Getting a shareholders’ agreement is a must for recruitment business owners. Sadly, lockdown pressures have laid bare the dysfunctionalities of lots of relationships, in partnerships with “pre-existing conditions” that weren’t apparent in good times. In some cases,...
So, you’ve got the message. Your recruitment agency is a lot more resilient and attractive to investors if it has a serious temp/contract capability. Interestingly, about 75% of start-up recruitment firms start – and stay – largely perm placement oriented. And I’d...
Lockdown has presented recruitment businesses with an opportunity to reassess their staff skills, knowledge and training. I know many business owners who have realised that busyness often camouflages a lack of skills among staff. James, who owns a healthcare agency...
You can do better than “get back to normal”. If you’re a recruitment business owner who has started seeing some signs of recovery in your sector – and I sincerely hope you have – you’ll be thinking about bringing people back to work and getting productivity back to...
A few weeks ago, I was helping a client with their cash flow forecast prior to a CBILS application. One of the changes he’d made to his budget pulled me up short. He had completely deleted his marketing spend. His thinking went like this: I built this business without...