November 2016 – Page 2 – Recruit Ventures

The Trump card! Here’s how to play it if you want to start your own recruitment business.

The Trump card.Here’s how to play it if you want to start your own recruitment business.
We couldn’t resist getting a bit topical! Mr Trump’s victory in the USA election may be something you approve or not.

It’s certainly got people talking and at the root of much of the controversy is the fact that he’s not a politician.

Put it another way, what’s happened is that a businessman has taken over the running of the country. Now that’s a big thing by any standards. And it sort of puts into perspective the idea of a recruitment consultant actually running a recruitment business. By comparison that’s not such a big step!

But, it is still a leap, and it does beg the question, can you do it?

There’s no reason to assume that you don’t have the necessary experience. You’re almost certainly running a busy desk, or team, right now. Without some kind of track record you’d not be even thinking of starting on your own.

You’re probably feeling a bit frustrated with being an employee; putting in the hours, hitting the targets – but somehow not seeing the rewards. It’s not uncommon.

So, you start to think about setting up your own recruitment business. Now come some big questions. OK, they’re not as big as establishing America’s foreign policy or stabilising the dollar on the international markets, but they can be quite daunting. You need to arrange backing and finance. And you need to arrange it so that you’re ready to handle the short term cash flow problems of the first few months.

Apart from outgoings being bigger than the income in that start up period there are the initial costs to deal with. Offices, staff, computers, furniture. And systems. You’ll need road tested, industry compliant software from day one.

There’s your marketing and branding to plan, and of course the necessities of legally forming your business.

And you’ve got to do it all without the security of that salary at the end of the month.

Taken all together, those challenges often put people off the whole idea.

But, there is a ‘Trump Card’ – and here’s how to play it. Talk to us.

At Recruit Ventures we have a business model aimed at professionals just like you. If you’ve got five years overall experience in recruitment and 3 years track record in your current role, we can help. We’ll provide you with 100% funding, a guaranteed salary, no personal financial risk and access to a full back office support function to help you start up your own business.

That’s a card worth playing isn’t it? There’s no campaigning, no nail biting election night. Just a well supported step from consultant to business owner. You could call yourself ‘President’if you like!

You can also find out more about Recruit Ventures unique business model at www.recruitventures.com

Author
John Buckman is chairman of Recruit Ventures and a true entrepreneur himself. Having launched and grown many successful businesses especially within the recruitment sector, John’s expert knowledge and experience grants him the opportunity to offer advice and support to others in the industry considering setting up on their own.

Could starting up your own recruitment business remove your biggest worries?

I think possibly the answer is yes! Let me explain.

A recent survey, within the recruitment industry, has revealed that stress is one of the biggest factors in being unhappy in your job. Further analysis revealed the biggest causes of that stress. The two biggest culprits are – lack of resources and support, and lack of leadership.

Now, it might at first glance appear odd for me to suggest that starting up your own recruitment business is the way to a stress free working life. It does bring challenges, and it can get stressful. But, you’d be the boss; your own boss, so ‘lack of leadership’ should not really be an issue for you. Should it?

To do it though, as you’ve probably thought quite often, you’ve got to say goodbye to the salary, and the security, such as it is.

But then you’ll also be saying goodbye to the stress of running your busy desk, or leading a team. Hitting the numbers. The numbers that someone else sets as targets, and somehow never quite rewards you when you meet them. You’ll be bidding farewell to the worries and frustration over seeing resources put in to places that you see as secondary, because you know where they’re needed more, and where they’d be more productively deployed.

In other words, just as the survey suggests, you could be stressed, largely because of lack of support, resources and leadership.

So, with your experience, maybe you should start up on your own. Except of course you see that as a stressful move too. Is it frying pan into fire territory? You need to find the finance. There will be premises to sort out, staff to find and your branding and website to get organised. There’s the big one – how do you get over the cash flow stress of the first few months when outgoings are going to be higher than income?

Does it have to be that stressful? This time I’d venture to suggest that the answer is no!

At Recruit Ventures we have a business model aimed at professionals just like you. If you’ve got five years overall experience, and 3 years track record in your current role, we can help. We’ll provide you with 100% funding, shares and dividends, a guaranteed salary, no financial risk and access to a full back office support function to support you start up your own business.

Now that would take the stress out of starting up, wouldn’t it? And you’d have removed those stresses that are dragging you down in your job (the statistics tell us). To top it all, you’d be the boss. Leading the way you think a boss should lead.

If you’re serious about starting your own recruitment business, don’t stress about it. Contact John on info@recruitventures.com

You can also find out more about Recruit Ventures unique business model at www.recruitventures.com

Here’s a thought…

Here’s A Thought For Those Thinking Of Starting Up A Recruitment Business
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“I knew that if I failed I wouldn’t regret that, but I knew the one thing I might regret is not trying.” –Jeff Bezos, Amazon Founder and CEO

When it comes to business, never was a truer word spoken. It would indeed be a sad thing to wake up one day and realise that you regret never taking that step, running that risk, and doing what you always thought you should have done. Never trying.

I fear that there might be some recruitment consultants out there who will feel that one day. The recruitment business is full of talented, experienced, entrepreneurial minded people who feel that they’d like to start their own business. Many of them do. I can testify to that. But lots don’t. They keep on saying ‘maybe next year’, or they put out some feelers, do a bit of research and then become daunted by the challenge and let it lie.

The reasons they want to do it are usually a mixture of being frustrated by their job, wanting to control their own future, and to run a business their way. And of course to feel better rewarded for their work. To make some money.

The reasons they stop trying to do it are another mixture. They can’t raise the finance, or they get nervous at not having that regular pay cheque from an employer. Get it right of course and you’ll be drawing a regular pay cheque, and hopefully a handsome one, from your own company. But, it can be daunting to leave a salaried position and go through the nervous months of a new start up. So they don’t try.

Sometimes the entrepreneurial spirit fizzles out because people suddenly realise that all those systems, all that software, that they use every day won’t be there in their own company. Well, not unless it’s paid for, which brings us back to finance. This worries them… so then they don’t try.

There are then the ones who are bursting with ideas, good at what they do, and more than capable. Which is why, when they say they’re leaving to start up on their own, their bosses lure them back. Suddenly it’s comfortable to stay and somehow not worth trying.

Or, instead of luring them back their employers use every bit of small print there is in their contracts to make it difficult for them to leave and even more difficult to start up on their own. So again they stay put. And don’t try.

And of course there’s Brexit, inflation, the state of the local economy, the state of the national economy, leaves on the track and a million other reasons why it’s best left to next year. Which usually becomes never.

The reality is that if any one of those who didn’t try had found a really straightforward, all embracing package of help they would have done it back then.

Which is where we come in. At Recruit Ventures we have a business model aimed at professionals just like them. Just like you.

If you’ve got five years overall experience, and 3 years track record in your current role, we can help. We’ll provide you with 100% funding, a guaranteed salary, no personal financial risk and access to a full back office support function to help you start up in business.

Why wouldn’t you try?

It is a big step. But you can only make it work if you try. Jeff Bezos tried. And it’s fair to say it was worth it! Remember that the next time there’s a brown paper parcel on your doormat, from Amazon.

If you want to try, email me at info@recruitventures.com for a confidential chat.

You can also find out more about Recruit Ventures business model at www.recruitventures.com