Want to grow your own recruitment company?

Build your brand by building their brand.

 There is growing evidence that the concept of ‘employer branding’ is as robust as ever. A recent survey flagged up some 77% of business leaders claiming that employer branding is important and that they use it to attract candidates.

SMEs in particular are looking to put more of their budget into employer branding.

That would be their recruitment budget. Money that could therefore be spent with the right kind of consultancy. A consultancy who understands that every recruitment ad a business runs says something about the  company, and the brand, just as much as an ad for their product or service.  A consultancy who will go that extra mile to help develop an employer brand for its client, rather than just ‘place the ad’.

If there’s a problem with all of that it’s this. How do you find the time, especially if you’re startup, to engage with your client at that level?

If you’re thinking of starting up you’ve doubtless thought it through. By the time you’ve got your business launched the amount of things you’ll need to do will rule out offering anything other than the basic service. Which is ironic, because your dream is all about offering that extra level of service you believe in but your current role doesn’t allow you to deliver.   Sound familiar?

Let’s walk through the things that you’ve probably identified as time consuming and service restricting. From the outset you’ll be up to your neck in organising the finance for your new venture. Then there will be the stage when you’re sorting out registering the business. That’s closely followed by arranging premises, developing your branding and getting your systems and software installed.

That lot done you get on with some actual recruiting. Except now of course there’s the invoicing and admin to do, as well as HR, I.T, payroll and HMRC to look after.

So, to come full circle, how are you going to offer anything but a basic service now that you’re the boss and there’s too much to do? You could just shelve your

dream of running your own, dynamic, recruitment business of course.

Or, you could talk to us. The Recruit Venture Group exists specifically to help recruitment professionals to start up their own businesses.

We’ll provide a full, 100%, risk free,  finance package. You’ll be able to pay yourself a salary from your own company – in which you will have shares. You’ll draw dividends too.

We’ll guide you through the  registration of your company. We’ll sort your premises, work with you on your branding, and we’ll give you full access to our back office and software making you compliant and operational from day one. We’ll even handle your invoicing and payroll.

Then, without intruding, we’ll stay with you to ensure that you’re supported, kept up to speed with industry trends and  made fully aware of changes to legislation.

Now, with that level of backing and support you can really focus on what you’re good at. Engaging with clients. Building  your business. You’ll have the time to work with clients on strategic issues like employer branding. Which will not only send out the right signals about your market awareness, it will help build your brand. Because you’ll be seen to be building their brand.

All over the uk recruitment businesses are being set up with our support.

We do need to know that you have five consecutive years’ experience in the recruitment industry, and ideally three years track record within the same sector.

If you tick those boxes and you’re ready to launch your own recruitment business in the uk,  Apply Now.

This could be the start of your own brand new business.

Setting up your own recruitment business means setting targets.

Your problem…you’re aiming at a moving target!

All businesses need to set targets. It’s how you achieve things. Financial targets, time targets, profitability targets – without them you’ve no way of measuring your success. Or failure.

As a new business you’ll need targets from the outset. How much turnover do you need to take this to the next level? By when do you aim to reach that level?

But that’s all about running the business, and in truth it could apply to any business. There are other targets for the new – and for that matter established – recruitment business, and that list includes the target audiences; top of that list is the jobseeker. The Candidate.

And that’s where the problem comes. The jobseeker is now a moving target. They’re pushed for time, they’re rushing around, they’re digitally savvy and they expect you to reach them on their mobile devices. The smart phone is now a vitally important medium to you, because it’s inextricably linked to them.

So far, so good. There’s little chance if you’re reading this that you don’t know how the market works. But, at the moment there’s an equally fair chance that someone you’ve hardly ever met is driving your employer’s I.T. and pushing out digital messages to prime targets on your behalf.

When you’re the boss – you’re going to be responsible for it. At the very least that means  ensuring your brand new brand’s website is optimised for mobile screen display. In the bigger picture it means you’ll need a fully thought through digital marketing strategy, and the technology to deliver it.

