I am the CEO of Love Recruitment, the recruitment specialist for the fitness and leisure sectors and also of Love Care Recruitment, the recruitment specialist for the childcare industry which includes sports, activities and wraparound care.
I am standing for the Supplier Council of UK Active representing the Professional Business Services category.
I have worked in the fitness industry for over 20 years, firstly within the fitness sector before moving into recruitment. I love the industry and see this as an opportunity to make a real difference, bringing as many of my relationships together as I can to effect real progress.
Short description
Love Recruitment is the specialist recruitment provider for the fitness and leisure industries. For the last 9 years we have forged some wonderful relationships and close friendships across the fitness, leisure, suppliers, children’s activities sectors as well as complimentary operations like trampoline parks, go karting, golf courses and activity parks. We recruit for around 100 companies in these sectors and in the last 9 years have found over 2000 people their next great opportunity.
We are well connected to the leadership in the areas, most of whom are members of UK Active and either work closely with or have recruited alongside many of their employees. The relationships are with senior leadership teams, within clubs and centres, suppliers and senior HR and People specialists. This gives us a platform and community to really understand some of the challenges involved in recruitment and people we have in our sector.
In addition to 9 years of building workforce expertise from entry level to c-suite recruitment, we also consult and help guide our clients and candidates to recruit and develop better. To complement this, we launched the Love Your Career Podcast in 2022 to give even more help in these areas from some of very best industry leadership. In addition, we have also conducted 2 Pulse Surveys and 2 PT Surveys in our sector. We believe these actions have really helped to professionalise and raise the bar of recruitment and people related factors in our sector and would carry this on even further within this council.
Great recruitment, and its continued development, can only be great for the sector in bringing in and retaining more quality people and teams. The more quality we have, the more we will attract to work in it, the more people will be active, more often. We can also use our insights and expertise to support the growth and development of the sector through these people and help to inform UK active of the recruitment landscape for which we are uniquely placed.
Service and Delivery is at the centre of how we work, always being a pleasure to deal with and delivering the right people and teams to our clients. That’s why we believe our NPS score of over 9, Google Review scores of 4.7 average and retention stats are as high as they are.
In this role, we would truly be there to benefit the category we are representing, utilising the relationships in operations, support, training, development, and strategy to maximise the Professional Business Services category.
