27 www.printmonthly.co.uk September / October 2023 - Issue 344 Q & A / MATT HANLEY, MTWO MATCHING TALENT WITH OPPORTUNITY ▲ Matt Hanley founded MTWO three years ago and has 13 years of recruitment experience First up, tell me a bit about yourself... I’m a dad first and foremost to my three kids William, Louis, and Hugo. I’m also husband to Lyndsey who also works in MTWO, and am a huge football fan and season ticket holder at Manchester City. I have terrible taste in music and am ridiculously reliant upon coffee to function (probably the kids' fault). How did you come to be in the print industry yourself? Unlike most people, I chose to be in the print industry. Bonkers eh?! Before working in recruitment I worked as a business development manager for a purchasing club that sold the premise that bulk purchasing would mean lower prices. These had to be within social housing or independent private healthcare and one of the categories I looked after was print. I got on really well with the suppliers so took an interest. When I joined my first recruitment business, I was asked to build a ‘desk’ which means to focus on an industry and so for me it was print! Tell me about MTWO for anyone who isn’t aware of what the company does... Simply, we Match Talent With Opportunity (MTWO) specifically across the print, packaging, and signage sectors. From a client’s point of view, we will be an extension of your business when attracting industry talent for your business. We are proactive not just reactive relying on people to apply through an advert. We’ve been in this industry for many years so have a pretty extensive network! As a candidate, you know you’re dealing with a recruiter that knows the space. We know organisations that will fit with your aspirations, location, and drivers. More than this though, we do what we say we are going to do. We call, we follow up, we manage the process for you, and most importantly, we feed back. MTWO is in its third year with four of us working within the business. I am personally into my 13th year of recruitment within this sector so you can imagine the network of industry professionals we have. What does a typical day look like at MTWO? It’s recruitment, there isn’t a typical day. We try and keep to a structure the best we can but things happen and stuff shifts. Our typical day starts the night before where we plan and structure the day so we come in knowing what to focus on. The day is normally split into sourcing for two positions: one in the morning and one in the afternoon and then we plan for the next day. Sounds simple, but it’s not! What is your favourite thing about MTWO? My name above the door. I care about the recruitment process, those within it, the journey, the service we provide, and how we do it. For me, you do that (and do it well) and everything else will look after itself. We have lots of repeat business and we have solid relationships and that is a reflection of us providing an exceptional level of service. Can you give any examples of jobs that you have matched people up with recently? It literally spans across every level within the industry. The most recent placement was an Estimator role in Birmingham for a commercial print business and a Creative With the need to bring young people into the industry and difficulties finding skilled workers, we catch up with the man behind recruitment company MTWO to find out more about what the company does and how we can bring new talent into print
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