Wonderful Recruitment & Development
Dan Shepherd is an accomplished professional with extensive experience in the publishing and recruitment sectors. As a Co-Founder of Wonderful Recruitment & Development and The Wonderful Ideas Project since January 2021, Dan has played a pivotal role in shaping these organizations. Dan has held various strategic positions at AMEET Publishing since July 2017, including North American Strategy Director, Co-Publishing Partnership Director, and International Sales and Marketing Director. Prior experience includes serving as CEO at Igloo Books Ltd from August 2016 to May 2017 and as Global Sales and Marketing Director at DK from November 2012 to July 2016. Dan’s earlier career includes key leadership roles at Hachette Children's Books and Penguin Books. Dan holds a degree in Business Studies from Sheffield Hallam University, accompanied by foundational education at Alleyn's School.
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Wonderful Recruitment & Development
With nearly 50 years of experience working in publishing and media industries we have hired, trained and developed some of the finest talent. We absolutely loved almost all of it! The part that we didn’t love (and we know we aren’t alone in this) is where our mission started. . . As hiring managers, we didn’t feel good about using recruitment consultants, when most of the time we were just left with a stack of CVs and no direction or support. As candidates, hired or not, we felt like commodities with our value determined solely on how likely we were to get ‘the’ job. It is very clear to us there is a lack of opportunity for interesting people from different backgrounds, who may think that they don’t fit the industry employee mold. As employees we struggled to connect training, mentoring and coaching take-aways to our role, within our industry. We can’t solve all this completely by ourselves. But we will damn well try to offer practical solutions to create change so that the future looks more wonderful (for everyone)! So back to the mission. . . We feel strongly that now is the right time for us to use our knowledge and experience to do it differently, have a positive impact, and make things a little more wonderful. As recruiters working with hiring managers, we listen to you, search high and low for you, and support you through the full lifecycle of talent. As recruiters working with candidates, we will treat you as an individual, hear you, advocate for you and help you get to where you want to be. As development and learning partners we will make sure that our services are industry/role relevant, simple and high impact. Simply put, we started Wonderful Recruitment & Development because we want to be the partner, for hiring managers, candidates and employees, that we always wanted. So, why not try and do things a bit more (we promise this is the last time) . . . wonderfully. We would love to hear from you, info@wonderfulideasproject.com.