Welcome back to the pod! In this candid episode, we dive into the rollercoaster of life and business. From the physical and mental hurdles of training for an Ironman, including a painful run-in with some deer through to the ongoing challenges of scaling a bootstrapped recruitment tech startup.We get real about the difficulty of acknowledging small victories amidst the constant pressure to move on to the next big thing. We also share personal anecdotes, from navigating family dynamics to the unexpected adventures of dog sitting.On the business front, we discuss our recent product launches, the focus on enhancing customer success, and the exciting (and slightly daunting) pivot towards integrating AI into our platform.Enjoy

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This week on the pod, we are joined by Jamie Burrows, and his journey into recruitment is one hell of a story!

Before he was in the game of coaching recruiters to get more out of the industry, Jamie was the golden boy of Ted Baker—until a wild turn of events (and a bolted-down chair in a security office) saw him escorted out the door and straight into a 2008 recession-era recruitment desk.

We dive into what it actually takes to survive those grueling first 18 months on the phone, the reality of scaling an agency from a garden shed to 37 staff, and why splitting from business partners is rarely a clean break.

What we cover:

• Growing up in a Crystal Palace pub and navigating the Millwall family stand.

• The Ted Baker "cult" culture and getting sacked for doing the right thing.

• Starting in recruitment just as the 2008 credit crunch hit (and hating BD).

• Bootstrapping an education agency to 37 staff and the messy reality of exiting.

• Surviving COVID by carrying his dad’s gas-fitting toolbox.

• Why one-day recruitment training is basically a "speed awareness course" for underperformers.

  
  

  Enjoy x

Welcome back to the pod!

We kick this week off with Luke's run in with a toaster followed by a surprise birthday party he completely fails to spot.. There was banners up, cake in a box labelled "Luke's surprise birthday," and he still doesn't clock it. Plus there's been a trip to the courtroom for jury service. Then the gear shift.Andy seems to be excited about where the market's at right now. Calls have gone from flat and negative to genuinely positive, and the quarterly planning session hit different without the usual half-day spent catching everyone up.And then the big one: custom fields are live.

Fully customisable across companies, contacts, candidates, jobs unlimited fields, searchable, drag-and-drop import from any messy spreadsheet a client throws at you.Andy backs it up with a story that does all the selling for him: a small agency splits a placement 50/50 through the Team Network, feels great about it until they realise the candidate was already sitting in their own database the whole time. No searchable system, no idea. Free money left on the table because their data was a mess.Then we close it off with a Lee's Lunchbox Question that really got us thinking.. Enjoy x