Dealing with that when you’re up to your eyes in starting up isn’t easy. You’re going to have plenty of  other things to do (and targets to hit) so immersing yourself in online strategy is something you won’t have time for, and, let’s face it, no matter how good a recruitment consultant you are, you’re probably not a digital strategy expert.

At The Recruit Venture group we have the technology. We know about technology and how it relates to recruitment. Optimising your website is only a part of it. We also offer you full access to our back office meaning that even as a startup you’ll have as good an admin system as anyone.

We provide the finance to get you started too. A full package of support taking in registering your company through to sending out the invoices. You’ll be able to pay yourself a salary; it makes a huge difference when you’re starting up to know that you can pay your bills.

All over the uk recruitment businesses are being set up with our support – and they’re going on to become very successful. If you’ve got five years recruitment experience and the drive to do this, Apply Now

We know about helping recruitment professionals start up their own businesses. And we know a lot about the technology you’ll need to hit your targets.

 

Start your own recruitment company?

Listen to what those already up and running are saying?

When you’re thinking of setting up on your own it would be folly not to take some soundings from existing businesses in the same sector. Fortunately for us, the recruitment sector does produce a lot of surveys, feedback and intelligence and here’s a straight fact from 2017.

When asked, 65% of recruitment professionals quoted increasing profitability as a ‘primary goal’ for 2017.

Why wouldn’t they? It’s what business is all about – growing, improving performance. But take note – that answer came from existing recruitment businesses.  What it shows therefore is that even after you’re established there’s a need, in today’s market, to increase profitability. So, what’s it going to be like for a start up?

The truth is it could be somewhat challenging. In those early stages there are a lot of outgoings to be dealt with; legal fees, branding, premises, leases, systems, software, furniture – and that’s just to get you started. And they’re all coming before you’ve established any significant income streams which means the cash flow is stretched. On top of which you’re highly likely to be starting the repayments on the loan you raised to launch the business.

Throw in the attendant worries about paying your own mortgage and domestic bills and somehow profit, let alone increased profit, seems a long way off.

And yet, all over the country, recruitment businesses that started up with support from The Recruit Venture Group are getting into profit soon after launching and increasing their profitability at an impressive rate.

The reason is that we provide a total, and risk free, package of support.

Full initial funding is just part of it. You’ll also get shares in, and dividends from, your own business. At the same time you’ll have access to a complete back office and support system.

Being able to pay yourself a salary from day one will give you the peace of mind to concentrate on building you business.

We’re here to guide you, and support you, but it’s your business. The difference is that with big backing and smaller overheads you’re in with a better chance of profitability than most.

Apart from most of our Recruit Venture Group start ups – who are doing rather well thank you. Apply Now.

You could profit from it.

 

Dreaming of starting your own recruitment company?

Don’t count the days. Make the days count.

“Don’t count the days. Make the days count”.

Wise words indeed. From Muhammad Ali as a matter of fact.Continue reading

Ready to be the manager or the leader?

Presumably your next question is ‘what’s the difference?’

In some ways there are quite a lot of things that separate a leader from a manager.

A manager develops performance – utilising individual strengths to delegate tasks for example. They make decisions, take ownership and prioritise objectives. Slightly risk averse perhaps but a good manager delivers. It’s about a consistency of approach. No matter what you throw at them a good manager rises to the challenge. Able to learn from mistakes, a manager seeks feedback and reacts positively. Good with the team. Gets things done. That’s a good manager.

But a leader?  That’s different. A leader sees the big picture. A leader sees how to structure the team from the start. A leader takes a more strategic view, sees new initiatives and explores their potential, long before the detailed objectives are set. It’s about creating the environment in which innovation will thrive. Taking the risks and breaking the rules.

Let’s get down to it.  When you start up your own recruitment business you’re probably going to have to be both. Leader and manager. At the same time.

