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40 Recruitment Podcasts You Need To Listen To
Created by Robert Garner on Fri Jan 05 2024 and edited on Wed Aug 07 2024
It’s easy to get wrapped up in the day to day running of your recruitment firm or your job as a consultant or team leader. The hours of your day just flying by, managing consultants, leading pitches for large clients wins, hiring new members of staff, sending out CVs, dealing with accountants and the million other things a recruiter needs to do on a daily basis so don’t forget about self development too.
In today's fast-paced recruitment landscape, staying ahead of the curve is crucial for anyone involved in the industry. Whether you're looking for innovative recruitment techniques, insights into the latest HR technologies, or inspiration from global thought leaders, there's something here for everyone. Tune in during your commute, while working out, or even as you wind down after a long day, and transform the way you think about and approach recruitment.
Each podcast in our carefully curated list has been selected for its unique perspective, actionable insights, and relevance to current industry trends. We’ve made a decision to focus on more UK based podcasts as these seemed more relevant to the market here (in the UK). Having said this, a few big American podcasts have snuck into our list as there’s a wealth of knowledge from recruiters in the US that we can still apply to our market. We also see a lot of agencies looking to expand into the US now so it just made sense.
There is an absolute tonne of recruitment podcasts so apologies if we missed you off the list! We tried to include everyone we knew of and kept to podcasts that are still going or stopped relatively recently. And if we missed you get in touch and we'll add you.
We’ve added a couple of main links to each of the podcasts but if you’re looking to listen to them on another platform then do a bit of Googling - you work in recruitment so it should be a pretty strong skill of yours’!
Get ready for the most comprehensive, alphabetical list of recruitment related podcasts available on the internet!
Carrot & Stick
Hosted by Derry Holt from OneUp Sales, which is a sales performance and gamification platform - the platform is well worth checking out. If you’ve been lucky enough to meet the guys from OneUp Sales you know they have a huge and infectious energy. This podcast diverts from recruitment into more sales in general, delving into all things sales, management and motivation related. Derry spends his time speaking to a range of professionals from sales leaders, down to individual salespeople to really get an understanding of what makes the wonderful world of sales tick.
Chad and Cheese Podcast
They've certainly earned the title as “HR’s most dangerous podcast”! Started by Chad Sowash and Joel Cheesman, who both have extensive experience in the job board and recruitment industries. Their content is always served with a side of sarcasm thrown in, cutting through HR & recruitment jargon and buzzwords. Seasoned with brash opinions and comedic quips you’re in line for a great bit of informative entertainment!
Disrupting Recruitment
Hosted by Bradley DiPaolo of CandidateHub, Disrupting Recruitment aims to educate recruiters, recruitment marketers, employer branding specialists and many more on all the new emerging trends in recruitment. The show focuses on content development, strategies, dark funnels and advice from leading experts around the world.
Employer Content Marketing Pod
Hitting the 100 episodes mark recently, which is no small feat for a podcast these days, the show covers everything within employer branding, such as photography, videography, the psychology behind branding & advertising, copywriting, the future of work, employee & candidate experience and so much more. Hosted by Chris Le’cand-Harwood who has previously worked for some of the UK’s biggest media owners and advertising agencies so you can trust that he knows his stuff!
Employer Bland
Hosted by Chris Murdoch who has a background in recruitment and co-founded Voyse, a platform that helps to bring your job ads to life. The podcast discusses all things employer branding related, tackling issues such as diversity and inclusion, changes in the world of work, and what it takes to create a thriving company culture.
Firefish
The show is hosted by Wendy McDougall, CEO of Firefish Software - a recruitment CRM. The show aims to empower recruiters to exceed their potential, covering areas such as the economy, recruitment markets, using technology, automation & AI to add value to your business, how to hire and manage staff and so much more.
High Volume Hiring Podcast
Another entry from the Americans but we thought we’d mix it up a little as this focuses more on the high volume hiring sector, which doesn’t get a lot of press. This podcast features news, tips, case studies, and interviews with the world's leading experts about the good, the bad, and the ugly when it comes to high-volume hiring.
Humble Billings
A relatively new podcast with only a few episodes under its belt so far but we’ve got some high hopes for this one as they’ve had some big guests on so far such as Hishem Azzouz and Lysha Holmes. Humble Billings was created by Callum McPhilbin out of pure passion to honestly give an in-depth insight into all things recruitment with a focus on helping out recruiters at the beginning of their careers.
