Managing Mental Health in Recruitment with Michelle Flynn

In the latest instalment of the Recruitment Leadership Podcast, your host Alison Humphries is joined by Michelle Flynn, former recruitment Director and Founder of Michelle Flynn Coaching. 

 

After working in recruitment for over 16 years and owning her own recruitment business, Michelle is now a qualified CBT trainer and integrative nutritional health coach.

 

She works with individuals and companies to help them understand their health and happiness goals, supporting them as they put in place the habits to make achievable and sustainable changes.

 

In this episode, Alison and Michelle discuss mental health and wellbeing management in the context of the recruitment industry; covering key areas and providing expert advice, this episode is not one to be missed. 

 

Timestamped guide:

 

00:51 - How did your career path lead you to be counselling and consulting in this area?

 

3:57 - Why has the topic of mental health and wellbeing taken flight in the recruitment sector?

 

5:45 - We have a very young age profile across the industry with a lot of responsibility and expectations, do you think that is a factor?

 

9:02 - What actionable changes would you suggest many recruitment business owners would make?

 

13:24 - What kind of things should managers look out for if somebody isn’t approaching them for help?

 

16:09 - Are there any policy level things that you think at a company level, if somebody changed their policy it would overall have a positive effect on their staff?

 

21:02 - What advice do you have differentiating the blurred lines between real mental health issues, or someone taking advantage?

 

24:29 - Advice on using the Bradford score 

 

25:40 - Can you talk us through how you make an assessment for mental health?

 

30:22 - Useful resources 

 

If you would like to find out how Michelle Flynn Coaching can help to support your business, visit the website or connect with Michelle directly on LinkedIn:

 

👤  https://www.linkedin.com/in/michelleflynn/

💻  https://michelleflynncoaching.com/

 

To find out how Alison Humphries expertise can help elevate your recruitment business, get in touch today: alison@recruitmentleadership.co.uk

 

If you would like to get in touch with any of the resources that have been mentioned in this podcast, please see below:

 

Mind -  0300 123 3393

Samaritans -  116 123

Calm - 0800 58 58 58