Our team is headed up by Director & Founder Steve Wyeth. With a recruitment career spanning two decades, Steve is a trusted advisor and a respected voice in all things recruitment. Steve’s passion is helping to change peoples lives for the better by bringing job seekers and employers together, helping advance careers and allow companies to expand & thrive, through making great hires.
A little intro form Steve:
‘I started working in shipping & logistics back in 1997, when I joined Allport Freight (now EV Cargo) as a Dock Runner, and later became an Import Customs Entry Clerk, using dot matrix printers, dumb green screened terminals (no PCs) & a mobile phone that whoever left the office took with them, and as long as the stars aligned, you’d get a signal. I later joined Jardine Logistics (now Toll Global Forwarding), before setting up my first recruitment company, a specialist recruiter to the shipping, freight forwarding & logistics industry – SDW Recruitment‘
‘When I first started SDW back in 2002, candidates used to drop or post in their CVs, everyone had a fax machine and the internet was still in its infancy, and people looking for jobs in the local paper on a Thursday (jobs day) and did not go on indeed, reed, or CV Library’
‘Things have certainly changed over the last 23 years, technology has made many aspects of life so impersonal, emails, texts, DMs etc… We used to meet everyone, both clients and candidates face-to-face, over a coffee and build strong lasting relationships. Zoom, Teams didn’t exist. However, technology is a good thing, and now we are embracing a massive shift with AI.’
‘I believe AI will have a massive impact on our lives and it is still very much in its infancy. With regards to recruitment, I believe it will certainly make the back office, admin & outreach a lot easier and will do many of the tasks we currently do manually. It will draft a great advert, but will need checking & tweaking, changing the tone etc… but the groundwork will be done. Parsing CVs, searching databases, identifying candidates, it will certainly help & do a bloody good job I am sure. But what it won’t do is build relationships, rapport & trust’
‘Changing jobs is one of the most stressful and important decisions people make. People like to deal with people. In the main, people trust people. Recruitment by it’s very nature is a people industry, and although AI can no doubt identify good candidates, search for relevant skills – it cannot and in my view, never will in my time, be able to get to know the real person, what are their real drivers, really get to know their personality, what environments they thrive in. Their family situation, their hobbies, past-times… I could go on…. AI cannot do that’
‘Good, quality recruitment will be where human intelligence, empathy, trust & relationships meet and merge with AI. AI will do the legwork, many of the clever bits & most of the admin, all what has traditionally took most of our day. Leaving recruitment experts to have real human conversations, build trust, forge relationships and bring experienced talent together with great companies.’
‘So AI can and will do most of the work like screening, scheduling & admin – but when it comes to high value activities, skills & traits that make a successful hiring process, such as; empathy, building relationships & trust, consulting, influencing, problem solving, personalised candidate & client care. AI can’t do that. Good human recruiters can though.’
Steve has 3 beautiful daughters (pictured above), a Cocker Spaniel called Rocky and loves a beer & a good curry. Steve is honest, straight talking but empathetic in his approach. You’re guaranteed no bullshit, if he doesn’t know the answer he’ll know someone who does. There is never any hard sell, with Steve it’s all about building trust and long lasting relationships, regardless if a fee is involved or not. Steve truly has a passion for recruitment and changing peoples lives for the better, whilst helping companies hire the best talent.
My mission is to make recruitment better for everyone… Steve Wyeth | Founder & Director
Get in touch today and find out more by calling 023 8033 6633 or emailing hi@bluerocketrec.co.uk