James Dixon
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1,536 appearances
9 recordings
1 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 25 Jun
James Dixon’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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On with today's episode, and um we're gonna be uh kicking things off by referencing an article that was published on Event Industry News a few weeks ago.
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Um, and in 2025, an ESSER survey found that 73% of UK event businesses struggled to recruit in the previous year, with 88% citing a shortage of suitable candidates.
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Um and the article that ran on events.
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Industry News referenced that the event school London had been approved as England's first provider of ATHE level four to seven off-qual regulated event management diplomas, a structured industry-led pathway designed to open doors into the events industry and support long-term career progression.
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I'm delighted that joining the podcast today from the Event School London is Maria O'Day, who's going to talk about the
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We'll talk a little bit more about that announcement.
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Maria, a very good afternoon to you in Australia.
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It's it's great.
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Thanks so much.
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You've be uh I know that you're you're obviously based over in the in the UK, but you're over in Australia at at the moment.
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So um really sort of generous of you to to to take a bit of time out while you're you're over there to uh to have a chat with us about this.
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Um I mentioned in the intro there that the this ESSA survey found that seventy-three percent of UK event businesses struggled to recruit in the previous year, based on a survey that was done in twenty twenty-five.
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Was that
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the kind of um, you know, lighting of the touch paper, so to speak, that that drove you to do this or was this already in motion?
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Absolutely.
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And and his historically I know this is a bit of a sweeping statement,
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for for many years, people a lot of people accidentally found themselves in the event industry.
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Despite the all all of the economics that goes behind it, all the reports that say what a contributing factor it is to the UK economy and indeed to to other international economies.
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The a lot of people would either leave university or maybe come from another career, maybe marketing backgrounds.
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It was amazing how many people kind of fell into the event industry by accident.
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