This is your dream, your ambitions. This is about you deciding that with all your experience, your market knowledge and your passion, it’s time you did it your OWN way.

Starting Up Your Own Recruitment Business

It’s All About You!
Of course it’s all about you! This is your dream, your ambitions. This is about you deciding that with all your experience, your market knowledge and your passion, it’s time you did it your OWN way.

Started earning for yourself rather than seeing your efforts reward your employer.

It’s about your style too. Admit it. You’ve long thought that you have your own ideas on how a recruitment consultancy should be run. Ideas on how to deliver a better client service. Plans for a really smooth candidate experience.

The fact is it is all about you in a very real sense.

Let’s explore the routes you’re most likely to take. First, you set up on your own, running it from home. You become a ‘bedroom recruiter’. Lots of people are doing it. But this way it’s entirely about you. Because you’ll be doing everything! The sorting out of finances, the setting up of even the simplest of systems, the admin. And that’s before you’ve even got to seeing clients, finding new business and talking to candidates. (While you’re spinning all those plates you’ll also be juggling the cash flow of course!). It’s all down to you.

Or, secondly, you set up something a bit more substantial. You rent an office and with a sound business plan in place (you have written the business plan, haven’t you?) you set about all the other things you need to do. Things like finding and hiring staff, which even recruitment people have to do! And when you’ve assembled your team it’s still all about you. You’ll have to lead them, drive them, enthuse them. You’ll have to make sure that they work the way you want your new business to work. Get them, and keep them, ‘on brand’. Your brand.

And, at the risk of repeating myself, that’s before you’ve even got to seeing clients, finding new business and talking to candidates.

You see my point? The business being ‘all about you’ because it’s your baby, dream, is really exciting. But your baby is going to need looking after, and if you don’t have the support you need you won’t have the time and freedom to do what you do best – which is …….Seeing clients, finding new business and talking to candidates.
This is where we come in. We help recruitment professionals set up their own businesses. At Recruit Ventures we have a business model that provides 100% funding, a guaranteed salary, no personal financial risk and access to a full back office support function to support start up recruitment businesses.

It means you’ll have the freedom to concentrate on growing the business. To get on with realising your true ambitions.

So, if you’re a recruitment professional, with five years plus experience, and ideally a good three years in your specialist sector, and you want to start up on your own, we can help.

If you want your new business to be all about you – in a good way – email me John Buckman on info@recruitventures.com

You can also find out more about Recruit Ventures unique business model at www.recruitventures.com

Author
John Buckman is chairman of Recruit Ventures and a true entrepreneur himself. Having launched and grown many successful businesses especially within the recruitment sector, John’s expert knowledge and experience grants him the opportunity to offer advice and support to others in the industry considering setting up on their own.

Thinking of starting your own recruitment business. Good on you. I give you credit for that but stop and think for a moment, because it’s possible that you might not find getting credit from other people quite as easy.

Starting Your Own Recruitment Business
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I Give You Credit, But Will Everyone?
So, you’re thinking of starting your own recruitment business. Good on you. I give you credit for that.At the risk of putting a damper on your plans though, you need to stop and think for a moment, because it’s possible that you might not find getting credit from other people quite as easy.

I’m not saying that you won’t be congratulated and thought well of by your colleagues, friends and family. I’m sure they’ll all wish you well. But when it comes to credit in the financial sense you may well find a problem.

Have you noticed how ‘credit aware’ the world has become? You’ll have seen tv advertising for credit checking agencies, and advice on how to improve your credit score. That’s something that would have been unheard of a few years ago. Finance people are very careful when it comes to extending credit – to anyone, let alone a startup business.

And of course there’s that other trap. Supposing you’re the sort of person who has no debts. You’ve never borrowed money before. Ironically, that won’t help you. If you don’t have a track record of borrowing money, and paying it back, lenders don’t like lending to you.

On the other hand, if you have borrowed lots of money, and even if you’re paying it back promptly, they don’t like that either. They’ll see you as too stretched.

But, of course, you’re going to need credit to set up your business. It’s possible that you’re sitting on a ton of cash, in which case, fine. In reality though, it’s fair to assume that, like most people, you’re not a cash rich millionaire. Which means that when you start up, you’re going to be in a period of more outgoings than income. At least for a while.

