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95% of Founders Don’t Know What They Want: Which of the 3 Recruitment Businesses Are You Building? with Hugo Sugden, Talent Journey Founder from Recruitment Mentors Podcast, opens in a new tab
Nov 2, 20261 hr 14 min
In this episode, I sit down with Hugo Sugden, who co-founded GQR and scaled it to 300 people, and now advises over 100 recruitment businesses as founder of Talent Journey. We break down the three types of recruitment businesses (cash cow, sustainable scaler and hyperscaler) and why 95% of founders start out not knowing which one they’re building. We cover the payout ratio that separates each type, why moving from 360 to 180 unlocks growth, and how cash runway and vanity metrics make or break founders trying to scale. Connect with Hugo here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hugosugden/ ------------------------- Watch the episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/0FVekpnKAT0 ------------------------- Podcast Sponsors: Claim your exclusive savings from our partners with the links below: Sourcewhale - Check Out Sourcewhale & Claim Your Exclusive Offer Here. Atlas - Check Out Atlas & Claim Your Exclusive Offer Here Raise - Check Out Raise & Claim Your Exclusive Offer Here. ------------------------- Want more content like this? The Wednesday Debrief is our free weekly newsletter for recruiters who take their craft seriously. Join 7,000+ subscribers here: https://newsletter.recruitmentmentors.com/ ------------------------- Get in touch with me: Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hishemazzouz/ -------------------------
Golden Nugget #130 | The Golden Circle: A Relationship-Led BD Framework for Recruiters with Elliot Fielding from Recruitment Mentors Podcast, opens in a new tab
Oct 29, 202612 min
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13 Months Without a Placement to £438K: Why Candidates, Not BD, Make the Money with Harry Crick from Recruitment Mentors Podcast, opens in a new tab
Oct 26, 202655 min
In this episode, I sit down with Harry Crick from DeepRec, who places AI researchers into Bay Area startups. He went 13 months without a placement despite signing 17 clients, then built his desk to £438K in billings over the last 12 months. We dig into why BD was never the real problem, the prep and debrief system behind his £108K turnaround quarter, and how he builds a 400-company market map using four different LLMs. Connect with Harry here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/harry-crick-3a2667151/ ------------------------- Watch the episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/ZbJLnCf96I8 ------------------------- Podcast Sponsors: Claim your exclusive savings from our partners with the links below: Sourcewhale - Check Out Sourcewhale & Claim Your Exclusive Offer Here. Atlas - Check Out Atlas & Claim Your Exclusive Offer Here Raise - Check Out Raise & Claim Your Exclusive Offer Here. ------------------------- Want more content like this? The Wednesday Debrief is our free weekly newsletter for recruiters who take their craft seriously. Join 7,000+ subscribers here: https://newsletter.recruitmentmentors.com/ ------------------------- Get in touch with me: Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hishemazzouz/ -------------------------
Golden Nugget #129 | How to Build a £30K Weekly Contract Book: KPIs, Relationships & Process with Liam Moir Holland from Recruitment Mentors Podcast, opens in a new tab
Oct 22, 202616 min
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From 8 to 34 People in 18 Months: Hubscale’s Road to £7M with Elliot White from Recruitment Mentors Podcast, opens in a new tab
Oct 19, 20261 hr 0 min
In this episode, I sit down with Elliott White, founder of Hubscale, for his second appearance on the pod. When we last spoke in February 2025, Hubscale had 8 people. Eighteen months on, it has 34 across Manchester, Austin and London, is on track for £7M this year, and is aiming for £50M by 2030. We get into why he hires the leader before the team, the fee-split model behind nearly half of Hubscale’s revenue, and why he’s earning less now than at any point in his recruitment career. Connect with Eliott here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/elliottwhitehubscale/ ------------------------- Watch the episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/YHF8rTf0HDM ------------------------- Podcast Sponsors: Claim your exclusive savings from our partners with the links below: Sourcewhale - Check Out Sourcewhale & Claim Your Exclusive Offer Here. Atlas - Check Out Atlas & Claim Your Exclusive Offer Here Raise - Check Out Raise & Claim Your Exclusive Offer Here. ------------------------- Want more content like this? The Wednesday Debrief is our free weekly newsletter for recruiters who take their craft seriously. Join 7,000+ subscribers here: https://newsletter.recruitmentmentors.com/ ------------------------- Get in touch with me: Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hishemazzouz/ -------------------------
Golden Nugget #128 | Recruitment KPIs That Work: From 50 Calls to 1 Placement with Terry Payne from Recruitment Mentors Podcast, opens in a new tab
Oct 15, 202614 min
