Your Comprehensive Overview
Pfft that’s easy. Isotope provide a comprehensive “launch & support” platform to motivated Recruiters who for months, years & in some cases decades (!) have wanted to run their own recruitment agencies.
Having identified the right type of recruiter to work with (Stage 1), Isotope focus on launching their new recruitment business (Stage 2). Isotope then commit to supporting them & their new recruitment business in quite literally every conceivable area in exchange for a descending percentage of that new companies billings over an initial 4-year period (Stage 3).
Told you it was simple.
Stage 1
You might already know a lot about Isotope, who we are, what we do & how we might be able to help. You might have been referred to us by a friend, arch-nemesis or colleague who we’ve been lucky enough to work with. Or you might know nothing about us. Diddly squat in fact, but you’ve seen some of our content online, perhaps had a message from one of our fantastic team members or you might have simply stumbled across Isotope while doing some evening research into launching your own recruitment agency,
However you “got here”, Stage 1 is all about you. We want to understand why you’re interested in launching your own recruitment agency, what type of recruitment business you are hoping to build & how Isotope might be able to help on that journey. Sure, you’ll also have 101 questions about Isotope, about what we do, how we do it & what a relationship with Isotope really looks like for you & your new business. This is your opportunity to get all those answers (& a lot more).
“Stage 1” is fun; we want to know everything about you & you want to know everything about us. From what market you’re hoping to focus upon to what you had for dinner last night (okay… maybe not that but you get what we mean). Your conversations with Isotope will be thorough, in-depth & more often than not span over months (if not years) before it feels like the right time to “make the leap”. For us, every relationship starts from that very first conversation. Oh & we had Salmon stir-fry, if you really wanted to know.
Stage 2
By this stage in our relationship, the reality is we already know a heck of a lot about one another. So “Stage 2” of our offering is where the talking stops & action is taken; the action of launching your recruitment agency. A tried, tested & continually perfected model taking your recruitment business from the ideas in your head, to a “ready to trade” recruitment business ready to take the recruitment world by storm.
This process driven launch phase of your new recruitment agency focusses across 4 core areas. What are they, we hear you say? Wow… it’s like we knew you’d ask that. They are:
From Company incorporation to dealing with business banking registrations. From registering you & your new recruitment business for the relevant business taxes to setting your business up with the relevant accounting software. From talking you through the most appropriate personal tax registrations for you as a Business Owner to ensuring that, should you desire to run temps from Day 1, your new recruitment business has the right funding & payroll infrastructure in place. This (& much more) happens within Pillar 1. Oh & this is also where you’ll meet your dedicated Isotope Accountant – the superstar responsible for the account & back office support provided to you & your recruitment business. We hope that that contact would never change, that that person will begin to understand everything about you & the back office requirements for your business over the years to come.
From tailored & bespoke Terms of Business covering Perm’, Fixed Term’ contract, PAYE, LTD Company, Umbrella, national & international client bases to purpose-built additional compliance documentation for you & your particular recruitment sector. From ensuring GDPR & data compliance (registering your business with the appropriate bodies & designing the policies required) to ensuring your business has the relevant business insurances to trade within your market of choice. This (& much more) happens within Pillar 2. Oh & this is also where you’ll meet your legal & compliance contact within Isotope – you’ll no doubt already know them from previous conversations with the Isotope team but their job is simple; to ensure you & your recruitment business remain complaint & one step ahead of any changes across the legal landscape.
The designers here at Isotope will focus their efforts on two areas during the launch of your recruitment business; the visual identity of your recruitment business (Area 1) followed by a focus on the bespoke design & development of your business website (Area 2). They really make your business come to life; creating everything from your businesses’ logos, stationary & social media presence, to business cards, marketing collateral & the creation of your bespoke recruitment business website. This (& much more) happens within Pillar 3. The creative team have created, developed & enhanced a great number of recruitment brands over the years, there’s nothing they can’t do. Creatively speaking that is; please don’t ask our Head of Creative to make you a cup of coffee for example, as you’ll be waiting longer for that than the completion of the Sistine Chapel.
This is the part of the process where you start to get your hands on the tools you need to do the job! The objective here is to ensure your business has all the tools, resources & necessary provision to practically trade. From candidate procurement access (from job board advertising to whichever suite of services you require across platforms like LinkedIn) to access to the right CRM for you & your recruitment business; from sector-specific recruitment tech’ to setting up credit checking facilities within your business; from purchasing the right domains for your recruitment agency to setting up emails & telecoms. Our job is to arm you & your recruitment agency with the right tools to help create the strongest foundation for success within your agency. This (& much more) happens within Pillar 4.
