In this special RecTalk episode, recorded live at the Paraform UK Recruiter Gala at Hedsor House, Nitin is joined again by guest hosts Bobby Banerjee and Kat Kingshott as they speak with more top-performing recruiters and members of the Paraform strategy & ops team. This episode continues from the previous Gala instalment.

Guests share unfiltered insights into the Paraform platform, the AI-driven recruitment landscape, and what it really takes to build a successful, modern recruiting business in 2025.

Jason Rumney kicks things off by discussing tech adoption challenges, convincing senior recruiters to embrace new tools, and why Paraform's velocity and client quality now often outperform traditional internal accounts.

Next, Rebaz Has discusses scaling a remote-first tech recruitment team, making 6–7 Paraform placements, driving £100–250k in added revenue, and how the platform frees up time for true business development.

Then Cam Farmer and Oliver Wheeler bring humour and honesty with stories from their earliest days on the platform through to hitting major revenue goals. They reveal what Paraform fixed from the early days (like candidate anonymity and recruiter load per role) and share their 2026 targets—ranging from £100k months to simply “doing better every year.”

To close the episode, Ethan Huang, Danielle Jing, and Enya Lu from Paraform’s Strategy & Ops team reveal what makes the platform truly different:

• a mission to increase recruiter earnings, not reduce them
• never optimising for margins
• investing in recruiter education, partnerships, and client quality
• breaking the mould of past platforms by encouraging direct recruiter–client relationships
• transparency, network effects, and deep empathy for user

They also share the internal culture, their backgrounds in investment banking, product, design, and tech, and the mottos that drive their work.

Check out Paraform: https://www.paraform.com/

🔗 Connect with the guests

Jason Rumney: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jasonrumney/

Rebaz Has: https://www.linkedin.com/in/techyo/

Cam Farmer: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cameronfarmer/

Oliver Wheeler: https://www.linkedin.com/in/oliver-wheeler-a5592b113/

From Paraform:

Danielle Jing: https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniellejing/

Ethan Huang: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ethanthuang/

Enya Lu: https://www.linkedin.com/in/enyalu1/

🔗 Connect with the hosts

Nitin Sharma: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nitin-rectools/

Bobby Banerjee: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bobbybanerjee/

Kat Kingshott: https://www.linkedin.com/in/katkingshott/

Discover recruitment tools and services: https://www.rectools.io/

New episodes of RecTalk, including Founder Diaries and Talking Talent, drop every Monday, Wednesday and Friday.

Look out for new episodes of The Mixed Grill — the official podcast of the Recruitment Curry Club — dropping on Thursday.

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Listen on another platform: https://rectalk.co.uk/

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Ross Thompson — Infinity Staff Global: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rossnthompson/

Matt Fox — Exitus Advisory: https://www.linkedin.com/in/matt-fox-50b10311/

SourceFlow: https://www.linkedin.com/company/sourceflow/

Robert Woodford — The Marketing Junction: https://www.linkedin.com/in/marketing4recs/

Carl Jones — Konquest: https://www.linkedin.com/in/carl-jones-66093722/

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