And those outgoings aren’t going to be fast cars and a faster lifestyle. Well, not if you’re sensible anyway. They’re going to be (sensible!) company cars, mobile phones and their contracts, computers and office equipment, and of course the highly likely finance charges for a loan. If you can get one.

Which brings me back to my point. You will need credit. And it might prove difficult to find.

That’s one of the reasons we do what we do. Which is help recruitment professionals set up their own businesses. At Recruit Ventures we have a business model that provides 100% funding, a guaranteed salary, no personal financial risk and access to a full back office support function to support start up recruitment businesses.

It means you’ll have the financial room to breathe, allowing you to concentrate on growing the business, even during those challenging first months when the financial pressures can be demanding. And you won’t be spending your time trying to arrange credit.

So, if you’re a recruitment professional, with five years plus experience, and ideally a good three years in your specialist sector, and you want to start up on your own, we can help.

Going it alone is a big, exciting thing. I give you credit. Email me John Buckman on info@recruitventures.com

You can also find out more about Recruit Ventures unique business model at www.recruitventures.com

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John Buckman is chairman of Recruit Ventures and a true entrepreneur himself. Having launched and grown many successful businesses especially within the recruitment sector, John’s expert knowledge and experience grants him the opportunity to offer advice and support to others in the industry considering setting up on their own.

Don’t panic! I’m not suggesting that the stress of working in recruitment can have a serious effect on your ‘personal’ life but recruiters who start up their own business in their spare bedroom, and then sadly fail.

Why Are So Many Recruitment Professionals A Failure In The Bedroom?
Don’t panic! I’m not suggesting that the stress of working in recruitment can have a serious effect on your ‘personal’ life. What I’m talking about is the number of recruitment professionals who decide to start up their own business in their spare bedroom, and then sadly fail.

The desire to ‘go it alone’ and run a consultancy is ever present in the recruitment sector. Your own brand. Your own way of doing things. Shaping your own destiny and making your own profits. They’re all serious drivers, and many are the seasoned recruiters who have decided that it would make it more worthwhile to get out of bed in the morning.

And it’s tempting to keep overheads low by working out of the spare bedroom at home. Now, you might be a ‘bedroom recruiter’ but that doesn’t mean you’re not going to work hard. You’ll doubtless give it everything you’ve got. It will doubtless bring results.

And then come the ‘bedroom problems’. With more business, more clients and more candidates you need to be as systemised and operational as your employer was. You can’t compete unless you have spot on admin, accurate records and all the efficiencies that come with a tried and tested back office. Suddenly, your trusty old pc and a couple of spreadsheets don’t cut it. Your performance starts to suffer.

It starts to become clear that it would have made more sense to have been better equipped from the outset. Those initial savings begin to feel like false economies.

Maybe it would have been better if you’d talked to us first.

At Recruit Ventures we have a business model aimed at professionals just like you. If you’ve got five years overall experience, and 3 years track record in your current role, we can help. We’ll provide you with 100% funding, shares and dividends, a guaranteed salary, no financial risk and access to a full back office support function to support you start up your own business.

I hate to be personal, but if you want to avoid being a failure in the bedroom, contact me at jbuckman@recruitventures.com. There are some things I can’t do – but I can help you start your own recruitment business.

You can also find out more about Recruit Ventures unique business model at www.recruitventures.com

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John Buckman is chairman of Recruit Ventures and a true entrepreneur himself. Having launched and grown many successful businesses especially within the recruitment sector, John’s expert knowledge and experience grants him the opportunity to offer advice and support to others in the industry considering setting up on their own.

Starting off on your own from your own back room, yes It keeps the costs down etc. but how do you grow your business…

When It Comes To Starting A Recruitment Business
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Looking at why some recruitment business startups fail, it’s clear that there are three dangerous pitfalls to avoid
Firstly, and incredibly, people start recruitment businesses with no experience. They may have a little knowledge, which is of course ‘a dangerous thing’, but they don’t have in-depth expertise, and they don’t have an informed backer or mentor either… ultimately it spells failure.