And time is the problem. While you’re leading – forming the company, branding it, giving it an identity, establishing the systems that managers will operate, finding the clients that managers will service – you will probably also have to, and you can see where this is going, operate the systems and service the clients as a manager yourself.

Its early days and you’re not going to have ranks of staff. You are though going to have lots to do.  And it’s all got to be done while you’re balancing the pressures of starting up your own business with the demands, and risk, of paying your own mortgage and bills – without that regular pay check you just walked away from.

Relax. There is way through all of this.

At The Recruit Venture Group we like to think that our way is your way. Your way ahead is to start your own recruitment business. Our way is to provide you with the finance and freedom to do it. Your way needs capital to launch and shares in your own business. Our way is to deliver all of that – and then support you with a full back office system.

Your way has a risk. Our way removes it.

At the start, we’ll be the leader. Big picture stuff. You bring five years’ experience in recruitment and a good business case. The details.

Fully funded by us, and risk free, you pay yourself a salary for even greater peace of mind. Then you get on with running your own business. And you do it with the freedom to think – to be a leader.

Soon of course you could be thinking about taking on managers who you will lead.

Apply Now, Our solution could give you the best of both worlds

 

Got any worries about starting your own recruitment company?

No? Then try these.

You’ve absolutely no worries about starting up your own recruitment business? Really?

We salute you because the vast majority of would be start ups have loads of worries about it.

If you haven’t thought of any yet, try these three for starters.

Adopting technology

 It’s relentless. It’s not just about having the right systems in place to be fully operational from day one, it’s about ensuring that it’s always supported and backed up. And then it’s about making sure that it’s constantly upgraded and updated.

It’s not just the admin technology either. It’s very much to do with adopting technology to enhance the relationships with clients and candidates.

 Engaging clients and candidates

It’s this bit. Clients and candidates now expect to engage with you in more ways than ever before. Online submissions, sms messaging, mobile friendly websites and interfaces – they’re all part of the mix of media that are driving the recruitment sector. It’s about technology. And it’s about ensuring you invest the time it saves into client and candidate relationships. Online, offline, engagement is everything.

Hitting the targets

Once you’ve started your own business, targets take on a different meaning. As an employee, hitting the targets mean a pat on the back and a bonus. (Maybe. Remember those?). As an employer they mean survival. It’s down to you now.

The truth is that those three worries have caused some possible start ups to stop. To be frank, they are daunting. To step out of the relative comfort of a job into the potential stress of running a business can appear less than attractive.

But if those worries can be addressed, and resolved, then the whole idea of starting up on your own starts to make more sense. And that’s why we’re here.

At the Recruit Venture Group we provide you with the finance and freedom to start your own business. You’ll get and shares in your own company, and you’ll earn dividends.

You’ll be able to pay yourself a salary, so you’ll know that your domestic bills are paid; it helps a lot. We also give you access to our full back office system, which means you’ll be operational, with industry compliant systems from the start.

It’s your business, and you’ll own and run it; but we’re there to help and guide on legal, taxation, and HR matters.

And of course, with our technology help, strategic input and admin back up you’ll be able to adopt technology, engage with clients and candidates – and hit targets.

We do need to know that you have five consecutive years’ experience in the recruitment industry, and ideally three years track record within the same sector.

If you do, and you want to do this, Apply Now

 

Launch your own recruitment business for a few pounds – but does that do it?

The start point for your new company is of course to register it as a company. Sounds obvious, but it’s one of those things that’s so obvious it’s easy to forget.

And when you get to the point of doing it there’s always an ‘expert’ – often your mate Dave who once knew someone who knew someone who worked in a solicitor’s office, as an intern – who will tell you that ‘what you do’ is buy a company ‘off the shelf’ and you can ‘do it online now’ and it only costs ‘a few pounds’.

Well, Dave isn’t entirely wrong. It can be done. And it will probably be legal. The problem is you could find some massive holes where the Articles of Association and Share Certificates should be, and a very noticeable silence from what you’d hoped would be the ‘follow up advice’ and ‘what to do next’ departments.

