Time to take a step back and think about going forward in 2018
Will next month’s inevitable Performance Review be your second, or maybe fourth, in the last twelve months?
As a seasoned recruitment consultant you’re probably well prepared.
You’ve kept a record of the things you’ve achieved, the targets you’ve hit.
If you’re really good you’ve established your personal strengths and weaknesses.
And of course you’ve set down your ambitions and goals.
That exercise could be rather more useful than you think!
Stop right there. How honest were you about those ambitions and goals?
When you said that you wanted to be ‘more productive, and make your team, or your desk, more profitable’, were you saying what you really thought?
Or were you really thinking…
‘What I actually want to do is run my own recruitment business?’
By making your preparation for your Performance Review more of a personal analysis you could change it from the predictable meeting, and promise of a pay rise ‘sometime soon’, into a blueprint for your future in which you’re rather better connected to the rewards of that increased productivity and improved performance.
A really objective look at your own performance, strengths (ok – there will be some weaknesses too) and achievements will make you realise just how close you are to effectively running a business anyway.
And a second look should encourage you even more into having the self-belief you need – and doubtless have – to take the step into setting up on your own.
If your ‘overview’ of yourself says that you’ve got recruitment experience and that you’ve had some years specialising in a particular sector, or running your own desk, you’re the sort of person we’d like to talk to.
If your personal analysis reveals that you have the drive to win new clients and find them the right candidates, you’re definitely the kind of recruiter we’d like to meet.
Whats your real ambition?
If, despite the obvious need for tact and diplomacy in pulling facts together for a face to face with your boss, your real ambition is to start up your own business, there’s absolutely no doubt that we should talk.
Why? Because at The Recruit Venture Group we have an ambition too; to help recruitment professionals like you to start up their own businesses.
We do it by providing 100% risk free funding.
It’s your business and you’ll have shares in it and draw dividends from it.
You’ll be able to pay yourself a salary too, which gives you the chance to focus on developing your company.
With full access to our state of the art back office and systems you’ll be operational and efficient from the day you launch, which is another huge piece of peace of mind to give you the freedom to concentrate on recruitment… Which is what you do best.
Prepare for your Performance Review by all means.
Go through with it.
But, now more than ever, with a new year on the horizon, take a step back and think about going forward.
In fact, why not get all those details about you, your achievements and ambitions together and apply now to run your own business.
Contact us confidentially and lets talk further about the future.