Be honest, you’ve been dreaming about running your own recruitment business. Being a director. The boss. Lots of recruitment professionals feel the same. Running that desk, finding clients, placing candidates, hitting the numbers – it’s as good as running your own company anyway. Except the rewards aren’t quite as good.
One of the problems that many new start ups face is that suddenly the entire business of dealing with the media becomes an issue. Inside your employer’s team you’ve been somewhat protected from establishing a deal with the job boards for instance. You’re posting lots of roles on them, but someone else is looking after the monthly cost of that.
And people do love the job boards!
Yes, they’re important. Recent research has shown that the job boards are still the favourite means for recruiters to source candidates. They are a means of accessing talent. So you’re ‘on trend’. You’re doing the right thing as a hard working consultant. But then again, they’re not the only source open to you are they? And that’s where it starts to raise questions.
The questions.
Well, let’s start with the one we’ve already alluded to. You’re trying to run your new, just started up, recruitment business. You’re not used to dealing with ‘the deal’ by which you negotiate the rate for using the boards. And as a new business you don’t have a credit record with them either. It’s going to be a challenge.
Then there’s the question about the future. Will the job boards be the future? This is a digital, social media, world and new media opportunities emerge quickly. Some make sense and have potential. Some don’t. But they all need examining and as a recruiter you’ll need to make an informed decision about using them or not.
The answer is rooted in your being able to find the time, and have the ‘space’ to make those examinations and decisions. It’s about you having the status to do business with the media on favourable terms too. Which is why we think our Joint Venture model is the perfect answer for you.
At The Recruit Venture Group we specialise in helping recruitment professionals start up their own businesses. We provide 100% risk free funding. You get shares in, and dividends from, your own company. You’ll be able to pay yourself a salary from the start, which means you have the freedom to concentrate on recruitment.
We give you full access to our back office and systems so you’ll be operational from the outset.
And we’ll be behind you with our reputation to support you in your dealings and in your intelligence gathering. While you’re concentrating on recruitment – your business – we’ll be monitoring the business. We’ll be watching the trends, the new media and the latest techniques so that we can feed it back to you. So that you can make the right moves, and get the right deals.
To give that amount of support we do need to know you’re serious about starting up. We want to know you’ve got five years continuous experience in recruitment, and you’ve specialised in a sector. We’d like to see your business plan.