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£1.5M in Year One, Self-Funded: Inside Blue Fox with Jonathan & Victoria from Recruitment Mentors Podcast, opens in a new tab
Oct 12, 20261 hr 3 min
In this episode, I sit down with Jon and Vic, co-founders of Blue Fox, a self-funded recruitment business in mission critical construction that did £1.5M in revenue in its first year. They had their first perm deal done within three weeks, and they ran Blue Fox like a proper business from day one, with a detailed business plan, SOPs for everything and quarterly OKRs. We get into why their first hire was a contractor care manager rather than a salesperson, how the 70/30 vertical rule brought their billings back after a dip, and why £1.5M in revenue is not £1.5M in the bank. Connect with Jon here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonathan-bochenski-🔵🦊-88454178/ Connect with Vic here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vbannon/ ------------------------- Watch the episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/PlrO2rGnTcw ------------------------- Podcast Sponsors: Claim your exclusive savings from our partners with the links below: Sourcewhale - Check Out Sourcewhale & Claim Your Exclusive Offer Here. Atlas - Check Out Atlas & Claim Your Exclusive Offer Here Raise - Check Out Raise & Claim Your Exclusive Offer Here. ------------------------- Want more content like this? The Wednesday Debrief is our free weekly newsletter for recruiters who take their craft seriously. Join 7,000+ subscribers here: https://newsletter.recruitmentmentors.com/ ------------------------- Get in touch with me: Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hishemazzouz/ -------------------------
Golden Nugget #127 | How to Get Through a Tough Quarter as a New Recruitment Founder with Genie Burgess from Recruitment Mentors Podcast, opens in a new tab
Oct 7, 202613 min
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9 Recruitment Agency Scaling Mistakes & the Rebuild to £279K Per Head with Tom Kelly from Recruitment Mentors Podcast, opens in a new tab
Oct 5, 20261 hr 5 min
In this episode, I sit down with Tom Kelly, co-founder and CEO of Evona, the specialist space industry recruitment firm. Tom shares the nine mistakes that came from scaling on headcount to a peak of 68 people, and how the business rebuilt around output to reach £279K NFI per head. We dive into the 180 LinkedIn seats Evona never needed, Tom moving to the US unpaid and being handed the CEO role a month later, and the P25 output measure that now runs the business. Connect with Tom on LinkedIn here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/evonatom/ ------------------------- Watch the episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/amFIj1wlEPs ------------------------- Podcast Sponsors: Claim your exclusive savings from our partners with the links below: Sourcewhale - Check Out Sourcewhale & Claim Your Exclusive Offer Here. Atlas - Check Out Atlas & Claim Your Exclusive Offer Here Raise - Check Out Raise & Claim Your Exclusive Offer Here. ------------------------- Want more content like this? The Wednesday Debrief is our free weekly newsletter for recruiters who take their craft seriously. Join 7,000+ subscribers here: https://newsletter.recruitmentmentors.com/ ------------------------- Get in touch with me: Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hishemazzouz/ -------------------------
Walked Away From a £350K Deposit to Win This Plot: Tom Glanfield on Life After the Exit | Walk & Talk #3 from Recruitment Mentors Podcast, opens in a new tab
Oct 1, 202626 min
Walk & Talk episode with Tom Glanfield, founder of LHI Group. We walk around his Sandbanks plot and chat about the £13.5M bidding war to win it, why he never paid himself more than £150K while building LHI, and life after the exit. Connect with Tom here: ------------------------- Watch the episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/MHtnRPtxuEI ------------------------- Podcast Sponsors: Claim your exclusive savings from our partners with the links below: Sourcewhale - Check Out Sourcewhale & Claim Your Exclusive Offer Here. Atlas - Check Out Atlas & Claim Your Exclusive Offer Here Raise - Check Out Raise & Claim Your Exclusive Offer Here. ------------------------- Want more content like this? The Wednesday Debrief is our free weekly newsletter for recruiters who take their craft seriously. Join 7,000+ subscribers here: https://newsletter.recruitmentmentors.com/ ------------------------- Get in touch with me: Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hishemazzouz/ -------------------------
Building a US Desk From Zero to $2M: Lessons From the Trenches with Fred Forrest from Recruitment Mentors Podcast, opens in a new tab
Sep 28, 20261 hr 1 min
