Has anyone got any advice on starting up a recruitment company?

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Has anyone got any advice on starting up a recruitment company?

Answer 1

I work in recruitment, and the first thing I would suggest is working out what market you want to focus on. I would not go for everything and anything, start of specialist, like admin/office staff, and once you have built up a good client base extend to different areas.

Hopefully you have some recruitment experience anyway, if you do, you could allways be cheeky like most consultants do when they leave , and take the client contact list with you, that way you know these companies recruit temps/perms etc so you have a starting point.

The other route is to get out the yellow pages, and cold call every day all day until the jobs start coming in, and the easiest jobs to secure will be admin staff.

Then, for office junior positions contact local uni's, colleges send in flyers or drop in, as these people are all looking for jobs when they leave even if temping for a couple of months.

Get yourself registered as a recruiter, people will take you seriousley then.Tyr and find out who your biggest competitors in your local are are, and try and find out what commision % tey work at, you must be able to compete with the likes of the high street brands, but prmote yourself, as a bespoke service. For small companies this works in your favour, as companies think you will only send the best guys in, rather than the spray and pray tactic, where you send hundreds of people for interviews and 99% are awful.

I have typed fo far too long...l good luck