JAMES REED - LOVE MONDAYS
London Real
Brian Rose
4.4 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 12 February 2017
⏱️ 79 minutes
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Summary
James Reed is an entrepreneur, author, career coach, and the Chairman of REED, a recruitment business that is family owned and employs over 3,500 people around the world.
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James is a regular media commentator on work and labour market issues. His recent appearances include BBC News, Sky News, CNN, CNBC, London Live, Bloomberg, Sunday Brunch and The Apprentice. He shares his knowledge and experience in a monthly blog for the Huffington Post Young Voices section.
James is a best-selling author to two books, 'Why You? 101 Interview Questions You'll Never Fear Again' and 'Put Your Mindset to Work', which he co-authored with Dr. Paul Stoltz.
Chapters:
00:00 Trailer.
01:25 Brian's thoughts on the episode.
04:16 Brian's Introduction.
04:58 "Life all comes down to a few moments. This is one of them."
06:48 Everyone has the possibility of loving Mondays.
08:40 "Why you: 101 Interview Questions You Will Never Fear Again".
16:57 A seven second curriculum vitae.
18:58 Answering a curveball question.
24:13 Will future employers check your digital footprint?
26:13 Why people seek a new job.
28:17 What a good company culture offers its employees.
33:57 The three g mindset.
34:23 Reed.co.uk introduces recruiter mobile app.
38:03 Role of the head of an organisation.
40:38 Growing up with a successful father.
45:04 Benefits gained from attending university and business school.
48:35 Business culture differences between England and America.
54:18 Will robots decimate future job market?
1:00:27 How will Brexit affect the job market?
1:02:46 Success secrets.
1:03:12 The delight of having a large family.
1:05:42 What keeps James awake at night.
1:06:06 What James hopes will be his epitaph.
1:08:00 Phone call to the 20 year old James.
1:10:17 Best advice ever received.
1:12:29 Advice to the young person coming into the workforce.
1:15:50 Brian's summing up.
Show Notes:
James Reed's website
http://www.jamesreed.com/
James Reed on Twitter
https://twitter.com/james_a_reed
James Reed on Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_A._Reed_(entrepreneur)
James Reed Books:
Why You: 101 Interview Questions You Will Never Fear Again.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Why-You-Interview-Questions-Youll/dp/0241297133/ref=la_B004LHNHQC_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1486748421&sr=1-1
Put Your Mindset To Work
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Put-Your-Mindset-Work-Really/dp/0241003547/ref=la_B004LHNHQC_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1486748421&sr=1-2
Topics discussed:
Wall Street (film)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wall_Street_(1987_film)
The Police (band)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Police
University of Oxford
http://www.ox.ac.uk/
Harvard Business School
http://www.hbs.edu/Pages/default.aspx
New England Patriots
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_England_Patriots
Brexit
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brexit
The Matterhorn
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matterhorn
People mentioned in this episode:
Sir Alec Reed
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alec_Reed
Dr Paul G Stoltz
http://www.peaklearning.com/about_peak-learning_principals_stoltz.php
Michael Bloomberg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Bloomberg
Daniel Pink
https://londonreal.tv/daniel-h-pink-to-sell-is-human/
Neil Young
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_Young
Kevin Kelly
https://londonreal.tv/kevin-kelly-the-inevitable/
Sigmund Freud
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigmund_Freud
David Alliance, Baron Alliance
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Alliance,_Baron_Alliance
Kennedy Family
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kennedy_family
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Music:
Trailer - Audio Library https://youtu.be/anp_exOmsgc
Vlog - Those Nights by Dj Quads https://soundcloud.com/aka-dj-quads
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | The point of a good education is to be able to tell when someone else is talking rot. |
| 0:08.0 | People look at a CV for around seven seconds. |
| 0:12.0 | And what do they look for? Well, one of the things they seem to look for straight away is, are there any mistakes? |
| 0:17.0 | One of the 3Gs that we distilled down from looking at all the qualities that people seek and other people are good so that's all about |
| 0:23.4 | integrity and kindness global which is about openness and connectivity and grit which is |
| 0:30.0 | about resilience and tenacity. Success is as easy as pie. |
| 0:34.0 | P stands for passion, I stands for ideas, and E stands for energy. |
| 0:39.0 | Our message is love Mondays. |
| 0:42.0 | It's important to have a job that you like and I think there is a job for everyone. |
| 0:45.5 | Don't think what you can do. Think what only you can do. Yeah. I'm going to do. So, Do you love Mondays? Well to be honest I do because I get to come here for London |
| 1:32.2 | Real Studios but most people don't like their job. |
| 1:35.6 | And that's why this week we spoke to James Reed, who's the chairman of Reed, which is UK's largest recruiting company. |
| 1:42.4 | And he spoke about this book, |
| 1:43.8 | why you? |
| 1:44.8 | And he goes through a hundred and one different interview questions |
| 1:48.1 | that you should know and the truth is, |
| 1:50.4 | as James told me, is that most people just don't prepare. |
| 1:54.0 | They spend more time preparing their dinner |
| 1:56.4 | than they do for an interview and they just don't know what to say. |
| 2:00.3 | And I've had that happen so many times when candidates come in here looking to work for London Real and I ask them basic questions like tell me more about you and they just don't have very good answers. |
| 2:10.0 | So it's really all about preparation. |
| 2:12.8 | And James really has some amazing tactics. |
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