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Is it a risk to start a recruitment business in 2023?

Let’s start off by acknowledging that seemingly every year brings about new challenges, new dramas and new potential concerns and anxieties about the state of business and the state of the world! 2023 is no different. No pandemics or Brexits or new wars on the horizon [we hope], but instead the media is warning at […]

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Can’t Find the Right Talent? Go to them!

We know it in life, and we know it in business; “standing still” in never synonymous with growth, with progress, or with a healthy future. With recruitment the way that it currently is – more of a bunfight over the best talent than ever before, it is vital to find new ways to expand your […]

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What Are Your ‘Bad Clients’ COSTING You?

Running a successful business doesn’t just rely on your ability to win new work and new clients; it relies on dropping bad clients too. Letting go of work may sound counter intuitive, but it is so often a fundamental key to a business’ success. You wouldn’t believe how many customers we’ve seen running temp desks […]

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More Women Are Starting Businesses Than Ever Before

Last year, according to the Times, an all-time high of 145,200 new businesses were started by female entrepreneurs. Although women-led businesses still only account for 17% of all UK business, the number is on the rise. Across the UK, a growing percentage of high-growth scale ups are being led by women; acknowledging and celebrating this […]

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Frequently Asked Questions: Transferring Funding Providers

Why would you change funding providers? There are a few reasons that you may consider switching your current funding provider, here are some of the main ones: Your current deal is not cost effective. It’s no secret that you need to pay your invoice finance provider for their services with a percentage of each invoice […]

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What are the steps in between you and setting up your Recruitment Company?

2022 promises to be another incredible year for the recruitment industry, and the trend of recruiters setting up on their own to capitalise on the booming market is continuing. It can seem daunting, the prospect of setting up your own company. But it needn’t. If you are an established recruiter right now, you already have […]

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Making Your Customers Successful is What Drives Your Success

It’s always important to take a moment at this stage of the year to look back upon what has been achieved – are you where you wanted to be? What went wrong? What went right? Are you headed in the direction you want to be headed in? It’s time to check your compass. We are […]

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Company Insolvencies Continue to Rise

Insolvency arises when a business can no longer meet their financial obligations to their lenders as debts become overdue. It can arise from poor cash management, a reduction in cash inflow, or an increase in expenses. According to a report by UK Finance based on 26 IF/ABL members, (supporting approx 25,00 end clients), last month […]

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Why wait until the market slows down to start your recruitment business?

A busy recruitment market is the PERFECT time to start your own business. Over the last 18 months or so one of the most notable trends within recruitment has seen high performing consultants moving away from the traditional agency model and starting their own businesses. Although this may have started out of necessity as many […]

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Does your Funding Provider Actually Understand your Business?

We have plenty of options in the recruitment world for all of our service providers, in most cases. Most funding providers out there in the market offer traditional finance solutions – they simply fund companies and generally have an outdated, often very rigid approach in doing so. We hear stories all the time of the […]

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Understanding debt and how it’s crucial to running a successful recruitment business

Here are a few of our key factors that are absolutely essential in reducing your exposure to debt and managing its performance.  

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Secrets to Success: Surround Yourself with Expertise!

You are a recruiter, and so making sure you maximise time to make recruitment happen is vital.

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The best opportunity you may ever get to start your own recruitment business.

Many excellent recruiters have started their own companies either out of necessity as many companies laid off staff or closed offices across the country, or out of choice realising through spending an extended period of time that running their own desk autonomously whilst working from home is 90% of the work of running your own company (for only a fraction of the reward).

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Has lockdown proved you could be your own boss?

The last twelve months have been an astonishing time to experience, and we are already seeing some incredible social revolutions in the ways in which we live and work.

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Does your recruitment company start-up need Gross Status or are you being mis-sold to?

There is plenty to think about when setting up your recruitment business, and lots of things that quite frankly you are better off leaving to the experts.

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The Top Things Recruitment Owners Wish They Knew Before They Started

if you’re setting up your own recruitment company then going in with your eyes wide open is going to save you a LOT of time, money and stress.

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Key Information Documents

Importance of implementing Key Information Documents within your business.

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What is the Cost of Starting a Recruitment Business?

If you have decided that forming your own agency is the route you want to take, you will no doubt be asking yourself; How much money do I need to start my own recruitment agency?

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Questions to ask yourself when choosing your funding provider

For a recruitment business, aligning yourself with the correct funding provider is key whether it is your first day in trading or your fifth year. Funding can be provided in several different methods, with additional back office elements changing from one provider to another. As such, ensuring your financier matches your business needs is key.

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When to transfer funding provider

We have many recruitment agency owners looking to see if the grass is greener, so here are some key elements to consider when thinking about transferring providers.