scalr sagecast - #54 - Martyn Hill - Rehumanising Reference Checks

Welcome back to scalr sagecast.

This week, I’m joined by Martyn Hill - award-winning recruiter, startup founder and community leader with deep roots in WA’s mining and blue-collar space.

Martyn’s had a huge year. He’s won multiple industry awards (including RCSA Recruitment Professional of the Year 2024), launched Refereez - a smart, human-led reference checking platform - and somehow still finds time to coach jobseekers, support fellow recruiters, and champion the community through Rubberband and the RCSA.

In this episode, we unpack:

• The lessons Martyn’s learned from over a decade of high-volume mining recruitment
• Why he built Refereez - and what he thinks is broken with traditional reference checking
• The power of community and vulnerability in an industry that often pretends to have it all together
• And how to balance ambition with impact in both agency and startup life

Martyn brings heart, humility, and serious hustle to everything he does - and this one’s packed with takeaways whether you’re in recruitment, running a business, or trying to do work that actually means something.

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