THOUGHTS OUGHTS OM… FROM…
Neil Wilson, CEO of Stanton House
JEREMY CORBYN
FIRST SPE ECH BY THE LABOUR LEADER AT THE LABOUR PARTY CONFERENCE
“You may be born poor but you don’t have to stay poor. You don’t have to live without power and without hope. You don’t have to set limits on your talent and your ambition — or those of your children”
DAVID OYELOWO
AC TO R , S PEAKING AT AN EVENT LAU NCHING A RE PO RT FROM THE CREATIVE INDUSTRIES FE D E R ATION AND BACKED BY MOBO
“I was watching TV in the UK and thinking there were very few examples of actors who look like me who I aspired to be like, aspired to have their careers. In order to have those feelings I had to look to the States.”
ED VAIZEY
M IN ISTER OF STATE FOR CULTU RE, CO M M UNICATIONS AND CREATIVE INDU STRIES ON DIV E RSITY IN THE CREATIVE INDUSTRIES
“I know from my engagement with this agenda that there are a lot of fed up people who feel that a lot of talk has happened over the last 30 years and we now really want to see progress. I want to see progress as well and my pledge to people in the industry is to continue to hold all the main organisations to account so we can see a real difference being made.”
STA R RECRUIT
Two recruitment specialists advise EVA CARNEIRO, the former Chelsea football club team doctor, on her next career move
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LOGAN NAIDU, CHIEF EXECUTIVE OF FINANCIAL SERVICES RECRUITMENT FIRM DARTMOUTH PARTNERS Having come from a male-dominated changing room, Eva Carneiro should consider entering the world of high finance and investment banking. She is already adept at handling fragile egos, short tempers and everyone thinking they’re the ‘Special One’. Her medical training will come also come in useful for the herds of analysts who routinely work 90-hour weeks and suffer from sleep deprivation, exhaustion
Wilson builds Stanton House DEEDEE DOKE
FIVE YEARS ON from establishing Stanton House as a new recruitment business, chief executive Neil Wilson can safely say that the finance/ accounting, change management and digital recruiter is no longer a start-up. “Coming through that first phase is one of my proudest achievements to date,” Wilson told Recruiter. Now turning over £18m per year, Stanton House was created following Wilson’s departure five-and-a-half years ago from professional services firm Badenoch & Clark (B&C), where he was first joint managing director and then MD for 10 years. Joining forces with Wilson to create the new business as director and co-founder was fellow B&C veteran Nick Eaves. Wilson has kept a low profile in the intervening five years as he and Eaves built the business from the ground up. Experiencing “a massive learning curve” in starting up, Wilson said he encountered the “brutal reality” of having to rediscover his own business development and recruiting skills after his years as an MD had forced him to focus internally. At the same time, he was handling all of the managerial and troubleshooting aspects of starting up a business. “It’s a very humbling thing,” he said. “At first, you feel not like you’re not doing any of it very well.” However, he rates “doing frontline recruitment again, being out there to win business from my network, learning how to do it again” as being one of his best experiences of starting Stanton House. Stanton House has 45 employees and offices in London, Reading, Edinburgh and Hong Kong. ●
and frequently the ‘hair dryer’ treatment from their superiors. Rather like their football counterparts, the public perception of a group of overpaid, pampered, ego-driven individuals gathered together to operate as a ‘team’ is a world she knows well. She might want to omit Chelsea from her CV, though. Bankers like winners, and despite being Premier League champions, you’re only as good as your last game.
SINEAD HASSON, MANAGING DIRECTOR OF HASSON ASSOCIATES Headstrong Carneiro won’t struggle to find another role. She acted with integrity, was true to her professional ethics and did precisely what she was employed to do. Any club would be lucky to have her. Moreover, had she not responded to the referee’s signal to come on the pitch, she may well have been in breach of General Medical Council guidelines. Eva’s clearly the right woman for the job and should focus on moving forward. As for Mourinho, it’s a
shame that the proposed rules to prohibit managers from interfering with medics weren’t already in place. If they were, it would be him who would have been walking. Shame — he’d have made a wonderful ref or match official. He’s obviously level-headed, believes in fair play and, most importantly, would put safety of the players first. Or, perhaps he’s good paramedic material, you know, with all those great people skills. He copes well under pressure too, and his instinct for those in need of medical attention is clear for all to see. WWW.RECRUITER.CO.UK 7
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