Kate O'Neill Recruitment Coaching
Kate's been working in recruitment for her entire career and you can see she's extremely passionate about using the experiences and challenges she's faced to help recruiters achieve success in their recruitment career. She shares a huge amount of quality content through her YouTube channel and keep an eye out for her fortnightly show 'Recruitment Uncensored' with a whole host of amazing guests.
Leap Listens
LEAP Create is a creative & marketing agency for the people & recruitment sector.
The podcast is hosted by Sara MacGregor and Roger Cayless and tackles industry topics with expert guests who provide opinion, stories and advice. Each episode revolves around a current industry topic such as leveraging data to maximise recruitment marketing, telling stories through video, formulating an employer brand strategy and so much more. The episodes are bite-sized so it's never a big commitment.
Mike Ames Recruitment Show
Over 35 years in recruitment Mike has grown and sold 2 multi-million pound recruitment firms (sale prices of £24m and £15m respectively). His show’s aimed at owners of small & medium sized recruitment firms who’re frustrated at the income, freedom and wealth their business gives them. It’s a mix of strategy and practical use-out-of-the-box tips. The show is streamed every other Thursday at 12:15pm GMT on LinkedIn, YouTube, and Twitter. It’s also on all the usual Podcast platforms.
Pint With Paiger
If you haven’t come across Paiger yet then go check them out, it’s a brilliant tool for social posting, lead generation and business development. The podcast is hosted by Darren Westall (CEO) and covers everything around sales, marketing and recruitment. All whilst drinking a beer - feel free to join in! They’ve had some brilliant guests on the show so far and I’m sure that’ll continue with the next series.
REC Podcast
Something a little more formal now. The REC Podcast is hosted by Neil Carberry, the Chief Executive of the Recruitment and Employment Confederation. The show covers all areas of recruitment including neurodiversity, talent sourcing, formulating an EDI strategy, recruitment technology and so much more.
Recruiter Startup Podcast
Probably one of the longest running podcasts out there as far as I’m aware, Dualta Doherty interviews agency recruitment leaders & industry suppliers from all over the world. Dualta’s been working in the recruitment industry since 2011 and runs RecWired with his wife, Charlotte. The show often explores how you can set up, scale and operate a world class recruitment company featuring some of the biggest names you know and should know in the recruitment sector.
Recruiter Zone
Louise Triance, the woman behind The Recruitment Agency Expo, Job Boards Connect and many other major recruitment events releases a new episode on a weekly basis. You’d be hard pressed to find someone in the industry with more contacts than she has. Here she interviews the biggest names in the recruitment industry talking about all things to do with automation, technology, AI, business growth strategies, email marketing, culture and so much more.
RecTalk
Running for a little under a year now the show is hosted by Nitin Sharma of rectools. It’s always guaranteed to be an entertaining show and not necessarily politically correct, covering everything from recruitment websites, recruitment & sales training, copywriting, AI & automation, retained search and so much more. The show has already attracted some of the biggest names in the recruitment supplier sector (including myself).
Rectec Reels
Rectec Reels was launched by the team behind rectec and is hosted by Henna Makwana and Rob Green. It's a relatively new podcast launching in the last few months but they have already attracted high profile guests such as Lee McQueen and leaders from the recruitment supplier sector.
Recruiting Better
Hosted by Ben Browning, a recruitment & sales trainer. The show is aimed at ambitious recruiters, giving you the tools to get recognized as a trusted advisor and true partner to both candidates and clients. Ben goes head-on by answering questions from real recruitment consultants and business leaders, giving you real and practical advice you can use - trust me, I pitched him once and he ended up giving me pitch advice. Guests include leaders in sales training, marketing and recruitment directors who have quickly and successfully scaled their businesses.
Recruiting Brainfood
Not far off of the 250 mark now, Hung Lee has been the epitome of consistency when it comes to his podcast and newsletter. Now regularly speaking at the largest recruitment events all over the world you’re guaranteed a diverse selection of international stars from the recruitment industry. I’ve had the pleasure of meeting Hung a few times and hearing him speak and he’s really ahead of the game when it comes to insights and forecasting in the recruitment sector.
Recruiting Future with Matt Alder
Matt started his career in the recruitment advertising sector many years ago and is now a content marketing strategist and author, alongside hosting his podcast. It’s probably the most prolific podcast on this list, currently sitting at 582 episodes at time of writing. It’s an easy to navigate website breaking podcast episodes down into easily searchable categories such as DEI, culture, employer branding, recruitment strategy and so on.
