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Sometimes you just know, you know? You know what I mean? You just know that deep down, you know that you know that really what’s going to make you happy isn’t what you are doing right now, but that thing you’ve been thinking about for the last 5 years? Sometimes you just know when the timing is right, you know?
But just in case you don’t know, I’d like to take some time today to talk to you about 4 of the sure-fire signs that, deep down, show that you know that it’s time for you to start your own recruitment agency. Because after all, sometimes you just know, you know?…
(Have I said “you know” too many times? Perhaps, but you have to have make the point, you know?)
I control my time
Autonomy. Freedom. Balance.
3 feelings that every recruitment business owner strives for in their own agency. Now a lot of recruiters that we’ve been fortunate enough to support over the last few years, do actually say that they feel that they have autonomy, freedom and balance in their role and therefore it’s important to note that it’s not the lack of these three feelings that means someone should start their own agency; but moreover, it’s the importance someone holds against these three feelings that should really influence them.
Want to know if you are truly ready to start your own business?
How long do you spend, in a given day, thinking about what you would do differently in your own agency, how you would work different and how you would set your agency up differently? More than once a day? Perhaps it’s time to explore the option.
My current job frustrates me
I would say (although I’d loke to say I haven’t actually run a survey on this yet) 99.9% of the fantastic recruiters Isotope speak to on a daily basis cite frustrations in their current role as being an influencer in them looking at starting their own agency.
Now, as I know you know, there is a difference between simply being frustrated in your role and looking for something new as opposed to feeling frustrated by elements of your role that have just become more magnified since you began to think about your own recruitment business.
& I would go on step further & say that 100% of the individuals that cite frustrations at work as being part of why they are looking to start their own agency, feel this way because they have opened themselves up to start their own business and therefore these “little” issues are
now more magnified. In other words – they are not pushed to starting their own agency because they are just “pi**ed off” at their current employer but rather they are pulled to do this & those frustrations are just a little added “motivation”.
It’s not about me, it’s about we
All successful recruitment entrepreneurs start their own agencies for others, more than just simply themselves, and that’s true, whatever stage of life a recruiter is in.
Naturally, a recruiter with 3 kids and a spouse will, of course, be looking at starting their own agency to create a better life, present and future for their family. Likewise, those successful recruiters not yet at that stage of life (for example a 25-year-old recruiter, 4 years into the industry) are still motivated by the same things. It’s just they are more fixated on creating that vehicle before that family come along and, at a time when their personal risk is, arguably, a little lower than if they were to wait another 5-10 years.
I just know…you know?
I would say a large majority of the recruiters we initially speak to here at Isotope know that, at some stage in their career, they want to start their own agency. They might be unsure on when and how, but they know they will, and I guess the purpose of our conversations is to understand the “game plan”, understand the logistics and help them plan their strategy to get from knowing to taking action.
Serious recruitment entrepreneurs don’t just think about making what is the biggest career step you can possibly take, just every now and then. Serious entrepreneurs toy with the idea for months if not years; they talk to their family, they talk to their friends, they (in some cases) talk to us.
All with the objective of making this dream a reality and declaring for themselves a course of action. That course might be something that would take 2 months, it might be something that would take 2 years – but they know where they are heading.
Bottom line – they just know, you know?…
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