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- Client Name: Michael Taylor & Lauren Smith
- Sector: Education
- Inception: August 2025
- Isotope Partnership: Traditional
Success Story
All Square Recruitment was founded in 2023 by the diligent & capable duo, Dan Maund & Quinn Brierley after years of working in across the industrial market. Having worked together for years, they’d always tentatively spoken about the idea of starting their own agency but, like so many, life got in the way & their conversations stayed very much surface level for years. Until one day, it all changed. A few niggling frustrations at the way things were being conducted in their current employment meant that the timing was gently feeling right to start their own agency in a space they knew so much about. This is their story.
Client Name: Dan Maund & Quinn Brierley
Company Name: All Square Recruitment
Sector: Industrial
Inception: September 2023
Isotope Partnership: Traditional
Looking Back
Typically there are two types of businesses that people set out to build – in the one camp you have the innovators & in the other, you have improvers. Improvers take a model that they know like the back of their hand & use their experience & focus to improve upon that model.
The majority of exceptional recruitment startups are in that latter camp. Built by ambitious, experienced & focussed recruiters who have spent years (& years) working within their sector. As their experience develops & their confidence in the space progresses, they naturally start thinking about the idea of starting their own agency & using all that expertise to build a business in their own vision.
Improving upon a model they know very well. This is exactly what Dan & Quinn sought out to do when they launched All Square Recruitment.
With a total of 20 years experience across the market & the last 4 working together in their previous employer, the ambition to start their own agency was rooted in a long standing belief that the could build a business to rival those agencies they had been a part of over the years. Not from a place of arrogance or an over-inflated sense of worth, but more a humble & realistic understanding of what sets a great agency apart from the rest – one built on trust, compliance & integrity.
As it so typical of the duos that we have supported over the years, the conversations started behind closed doors. A passing comment during an after-work drinks turned into more serious conversations & before they knew it, they were talking with Isotope about what working for themselves would really look like.
These are two consultants who know the value in building the right foundations in an agency; two consultants that know how important it is to be an inch wide & a mile deep when it comes to compliance within their market; two consultants that felt professionally ready to make the leap & personally assured that it was the right step for them & their families.
Having worked together previously they knew how each other worked, they knew the value they’d both bring to an agency & in the 12-18 months of conversations with Isotope it was all about adding clarity around how these pillars of support around their business would look in practise.
Support Areas
We have been so lucky over the years to work with so many agencies across the Industrial market & while all require a slightly different approach, a slightly different manner – we understand the foundations that are required to support a business like this. Adding that personal touch is, well, the fun bit!… With that in mind, here are just some of the areas of support Isotope are lucky enough to work with All Square Recruitment Recruitment across:
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Logo Design
Business Card
Letterhead
Email Signature
Social Banners
Website
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Good to Know
Isotope had to create a new record within our CRM when we were lucky enough to commence work with All Square Recruitment. Not because it was a market we’d never worked in, but because our first conversation with Dan Maund came off a referral from his partner. Also in recruitment, we’d spoken to them over the years about starting their own agency. It wasn’t quite right for them but did they know anyone?.. Perhaps.
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Through the whole process Max has been great. He has helped guide us through each stage and has always been available to talk and provide advice. If you are considering starting your own Recruitment business then I would highly recommend reaching out to Max. He helped us make the right decision for us.
Dan Maund & Quinn Brierley - All Square Recruitment
Isotope
Commentary
We talk a lot about our ICP within Isotope. & Dan & Quinn are exactly the types of professionals we love working with. They know what they do, they know how they do it & they know why they do it. Ever since that first conversation, I knew that we’d be lucky to call them partners & the last few years have been a pleasure. A great business with a compliant & stable foundation, it’s no wonder growth is always on their mind.
Max Jones - Director, Isotope Capital