Your “ gig” is starting your own recruitment company so it’s worth thinking about the gig economy
The ‘gig economy’ is on the rise, and you need to be aware of its potential.
Starting your own recruitment business means tapping in to every possible source of revenue, and delivering as complete a service as possible. You’ll have your own areas of expertise and specialism, which will be vital, but widening the net will be equally essential.
The ‘gig economy’ is an area that any recruiter needs to be looking at right now. It’s growing worldwide, and it’s changing. Initially perhaps associated with low paid, non- professional roles and people it’s rapidly developing into a mindset for a flexible way of working. And it’s embracing professionals too. Now, it’s about highly skilled people who want to work in freelance environment, rather than inside the corporate structure.
The way to the market is changing
Inevitably, the need to match the right people to the right ‘gig based’ role has driven developments in the media. A significant number of online platforms have emerged to service the gig economy. And of course recruitment consultants need to be aware of the media choices available to them to identify opportunities.
The market itself is changing
This increase in the numbers of people actively looking for short term work, and its attractiveness to employers who can ‘hire when necessary’ is having an effect on the recruitment market. There’s every reason to believe that the gig economy is impacting on available skills as people increase their experience by moving from contract to contract. Also, a freelancer can bring an informed, but external and objective view to an employer’s problem.
These are positives that the sensible recruitment business will build on, maximising the potential of the gig economy.
Seizing that potential as a start up.
The fact that the gig economy is rapidly developing is part of the challenge. New media, with whom you will need new contracts and credit arrangements, new rules and legislation, especially where the freelance world overlaps with the temporary and part time world, and of course the likely cash flow implications of placing non-permanent candidates – all of these need constant attention and expert knowledge. And they are two commodities that you may not have in large abundance when you’re starting up your own recruitment business.
Which is where we come in. At The Recruit Venture Group we provide a complete package for startup recruitment businesses. You get shares in, and dividends from, your own company. Backed with 100% funding you’ll also have access to our back office systems and support, which mean you’re up and running from the first day.
And more even than all of that, we stay with you, to advise and guide you. It’s not about reducing your autonomy, it’s about providing you with the kind of industry statistics, market research and legal knowledge that you’d struggle to find time to generate.
It means you can get on with the job. And right now that means seizing real opportunities, like those provided by the gig economy.
If you’ve got five years unbroken experience in recruitment, and preferably three of them in a specific sector, and you’re serious about starting up on your own, we’d like to help. Think your next gig should be your own gig?