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The power of networking & changing lives through careers - James Mitra in conversation with Alembic Strategy
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“Make networking a daily occurrence. It’s everyday interactions. It’s making a good impression early doors and really taking the time to build meaningful relationships and connections.”
In today’s episode, we’ve put our host, James Mitra, into the interviewee seat.
James was recently invited on Alembic Strategy’s Strategy Café, hosted by Founder and MD, Nick Mayhew.
If you haven’t heard of Alembic before, they’re a team of facilitators and coaches working at board level with family businesses, founder-led businesses, private equity and with developing leaders, in the UK and internationally.
Nick and James discuss the unique journey JBM has been on and the key lessons James has learned over the last 11 years of leading JBM.
Episode chapters:
➡️ Introductions [01:08]
➡️ The power of networking [04:45]
➡️ Bringing networking into your day to day [08:20]
➡️ Starting JBM at age 25 [14:20]
➡️ Disrupting traditional recruitment [17:40]
➡️ Dealing with competition [20:15]
➡️ Changing lives through recruitment [24:50]
➡️ The mistakes along the way [28:30]
⛳ Helpful links:
➡️ Follow Nick on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mayhewnick/
➡️ Follow James on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jamesmitra-jbm/?originalSubdomain=uk
➡️ Find out more about Alembic Strategy: https://www.alembicstrategy.com/
➡️ Find out more about JBM: https://jbmc.co.uk/
⭐Enjoyed this episode?⭐️
Keep up to date with all our latest episodes, by hitting the subscribe button on your favourite podcast platform. And for any feedback on what you enjoy the most and ideas on what we can do to make 40 Minute Mentor even better, please leave us a review on https://ratethispodcast.com/40mm
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Manage episode 428121832 series 3162242
“Make networking a daily occurrence. It’s everyday interactions. It’s making a good impression early doors and really taking the time to build meaningful relationships and connections.”
In today’s episode, we’ve put our host, James Mitra, into the interviewee seat.
James was recently invited on Alembic Strategy’s Strategy Café, hosted by Founder and MD, Nick Mayhew.
If you haven’t heard of Alembic before, they’re a team of facilitators and coaches working at board level with family businesses, founder-led businesses, private equity and with developing leaders, in the UK and internationally.
Nick and James discuss the unique journey JBM has been on and the key lessons James has learned over the last 11 years of leading JBM.
Episode chapters:
➡️ Introductions [01:08]
➡️ The power of networking [04:45]
➡️ Bringing networking into your day to day [08:20]
➡️ Starting JBM at age 25 [14:20]
➡️ Disrupting traditional recruitment [17:40]
➡️ Dealing with competition [20:15]
➡️ Changing lives through recruitment [24:50]
➡️ The mistakes along the way [28:30]
⛳ Helpful links:
➡️ Follow Nick on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mayhewnick/
➡️ Follow James on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jamesmitra-jbm/?originalSubdomain=uk
➡️ Find out more about Alembic Strategy: https://www.alembicstrategy.com/
➡️ Find out more about JBM: https://jbmc.co.uk/
⭐Enjoyed this episode?⭐️
Keep up to date with all our latest episodes, by hitting the subscribe button on your favourite podcast platform. And for any feedback on what you enjoy the most and ideas on what we can do to make 40 Minute Mentor even better, please leave us a review on https://ratethispodcast.com/40mm
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