Giig It A Rest
New Episodes Every Thursday. Welcome To The Recruitment Industry's Most Informative Podcast! A podcast following the journey of the Giig Hire platform and some special guests. Common themes include Shit Chat, Product Development and a splash of Recruitment.
Episodes
This week on the recruitment industry's most informative podcast... We welcomed Bobby Banerjee from Elev8 Learning.
Honestly, Bobby had me laughing straight out of the gates.
We followed his story from his early days as a Choir Boy in a private school in Hull through to where he is today with his coaching business, Elev8 Learning, and being the Founder of the Recruitment Curry club.
The Recruitment Curry Club is a networking event ...
This week on the recruitment industry's most informative podcast, the big news is that I'm now a Godfather... The responsibility levels have just lifted!
Around that we also chat about:
- Andy's new skin regimen
- Undercover oven replacement
- Emergency Bacon
- How, as a West Ham fan, I am developing a weird relationship with Arsenal
- How my best mate stopped a fight in the chill-out zone
- Who called Andy a shit sal...
He's back!!
The man that twiddles the knobs and bashes the keys to build the software is back.
Always love it when Samwise is in the room!
This is his first appearence since the birth of his second child, so naturally there was a lot of chat about that.
After speaking about his kids at home, we switched to speaking about his kids at work and how he probably squabbles more with them.
It then switched on to new...
Our second guest on Giig IT A Rest is the fantastic Kate O'Neill from Kate O'Neill Coaching & The Job Slinger Academy.
As you can probably guess from the company name, Kate is a coach within the recruitment industry.
She does a lot of work with entry level recruiters helping them get up to speed, as well as business development training and coaching across all experience levels.
Her agency, The Job Slinger Ac...
This week, on the recruitment industry's most informative podcast, we were supposed to be chatting about email marketing as a recruiter!
However, in Giig fashion, we ended up getting distracted and spent more time talking about my family.
My Uncle recently wanted some support with a training programme, and my Mum's recently bought a caravan, which is where the conversation seemed to go.
Around that, we did touch...
So we're back... We've returned from the two big events that have taken over our lives recently!
Andy's Sister got married, and we then hit up the Recruitment Expo in London.
It's unusual for us to get out so much, and unfortunately, it didn't all go to plan.
We've had a broken-down car, an issue with the kitchen sink and a surprise visit to Birmingham.
Enjoy x
This week, I was overly excited by the fact we had a wedding coming up... Andy's sister is about to tie the knot so we spent a lot of time covering that off.
Around that, we spoke about:
- Should Andy get an Ice Bath on his balcony
- My brother's anti-chafe pants
- When are you too old to stop selling Ibiza rocks holidays?
- Becky's Wedding
- Our upcoming recruitment events and features.
We've got two big rec...
Every business needs an email signature, and in this episode, we run through some tips and some tools that you can use to get your signature together.
Before we get to the hints and tips, we talk about:
- Is it acceptable to use the word flabby?
- Highlights from the stag-do
- Painting Garden Ornaments
- The upcoming wedding
All the usual bits you'd expect from the recruitment industries' most informative podcast...
After a stellar week last week with our first ever guest, we're back to just the two of us...
This week on the recruitment industries most informative podcast ,we chat about:
- Andy's 30th Birthday
- Our upcoming Stag Do
- The Excel World Championship
- The Latest Updates to the Giig Hire platform
- How Andy managed to hack his Grandma's hearing aids
Enjoy x
Saeed Bor from EmbeddedOps joins us on the pod this week,
I hope you enjoy listening to this as much as we enjoyed recording it.
Saeed operates as a consultant in the recruitment sector helping recruitment agencies to grow through optimising their processes and RecTech stack.
Initially, that's what we were supposed to chat about.
However, that got very quickly sidetracked and somehow we ended up following his story from his early yea...
Welcome back to the recruitment industry's most informative podcast! This week's 'GiigAbyte' is all about 'Time Management Tools ' for recruiters... We've tried to think of little ways we can help you to save time and get more out of your day... Around this, we also cover off:
- Our new podcast slogan
- Tracy's tragic trip to Benidorm
- Sam's graduation photo
- Luke's routine
- Our new podc...
Let's break down how you can kick-start your recruitment agency for £80...
This episode runs through the following 7 steps to setting up with all the tools you need.
1. Regiesting A Company
2. Buy The Domain
3. Build a Website
4. Get a registered office
5. Get your Recruitment CRM
6. Set up business emails
7. Business bank account
Outside of this, we chat about:
- How Luke wants to become Freddie Mercury
- Andy's grandparents cooking 36 sau...
In all honesty, this might be our worst episode yet and we're only 10 in!
I was hoping that Andy would carry it, with his Skiing stories and Andy was hoping I would carry it with my work stories.
In the end, we were both a little flat,
This week, in the recruitment industry's most informative podcast we chat about:
- The new Export feature which allows you to pull your data from Giig.
- Andy's new party trick with coins
- A...
This week on the Recruitment Industries' most informative podcast we speak about:
- How do you pronounce Moss Bros
- Samwise sabotaging us before his return
- Eating at work
- An exploding Scotch Egg
- Our first podcast guest
- How to start turning your business into an asset
Enjoy x
This week on the recruitment industries most informative we talk about:
- The rules behind candles
- How to join our 'Come Fly With Luke' WhatsApp Group
- The evolution of man
- Discovering Australia
- The top descaler brands out there
- The traitors
- Who Andy would choose to play him in a film
- GDPR in recruitment
- The tools we've built to help you with GDPR
Enjoy x
2025 is here and we've decided to set some goals for what we hope the Giig platform will deliver for you in 2025.
Alongside setting goals we also talk about:
- Our new and exciting logo
- Luke's 2025 commitment to paper aeroplanes
- Our personal New Year resolutions
- A Giig Team Triathlon
- Some huge personal news
Enjoy x
We thought it was time to explain our weird relationship to you.
If you have been listening since the start, you might have noticed that Luke (Frodo) and Andy (Gollum) are more than just colleagues.
So we thought we'd spend the time to fill you all in on how we know each other. The background story behind where our friendship started and discuss the pitfalls of working with your best mate.
Enjoy x
We've had a fuck up... We've only gone and lost the audio for this week's episode...
In true Giig fashion!
Annoying really because I thought this episode was a good one.
It definitely takes the shine off things when you struggle to hear us...
As you will be listening to us through the phone audio!
Anyway...
This week on the recruitment industry's most informative podcast we chat about...
- How Shan The Flasher is Getting ...
It feels weird to be only 4 Episodes in and recording a Christmas Special but here we are! This week on the recruitment industry's most informative podcast we discuss: - What we all have planned for Christmas - How Samwise always gets stuck in traffic - The initial feedback for the Temp pipelines - New GDPR and Data Compliance Features - How Andy feels about the nickname Gollum Merry Christmas Everyone! Enjoy x
This week on the Recruitment Industries Most informative podcast.
You will learn:
- How to prepare for a trip to see Wicked at the cinema
- How not to attack a walk in a storm
- About Andy's special dessert spoon
- Giig's exciting new partnership news
- Giig's new temp pipelines
There's no guarantee that you will know more about recruitment after listening but we hope it makes you smile.
Enjoy x
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