Agency Owner Rollercoaster | Laura Briggs - The power of personal branding and marketing, driving inbound opportunities during a global pandemic

On this episode I’m joined by Laura Briggs, founder of Laura Briggs Recruitment. I was buzzing to hear her story and talk about all things recruitment, marketing and Covid-19.Three key things that we expanded on during this episode.If you’re a recruiter who is still apprehensive about personal branding and marketing, I urge you to give this episode a listen.If you’re a recruiter who wants to learn about value proposition and how to generate inbound enquiries, this is also an episode for you.I think you’re all going to love this one.You can connect with Laura on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/laurabriggsrecruitment/Timestamps:How did you get into recruitment? [0:57]Why did people think that you couldn’t do it? [1:58]Changing career at 27 [2:43]Joining Reed - perceptions [4:29]Why couldn’t you pick up the phone? [7:28]How did you build the desk from scratch? [9:28]What was your time frame to be successful? [11:20]Why were you picked to do that market? [12:28]Where did your entrepreneurial spirit come from? [13:37]How long did it take you to make your first placement? [17:10]How was it not being held accountable? [18:16]What made you start to think more about the business strategy? [20:44]What were your long term goals? [22:29]Which resources did you use? [23:48]How did your brand help you? [25:52]Since investing in your brand, what are you surprised by? [29:47]How have you dealt with negativity online? [31:08]How do you split your week? [33:19]Covid-19 [34:39]Have you made time to invest in yourself? [38:44]How do you view the next 6-12 months? [42:11]How do you celebrate and who do you celebrate with? [44:48]What are your thoughts on the future of recruitment? [48:14]What would you say to the people? [50:43]I hope you enjoyed the episode, the best place to connect with me is on Linkedin - https://www.linkedin.com/in/hishemazzouz/If you would love me to cover certain topics with future guests please drop me a message. Finally, if you have been enjoying the podcast and you have two minutes then it would be greatly appreciated if you could leave a review. Simply it will enable me to reach more people with the podcast, you can easily leave a review with the following link - https://ratethispodcast.com/rollercoaster 🙌