Season 5 | Ep 24 – Emrah Baykal is building an agency that doesn’t revolve around booze and billers’ lunches!
On this episode of The RAG Podcast, I was joined by Emrah Baykal, the Founder & CEO of RO, a specialist energy-focused recruitment agency. The agency is based in London & Houston with 10 staff, and is part of the Tempting Ventures Group of over 80 recruiters.
Emrah is the first to admit that in the early days of his recruitment career, he loved a billers’ lunch or two.
In the first couple of years as owner of RO, he would find any excuse to take his team out for drinks (mainly because he fancied one!).
However, his attitude to all of this changed during the pandemic, as he began to exercise daily with a colleague.
Emrah began running and weightlifting and taking his nutrition more seriously. He began to develop better habits and in turn feel much healthier for it.
Since then, he has implemented some amazing ideas to ensure his own team follows suit and adopts a healthy lifestyle!
This was a great episode and one for any owner who is seriously thinking about changing their own lifestyle and the culture within their business!
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