The recruitment industry shows no signs of slowing down. Despite Brexit and economic uncertainty, recruitment entrepreneurs are still looking to join the market. According to the REC (Recruitment and Employment Federation), industry turnover reached £38.9 bn in the
In Part One, we looked at where you are now and some of the issues that can arise as your recruitment business starts to grow. The business plan that you put together when starting up should be constantly
After successfully managing the start-up of your own recruitment business, how do you take it to the next level and grow at a pace that suits you? It’s not just about doing the same – but a bit
You’re not alone. At some point in our working lives, most of us will identify with the lyrics of Dolly Parton’s ‘9 to 5’ song, “when you feel you’re just a step on the boss man’s ladder”. However,
When starting your recruitment business we believe there were two main motivations behind you doing so: to have an agency built in your own vision and to grow that agency to become a key player in your sector.
A recent survey by accounting software provider Sage has found that 17% of all payments to UK SMEs were late, and that over 50% expect a negative impact on their company finances as a result. Payment processor BACs
In 2017, it was reported that late payments were costing the UK economy over £2.5bn a year, with the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) finding that the average small business owner spends between 1-2 days chasing invoices each
There was a time, in the not-too-distant past, when any utterance of the word ‘unemployment’ would send a shiver down the spine of a recruiter. Today, it is an altogether different story and when it appears in the
The importance of maintaining a positive cashflow is as relevant to established businesses as it is to newer ones. Keeping a check on what goes out and marrying that with what comes into the business is essential to