In this episode Lee & Matt discuss:

• Formative influences from Matt’s hard working parents on his values and mindset

• How exposure to South Africa’s evolution guided Matt’s sense of purpose

• The power of broadening your perspectives

• Inploi’s balance of high tech solutions with the imperative need for human connection

Links & references

Extrology:

https://www.extrology.com/

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Lee Cooper:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/leecooperrecruiter/

Matthew de la Hey:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthew-de-la-hey/

inploi:

https://www.inploi.com/

https://www.linkedin.com/company/inploi/

Get in touch: lee@extrology.com

Episode highlights:

“Through my early experiences, I realised it’s incumbent upon us to do something to make South Africa and the world a better place. I want to make a difference in the world greater than self-enrichment.” - 6:00 - Matthew de la Hey

“The irony of leaving Africa to study Africa was not lost on me, but I think it was really good to get out of South Africa and look at it from the outside, particularly being a white kid in South Africa, living in a pretty privileged subset of the country. You're not exposed in the same way necessarily to what others experience.” - 16:45 - Matthew de la Hey

“The people who can least afford friction in moving around jobs, are those who suffer the worst user experiences online.” - 32:00 - Matthew de la Hey

“Selling to hotels, restaurants, cafes, bars and pubs, going into the pandemic, all of them immediately stopped hiring and then started cutting every cost they can. Top of that list is software to help you make more hires. So we went from ticking along fairly well to being dead overnight.” - 39:15 - Matthew de la Hey

“One of our fundamental beliefs, or cornerstone philosophies, is that we should be using technology to free up people to be more human - for putting the human back into human resources.” - 48:45 - Matthew de la Hey

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