Mental Health – How the Right Support for Startup Businesses Can Make All The Difference

Andy’s poor work life balance was a self-fulfilling prophecy, based around his belief that long hours and being unable to switch off were a consequence of his remuneration.

Relatable? Well it doesn’t have to be…

It is disillusioning to ignore the importance of work-life balance, something Andy is now able to appreciate after taking back control of his work-life balance in September 2017 with the support of The Recruit Venture Group.

He said: “For me it all started when my employer, previously a family-run business, was bought out and I was routinely at loggerheads with the new bosses.
“I ended up working 70-80 hour weeks, travelling across the country, never off duty and always on my phone, tablet or laptop.
“That’s what I got a grip, smelt the coffee and realised this was a long way from the life I wanted and that I had to act.
“At a cross roads I came across The Recruit Venture Group and their unique joint venture model provide me with the opportunity I needed to take back control of my own career and launch my own business.”

 

Take back control of your work-life balance

The Recruit Venture Group enabled Andy to say goodbye to being an employee and hello to being a business owner, in control of his own work-life balance.
Andy was free to create the best team he could find and was able to concentrate on what he loved doing best because The Recruit Venture Group’s business launch team ensured he had everything he needed on a plate to launch his own business.

“People say you have to put in the hours to run your own business, and you do, but now I have far greater flexibility in life,” he said.

“It is a huge transformation from what life used to be like. I feel supported, stable and am enjoying going to work each day.
“I have three children so working locally and being able to take back my free team allows me to concentre on the things that really matter in life, things I overlooked for too long.”

“I have been in recruitment for over two decades I know the strain it puts on the people and the people who are closest to them
“I think out of the 52 people we have helped make business owners; all of them had a desire to improve their work-life balance and the best way to do that is to become your own boss.”

 

 

Mental health in the workplace is not a luxury

“Both myself and my business partner came from a very tense and stressful working environment,” said Steve.
“Being in that environment day in, day out is not good for anyone and had a real impact on people’s mental health.
“When we decided to launch with the Recruit Venture Group we wanted to make sure our office was created in a way were people felt valued and supported, we didn’t want to create anything like where we had been working.

“The Recruit Venture Group’s model gave us the freedom to do exactly that, we were able to embrace flexible working, giving ourselves and our staff the best possible working environment and work-life balance.”

Work-life balance is vital to unlocking your potential, mark World Mental Health Day by making your move and contacting The Recruit Venture To Group to see how they can help you take back control of your career and allow you to focus on the things that really matter; both at work and at home.

Six reasons why you don’t need to worry about launching a business with The Recruit Venture Group

They say that the best entrepreneurs are risk takers — high rollers who are prepared to go all in on a business gamble and throw caution to the wind.

The reality is quite different. While there is always a certain leap of faith in starting a venture, the best business leaders know how to minimise that risk, giving them the best chance of success.

Many recruitment professionals with at least a few years’ experience in their field will have at some point thought about starting their own agency. What’s stopping them is usually all about risk.

Joint ventures are a tried and tested, but still relatively unknown way for recruitment professionals to make the leap to business ownership, without the associated risks of starting out alone. The Recruit Venture Group already partners 49 separate recruitment businesses up and down the UK through its joint venture model which is unique in the marketplace.

The model is set up precisely to help recruitment professionals into business ownership who previously thought the risks and the barriers were too high.

Here are six ways The Recruit Venture Group’s joint venture scheme reduces the risk of recruitment business start-ups:

2. All of the back office support is coveredThe expense of setting up a recruitment business, such as the hiring of staff, branding, and fitting out and renting an office, is just the start. What about someone to look after accounts, payroll, HR, legal and compliance, IT and marketing and PR? Individually, these services combined can cost thousands per month — all drains on revenue before even thinking about profitability.

But The Recruit Venture Group takes care of this back office burden with a team who are experts in all aspects of recruitment business administration. Cash flow can then be freed up to focus on recruiting and revenues, reducing the risk of running into money trouble.

3. Do what you do best – from day one Offering 100% of the finance and all of the back office support also allows up the joint venture business to start generating revenues from the day of launch.

The Recruit Venture Group wants the talented recruiters it partners with to get out into the marketplace and drive the business forward. Being stuck behind a desk dealing with a pushy bank manager or trying to sort out an IT problem does not help the business to grow.

Being able to focus on building clients and candidates from day one gives the joint venture model a huge advantage over starting the business solo. One thing holding many small businesses back is lack of mentoring and experienced support. The Recruit Venture Group has a senior team who have decades of experience in recruitment behind them, across various disciplines and sectors.

For any new business, that support can be difficult or expensive to find, but with the Recruit Venture Group, the expert advice is an integral part of the model, and always available at the end of a phone. In business, you can’t stand still, but it is well known that the UK has a problem with business growth, or ‘scaling-up’, as it is sometimes known.

That’s for a variety of reasons, but often comes down to not having the finance, the back office flexibility or access to the right advice and support. But with The Recruit Venture Group, growth is built into the business plan from conception. The business recruitment entrepreneur can expand the enterprise, knowing the financial, administrative and other support will be there to accommodate it. Franchising is often seen as one of the best routes into running a business because it minimises risk. The Recruit Venture Group’s joint venture model is not a franchise, but offers many of the advantages.

For example it is an established model, offering a framework which is already supporting 49 successful and growing recruitment businesses. But the key advantage over franchising is that this is very much the new entrepreneur’s business vision, with their brand above the door. It is their recruitment business legacy they are building, and there are no limits to where they could take it. They are not hamstrung by the rules and regulations of the franchise, but retain much of the risk-minimising advantages.