Reason number 2 is just as hard to believe. Unbelievably, a lot of people launch without a business plan. To be kind, it’s possible that they’re fired up with entrepreneurial spirit and a list of contacts, so they figure they can make a start and worry about the big plan later. Or, as experienced as they are in recruitment, they simply don’t know how to write a business plan for a new venture. Either way it’s dangerous. You need to know how commercially and financially viable your business model is, and you need sensible projections for your cash flow and profits. It’s not just for peace of mind. It’s because your bank manager will want to know.

And thirdly, they fail because they don’t have the infrastructure. They have no systems. Armed with a mobile phone and an email address they launch into the market, only to sink beneath the waves of applications and appointments their hard work has generated. Without the systems it all falls to pieces.

There are other reasons, but I think that’s enough for the moment! My point is that all three of those pitfalls could have been avoided if they’d gone down one single route.

If you’re a recruitment consultant with five years’ experience and let’s say three years knowledge of a specific sector you’ll have enough background to start your own recruitment business. At Recruit Ventures we have a business model aimed at people just like you.

We’ll guide you through a writing your business plan.

We’ll also provide you with a full back office support function to support you start up your own business.

And what’s more, we’ll deliver 100% funding, a guaranteed salary and no personal financial risk to yourself. It will be funding from experts who understand recruitment, and can mentor you .

Avoid all three of those common and dangerous pitfalls with one short email… To me.

Sometimes 3 into 1 will go. Make a go of it, contact jbuckman@recruitventures.com

You can also find out more about Recruit Ventures unique business model at www.recruitventures.com

Author
John Buckman is chairman of Recruit Ventures and a true entrepreneur himself. Having launched and grown many successful businesses especially within the recruitment sector, John’s expert knowledge and experience grants him the opportunity to offer advice and support to others in the industry considering setting up on their own.

A lot of recruiters take that all important leap to start up on their own and in recent times many  have decided to contain costs, and tiptoe into the market by working from home…

Starting Your Own Recruitment Business
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You Might Have a Back Bedroom but will you have a back office?

Starting up your own agency is something I know recruitment professionals like YOU think about a lot. With four or five year’s serious experience on your CV, and already running a busy desk or team, it’s very tempting. Why not do this for yourselves, rather than line someone else’s pockets?

A lot of recruiters do take that all important leap and in recent times many who have decided to contain costs, and tiptoe into the market by working from home.

That’s not ‘working from home’ in the sense of not being in the office. It’s about making your office in your home. On the face of it, it makes sense. There are no premises to rent, no furniture or hardware to buy. You can ‘make do’ with the IKEA workstation and your trusty PC, set up in the spare bedroom, and go!

It can work. For a while. The problem is, the harder you work, the more successful you become, and then it all starts to crumble because you simply don’t have the systems and back up you need to service your growing portfolio of employers and candidates.

In fact, the pared down start up that you saw as sound financial sense can soon start to make no sense at all. If you’ve done everything else right, and made real headway with growing your business, you’ll soon get to the point where you were wishing you’d had better systems and back up from day one.

Your plan of course was based on the idea that you couldn’t afford to install full, industry compliant, systems because that would have been costly, let alone difficult to arrange for a startup.

Don’t waste that first year or so in your back bedroom. You can start as you mean to go on, by being fully operational form the outset. It’s where we come in.

At Recruit Ventures we have a business model aimed at professionals just like you. If you’ve got five years overall experience, and 3 years track record in your current role, we can help. We’ll provide you with 100% funding, shares and dividends, a guaranteed salary, no financial risk and access to a full back office support function to support you start up your own business.

If you want sound backing, and a back office not a back bedroom, email me on info@recruitventures.com and let’s chat.

You can also find out more about Recruit Ventures unique business model at www.recruitventures.com

Author
John Buckman is chairman of Recruit Ventures and a true entrepreneur himself. Having launched and grown many successful businesses especially within the recruitment sector, John’s expert knowledge and experience grants him the opportunity to offer advice and support to others in the industry considering setting up on their own.

If you are thinking of starting your own recruitment business I would sound a note of caution about the idea of becoming a ‘lifestyle recruiter’.

