#Moments - Hayden Wood on hiring talent & renting experience

Jimmy's Jobs of the Future

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Technology, Careers, Business

5.0 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 1 May 2023

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Welcome to #Moments a new mini-series that celebrates and reflects on the best moments of Jimmy’s Jobs. Today's guest is Hayden Wood from Bulb who discusses keeping your employees motivated, role rotations and a nomad programme allowing employees to work in different cities. It's strong advice that shouldn't be lost. Subscribe so you don't miss any new episodes, releasing every Wednesday. You can sign up to Jimmy's Substack here for weekly content on the future of work, technology, and politics For more information on partnering with us please visit our partnerships page here. Also make sure you subscribe to The Shift, you can find it here on Spotify or on Apple Podcasts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to Moments, a new mini-series which reflects the best moments that we've had
0:13.3	on the Jimmy's Jobs of the Future podcast highlighting the amazing experiences of British
0:18.5	entrepreneurs and thought leaders.
0:21.4	Remarkably, we're now almost 100 episodes into Jimmy's Jobs of the Future, so things
0:27.5	have changed quite a bit in that time.
0:30.6	One of the key reflections that I have on building a podcast is it's a bit like building
0:35.6	a well.
0:36.6	It goes long and it goes narrow and if people are aware of it, they're very keen on it.
0:42.0	But it can take quite a bit of a while for people to discover it.
0:46.2	And so that's why we're going to be going over some of our old episodes and pulling out
0:50.8	some of the best moments.
0:53.1	But today we're going to be going back to the very first episode with Hayden Wood.
0:58.2	Hayden Wood was running Bulb alongside Amit and at the time of recording, they were the
1:04.2	fastest growing company in Europe according to the financial times.
1:09.0	Now since then, Bulb has gone into administration as the energy market has faced enormous pressures.
1:16.6	It is a stark reminder of the entrepreneurial journey and how hard that it can be that
1:22.2	somebody can be doing so well to having such a challenging moment in their business
1:28.1	career.
1:29.1	But a lot of what Hayden says in the interview is really insightful and that should not
1:34.5	be lost.
1:35.5	The things that he talks about in particular that has stuck with me and has been quoted
1:39.8	numerous times by listeners back is the line about hiring talent and renting experience.
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