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.