In this episode, I sit down with Fred Forrest , co-founder of Sourcechange. He left a comfortable seat at Pangea, got investment from day one, and built a US energy recruitment business from a box room in Aldgate East to past $2M in year three, with no clients and no track record in the market when he started. We get into the tactical mistakes that made year one even harder, how Fred turned a tiny opening into Sourcechange's biggest client, and why he believes AI is only half the bet without a ferocious sales culture behind it. Connect with Fred here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/frederick-forrest-05916812b/ ------------------------- Watch the episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/1UA0w7kYy7M ------------------------- Podcast Sponsors: Claim your exclusive savings from our partners with the links below: Sourcewhale - Check Out Sourcewhale & Claim Your Exclusive Offer Here. Atlas - Check Out Atlas & Claim Your Exclusive Offer Here Raise - Check Out Raise & Claim Your Exclusive Offer Here. ------------------------- Want more content like this? The Wednesday Debrief is our free weekly newsletter for recruiters who take their craft seriously. Join 7,000+ subscribers here: https://newsletter.recruitmentmentors.com/ ------------------------- Get in touch with me: Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hishemazzouz/ -------------------------
From an Attic to £80M: Tom Glanfield Gave Away Half His Business and Made Several Staff Millionaires from Recruitment Mentors Podcast, opens in a new tab
Sep 21, 202658 min
In this episode, I sit down with Tom Glanfield, the founder who built LHi Group from a graduate loan into an £80M recruitment group, to unpack the equity scheme that made several of his staff millionaires and the Employee Ownership Trust exit that followed. You can connect with Tom here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tomglanfield/ ------------------------- Watch the episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/IJ1SiJDH2KY ------------------------- Podcast Sponsors: Claim your exclusive savings from our partners with the links below: Sourcewhale - Check Out Sourcewhale & Claim Your Exclusive Offer Here. Atlas - Check Out Atlas & Claim Your Exclusive Offer Here Raise - Check Out Raise & Claim Your Exclusive Offer Here. ------------------------- Want more content like this? The Wednesday Debrief is our free weekly newsletter for recruiters who take their craft seriously. Join 7,000+ subscribers here: https://newsletter.recruitmentmentors.com/ ------------------------- Get in touch with me: Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hishemazzouz/ -------------------------
A Surprise Trip to Greece's Best Hotel, a £31K Month & Kayleigh's Rules for Work-Life Integration | Walk & Talk #2 from Recruitment Mentors Podcast, opens in a new tab
Sep 17, 202629 min
Walk & Talk episode with Kayleigh Prowen from Circle Partners. We chat about young people getting into the industry, buying two houses by 24 & surprise holidays to Greece. Connect with Kayleigh here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kayleigh-prowen-a1a540174/ ------------------------- Watch the episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/vVL_T-ULHXk ------------------------- Podcast Sponsors: Claim your exclusive savings from our partners with the links below: Sourcewhale - Check Out Sourcewhale & Claim Your Exclusive Offer Here. Atlas - Check Out Atlas & Claim Your Exclusive Offer Here Raise - Check Out Raise & Claim Your Exclusive Offer Here. ------------------------- Want more content like this? The Wednesday Debrief is our free weekly newsletter for recruiters who take their craft seriously. Join 7,000+ subscribers here: https://newsletter.recruitmentmentors.com/ ------------------------- Get in touch with me: Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hishemazzouz/ -------------------------
150 Companies, 190 Placements: The Only Outsourcing Episode You'll Ever Need with Kyle Grainger from Recruitment Mentors Podcast, opens in a new tab
Sep 14, 20261 hr 11 min
In this episode, I sit down with Kyle Grainger, founder of Untapped, who has placed close to 190 people into more than 150 recruitment companies across South Africa and the Philippines over the last three and a half years. We break down the real numbers behind delivery consultant pay and cost, the employment-of-record risks that can leave you legally liable for someone else's employee, and the hidden margin scam where agencies quietly charge clients double what they pay the person doing the work. You can connect with Kyle here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kyle-grainger/ ------------------------- Watch the episode on YouTube: ------------------------- Podcast Sponsors: Claim your exclusive savings from our partners with the links below: Sourcewhale - Check Out Sourcewhale & Claim Your Exclusive Offer Here. Atlas - Check Out Atlas & Claim Your Exclusive Offer Here Raise - Check Out Raise & Claim Your Exclusive Offer Here. ------------------------- Want more content like this? The Wednesday Debrief is our free weekly newsletter for recruiters who take their craft seriously. Join 7,000+ subscribers here: https://newsletter.recruitmentmentors.com/ ------------------------- Get in touch with me: Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hishemazzouz/ -------------------------
Golden Nugget #126 | How to Scale a Recruitment Contract Book: Client Engagement Strategy & SOW Explained with Jack Procter from Recruitment Mentors Podcast, opens in a new tab
Sep 10, 202617 min
