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Recruiting Alchemy with Andy Simpson

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Recruitment Industry
Recruitment
Gary Elden
Annapurna Recruitment
International Expansion
Culture
Chapter 2 Health Talent
Embedded Talent
AI In Recruitment
Gross Profit Per Head
Ideal Client
Hays PLC
Life Sciences
Artificial Intelligence
S3 Group
Saragossa
United Kingdom
Health Care Recruitment
California
GCS

Moving recruiters from the contingent carousel to repeatable, scalable, productised offerings.

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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 as the 200... more

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 staffing ... more

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, three week... more

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 one of the big... more

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David Bloxham
CEO of GCS, later Engage Group, with deep IT recruitment background
GCS / Engage Group
Episode: Recruiting Alchemy Ep. 27 Surviving every downturn in recruitment with David Bloxham
Rory Gaston
Group CEO at Saragossa, staffing and technology solutions leader
Saragossa
Episode: Recruiting Alchemy Ep. 26: The Broken Economics of Contingent Staffing with Rory Gaston
Bradley Lewington
CEO and founder of Generative Group; former CEO of Spencer Ogden
Generative Group
Episode: Recruiting Alchemy Ep. 25 Why Recruiters Are Naive About AI with Brad Lewington
Gary Elden
CEO and recruitment industry veteran, OBE recipient
Alistair Business / former S3 leadership
Episode: Recruiting Alchemy Ep.19: Gary Elden - The £8K Bet That Built an Empire
Tom Way
CEO, UK and Ireland at Hays PLC
Hays PLC
Episode: Recruiting Alchemy Ep.18: Tom Way - How One Choice Transformed Everything
Jeremy Snell
L&D guru and industry leader in recruitment
Independent consultant / L&D expert
Episode: Recruiting Alchemy Ep.17: Jeremy Snell on Shifting from CV Vendor to Value Proposition
Simon Ryan
Director at Chapter 2 and co-founder of Chapter 2 Health Talent
Chapter 2 / Chapter 2 Health Talent
Episode: Recruiting Alchemy Ep.16: Simon Ryan on Scale, Embedded Talent & Steven Bartlett
Malvin Kamara
Founder and CEO of Vallum Associates
Vallum Associates
Episode: Recruiting Alchemy Ep.15: Malvin Kamara on Football, Founding Vallum Associates & Leadership.
Steve Beckitt
Founder/CEO of SourceBreaker
SourceBreaker
Episode: Recruiting Alchemy Ep.14: Steve Beckitt on Building SourceBreaker & the Reality of Tech Startups

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Andy Simpson
Host of Recruiting Alchemy with Andy Simpson

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5.0 out of 5 stars from 7 ratings
  • Great insights

    I usually hate business podcasts but this is actually super interesting and the insights shared are so relevant to the recruitment industry, anyone in this space needs to listen!

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    LiamMcA
    United Kingdom2 years ago

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Content is relevant to professionals across staffing, tech-enabled recruitment, and leadership.
Hosts and guests deliver actionable strategies, not fluff.
High-quality guests who share real-world challenges and wins.

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Recruiting Alchemy Ep.16: Simon Ryan on Scale, Embedded Talent & Steven Bartlett
Q: How does the Chapter 2 Health Talent model work, and what makes it distinct?
The model blends Embedded Talent, a tech stack with AI exploration, and employer branding, packaged as a monthly subscription with defined SLAs, allowing clients to scale rapidly without long-term headcount commitments, and using enterprise deals to keep pricing stable.
Recruiting Alchemy Ep.16: Simon Ryan on Scale, Embedded Talent & Steven Bartlett
Q: What was it about, apart from Ali, that made you want to hitch your wagon to Chapter 2 and Steven Bartlett?
Simon highlights the disruptive, value-adding culture of Chapter 2, Steven Bartlett's hands-on involvement in interviews and client processes, and Ali's role as a relentless recruiter, which together created a compelling environment for scaling and innovation.
Recruiting Alchemy Ep.15: Malvin Kamara on Football, Founding Vallum Associates & Leadership.
Q: How did you transition from football to recruitment and eventually to Vallum?
After leaving football and facing financial and personal pressures, I moved into sales, discovered recruitment through a friend, and slowly built expertise and confidence. The turning point came when a client declined a job, which crystallized my resolve to scale Vallum beyond a lifestyle business, aided by mentors and strategic partners.
Recruiting Alchemy Ep.15: Malvin Kamara on Football, Founding Vallum Associates & Leadership.
Q: What were your two beginnings and where did you grow up?
I grew up in Southeast London, Plumstead, with a big family network, which shaped my early love for football and the community-driven mindset I carried into recruitment later in life.

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A pragmatic, founder- and leadership-focused show examining recruitment as a scalable, productized function. Guests are senior leaders, founders, and CXOs from across the recruitment and tech-enabled talent space, sharing career turns, growth plays, and how they've built scalable services, embedded talent models, and AI-driven offerings. Listeners can expect candid conversations about culture, governance, international expansion, and the evolving role of technology in talent acquisition. A notable throughline is transforming traditional staffing into strategic, multi-pillar platforms with strong leadership narratives and practical takeaways for building resilient teams and businesses.

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