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A recruitment business partner is for life, choose carefully!

A business partner is for the life of your business, so choose carefully. If you do have a serious disagreement with your business partner(s) or backer on the running of the business, what do you do? What’s the process to resolve matters? Any split can be hugely stressful and massively costly.

Also bear in mind that you spend a lot more time at…

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Added by Rhys Jones on June 12, 2023 at 6:11am — No Comments

How to pitch for recruitment business investment

How you pitch depends on your audience and how much investment you want. If for example you were to ask me to back your recruitment business, an…

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Added by Rhys Jones on June 12, 2023 at 6:00am — No Comments

How being a ‘hero manager’ will hold the growth of your team or recruitment business back

Virtually all start up recruitment businesses are built around a top biller or a partnership of two top billers. To be a big billing recruiter, the most common trait is that of a desire to be the best. In members of your business this should be cherished,…

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Added by Rhys Jones on June 12, 2023 at 6:00am — No Comments

Where to start with a recruitment business plan

You’ll be pleased to hear that in my experience a recruitment agency start up business plan need only contain a few essentials and really isn’t rocket science. You only need a basic plan to start, well thought through definitely, but not War and Peace.…

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Added by Rhys Jones on June 12, 2023 at 6:00am — No Comments

How to deliver quality headhunts that WILL win more business

There is a lot of mystery and misinterpretation of what is involved in a headhunt assignment. Often recruiters fall into one of two groups, those who think being a…

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Added by Rhys Jones on June 12, 2023 at 5:30am — No Comments

What actually is recruitment back office support?

Recruitment back office support is a broad term



By the nature of what Davidson Gray does (setting up and supporting new recruitment businesses), we get loads of enquiries from people wanting to set up their own recruitment business. We often get asked the…

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Added by Rhys Jones on March 7, 2023 at 11:30am — No Comments

How much does a recruitment business set up cost?

How Much Does It Cost to Set up a Recruitment Business?

As my business specialises in setting up new recruitment businesses, you won’t be surprised to read the most common subjects I am questioned on are, “how do you set up a recruitment agency?” and “how much does it cost to set up a recruitment business?” 

The first question, ‘how…

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Added by Rhys Jones on March 7, 2023 at 11:30am — No Comments

How to choose a CRM for your new recruitment agency

What recruitment CRM should you spend your start up capital on?

If you’re looking to set up a recruitment business, you will need a recruitment CRM, database, or ATS, whichever term you know it as. You’ll probably have used more than one in the past; I find a lot of…

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Added by Rhys Jones on March 7, 2023 at 11:30am — No Comments

Top 5 cash making marketing tips for your recruitment business

In my blog How to Scale Your Recruitment Business, I discuss how it’s actually very difficult to scale a recruitment business.  You can grow one, but not scale it. The reason is because scaling a business means increasing revenue, whilst not increasing…

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Added by Rhys Jones on March 7, 2023 at 11:30am — No Comments

The top 7 recruitment start-up mistakes

For nearly a decade, I’ve been totally immersed, purely in the recruitment start up and SME world and there’s not a lot I haven’t seen or heard. I’ve…

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Added by Rhys Jones on March 7, 2023 at 11:30am — No Comments

How to get your recruitment website ranking on Google

Visibility on Google is crucial for any recruitment business

If you’ve read my blog on the top 5 cash-making marketing tips for your recruitment business or listened to my …

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Added by Rhys Jones on March 7, 2023 at 11:30am — No Comments

What is recruitment factoring and why do we do ours in house?

Why is factoring for recruitment companies so important?

Factoring is a crucial service a new contract recruitment agency needs to get on top of. But, that can be easier said than done as factoring services through the traditional third-party route can involve complex processes, multiple levels of decision-making…

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Added by Rhys Jones on March 7, 2023 at 10:00am — No Comments

Leadership or management – what’s more important to a growing recruitment business?

Leadership is the ‘in thing’

How many times have you seen images on LinkedIn portraying leaders as the good guys and managers as the villains? Here’s one by Steve Jobs, clearly a supreme business builder and entrepreneur, but this soundbite when taken on its own doesn’t really work.…

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Added by Rhys Jones on March 7, 2023 at 10:00am — No Comments

Why business owners should never take their staff for granted

Treating Your Staff Well – A Cautionary Tale

As my business is to back, set up, and support recruiters who want to build their own companies, it’s natural I speak with a lot of recruiters who want to set up on their own, with many motivated to take this step because they don’t like…

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Added by Rhys Jones on March 7, 2023 at 10:00am — No Comments

A Guide to Using LinkedIn Recruiter

Recruiters spend a long time on LinkedIn, and if you are looking to start a recruitment business, you’ve likely asked yourself if you need to pay out for a LinkedIn Recruiter licence. In my Essential Checklist for Your New Recruitment Business blog, I…

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Added by Rhys Jones on November 30, 2020 at 8:30am — No Comments

How to Scale Your Recruitment Business

As coaching is the new word for training, business owners now want to ‘scale’ their business, rather than ‘grow’ their business. But just as training and…

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Added by Rhys Jones on November 23, 2020 at 10:00am — No Comments

How to Set Up a Recruitment Business: The Davidson Gray eBook

As you’re taking the time out to read my guide on how to set up and build your own recruitment business, I don’t think that it’s a huge assumption to make that you are considering becoming your own boss. If that is the case, you are already improving your odds of being a success by taking your new job of business owner seriously and doing some research.…

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Added by Rhys Jones on September 29, 2020 at 8:30am — No Comments

Your start-up now has money, should hiring someone be your first investment?

So, you’ve made a good start, money is starting to tot up in the bank account and like most recruitment start-up owners you’re keen to spend it, hopefully on your new business! If you’re ambitious to grow your business and your goal is to grow a good-sized company, the chances are that your first investment to you is a no-brainer,…

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Added by Rhys Jones on September 24, 2020 at 8:30am — No Comments

Is building a recruitment business to sell a good idea?

As I speak to lots of recruiters who want to build their own recruitment company, after all my profession is investing in start-up recruitment businesses, I get a fair few whose goal from day one is to build to sell.  Is this really a smart move?…

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Added by Rhys Jones on March 9, 2020 at 12:30pm — 1 Comment

A Recruitment Consultant’s guide to understanding the offer of equity / shares by your employer

If you’ve read any of my other blogs on building a recruitment business to sell, I actually advocate not selling, but succession planning yourself, tying in the employees of real…

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Added by Rhys Jones on June 5, 2019 at 9:30am — No Comments

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