Recruitment Agency Expo Insights: The Biggest Challenges Facing the Industry Today
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The episode features insights from industry leaders at the Recruitment Agency Expo 2026, focusing on the biggest challenges and advice for starting a recruitment agency.
We took Carrot & Stick on the road to the Recruitment Agency Expo 2026. We grabbed the mics, and asked 10 of the industry's sharpest leaders the same 5 questions — on top-biller habits, AI, the human touch, and how they'd start an agency today. Rapid-fire, honest answers, with Derry's take after each. The one thing they all came back to? Relationships. — 🎙️ Hosted by Derry Holt, CEO & Co-Founder of OneUp Sales. 👉 Enjoyed it? Follow the show and leave us a rating — it helps more recruiters find us. — OneUp Sales helps recruitment and sales teams make performance visible, motivating and repeatable — live leaderboards, competitions, dashboards and reporting in one place. Book a demo: https://oneupsales.com/request-a-demo — Timestamps: 00:00 — Intro: why we did this 01:06 — What habit would you take from a top biller and give to a rookie? 05:55 — What's one thing about recruitment you hope NEVER changes? 08:34 — What's one thing you hope DOES change? 12:22 — What's the biggest challenge facing recruitment over the next 12 months? 18:15 — What advice would you give someone starting an agency today?2 0:41 — Final thoughts #Recruitment #RecruitmentAgency #Sales #SalesLeadership
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