Two top attributes for business success and definitely worth considering when it comes to starting your own recruitment business
Taking ownership – means taking responsibility and not making excuses; and focus, means not allowing yourself to be distracted.
These attributes come out as 1 and 2 in recent findings recorded about how to succeed.
And you’re telling me this because?
Because you’re thinking of starting your own recruitment company. Are you not?
Well, yes, I am. But I wasn’t looking for management training as such.
It’s not about management training. It’s about the fact that in our experience – which is quite considerable – those top two attributes chime rather well with starting your own recruitment business.
Ok. Ownership is pretty obvious. As in ‘owning my own business’.
A bit literal, but yes. More importantly though, to do it you really do need to get on with it, take responsibility and stop making excuses. Only you can do it. And if you don’t commit to making it happen it won’t. No ownership. No ownership.
I do see what you mean. Slight feelings of guilt creeping in here, but there are a lot of things to consider.
Definitely. Doubtless you’re worried about finding the funding, setting up the company and – just a guess – maintaining something like your current lifestyle because there’s a risk involved.
Pretty much that. Yes. Care to elaborate on focus?
Certainly. Some of it is right there. When you’re fretting about all of those things, instead of taking ownership of them, you’re already losing focus. Focus on what it is you want to achieve. In this case starting your recruitment business. Zero in on the tasks to be undertaken in order to achieve it. When you do, it starts to happen.
All good motivational stuff. But, I do need to get all of those problems solved. And that can be distracting.
Let’s take a look at what you need to do. The funding, as you say. You’re right again to mention the legal process of setting up the company. Then there are the startup issues like finding premises, sorting and creating your branding, organising software – and hardware – to run fully road tested systems from the start. You’re not going to get far without them. Admin needs to be top notch from day one – payroll, client and candidate data. And, you’re right again, you need to feel comfortable about your own financial position – paying you mortgage and bills. You’re worried about the risk.
Not wanting to argue, but you have to agree that’s all pretty distracting, making it difficult to focus. And as to ownership – it’s not all down to me is it?
It could be down to us.
How so?
Our start up package is designed to help you get going, and get growing. Helping recruitment professional start up on their own is what The Recruit Venture Group do. With full financial backing to launch your business, plus the autonomy that comes with shares and dividends, you can get on with what you do well. With our complete back office and support system you can do it better. We’ll tick all those boxes, from branding to the building; from computers to registering with companies House. And, with the ability to pay yourself a salary from day one you can run your own recruitment business – without running a risk.
I think I can focus on that. How do I get started?
Have you got five years experience in recruitment, and ideally spent the past three of them working in a specific sector?