The irony of being overweight, under-tall and follically challenged in an industry where personal presentation can be a factor in success is not lost on me. Despite these odds I have found that I am good at what I do – the recruitment of high calibre marketing professionals.
I was seduced into recruitment when Michael Page used to offer Golf Gti’s to starters and lucky for me I fell into a career I enjoyed. From behemoth to start up, I moved to the fledgling challenger brand, EMR and enjoyed 12 years helping to build a business with some truly inspirational colleagues and now life-long friends to the point of being UK market leader.
An internal transfer to launch the business in Australia proved a mixed blessing when Lehman Brothers went bang in late 2008. Suddenly I was in paradise without a job! Fortunately I found a way to stay in the lucky country and continued recruiting marketing professionals until, after many sleepless nights in 2018, I decided to do my own thing and launched Hire Aspirations in Feb 2019. It hasn’t been plain sailing – good old Covid made sure of that but it was the best decision I ever made. Life is good.
I have interviewed over 8000 marketing professionals during my 30 year career and appointed close to 1000 of them into some amazing companies, many of whom have climbed the ladders and recruited similarly aspiring talent into their teams. I love what I do.
