Recruiting Alchemy with Andy Simpson
Moving recruiters from the contingent carousel to repeatable, scalable, productised offerings.
Recruiting Alchemy with Andy Simpson
Latest Episodes
Recruiting Alchemy Ep. 27 Surviving every downturn in recruitment with David Bloxham
David Bloxham has spent 30 years in recruitment, almost all of it at GCS, the business he joined in 1996 and now leads as CEO. Andy Simpson asks how he got there, and what it cost along the way.David talks through coming back to GCS just...
Recruiting Alchemy Ep. 26: The Broken Economics of Contingent Staffing with Rory Gaston
Andy Simpson is joined by Rory Gaston, Group CEO and co-founder of Saragossa, the buy-side staffing and technology solutions business he built with Jimmy Lloyd after spinning out of Red Rock in 2015. Rory explains why success-fee contingent sta...
Recruiting Alchemy Ep. 25 Why Recruiters Are Naive About AI with Brad Lewington
Andy Simpson is joined by Bradley Lewington, CEO and founder of Generative and former CEO of Spencer Ogden, the energy and infrastructure recruiter he scaled to over 500 people before a private equity backed MBO closed on 20 February 2020, thre...
Recruiting Alchemy Ep. 24: AI, Recruitment & The Future of Hiring with Craig Whiting
Is AI really going to replace recruiters, or will it simply expose the ones who were never adding value in the first place?In this episode of Recruiting Alchemy, Andy Simpson sits down with Craig Whiting, Founder of RecOS , to unpack on...
Recruiting Alchemy Ep.23: The 'No Mascots, No Pets' Culture Rule with Russell Clements
Is AI really going to change recruitment forever, or is it just the latest technological scare the industry will outlast? And would you fire your two best billers if they were poisoning your culture, even knowing exactly what it would cost you?...