The facts are that there’s a whole lot more to setting up a business than buying a company name, and lot of advice you need to hear on turning a legal necessity into a recruitment consultancy.

To begin with you need those Articles and Certificates to be sorted out and legal. Then, you may need to change the name of the company you bought to bring it in line with your brand ideas- and that will have to be legally addressed as well.

All of that comes before you actually get in to the exciting business of launching your business. Only then can you start making things happen.

At least you can if you’ve got the right finance behind you, and you’ve found premises, and you’ve sorted out your software and systems…….it’s all bit more complicated than you thought.

Except it needn’t be. The Recruit Venture Group exists specifically to help recruitment professionals to start up their own businesses. And we start at the very beginning. We’ll organise registration of your company for you. We’ll take care of the paperwork and ensure that it’s all legal.

Then we’ll provide a full finance package. You’ll be able to pay yourself a salary from your own company – in which you will have shares. You’ll draw dividends too.

We’ll sort your premises, work with you on your branding, and we’ll give you full access to our back office and software making you compliant and operational from day one.

All over the UK recruitment businesses are being set up with our support – and they’re going on to become very successful. If you’ve got five years recruitment experience and you want to give it a shot, don’t waste time buying a name for your company when you could be making a name for yourself?

 

Running your own recruitment business puts you on the front line.

But don’t worry as we’ve got your back

Starting up on your own is the dream of many recruitment consultants across the country. Sufficiently experienced, suitably ambitious and seriously driven individuals with a strong entrepreneurial streak.

Most consultants with anything approaching a cv in the sector are probably running their own team or desk already – which is pretty much like running your own business anyway. So why wouldn’t you consider doing it for yourself?

The rewards become your own, and you have a say in your future. You’ll get the chance to try out the ideas you’ve been nurturing, confident that you could deliver something new and positive to clients and candidates alike.

Go for it.

You’ll need to sort the finance of course, and the whole business of registering your company, making it legal, and developing a branding will all need doing. Then comes premises, software systems and all the equipment and furnishings you need to get the business operational.

But, leaving all of that aside for a moment, there is, increasingly, something else to consider before you take that leap from recruitment employee to recruitment employer. Recruitment companies, and the people heading them up, are exposed to criminal charges; and the evidence is that they don’t know enough about it.

And things are changing too. The Criminal Finances Act, for example, which comes into effect this year, ‘creates corporate offences for cases where a person associated with a body, corporate or partnership facilitates the commission by another person of a tax evasion offence’. In other words, if  a recruitment company in any way promoted or suggested, or was involved with, any form of tax evasion scheme for a client, they would themselves be liable to prosecution and even imprisonment.

It’s a huge and complex area, and thankfully won’t apply to the vast majority of recruitment professionals and companies around the UK. But, all of this does highlight the need to be up to speed with legislation, rules and responsibilities. And that’s not always easy when you’re busy starting up a business on your own.

Which is why we’re always quick to point out that you can be your own boss without being on your own.

At The Recruit Venture Group we provide you with the finance and freedom to  start your own business. You’ll get shares in your own company, and you’ll earn dividends.

You’ll be able to pay yourself a salary, so you’ll know that your domestic bills are paid; it helps a lot. We also give you access to our full back office system, which means you’ll be operational, with industry compliant systems from the start.

What we do on top of all that is stay with you. It’s your business, and you’ll own and run it; but we’re there to help and guide you on legal, taxation, and HR matters. It’s a service you’d be unlikely to provide yourself, and it’s increasingly important that you’re protected.

If you’ve got five years’ experience in recruitment and you’re serious about starting up – Apply Now.

It’s your chance to go out on your own – without being alone.

 

Running your own recruitment company is the key to your future. But it doesn’t stop there.

There’s no doubt that setting up and running your own business is the dream for many recruitment professionals. A solid cv, a serious chunk of experience – these are the building blocks for going it alone. It’s the opportunity to put your own ideas into practice and, what’s more, take control of your own future.

