By Paul Mizen, Managing Director of The Recruit Venture Group.

One of the best bits of advice I was ever given was about being focused on what I wanted to achieve and that concentration is a skill required by every successful recruiter.

Its concentration that allows you grow your desk, win business and fill jobs; and it is your ability to concentrate that could lead you to say goodbye to being a successful employee and hello to being the owner of a successful and profitable business.

Many great potential businesses never make it off the ground, because of a lack of concentration.

Budding recruitment entrepreneurs lose their concentration, they get bogged down finding the right software provider and spend too much time dealing with the banks, struggling to raise the capital they need to launch.

With so much to focus on, it is no surprise that recruiters trying to break out on their own, lose focus on what really matters; recruitment.

The 45 businesses which I have helped to create and continue to support today, all have one thing in common; they are free to focus on recruitment; they can concentrate on the very thing that will allow them to make their business a success.

They can do this because they have The Recruit Venture Group behind them, as an extension to their team, which allows recruiters to launch a business while concentrating on the thing they do best.

Our unique joint venture model ensures that you can hit the ground running from day one with the stressful set-up process taken care of by a team of experts in their field.

The support from The Recruit Venture Group does not end there, we will provide you with full back office support; enabling you to concentrate on winning business, finding candidates and filling jobs for your clients.

You concentrate on exactly what you currently do, providing a great service to your clients and finding the right job for your candidates but you are doing it in the best business in the world; your business.

Everything you need to grow your business is available or signposted and I will be on hand to mentor and support you through the process.

But don’t take my word for it, feel free to contact any of the business owners who were once in your shoes and are now running their own successful business with The Recruit Venture Group’s support.

 

Don’t Ditch Your New Year’s Resolutions! 

By Paul Mizen, Managing Director of The Recruit Venture Group.

In case you didn’t know, ‘World Ditch New Year’s Resolutions Day’ has come and gone.

It seems the idea for such a day goes back a long way. Its supporters say, ‘why fool yourselves into believing that you’re going to keep the resolutions you make? Few people do. It’s all pointless really. So, we’ve nominated a day when you can ditch your promises without shame’.

It is an admittedly slightly humorous stance. The gym memberships taken out in January and then never used again are almost a comedy cliche now. Not too many diets last beyond February.

But, on a more serious note, there is something a bit ‘defeatist’ about such a day isn’t there? And in my world, it has a particular resonance because, for fairly obvious reasons, many recruitment start ups choose to launch in January – because taking that big, exciting, step has been a New Year’s Resolution.

To be fair, as resolutions go, it’s a pretty big one. But so are the rewards. Taking control of your own destiny, building something of your own, creating wealth and establishing a future for yourself and your family. These are the things that come from running your own business.

Would be recruitment start-ups have, in my experience, seen those goals, and rewards (because they are both) as things that can’t be achieved as an employee. Having put in the time, gained the experience and delivered the numbers, they reach a point where they realise that to all intents and purposes they’re pretty much running a business anyway. (Funny how your line manager sees ‘autonomy’ as a great blessing and boost to you, and you see having to do it alone means little support and less rewards isn’t it?).

That is when the notion, the idea, of going it alone kicks in. In addition, the entrepreneurial spirit that was the catalyst for it fires up the imagination. This is the chance to do things your way; to implement your ideas for delivering the kind of competitive, game changing recruitment consultancy you know you can create.

That is precisely the sort of person, at exactly the sort of time, we like to meet. The Recruit Venture Group exists for you. We’ll provide 100% risk free funding. We’ll help you with premises and marketing. We’ll give you access to our back office systems so that you’re in full working order from the start of your start up.

It will be your business. We will stay with you to offer support and guidance but you’ll be the boss.

Now, tell me. If you are in that mind-set, are you really going give it all up on January 17th because someone has decreed it ‘World Ditch New Year’s Resolutions Day’?

Frankly, if you are, you are probably not the sort of person we’d back anyway. Sorry if that sounds harsh, but you can see my point.
More to the point, why would you ditch your dreams?

This is your chance to do something great. To shine. It’s the opportunity to see the rewards for your efforts, be acknowledged for your achievements and build a future.

We won’t buy into you if you buy into an idea like a day to ditch your dreams.

We will though back you if you’re prepared not to look back!