Your business is your gateway to a better life

Recruitment is a great career, but as you rise through the ranks, the hours get longer, the responsibility bigger, and the pressure increases.

Many recruiters find themselves working and making the same sacrifices as if they were running their own business. Yet the money they make mostly ends up in the pockets of the bosses.

In fact, that’s one of the primary reasons why high achieving, motivated and committed recruiters choose to start their own enterprise. They get to point where they want their skills, experience and talent to work for them, not someone else.

But in the case of Glynne Dyer and Marshall Rayner, who both have started their own recruitment businesses with the support of The Recruit Venture Group, it has also been the ticket to a better way of life.

Marshall, for example, was previously building up, from scratch, the entire driving division of a national recruiter. He was getting up at 5am, driving 5,000 miles a month, and feeling completely spent by the end of the week, with the weekends spent recovering. He didn’t have enough time for his children and they were growing up before his eyes. It was time for a change.

A phone call from The Recruit Venture Group was the start. Within a few months, Top Team Personnel was launched, and Marshall’s own business now fits in with him and his life.

“Not only do I make more, and build the value of a business which I own, I now can have breakfast and dinner with my family,” said Marshall. “My son likes football, so I can also take him to training after school. There’s no way I would have had the flexibility to do that in my last job. My business has given me everything.”

For Glynne, who started Vanta Staffing back in June 2017, family was also on his mind when he made the leap from employee to entrepreneur.

“I had achieved promotions in my last roles, but I got to a place where I was no longer earning commission, and my pay was actually starting to go down,” said Glynne.

“Starting my own business was about putting that right. I knew I had the potential to earn a lot more, but also to build the value of a business that will create a financial legacy to support my three children in years to come,” he said.

Within 18 months, Vanta Staffing was turning over £2.7 million per year. After a little over two years, Glynne is also in a place where he can take some money out of the business as a reward for his hard work getting it off the ground.

Both Glynne and Marshall say the same thing; starting a business was the best thing they have ever done, for their wealth, their careers and, crucially, for their quality of life.

 

It pays to be in business with a powerful partner

You’re the owner of a newly launched recruitment agency. You are flat out, juggling a million things to keep the cash coming in and the business afloat.

Then, the last thing you need happens. A new client has gone rogue and won’t pay you what’s owed.

Do you hassle them? Do you get the lawyers involved? Can you afford the cost, time and stress of chasing it? Or do you just suck up the loss and desperately find a way to keep the business going?

Unfortunately, getting paid on time, or getting paid at all, can be a crippling problem for any start-up. New business owners often don’t have the resources to take on unscrupulous operators, which can be deadly for any fledgling enterprise.

In May The Federation of Small Businesses called the situation with late or non-payments a “national scandal”, which was killing an astonishing 50,000 small businesses a year.

But recruiters who decide to launch their own enterprise with The Recruit Venture Group have all of the freedom of running a small business with the benefits of having a major organisation in  their corner.

The Recruit Venture Group has already helped nearly 60 recruiters to start their own business, and at every step of the way they are supported. The market-leading joint venture model means that each business has access to a comprehensive back office function and expert corporate, financial and legal advice.

So that means when a business does run into a problem that could cost serious time, money and worry, The Recruit Venture Group has the ability to sort it out quickly.

A non-payment scenario arose very recently for a recruitment business, but one call to The Recruit Venture Group and the problem was resolved quickly.

Managing Director, Paul Mizen, said: “We don’t just help to launch recruitment businesses, we are here for them at every step of their journey to growth. As a senior team, we have decades of varied experience in recruitment. Trust me, we’ve seen it all, so if a problem arises, we work with the business to put it right.

“We had one example recently were someone thought they could get away with some free services by taking advantage of one of the businesses we support. They didn’t realise that the business they were trying to fleece had The Recruit Venture Group in its corner, but when they did, they soon backed down.”

Starting a business with The Recruit Venture Group is all about support. All of the finance needed for launch is offered, with no need for the recruiter to put down a penny of their own money. As well as setting up the business and offering a comprehensive back office function, a full mentoring and business development service is offered as part of the package.