 

Many people have already launched their own businesses with Recruit Ventures and are now achieving a significant turnover in their own right …

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These days, your brand is so much more than just a logo… look at your world, define your brand and do it your way!
If you’re an experienced recruitment professional you could be better off as your own brand.
Brand. It’s a key word in business. And it’s become even more important as marketing experts realise that your brand is now so much more than just your logo.

A leading expert has recently talked about how you define and use your brand. What he said was that it’s about looking at your world – and he quoted as examples architecture and, yes, recruitment – and analysing what’s wrong with it. What you then do is set out to change it – which makes your brand successful.

Personally, I don’t think there’s too much wrong with the world of recruitment. It’s an exciting and rewarding sector, and one in which I’ve built many successful brands. But, if you look at your world, I’m guessing that you think what’s wrong with it is that you’re doing all the work and not seeing all the rewards. And that you’d probably like to have your own brand.

You’ve doubtless thought about it. You’ve dreamed of starting up on your own, running your own recruitment business. But of course you’ve been daunted by the size of the challenge. It’s not that you haven’t got the experience, or the contacts. And you’re certainly not afraid of hard work. It’s just the saying goodbye to a regular salary and finding the finance to make that leap is what’s holding you back.

Plus of course, your own experience proves that you’d need systems and software, premises and promotion as well as someone to take care of all the admin while you concentrate on growing the business.

You need to find all of that, and somehow minimise the risk. It seems like a tough call.

It isn’t.

At Recruit Ventures we have a business model aimed at professionals just like you. If you’ve got five years overall experience, and actively working in recruitment then, we can help. We’ll provide you with 100% funding, a guaranteed salary, no personal financial risk and access to a full back office support function to support you start up your own business.

Take a look at your world. It’s time to change it. Be your own brand, and be better off!

Contact me on jbuckman@recruitventures.com and let’s have a confidential chat.

You can also find out more about Recruit Ventures unique business model at www.recruitventures.com

Author
John Buckman is chairman of Recruit Ventures and a true entrepreneur himself. Having launched and grown many successful businesses especially within the recruitment sector, John’s expert knowledge and experience grants him the opportunity to offer advice and support to others in the industry considering setting up on their own.

Have you ever felt that ‘ your boss is not worth the salary they are paid?” Funnily enough, so do half of the UK recruiters feel the same – time to make a change.

If you’re as good as your boss – be the boss! Start your own recruitment business.
Some new research has shown that, amongst other things, ‘almost half of UK employees don’t think their boss is worth their salary’.

Have you ever felt that?

As a busy recruitment consultant, running your own desk, or team, I’m betting that you have. After all, you’re the one making the money. You’re sourcing the candidates, keeping the clients happy and matching job seekers to the roles. You’re the one hitting the targets and making the numbers. And all the time you keep thinking ‘suppose I was doing this for myself. Running my own recruitment business. With everything I’m doing I might as well be the boss anyway’.

Except, of course, it’s such a big step to take.

You know the business, and you know what’s needed to run a recruitment business, let alone start one up from scratch. The systems you use every day, and all the necessary IT that go with them, are easy to take for granted. But how do you source those for yourself? There would be premises to find as well. And that’s without organising sound financial backing, because unless you’re sitting on a stack of capital you’re going to need support to get it off the ground and sustain you through the cash flow demands of the early days when there are probably going to be more outgoings than income – for a while at least.

Plus of course, the dream ticket would be not only affordable financial backing but input from people who actually understand recruitment. Chances are that even if you can find an interested bank manager he or she won’t be an expert in your world so you’ll have a job explaining some of the demands that face a busy new agency.

Oh, and then there’ll be your nervousness at giving up the regular salary. Because, let’s face it, even if you don’t think your boss is worth their salary, they do provide you with yours at the end of every month, which for all your frustrations is at least some sort of security.

The fact is, however, there IS a way for you to be your own boss, to start your own recruitment business, that does deliver that dream ticket – and all the other things you’ll need.

At The Recruit Venture Group we have a business model aimed at professionals just like you. If you’ve got five years overall experience, and 3 years track record in your current role, we can help. We’ll provide you with 100% funding, shares and dividends, no financial risk and access to a full back office support function to support you start up your own business.

Stop getting frustrated by what your boss earns, match it… Be your own boss, and earn what you’re worth.