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Brand New Division, £1.5M Written: How Kayleigh Prowen Turned One-Deal Clients Into Repeat Business from Recruitment Mentors Podcast, opens in a new tab
Sep 7, 202659 min
In this episode, I sit down with Kayleigh Prowen, Group Commercial Director at Circle, to unpack how she built a brand-new commercial division from scratch and hit a £1.5M new-business target that the rest of the company had barely matched the year before, without a team behind her to start. We dive into the exact strategies she used to reactivate the 200+ clients who'd only ever done one deal with Circle, the scripts and systems she used to business-partner with the wider 360 consultant team, and the mindset shift that took her from a top-billing recruiter to building a division of her own. Connect with Kayleigh here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kayleigh-prowen-a1a540174/ ------------------------- Watch the episode on YouTube: ------------------------- Podcast Sponsors: Claim your exclusive savings from our partners with the links below: Sourcewhale - Check Out Sourcewhale & Claim Your Exclusive Offer Here. Atlas - Check Out Atlas & Claim Your Exclusive Offer Here Raise - Check Out Raise & Claim Your Exclusive Offer Here. ------------------------- Want more content like this? The Wednesday Debrief is our free weekly newsletter for recruiters who take their craft seriously. Join 7,000+ subscribers here: https://newsletter.recruitmentmentors.com/ ------------------------- Get in touch with me: Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hishemazzouz/ -------------------------
Golden Nugget #125 | The Philosophy That Built an 8.6X Exit (And Why They Never Once Argued) with Marc Cohen & Graeme Hubert from Recruitment Mentors Podcast, opens in a new tab
Sep 4, 202615 min
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From 20 Heads to 14 to a £6M Year: The Verto People Rebuild with Robbie Sturgess & Martin Doig from Recruitment Mentors Podcast, opens in a new tab
Aug 31, 20261 hr 12 min
In this episode, I sit down with Robbie Sturgess and Martin Doig, co-founders of Verto People, to unpack how they shrank the business from 20 heads back to 14 to fix a culture and standards problem, then rebuilt it into a business on track for a £6M year. We dive into the BD playbook that rebuilt their sales culture, the DISC-based hiring filter that's pushed probation pass rates to 90%, and the EMI equity scheme built with Tom Glanfield that could put an £18.9M pot in the team's hands. Connect with Robbie here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/robbiesturgess/ Connect with Martin here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/martin-doig/ ------------------------- Watch the episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/FA0qdHFJicE ------------------------- Podcast Sponsors: Claim your exclusive savings from our partners with the links below: Sourcewhale - Check Out Sourcewhale & Claim Your Exclusive Offer Here. Atlas - Check Out Atlas & Claim Your Exclusive Offer Here Raise - Check Out Raise & Claim Your Exclusive Offer Here. ------------------------- Want more content like this? The Wednesday Debrief is our free weekly newsletter for recruiters who take their craft seriously. Join 7,000+ subscribers here: https://newsletter.recruitmentmentors.com/ ------------------------- Get in touch with me: Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hishemazzouz/
Golden Nugget #124 | Building A Contract Book Through Community: Roundtables, WhatsApp Groups & Daily BD Structure with Nick Chambers from Recruitment Mentors Podcast, opens in a new tab
Aug 27, 202614 min
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The Financial Education That Turns Recruiters Into Asset Millionaires with Kevin Fasting from Recruitment Mentors Podcast, opens in a new tab
Aug 24, 20261 hr 6 min
In this episode, I sit down with Kevin Fasting, founder of Kevin Edward and Kerv Capital, who's built a group of 13+ recruitment JVs alongside a law firm, an FCA-regulated financial services brokerage, and a 70+ unit property portfolio, all while turning the founders he's backed into asset millionaires. We get into the financial education most people in recruitment never get, why earning good money is the easy part, and what Kevin did differently to make it compound. Connect with Kevin here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kevinfasting/ ------------------------- Watch the episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/NoWw0inwE1Q ------------------------- Podcast Sponsors: Claim your exclusive savings from our partners with the links below: Sourcewhale - Check Out Sourcewhale & Claim Your Exclusive Offer Here. Atlas - Check Out Atlas & Claim Your Exclusive Offer Here Raise - Check Out Raise & Claim Your Exclusive Offer Here. ------------------------- Want more content like this? The Wednesday Debrief is our free weekly newsletter for recruiters who take their craft seriously. Join 7,000+ subscribers here: https://newsletter.recruitmentmentors.com/ ------------------------- Get in touch with me: Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hishemazzouz/ -------------------------

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