Richard Hodgson

Guildford, United Kingdom United Kingdom

Founder at Startin'​ up & Interim Head of Talent Attraction, Samsung Europe

Electronics / Computer Hardware

I’m the Founder of Startin’up, a Talent Consultancy supporting Start-ups with their Recruitment Attraction as well as an interim Talent Attraction Leader for Samsung Electronics. I started life as an Army guy which whilst unusual was some training ground at the age of 16, that fuelled my adrenaline fix and to be perfectly honest I was a little lost when I left several years later, imagine out the gates into the big bad world without a helicopter – yikes! I have always been very positive, adaptable and driven, it’s not a huge shock that I naturally fell into sales which led me into recruitment, I am obsessed with driving talent attraction strategies that connect on an emotional level wit...