Alfie Elliott is the Director of Select Group, a boutique recruitment business covering IT, business operations and consultancy across the UK and US. He started as a 16-year-old apprentice in East Croydon and has spent just under 15 years in the industry, working across financial services and consulting.

He answers the five questions I ask everyone:

What is your morning routine? What are you most proud of? What annoys you? What do you do to relax? What advice would you give to someone who's looking to get recruited right now?

In the full episode, Alfie and I get into the realities of recruitment in 2025: how AI is filtering candidates before they ever speak to a human, why networking and relationships still matter more than a polished CV, what the job market actually looks like for over-50s, and how sober networking is changing the way business gets done.

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