The last thing a recruitment start up wants.

The business world is full of lists. Leaving aside the check lists and ‘to do’ lists that you probably live by, there are the lists of ‘key attributes in business’, ‘the top ten things a startup needs’, ‘the five worst things people have ever done at the office Christmas party’…..moving on.

Oddly, in a recently published list about entrepreneurial qualities, ‘Risk Taking’ came last. It makes sense if you see it as something you really don’t want or need. And yet, not to take risks is seemingly counter intuitive to being an entrepreneur.

At The Recruit Venture Group we tend to put risk taking a way down the list though. Steady, but far from unimaginative, management is what’s got us to where we are as the largest joint venture recruitment operation within the UK. We don’t take risks lightly.

More importantly we realise that it’s risk, and the fear of it, that stops would be recruitment startups from getting started. The risk of going it alone, without the security of a regular salary. The risk of borrowing money to get started and then having to pay it back. The worry of personal domestic bills; the effect on lifestyle.

Sometimes even the most ambitious recruitment professional, with all the right ideas, can falter because they perceive that there’s too great a risk.

That’s why the very foundation of our business model is 100% risk free finance. That’s what we deliver. With that, and our full support, including use of our sophisticated back office function to drive your administration, a startup can focus on the key tasks of building the business through acquiring candidate and clients, and concentrating on the service.

With that comes the ability to draw a salary from day one. And with that comes a stability and ease of mind that serves to further the focus even more.

Helped from the earliest stages with premises, branding and legal issues a joint venture partner with us is as free of risk as any start up business can be.

And our risk? Well, we certainly look to minimise it. For example we want to know that you’ve had five years continuous experience in recruitment. That you’ve spent three years or so running a desk or concentrating on a particular sector. We want to see your business plan.

So far we’ve done rather well. We have joint venture partners all over country. And they’re doing well. Because they can get on with the job without worrying about the risk. They grow. We grow. We can help more people. People like you.