Sir Alan chooses a recruiter as his business partner.
Let’s leave aside that this year, for the first time ever, Sir Alan chose two winners at the final of ‘The Apprentice’. And we’ll resist the temptation to comment on Sir Alan Sugar going into the sweets business. Enough said.
The interesting thing is he chose a recruiter as his business partner. So, if you’re thinking of starting up your own recruitment business in 2018 you’ve got the might of Sir Alan’s empire to contend with as a competitor as well!
More to the point, if you’re a recruitment professional and you’ve been following the show, and the fortunes of James White, you’ve doubtless been fascinated by his performance. You’ll also of course been interested in his ‘pitch’. The way he outlined his business plan, set out his objectives, and the way he took on the chin the warnings and comments about how he really needed a ‘usp’ and how he was ‘entering a crowded market’, and would face ‘intense competition’.
But you know all that. Like Mr White, you’ve got goals and ambitions too. You’ve got the entrepreneurial streak that propels an employee to employer.
And young James took a lot of stick over that too didn’t he? There was Sir Alan, and his panel, delivering stark warnings about how different it is to run your own business rather than be a successful practitioner within someone else’s.
To be fair, given that the panel are not experts in recruitment, they had some insightful points to make about how challenging it can be to, suddenly, have to think about setting up your own systems and support, and how, as a new business, you need to convince new customers to run with you.
But through it all was the running thread that James would be setting up a recruitment business with sound financial support and experienced business mentoring. This was – is – his big opportunity.
Are opportunities like that as rare as the producers of ‘The Apprenticee’ would have you believe? Well, we can’t comment on how it is in the online sweets business (and we wish Sarah Lynn every success) but we can tell you that, armed with the right experience and a sound business plan you’ve got a real chance of winning the kind of support you need to start up your own recruitment business – with us.
At The Recruit Venture Group we specialise in helping recruitment professionals start up their own businesses.
We guide you through the legalities of setting up, helping you to arrange premises, branding, website and marketing.
Vitally, 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, giving you the peace of mind to concentrate on recruitment. (That was a point the panel of judges and experts on ‘The Apprentice’ were very hot on).
You get full access to our back office and systems which is even more peace of mind, and ticks another box that worried Sir Alan’s experts.
We do need to have some facts. Like we want to see that you’ve had five years continuous recruitment experience. We need to know you’ve got a business plan, and that you can demonstrate that you have the drive and ambition to do this.
Yes, it will be a tough interview, but if you’re prepared and your pitch is right we can help you make 2018 the year you start you own recruitment business.