The Hub: Articles, Events & Podcasts on Careers and Recruitment
Articles
Stay updated with the latest developments, success stories, and important announcements from the Career Academy and Recruitment. Discover how we are making a difference in the lives of military spouses and the wider Armed Forces Community.
Events
Join us at our upcoming events and view previous where we bring together military spouses, employers, and supporters. Whether it’s a job fair, a networking event, or a skills workshop, our events are designed to provide valuable opportunities for connection and growth.
4 October 2024
37 min
Finding a Community for You: Jodie and James
We’ve created this podcast to give YOU maximum success in your career. We’ll talk to experts, specialists, and other spouses, to help your job search success. Jodie Rudd works for JP Morgan Chase, they're making an effort to bring other military spouses together, including James Cooper, a male spouse looking to find a community. In this episode, Heledd speaks to Jodie and James about finding a community of like-minded people and how important it is for military spouses. JP Morgan Chase's Website
14 June 2024
32 min
Bridging Gaps & Balancing Lives - The Importance of Wellbeing : Tracey Jones
Tracey Jones started her business (Lotus Bridge Coaching) in 2021, after a successful 28-year career in HR, and L&D. She's in the perfect position to work with and help many of our clients at RFS, enabling them to find purpose, passion and setting them up for their future career.
17 May 2024
19 min
Making Yourself Recruitable : The Recruiting Team
Cerise, Rob and Rusila are all part of the recruiting team, in this episode, Along with Heledd, they'll be discussing how they recruit people and how they got to where they are today.
During this chat, you'll get some great insight into recruiting and how it all plays out.
19 April 2024
49 min
Conscious Communication is Key in Job Interviews : Lucy Key
Lucy Key is a professional actress and communication coach. She works alongside her husband Christopher in their business "Performing Perfectly". Together they coach clients in effective communication.
During this chat with Heledd you'll get some great tips for communicating with potential employers and much more besides.
The official Performing Perfectly website
12 March 2024
41 min
How to Master your Monkey Mind : Don Macpherson
Don Macpherson is a mind coach known as ‘The Monkey Whisperer’ who uses ancient techniques combined with modern neuroscience, all centred around the notion of ‘The Monkey Mind’. He coaches world-famous stars and high achievers who need to be on their a-game.
During this episode, he chats with Heledd about the issues military spouses face and offers actionable advice to make life more manageable for us.
Don's book - How to Master Your Monkey Mind
24 February 2023
41 min
Recruit for Spouses - Wendy Shand
On this episode, we are talking to the incredible Wendy Stand. Wendy is an award-winning VC/PE backed Business Founder, an Entrepreneur and a Visionary. Following the near loss of her young son in a swimming pool accident whilst on holiday, she went on to change the face of the international travel industry by creating an entirely new family-friendly product class.
Sadly because of Covid, things took a turn for the worse, but Wendy didn’t let that stop her. She is now a specialist People, Product and Culture strategist and is on a mission to lead the Resilient Britain movement. During the podcast we also hear about her husband having to eject from a fighter jet after a complete engine failure. We hope you enjoy this episode.
25 November 2022
33 min
Recruit for Spouses - Geordan Murphy
In this episode, we welcome Premiership’s most decorated rugby player, Geordan Murphy!
After 16 seasons with Leicester Tigers, winning eight Premiership titles, Geordan transitioned to coaching in 2013. He scored 93 tries, earned 691 points for Leicester, and gained 72 caps for Ireland, plus appearances with the British & Irish Lions.
Geordan played in four Heineken Cup Finals, winning in 2001 and 2002, and holds records as Leicester’s top appearance-maker and tryscorer in the European Cup.
Now, as our Non-Executive Director, Geordan has made a tremendous impact on Recruit For Spouses. We hope you enjoy this episode!
Podcasts
We've created this podcast to give YOU maximum success in your career. We speak to incredible people on our podcast every month, those who have amazing stories to tell and those who constantly go above and beyond to make a difference.
You can listen to our podcast episodes below and don’t forget to check out the podsheets too where we collate top tips and great talking points from each episode.
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