Companies looking for a ‘culture fit’ have got the wrong idea - Rich Cobbold

Rich is the EMEA Recruitment Specialist for Google Cloud. Starting his career recruiting for marketing roles in an agency, Rich, quickly learned the benefits developing long term relationships can have on one's career. Building true and meaningful client and candidate relationships has always been at the core of Rich’s recruitment strategy. In 2012 he was approached by a company looking to expand the digital arm of their enterprise. He was in charge of hiring anyone needed to maintain and develop their website. Over the next 6 years, his division grew across the UK. Rich started to manage several different teams and advise teams in other areas of the world on how to found their own digital business units. He was also added to the board of directors. After a seven-year stint working agency side, Rich moved to an in-house role working for Google Cloud. This move was spurred by his desire to work in long term partnerships with clients. Initially, he acted as the point of contact for all cloud marketing and communications across EMEA, before also getting involved in technical project management hiring, hiring for other business units like Waze and finally acting as a point of contact for DACH Sales.