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The Launch Stage

History’s evil despots. Mass murderers. Diva Footballers. PPI salesmen. Estate Agents, Politicians & now Recruiters.

Everyone is cut from the same cloth apparently! Why does everyone seem to have a collective ‘downer’ on Recruitment & Recruiters?! We love Recruitment and we love Recruiters!

Recruitment is fun & recruiters are great. You know it, we know it & anyone who says we’re all biased is lying & just like recruitment, launching your own recruitment business should be fun! It should be exciting & it should always feel special.

By the time you reach the very exciting ‘launch stage’ of your business with Isotope, you would have had numerous conversations with the Isotope team. You would have spent time talking about your ideas, discussing the recruitment tools your new business might require & thinking about the type of support that is going to be valuable to you in your start-up.

But the launch stage is where all the talking stops & Isotope start work on the creation of your new business. It’s a stage full of respect, transparency & honesty; we will work with you in creating everything from the right branding for your business, to ensuring you work with the most suitable telecoms provider. From setting your business up with the right recruitment tools to providing access to the relevant job boards & CRMs. From explaining the nuances of business taxation to talking about the array of Terms of Business that are going to be important in your sector. Tax, VAT, the Inland Revenue and Terms of Business… see, I told you it would be “exciting”!

Joking aside, the launch stage of your business is where Isotope can really showcase our proactive & process-driven nature.

The objective is clear; to successfully & smoothly launch your recruitment business within an agreed timescale. We are not interested in cutting corners or working with the dreadful “that’ll do for now” mentality. We treat every stage of the launch of your business with the utmost respect & therefore, things can take time. But when they do, we will be open, honest & clear when telling you what’s being done & when it’ll be done by.

Saying that, history has shown us that usually it takes 6-8 weeks to launch a recruitment business with Isotope. We understand there might be time pressures, things that need to be done & need to be soon to ensure that your new business is in a position to legally & effectively trade. Our job is to keep you clearly informed, updated & part of the journey.

Whether it be a video call with your web designer, a conversation with the accounts team about ensuring you have been registered for the right business taxes or a quick chat with your Launch Manager to get an overall view of where in the Isotope launch process your business is; whatever it is, it is our duty to make the process fun, exciting & special.

We work at your pace, against a very clearly defined process that has been tried & tested over the years. What we have learnt is that this is the time to take your time, get things right but also appreciate that businesses evolve & so will your start-up. They say nothing can ever be perfect but we say, why not?

Our Launch Process
The 7 Steps

1. Meet with your Launch Manager

You’ll arrive at Isotope HQ around 10am - excited, enthusiastic & eager to begin the anticipated launch stage of your recruitment business. You might have come alone or asked a trustworthy friend to come along with you – either way, dress for comfort, bring a pen & get ready to meet everyone directly involved with supporting your new business. But first you’ll meet the fantastic coordinator, the individual responsible for ensuring the smooth launch of your recruitment business, the experienced head that will guide you & your embryonic business along this first part of its journey – The Launch Manager.

You will meet them first & they will explain what you should expect from the day ahead. Constantly re-affirming that no question can be asked too many times & that the holistic benefits of Isotope really kick in now. They’ll explain all the legal “bits” & talk you through some of the legal documents that you & business might want to ask Isotope to have in place for you, before you officially begin to trade. Usually lasting 60 minutes or so, they’ll be responsible for ensuring everything runs smoothly & efficiently for you during your time with Isotope.

2. Accounts & Back Office Introduction

Impersonable, unapproachable & never to be left out in direct sunlight; you’d be forgiven to think that all accountants actually reflect that, rather unfair, stereotype. But if you don’t believe us, you will after you have the pleasure of meeting some of the accounts team here at Isotope. Following on from your conversations with your Launch Manager, you will now meet the “number gurus”. Since Isotope are responsible for the monthly production of your Company accounts, refereed to as “Monthly Management Accounts”, it is the objective of the accounts team to spend some time explaining their responsibilities in the launch stage of your business.

