Between Placements
Conversations about how the desk actually runs.
A podcast for people who own or run boutique recruitment businesses. Not thought leadership and not a vendor showcase - just long conversations about what works, what broke, and what you would do differently.
What it is
We build automation for recruitment desks, which means we spend most of our working lives asking people how their business actually operates. The interesting answers rarely make it into anything public.
Between Placements is where those conversations go. Forty minutes with someone who runs a desk, about the operational reality of it - the process that stopped working at a certain headcount, the client who changed everything, the software that was supposed to fix it.
There is no pitch in the episode. We are not selling to guests and guests are not selling to listeners. If that sounds like a conversation you would enjoy having, the invitation is open.
What we tend to cover
No fixed script. These are the threads that come up most, and the ones listeners tell us they came for.
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How the desk actually runs
Not the org chart version - what genuinely happens on a Monday and who is holding it together.
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What broke and what you changed
The process that failed at fifteen contractors, and what replaced it.
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Where the tooling helps and where it does not
Honest accounts of software that earned its money, and software that did not.
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Hiring and keeping good consultants
The bit nobody automates, and the bit most owners actually lose sleep over.
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Cash, margin and growth
How the numbers behave as a desk scales, in practice rather than in theory.
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What you would do differently
The question every guest answers, and the reason most listeners stay to the end.
Come on as a guest
If you run a recruitment desk and you are willing to be honest about how it works, we would like to have you on.
Remote, about forty minutes, scheduled around you. You see the episode before it goes anywhere, and nothing is published without your sign-off.
Questions people actually ask
The ones that come up on nearly every intro call. Short answers, no hedging.
How long is an episode?
Around forty minutes. Long enough to get past the introductions and into how the desk actually runs, short enough that you can do it between calls.
Is this a sales call in disguise?
No. There is no pitch in the episode and no obligation attached to it. If automation genuinely is not relevant to your desk, that makes for a better conversation, not a worse one.
Do we need to be experts on AI?
Definitely not. Most guests are not, and the episodes are more interesting when the conversation is about the desk rather than the technology.
Can we talk about things that went wrong?
Please do. Those are the useful episodes. Nothing goes out without you seeing it first, so you can be candid and still keep control of what is published.
Where can we listen?
Episodes are published as they are recorded. Get in touch and we will send you the current links.