Recruitment Resolutions
Have you set any recruitment resolutions this year or goal set what you want from your career in recruitment?
Setting Recruitment Resolutions
It’s that time of year isn’t it, the holiday season is over and for most of us it’s back to the day job. It’s also the time of year that we spend the most time assessing ourselves, what have we achieved over the past year? We also look ahead and set resolutions or goal set for the coming year. Mostly these resolutions revolve around our health, relationships or careers.
It is important to set yourself goals but you don’t have to wait for January to do this! You can set your goals at any time and should always be assessing them to measure how you are doing or if you need to change your goals.
What’s important to you?
Setting yearly goals do set some nice timescales though. Start by thinking about what a good year might look like – where will you be in relation to where you are now? Then start to work back and think about what needs to happen or change in order for those year long visions to be come a reality?
Unfortunately, the plain fact is that most resolutions or goals are broken or not achieved due to a lack of proper planning. The most common New Year Resolutions made unsurprisingly involve exercising more and losing weight. Research shows that less than 50% of people will actually achieve this over a sustained period. Most of these people will fail due to a number of reasons:
- Setting unrealistic goals to start with
- Setting too many goals
- Failing to plan a pathway to hitting their goals
- Trying to do too much too quickly
Careers
As we are in the Recruitment business, we are going to look at purely careers and progression within the recruitment industry. If you are new to this sector you’ve probably fallen into recruitment by chance (like most of us). Now you are here you will have probably experienced the highs and lows and the pressures that come with what can be a very rewarding career.
Recruitment isn’t for everyone though, we have one of the highest percentages of staff turnover (43% compared to a national average of 15%). Recruiters are by nature quite an ambitious bunch of people and a large percentage of turnover is due to either moving on within the industry to a higher position or in many cases starting up on their own.
Agencies
The number of recruitment agencies within the UK alone sits at around 30,000 at the moment. Most of these businesses are either solopreneurs or have less than 10 staff. We talk to 100’s of recruiters who are ambitious and are at different stages of their recruitment journey. Most of them have ambitions to start their own agency at some time.
To get to this position however, they have set themselves goals over a period of time. They have learn the industry and sectors that they recruit into and generally worked their way up in stages into a position where they cannot progress any further.
The next natural progression and where most aspire to get too is to start their own recruitment agency. If you are in this position then your goal setting and planning should involve the timeline and the stages you need to go through to achieve this.
Are you ready?
So the big question is are you ready? Having ambition and being focussed on your goal of becoming your own boss and a business owner is all very commendable but you need more than that.
Fail to plan, plan to fail as the saying goes. Part of that planning is to get enough experience and ensure that you are good at recruitment first up. It’s amazing how many people think they can just switch professions and start up a recruitment business without gaining exposure to the industry first. Yes, some will succeed, but not many!
Once you have experience and are billing well, look at what else you will need to get to your end goal. This will entail training, getting exposure to other areas of running a business and ensuring you are financially in a good place. Write a business plan to help you – this is an essential part of any planning.
Find an investor
As you put your business plan together you will see all the extra elements that go into starting up and running a recruitment business outside of actually recruiting. The more time you spend on these elements, the less time you spend on business development. This is where SSG Recruitment Partnerships are a real benefit.
We exist purely to help create recruitment entrepreneurs bridging the skills gap to not just help you launch your business but also provide you with the tools, backing and expertise to grow and scale.
SSG are the support network that can help you to realise your potential and business ownership ambition. By partnering with us, you’ll also benefit from the expertise of over 150 other recruitment business owners in our network.
