Recruiting Alchemy with Andy Simpson

About Recruiting Alchemy with Andy Simpson

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

Publisher

ryvr.ai

Category

business · business · business

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

31 Oct 2024

Latest episode

19 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

29 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   19 Oct 2026

   Recruiting Alchemy Ep. 29 Why great CEOs make themselves redundant with James Wakefield

   James Wakefield went from the parade ground at Sandhurst and six years as an infantry officer into recruitment at Michael Page. He then spent 14 years at Cobalt, setting up offices across the Middle East, Europe, Asia Pacific and the US before becoming its first CEO. Since then he has sat on the board of his hometown football club, run a life sciences recruiter through the hardest market in decades, and returned to Cobalt as Executive Chair, while building an M&A advisory business on the ...

2. 

   12 Oct 2026

   Recruiting Alchemy Ep. 28 Specialise to Scale with Jim Ryan

   Jim Ryan left Ireland at 17, knocked on doors selling cable TV, and walked into MSB in Bromley in 1997 with no recruitment experience. Eighteen years on from starting ERSG on the day Lehman Brothers collapsed, he runs a staffing group with £185 million in turnover, around £28 million in gross profit and offices from Seattle to Taiwan, and it has stayed independent without private equity. Andy Simpson sits down with Jim, CEO of ERSG, to talk about how a business plan he now calls naive became ...

3. 

   5 Oct 2026

   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 as the 2008 credit crunch wiped out half his contractors, and why he says you can always cut your cloth when the market turns. He explains how an MBO nearly fell through before Engage came in as backer, why GCS has never dual desked and now runs at around 95...

Who has been a guest on Recruiting Alchemy with Andy Simpson

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Simon Ryan
• Malvin Kamara
• Steve Beckitt
• David Rees
• James Ballard

Reach and audience

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YouTube views

37,642

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Spotify

5.0 / 5

1 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 39 / 100

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Quality

37

Social presence

0

YouTube

72

Engagement

32

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