Recruiting Gym Daily Workout
Angela Cripps and the Recruiting Gym’s team of coaches facilitate a daily workout to offer free recruitment training and help the world’s recruiters get motivated for the day. They hold live webinars on Monday to Friday at 9 am (London) – sometimes pre-recorded sessions for Tuesday - Thursday to watch at your own convenience.
Recruitment Mentors Podcast
A show we’ve probably all heard of, hosted by the charismatic and down to earth Hishem Azzouz. Hishem joined the recruitment industry in 2016, moving eventually into recruitment personal branding, then launching his podcast and most recently a recruitment training platform. New shows are launched every Monday and Thursday, where he’s normally joined by either a successful big biller or a recruitment entrepreneur from around the world. Hishem really makes it his mission to deconstruct how they’ve accelerated their recruitment career and remained at the top of their game by uncovering their daily habits, mindset, approach to leadership by asking probing questions and really delving into their answers.
Recruitment Reality
Hosted by Andrew Wood, co-founder of Willo - candidate screening software, the podcast explores the changing recruitment environment from every angle. Surfacing a unique insight into the challenges faced at each stage of the talent equation. Through the episodes they interview candidates, recruiters and technologists to understand their recruitment reality. It’s been a while since they posted some new content but they still have a back catalogue of some great content there.
Skills Point Podcast
Hosted and run by Hadyn Morgans who runs a creative agency specialising in SEO, podcasting, digital marketing and graphic design. The Podcast digs deep into the successes, failures, tactics, and insights from leading experts in and outside of the industry. The show focuses on speaking with recruitment marketing experts helping you to fortify your agency in this area.
Staffing Tec
Another American podcast which features a selection of guests from around the world. Maurice Fuller is a management consultant and staffing technology expert. His goal is to help staffing and recruiting firms grow faster and scale operations more efficiently by leveraging modern staffing technology. The episodes normally sit around 15-25 minutes so are easily listened to even when you don’t have a lot of time.
Talent & Growth
The podcast from The Amino Group, a talent acquisition partner. Their podcast is dedicated to all things talent acquisition and retention, sitting down with innovative thought leaders from the recruitment technology, branding, culture and internal talent sectors to give you the best insights from across the industry.
Talent Sandbox
The Talent Sandbox is a learning platform created by and for talent acquisition professionals. The podcast focuses on speaking with senior talent acquisition professionals about their journey, advice, developing TA strategies, career transitions and everything in between.
Talent Savvy
Talent Savvy is a podcast aimed at helping talent acquisition practitioners become better at their job. Each episode shares knowledge, case studies and opinions by seasoned TA professionals from Europe, the USA and all over the world. This has more of a continental leaning but all the episodes are in English and highly relevant to the UK market.
The Counter Offer
Susanna Gray-Jones is a Cambridge-educated, recruitment to recruitment specialist, currently based out in Dubai, focusing on senior-level recruitment roles. She runs her own agency Chime Search and previously worked in educational recruitment. She’s on a mission to improve the likelihood of success in the career of a recruiter to ensure that they have all the tools to be A-grade, first-class recruiters.
The Guestlist Podcast with Steve Guest
Hosted by Steve Guest, who’s a specialist in recruiting construction talent, a keynote speaker and also author of Top Biller - The Life of a Recruiter & A Personal Brand Story. The podcast covers a range of diverse areas and doesn’t confine itself to just recruitment, also covering FX trading, property investment, psychology, sales & negotiation techniques and a lot more.
The Laptop Recruiter Podcast
Hosted by Andy Whitehead, founder of Recruitment Marketing International. Episodes tend to be bite sized, coming in at anything from 5 - 30 minutes covering everything around growing your recruitment business.
The Marketing Rules Podcast
Launched and hosted by James Whitelock from ThinkinCircles. James takes a deep dive into all things recruitment marketing, from strategy, technology and delivery - talking to leaders and influencers from the recruitment marketing space globally. He consistently presents a diverse and interesting list of international speakers. I’ve had the pleasure of hearing James speak at a few events previously and he really knows his stuff - someone that really knows what he’s talking about and can back it up with data.
The RAG Podcast
Hosted by Sean Anderson of Hoxo Media, a personal branding agency focusing on the recruitment sector. Sean focuses on 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. It’s regularly updated with new content and
The Recruiter Startup Subject
The podcast launched by Isotope Capital, who invest into start up recruitment agencies. They haven’t released an episode in a while now so I think this one may have ended but there’s still some great content there featuring some big names such as Simon Monaghan and Lysha Holmes alongside some of Isotope’s clients.
