This series compiles strategic perspectives from recruitment business leaders, with each installment exploring strategies across five critical domains: Leadership, Marketing, Operations, People, and Technology.

Leadership

• Maximising the opportunities of AI as recruitment leaders
  Ian Knowlson, Director, Talence
• Succession planning through an Employee Ownership Trust
  Simon Whitehead, Partner & Head of Recruitment & Workforce Solutions, Brabners
  
• Try harder, do more, feel worse, achieve less: Breaking the dysfunction cycle in recruitment
  Che Hookings, CEO, Recruit121
• How to create a culture of selling and deep connections
  Alison Humphries, APSCo Advisor
  Recruitment Leadership Ltd.
  

Marketing

• How to stand out from the crowd in the era of AI
  Stephanie King, MD, BlueSky PR
• How to use data as a brand differentiator that gets actual and measurable results
  James Chaplin, CEO, Vacancysoft
  
• Strategic candidate attraction: Maximising ROI in a high-cost advertising landscape
  Simon Malpas, Co-Founder, TRS Media
• A new approach to recruitment growth in 2025
  Rachel Moss, Head of Marketing, The Access Group
  

Operations

• The Data-Impact Strategy: Balancing Metrics with Human Expertise in Modern Recruitment
  Una McGuinness, Global Marketing & Strategy Director, APSCo
• Future-proofing recruitment: Tackling the talent crunch in the UK
  Vimal Joshi, SVP - Operations, QX Global Group
  
• The Rise of a Global Workforce
  Amy Davies, Managing Director, Workwell Global
• Transforming recruitment processes with end-to-end automation for compliance and onboarding
  Kris Petrov, Senior Growth Marketing Manager, Amiqus
  

People

• Creating the recruiter of the future
  Moya Rylands, Commercial Director, APSCo
• Succession planning in the modern world
  Mark Baker, Founder/Director, Claremont Consulting
  
• Aligning your people with business goals: From strategy to execution
  Gavin Beart, Divisional Managing Director, Reed Education
• Why Leadership training can provide a 10 to 20-fold ROI vs the cost of doing nothing
  Moya Rylands, Commercial Director, APSCo UK
  

Technology

• Leveraging technology to your organisation’s benefit
  Chris Eldridge, CEO, Robert Walters UKI & NA
• Five signs your recruitment CRM system needs a review
  Stuart Johnson, Head of Sales EMEA, Mercury
  
• Automating payroll in a recruitment 
  business: Maximising the return
  Lee Turver, Chief Technical Officer & Co-Founder, Finity
• AI in Recruitment: Navigating the early stages
  Ian Knowlson APSCo Advisor, Talence