15 - Stuart Fry & Lloyd Cremer on why...

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2023/11/08

On this week’s show, I was super excited to be joined by Stuart Fry & Lloyd Cremer.Stuart is the CEO, and Lloyd is the CRO, of Halian, a recruitment and IT services business headquartered in the UK with multiple offices all over the UK, Europe, and the Middle East.Lloyd joined me from Riyadh in Saudi Arabia and Stuart was in Dubai.They recently completed an MBO where they bought the original founders out, and they're on a journey now for the next four years to create an incredible wealth

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Season 7 | Ep14 -Sean Anderson on how Q3 was probably...

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2023/11/01

On this week’s show, you’ve got me again. I know I’ve been sharing solo episodes the last few weeks and had a couple of weeks’ break, but I really wanted to take this time to share my recap of Q3So personally, and professionally, I feel like it's probably been the most powerfully transformational quarter of my life.In this show, I discuss:Q2 being an extremely difficult quarter for our businesses (and a lot of other businesses as well)How we turned around our company for the better in Q3Hoxo’s 3

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Season 7 | Ep13 - 4 steps any recruitment company can...

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2023/10/10

I’m still on paternity leave, so I'm going to give you another super valuable piece of content from my recent Personal Brand Taster series.In this week's episode, I want to feature the 4 steps that any recruitment company can adopt to become what I call an inbound recruiter.And that is a recruiter that:✔️ Lives off warm leads✔️ Is spotting 25 warm leads a week on LinkedIn and turning that into businessSo I'm going to give you four actionable steps that you can take today to do less outbound activity

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Season 7 | Ep12 - How Precision Sourcing made $2.5M...

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2023/10/04

Because I’m away on paternity leave over the next couple of weeks, I’m giving you some super valuable information that I’ve recently shared as part of our Hoxo Academy Taster Sessions.I’m featuring a case study that I recorded about a company called Precision Sourcing. Simon Hair, the MD at the company, was previously on The RAG Podcast and was part of my Personal Brand Bootcamp in 2020, where I taught him how to build his brand and find warm leads daily on LinkedIn.As a result of that course, he

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Season 7 | Ep 11 - The new leadership team at Vincere...

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2023/09/27

On this week's show, I’m speaking directly to our partner, Vincere.Vincere has sponsored the RAG Podcast for the last three years, and I have a lot of love for the brand and a great relationship with the business. I’m really grateful for the support they've given me and our industry.However, about a year ago, they were acquired by The Access Group which is the fastest-growing and largest software company in Europe. After they were acquired, the two founders, Bernie Schiemer and Eloise Sutton-Kirkby,

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Season 7 | Ep10 - Kyle Grainger on helping you hire...

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2023/09/20

On this week’s show, I'm joined by Kyle Grainger, our newest RAG sponsor and the founder of a six month old recruitment agency, Untapped.Untapped specialise in finding remote, highly experienced recruiters for recruitment agencies in UK, US, Middle East, and Australia, sourced from untapped, low cost locations such as the Philippines and South Africa.The benefit of this model is that you can hire people with a proven track record, who don’t need too much management and training at a fraction of the

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