The point is that running your own business means it’s not just your own future you’re responsible for.

As a recruitment professional (because if you’re not, you’re not likely to be reading this) you’ll be aware of the Taylor Review of Modern Working Practices. It’s true that the general thrust of the Review is aimed at the role of workers in the ‘gig’ economy. But, overall, it is about the future of ‘work’, and with that in mind it does have something to say that’s relevant to your future as a business owner. The Review states that

• All workers should feel they have realistically attainable ways to strengthen their future prospects at work
• Individuals should also be able to develop their skills through “formal and informal learning” as well as “on the job and off the job activities.”

 Who could disagree? Who would disagree? The fact is though that if you’re setting up your own recruitment business, no matter how good your intentions, the training and support of staff might not be at the top of your list of priorities at the outset.

It’s understandable. After all, you’ll have been immersed in setting up the company, finding a suitable financial backer, securing good terms with them and then getting on with finding clients – and candidates. You’ll have been up to your proverbial ears in acquiring all the necessary systems and software too. Not easy that one.

So, without doubting your integrity, or generosity of spirit, for a moment, it is just possible that, when it comes to your staff, existing and in the future, providing ‘realistically attainable ways to strengthen their future prospects at work’ and delivering ‘formal and informal learning’ as well as ‘on the job and off the job activities’ for them may just, understandably, have slipped through your net. Just saying.

It’s because would be startups in the recruitment business need guidance and support as well as financial backing that we do what we do. It’s because we know that you’ll need the time to do all that’s expected of you that we provide a comprehensive package. And it’s because we know that to focus you need peace of mind we provide a risk free package.

At The Recruit Venture Group we deliver full financial backing to launch your business, plus the autonomy that comes with shares and dividends in that business.

Able to pay yourself a salary from the outset you’ll have that peace of mind that allows you to focus on your business, your future, and the futures of those who work for you.

So if, as a recruitment professional with around five years’ experience, you feel it’s time to start up your own recruitment business and take control of your future, Apply Now.

 

Let’s be honest, there is a lot written about Apple and some of it is, shall we say, difficult to prove. That said, it is probably the most valuable company in the world.

One of the stories that’s been bouncing around the internet for some time is that Apple are considering building a car. Something ‘to give Tesla a run for its money’ is one of the quotes out there.

There are other theories about what Apple might be up to. A self drive car, the very latest in-car entertainment – the truth is we just don’t know.

What we do know is that in interviews with Apple management the ‘project ‘was being handled in the same way as other major product developments. Apple – a huge company with thousands of employees – separates the team involved, so that they don’t feel like part of a big company.

They’re encouraged to feel like they’re a new start up.

That’s how the iPhone and the iPod were developed and the word is that, (whatever it actually is), that’s what’s going on with the ‘car’ project.

What’s interesting about that is the ‘Apple start up mentality’. An attitude that understands that there is an excitement, a drive, a hunger in a start up business that propels it forwards, to success.

We understand that too. It’s why we we’ve built a business dedicated to helping recruitment professionals start up on their own. We’ve learned to recognise the same qualities of ambition and passion in people who’ve gained enough experience to know that they want to ‘go it alone’.

The entrepreneurial spirit has always been strong in the recruitment sector. Running your own desk, or team, is not so very far away from running your own business and the desire to ‘do it my way’ often turns in to a real determination to start up a new business.

What we do is provide 100% risk free funding, shares in, and dividends from, your own company and full access to our back office and systems. We guide you through the legalities of setting up your own business, help with branding and websites, provide an invoicing service and stay with you to keep you up to date with industry trends and legislation. But it’s always your business.

We do need to know that you have five years consecutive experience in the recruitment industry, and ideally three years track record within the same sector. Otherwise all we ask is that you bring that drive and ambition to your start up.

Because, just like Apple, we see that the excitement of a start up is often the launch pad for success.

Are you ready for it?  If you’re ready to launch your own recruitment business in the uk, Apply Now.

This could be the start of something big!