The Recruitment Flex
Serge and Shelley share their expertise and opinions from a collective 40+ years in the recruitment profession. The podcast is all things recruitment - from the latest trends, industry news, technology, helpful tips and interviews with some of the biggest globally recognized names in the recruitment industry
The Recruitment Hackers Podcast
Join Max Armbruster, founder of Talkpush as he talks with recruitment technology leaders from around the world. This podcast is essential listening for talent acquisition professionals who want to win the war for talent through digitization, automation and tons of empathy for candidates.
The Recruitment Leadership Podcast
Launched and hosted by Alison Humphries, the owner of Recruitment Leadership, a strategic consultancy and NED advisory to recruitment businesses of all sizes. The show focuses on leadership coaching, recruitment technology, financial advice, plus several more areas.
The Recruitment Marketing & Sales Podcast
The official podcast of Superfast Recruitment, who provide marketing consultancy, services and education that help accelerate your agency’s growth. They release new episodes 2-4 times a month and cover a range of topics within the recruitment industry.
The Recruitment Network
TRN provides recruitment leaders with the tools, advice, guidance, training and support to maximise the performance, productivity and profitability of their recruitment businesses. The show has two main formats, one hosted by James Osborne where he interviews a leader from the recruitment or recruitment supplier sector on their specialist field and the second format where two recruitment leaders typically pose each other questions on the state of the market, using technology in their business, managing teams and so on.
The Recruitment Podcast with Rhys Jones
Rhys Jones is the founder and Managing Director of Davidson Gray, a recruitment start up and support specialist, helping recruiters to start the journey to owning their own successful recruitment agency. Join Rhys as he shares advice, tips and insights on the recruitment industry and how to set up your own recruitment business.
The Recruitment Show
Hosted by Lewis Maleh, founder & CEO of Bentley Lewis - a boutique search firm. The Recruitment Show podcast provides an inside view of what most companies look for, how they assess and hire new employees, as well as exploring the impact of culture and leadership within the workplace. Each podcast offers professional knowledge, insights and advice on the biggest subjects in today's working industry, finding the work-life balance that's right for you.
The Recruiter’s Recruitment Podcast
The podcast was first launched by Lysha Holmes back in September 2020, and has now broken the 200 episodes mark so you’ve got a lot of catching up to do! Lysha’s been working within the recruitment to recruitment market for around 20 years now so knows the industry better than anyone else. Lysha interviews business leaders from across the recruitment sector, from recruitment agencies to industry suppliers talking about their personal experiences, life lessons, growing their businesses and general advice.
The Resilient Recruiter
The Resilient Recruiter is a weekly show where Mark Whitby interviews recruitment industry leaders on the secrets to their success. You’ll hear in-depth conversations where he uncovers the habits, strategies, attitudes and insights of highly successful recruiting, staffing and search firm owners. Expect guests from the US and the UK.
The Retained Recruiter Show
The Retained Recruiter Show is broadcast live on LinkedIn every Tuesday at 9.30am, hosted by James O’Brien and Jo Gregory of i-intro. It’s a weekly show for recruitment business owners where James and Jo chat about all things surrounding retained recruitment: the what, the why, and most importantly, the how.
The Search Podcast - Inspiring Recruitment
A series of live podcasts with Elliott Manning the founder and Managing Director of Kayman Recruitment, specialists in recruitment to recruitment in the UK and US markets. Expect conversations with senior recruitment and recruitment industry supplier leaders in both the US & UK.
The Tech Savvy Recruiter
The Tech Savvy Recruiter is the podcast for recruitment agency owners keen to explore the latest in recruitment technology. Hosted by Andrew Roger from RecMate and Belinda Kerr from Recruitment Garage, together they bring you a stellar lineup of tech experts ready to help you understand and benefit from the increasing array of tech available to you today.
We Need To Talk With MJO
Hosted by Michael (John) Oliver who has had a long history in marketing roles for major recruitment agencies, alongside The REC and also happens to be an absolutely lovely bloke! Each week, Marketing Director and self-styled good dog Michael John Oliver talks with marketers and comms geeks about the latest news and views from the world of marketing.
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Robert Garner
Rob has been working within the recruitment industry since 2006, selling recruitment advertising space, working within recruitment, running his own recruitment firm, launching job boards, working for in-house talent acquisition teams and creating enterprise level recruitment software and now websites for recruitment agencies.