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Stage 3
Pillar 1
Our commitment to you is clear; to become an integrated accounting & back office extension of your recruitment business. From invoicing, credit control & the day-to-day bookkeeping your recruitment business requires; to VAT returns & submissions, CT calculations & yearly filings & the monthly production of your MMAs (the accounts, not the fighting genre). & of course, the list goes on & on!
Successfully running the back office of your recruitment business is all about respecting a process, building on experiences & chucking in some good old-fashioned advice as well.
Look, you may not believe it now, but one day the most exciting day of each month will be receiving your MMA from the Isotope team & learning more & more about the inner accounting mechanics of your business each & every day. We hope that it’s through our process driven & respectful approach to your accounts, that we make every stage of your business, fun – after all, you’re becoming ‘financially fit’ (without the need for a treadmill)!
Pillar 2
Our commitment to you is clear; to become an integrated legal, compliance & HR extension of your recruitment business.
Sometimes clients don’t pay on time, back-door hires can happen & you might meet a few tricky employees along the way as you build your recruitment business. We’re not here to paint this utopian picture of running your own business & therefore we won’t neglect the importance of having a secure legal support structure. The team at Isotope work with our clients on everything from creating & maintaining rigid Terms of Business, to advice around how to deal with a tricky temp’ or two, to practical support & assistance in producing tender agreements. We’ve been involved in the on-boarding of our client’s staff & also look at act as an extension of the HR function for our ventures.
& if Isotope are able to introduce a new facility after you have already become a member of the community, then there is no need to worry because of course you will be able to enjoy access to it. To be clear, this is not limited to any ‘aspect’ of the Isotope support; you are a client of Isotope & therefore deserve the most up-to-date & contemporary support we offer. The reality is that this happens quite often; after all if we improve our offering, our clients generate more revenue which you guessed it, means Isotope do too.
Pillar 3
Our commitment to you is clear; to become an integrated creative, design & marketing extension of your recruitment business. As your business grows, so too will your brand & therefore the creative input & advice from Isotope is not just limited to the launch stage of your business; our aim is to constantly be there to supply that creative insight & practical assistance whenever you require.
That might be in the form of developing marketing campaigns, perhaps some iconographic images for social media or perhaps looking at some developments to your bespoke website. The creative team will be proactive in identifying what direction your brand might want to take & they’ll be consistent in providing your business with the creative tools it’s needs to remain current & relevant to your particular sector.
And please, let me state for the record our philosophy regarding ANY support provided to you & your agency by Isotope. We want to be challenged, we want to be pushed & we want to continually be able to raise the creative standards our clients have come to know & expect from Isotope. So please, challenge us. History has shown us that the clients that proactively engage with Isotope on a daily basis are the ones that enjoy far greater success as the months & years go by. The creative team are constantly re-defining what is “normal” when it comes to the level of support provided to our clients within this area, we know how important it is to a successful & flourishing agency & want to be there to support you & your agency in every way we can.
Pillar 4
Our commitment to you is clear; to become an integrated technology, procurement & sourcing extension of your recruitment business. Throughout your many conversations with the Isotope team, we would have been building a picture of the tools we feel you require & it’s our job to provide you with access to them within Stage 3 of our relationship.
Whether that’s ensuring access to the relevant job boards, working with you to on-board the right multi-poster or any other sector-specific tools that your market requires. Perhaps it could be support with DBS-checking facilities, lead-generation advice, Boolean-search platforms or those much-needed credit-checking resources. Or even, advice & implementation around the most suitable CRM for your business. It would be here, within Pillar 4 that you & your recruitment business would
And look, we know things might change for your business & so will your contemporary requirements lists but please do not worry. Again, remember the logic of why we try to be so helpful! We only succeed if you success, so even if we weren’t the lovely, welcoming, humble team we are, we would still want to provide you with the tools you need at the time you need them. So we’d have to be idiots not to be a little flexible when it comes to this tools-driven approach.
Let’s Be Clear
And so too is the philosophy that supports that. Isotope is a business and as such we need to generate strong returns from any recruitment business we support. With that realisation, Isotope knows that our success will only ever be a humble reflection of “our guys” success & therefore it’s all about working with not just a good recruiter, but the right recruiter(s).
So if you’ve got a great idea, coupled with a great attitude to succeed then that’s our cup of tea!