They will talk with you & explain what is required to produce your Monthly Management Accounts in a timely, concise & accurate manner, each month, every month, without fail. From explaining how to submit expenses to when & how to file your VAT returns; the accountants of Isotope have always looked to make understanding the accounts of your business, fun so that you view your accounts as more than just ‘numbers on a page’ but as a tracking device, forecast enabler & something to really be proud of. Now you’ll have 101 questions before you meet with them & you’ll have 101 after the time you spend with them – but please don’t worry if you don’t have a chance to ask everything, they’ll always be just a phone call or train journey away to support & assist you with whatever you need.

3. Allocating your Recruitment Tools

Since you would have spent considerable time talking about VAT, Dividend Tax & the legendary HMRC, it seems right to be able to now spend some time on some more ‘well-recognised’ areas of recruitment – the tools. Whether you are in need of a handful of job boards, sector specific tools or access to multi-posting software, it’ll now that the Isotope team spend some time talking you about the tools available to you as part of your relationship with us. This is where the process driven nature of the launch stage is really highlighted. It is our job to ensure that you have the right tools available to you & they are in place within the right timescales to allow you & your business to effectively trade as soon as possible.

4. Lunch – Refuel!

After a jam-packed morning of progress, it seems like a good time to take a break & have some lunch? Isotope will provide you with a nutritious lunch, while you regain your strength for an afternoon of creative conversations & technical lingo!... & who knows if you’re lucky, we might chuck in a chocolate biscuit or two.

5. Talks with your Technical Talent

Usually around 1:30pm, members of the Isotope team will sit down with you & talk through the technical aspects of your recruitment business. They will be responsible for ensuring your business is ‘technically’ ready to trade; from advice & assistance on the most suitable laptops, to finding the appropriate telecoms providers, to setting your business up with demos & trials with the appreciate CRM providers. The Isotope technical team are there to provide some much-needed magic & assistance for anything - from your cat spilling coffee over your laptop to advice around how to continually streamline your recruitment & business processes.

Chances are you’ll have a good idea of some of the technical elements that are going to be important to you in your business – so, please, take this time to talk them through with the team, help them understand what is important to you & listen to the advice they have.

6. Creative & Marketing Introduction

It is probable that the majority of your afternoon will be spent here - with members of the Creative & Marketing team at Isotope. A team of fantastic & imaginative individuals, responsible for the branding & creative development of your recruitment business. You may already have very clear ideas of how you want your business branding to look – heck, you may have sent ideas & sketches by email prior to the ‘Big Day’ & the Creative team may have already taken inspiration from your ideas & are simply presenting them back to you.

Whether you have a clear vision in mind or are looking to the Isotope team for that necessary inspiration, they will spend some time with you creating & perfecting the branding of your business. Simultaneously, they will explain what you can expect from the Isotope team, from the creating your logos, stationary & letterheads, to producing your website, social media platforms & marketing strategies. Their job is to be focussed, relentless & fixated on understanding you, your sector & your business to successfully present back to you a brand that reflects all of those fantastic qualities. Oh, and don’t be afraid to give your honest feedback to any suggestions they have – we’ve seen first-hand that these Creative types have even thicker skins than us recruiters… we promise!

7. Final thoughts with your Launch Manager

The Launch stage of your business is like a military operation & your Launch Manager is the organised, unrelenting, obsessive individual leading the charge to ensure you go away from your first day with the Isotope team clear on the next steps. We want it to be crystal clear for you what you can now expect from the Isotope team over the coming weeks, when to expect it & how frequently to expect us to call. On that note, we appreciate that there may still be a need for discreet phone calls & out of hours conversations during this exciting stage of your business. We respect that assure that no one outside of Isotope & those that you chose to tell, will know anything about what Isotope are doing for you – heck, we may even revert to sending messages attached to on the famous “Harry Potter” Owls, however just remember to leave your windows open; we’ve lost too many Owls to that fateful double glazing.

By around 5pm on your Launch Day, your Launch Manager will go through any questions that the day might have brought to your attention & (finally!) let you leave Isotope HQ – armed with the reassurance that you are in safe hands &, as always, only a phone call away. You won’t expect to hear from Isotope again that day, but you will work very closely & methodically with your Launch Manager as we get to work on the exciting reality of launching your recruitment business.