Reinforced Recruitment
- Client Name: Alex Wallace & Emily Hayes
- Sector: Construction
- Inception: June 2023
- Isotope Partnership: Traditional
Success Story
We have always looked fondly on the education market. It’s a market that we have a lot of experience within, a market that we have worked with a lot of great recruiters & a market that has yielded a lot of success for the agencies we’ve support within it. About 12-18 months prior to the launch of Classroom Recruiters, we were lucky enough to first talk to Nathan Ruston about some of the ambitions he had about “one day” launching his own agency. Back then we had had some really great education recruiters join the Isotope network & over the next 12-18 months, we spoke in depth with Nathan about what he was hoping to build. Many years on, he’s built something really special. This is his story.
Client Name: Nathan Ruston
Company Name: Classroom Recruiters
Sector: Education
Inception: July 2023
Isotope Partnership: Traditional
Looking Back
From Monaco to Derby. How does a chef for the Mercedes F1 team end up launching their own recruitment agency in the heart of Derby?
That’s an easy question to answer – just ask Nathan.
You see after years of making sure that Lewis Hamilton & Nico Rosberg were well fed behind the wheel of their F1 cars, he felt it was time for a change in career & so in 2016 he made the natural transition from chef to education recruiter. Naturally.
But what a transition it turned out to be. Nathan took to the education space like all great education business owner do, with passion, integrity & hard work at the work of everything he did. With that passion for the education space, that integrity to work with the right schools in the right ways & the hard work that makes things look seamless – he had some great success within a number of employed positions across a number of well known education agencies across the midlands.
It was during that time that he first started thinking about the idea of starting his own agency within the space. The “days” were building, his relationships with his schools were deepening & with every move of employer – the reassurance that he could build a desk anywhere, became stronger. Like so many education recruiters, it was the loyalty that his schools showed him during those agency moves & the ability he had to spin the day to day recruitment with the compliance, safeguarding, back office control & deep understanding of what made a sustainable partner to educators & schools alike – that made him finally feel that the time was right to make that move to running his own agency.
His conversations with Isotope started 12-18 months prior to launching what would become, Classroom Recruiters. He knew he could build a desk, manage teams & grow a presence in a new area (after all, it was something he’d done with great success for his previous employers over the years), but there’s a gap between being a great recruiter & being a great business owner.
Nathan viewed Isotope as being able to help bridge that gap & since 2023 that’s exactly what we’ve been doing. Over that time Classroom Recruiters has developed into a fantastic business, hiring consultants, compliance officers & resourcers; all of whom have become part of the success history of Classroom Recruiters to date.
Support Areas
We have been so lucky over the years to work with so many agencies across the education 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 Classroom Recruiters across:
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Good to Know
Did you know that Classroom Recruiters isn’t just a recruitment agency? They’re the only education agency in the UK to produce, develop & record weekly podcast episodes with educators in the space. Classroom Talks is the brainchild of Nathan & his vision for what a agency partner should be – a great listen for anyone in the space!
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Commentary
I remember every conversation I had with Nathan prior to the launch of his agency. A lot of things stood out to me about him & what he was looking to do. But one that I always remember & one that every time we speak now still rings true is his instable hunger to build the most impactful education agency across the midlands. Not only to be the agency of choice, but to become a thought leader in the space. You only need to look at everything he does across the education system to know he’s just that. We’re lucky to call his business a client of ours”
Max Jones - Director, Isotope Capital