In today’s episode, I was joined on LinkedIn live by my Co-host Pete Watson and Paul Hallam, Partner and the Founder and Executive Director of Six Degrees Executive- a leading Australian executive recruitment business with 90 staff across offices in Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane.

Paul shared how after 16 years as CEO of his agency, in Feb 2019 he decided to step down from this role and handed over the helm to Suzie McInerney, previously state director in the business.

He had grand plans of changing his lifestyle, investing time ON the business and other ventures he was already invested in and passionate about.

However as the 12 month hand over period came to an end, the Pandemic hit!

In this episode, we talked about:

• How Six Degree’s handled the first wave of the virus
• The ways in which the business stayed ‘connected’ and maintained it’s thriving culture
• How Paul personally felt during the extended lockdown
• His vision for the future and advice to UK recruitment business owners in Lockdown #2

A fascinatingly successful leader whom I have had the pleasure of working with personally as part of the Hoxo Academy, it was a true pleasure for Pete and I to interview him.

If you would like to reach out to Paul and ask any questions directly, he is more than happy to give up some time!

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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/

In today’s episode, I was joined on LinkedIn live by Chris Eldridge, CEO of Interquest - a leading, fully integrated technology staffing group headquartered in London.

Chris shared how although having great experience as a result of starting in the industry in 1995, he, like everyone else, had no ‘rule book’ for managing the business through the coronavirus.

Interquest had a strong Q1 and were super excited about 2020. Chris admitted that at the this point, he frankly didn’t believe that COVID-19 would have a great impact on us.

In this episode, we talked about

• How Interquest handled the first wave of the virus
• How Chris himself found support to make crucial decisions
• The reality of how the business have survived and thrived by placing 868 candidates remotely using video
• Internal processes to support the mental wellbeing of all staff
• Why Chris joined the Hoxo Academy and believes personal branding is important
• His vision for how recruiters will evolve in the new digital world

I love how clear Chris can convey a message, I feel this is one of the reasons why he has been so successful to date.

If you would like to reach out to Chris and ask any questions directly, he is more than happy to give up some time!

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In today’s episode, alongside co-host Pete Watson, I was joined on LinkedIn live by Angela Horkings, Co-Founder & Director of Tandem Partners - a boutique HR Recruitment Agency in Australia.

Angela is a recent member of the Hoxo Academy and someone I worked with weekly during the extended lockdown in Melbourne.

In today’s episode she discussed how 2020 started off with the news of the leader of their Sydney office suffering injury in a tragic accident. The rest of the year continued to provide incredible challenges.

The one stand out comment that Angela made referred to the ‘pace of life’ pre and post COVID. She has learnt that we simply do not need to rush around day in and day out in order to be successful. We can in fact find more time for ourselves and families whilst maintaining our performance.

An open discussion that left me feeling good about the future, if you would like to reach out to Angela and ask any questions directly, she is more than happy to help.

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In today’s episode, I was joined on LinkedIn live by Kyle Winterbottom, Founder of Orbition - a startup niche Data, AI and Analytics recruitment business in Manchester UK.

Kyle started his business in Sept 2020 - the heart of this years pandemic. Having been in recruitment for 10 years and effectively starting 5 x teams / business units previously, he felt that it was about time he did this for the final time and for himself!

I have been SO impressed with Kyle on LinkedIn in 2020. I thought his business was much bigger than it is.

In this episode Kyle talks about how he sees ‘building a brand’ and ‘making placements’ as the same thing. In his last role he managed to make 98% of placements via a marketing focussed campaign, he now brings the same approach to his new business.

An amazing example of the modern recruitment business, Kyle is one to watch! If you would like to know more about how he executes on a daily basis then feel free to reach out to him directly on LinkedIn!

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In today’s episode, alongside co-host Pete Watson, I was joined on LinkedIn live by Anton Roe, Director at Marshall McAdam - a boutique Recruitment Agency in Melbourne and Sydney, Australia.

Anton is a seasoned recruiter who left the UK for a life overseas 5 years ago. He moved to Australia in 2016 and joined the business 2 years ago to lead and scale the business with support of the founders.

In today’s episode, Anton shared his experience of moving to Australia and leading the business through the Pandemic.

Most notably he talked about the fact that when COVID hit, he had recently relocated his son full time from the UK to Australia and was still technically living on a working visa before he could move over to a spousal visa via his Australian wife in August 2020. Ultimately this meant that had he been let go by the business as a result of the pandemic he would have had to leave the country along with his son.

The stakes were high

I love how relaxed and calm Anton is as a person, this has been developed further during his long leadership career.

The business has survived well so far with Anton being creative about new products and services. A wonderful conversation with a truly genuine person, if you would like to reach out to Anton and ask any questions directly, he is more than happy to help.

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In today’s episode, I was joined on LinkedIn live by Scott Parsons, Managing Partner of Forsyth Barnes - a specialist in senior appointments within emerging technology with offices in London, Nottingham and NYC.

5 years old, at the start of 2020 Scott had just opened his NYC office and signed a 10 yr lease on a ‘shell’ that was 5 x the size of their original space in Nottingham.

It is safe to say that they were super excited about 2020!

Then when covid hit, the company that they had selected to renovate the office went bust. They also had £160,000 worth of contractor payments withheld by a major client and other RPO projects cut at once.

However Scott and his business partner didn’t panic!

In this episode Scott talks about his approach to building a high growth agency and dealing with major setbacks along the way!

A super smart and engaging guy, it is obvious why Scott is building such an amazing business!

If you would like to reach out and ask any questions directly, then feel free to contact Scott here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/scottparsons7/

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