The RAG Podcast - Recruitment Agency Growth Podcast Season 5 | Ep 6 - Nick Vaughan on scaling Hamlyn Williams to 100 people and then leaving the business to build the Bloomberg of the recruitment sector!
On this week's episode of The RAG Podcast Live, I was joined by Nick Vaughan, Founder of Hamlyn Williams and now CEO & Founder of Talent Ticker an actionable market intelligence platform for the recruitment industry.
Nick’s life began as a 3rd generation farmer in Herefordshire who moved to London to work in the city.
After learning his trade with S3 and JCW, he launched Hamlyn Williams in 2011, a specialised STEM focused Recruitment Agency with a HQ in Cardiff.
Over the next 7 years Nick managed to scale the business to over 100 people across multiple global offices in 3 continents before deciding that his skills were no longer suitable to take the business forward.
Today, the business is over 200 people and managed by a new CEO, Nick is fully focussed on the launch of his next venture and what a plan he has!
In this episode he shared
- Nicks start up and scale up story
- How he got to 30 staff with no infrastructure and led to 100% staff churn
- The decisions that enabled him to scale to 100+ recruiters
- His top 3 tips for aspiring high growth business owners
- His sacrifice at home and the solid partnership with his wife whilst scaling
- His daily morning routine for success
- What is Talent Ticker and why should agencies consider using this innovative tool
An extremely inspiring entrepreneur, one you do not want to miss!
If you wish to speak to Nick personally - feel free to message him on LinkedIn here
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A big thank you to today’s sponsor Volcanic.com - the best in class recruitment website provider delivering websites that look good and perform even better.
If you would like to see some of the fantastic websites that Volcanic has delivered for clients globally, you can visit volcanic.com/our-work which showcases their best-in-class website designs across various locations and sectors, as well as a number of success stories for leading agencies such as Premier Group and Search Consultancy.
- Volcanic also recently ran a webinar along with Gordon Webb from Idibu and Janine Owen from The Talent Crowd on ‘Conquering the candidate conundrum’. This will soon be available to catch up on demand for insights on how to find those unicorn candidates in today’s war for talent! Keep an eye out…
Finally, we are offering RAG listeners an MOT of their current site – landing page is here (and embedded on the above page) The Access Group
www.volcanic.com/hoxo
This applies to any recruitment website.
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Thanks to our second sponsor District 4
District4 supports experienced recruiters to launch their own recruitment businesses with an impressive start-up package and take care of the back office and technology which allows them to focus on what they do best: providing an excellent service to their clients and candidates.
District4 is a community of expert recruiters who are all business owners in their own right. As a community we support each-other professionally and personally to hit out goals.
On Monday 8th November they started an exciting 5-day challenge “So you want to start your own recruitment business?”
Over 5 days you will explore your why, your vision, your financials, your market and put together a business plan.
This challenge is for experienced recruiters who have thought about going it alone and want to explore it at a deeper level.
At the end of the challenge you will either be raring to go and start your business or have decided that it is not for you.
It is running all of this week and there are replays available for anyone who has missed the sessions
You can catch up either in the challenges closed facebook group at (1) Start your Recruitment Business in 2022 Free Challenge | Facebook or if they search in groups for "Start your recruitment business in 2022 Free Challenge or by going to my LinkedIn profile and viewing the featured section.
They have a new task going live everyday at 9.15 and then a daily Q&A answering all of their set up questions at 12 noon both live via my profile.
The link to join the challenge is https://growyourrecruitmentbusinessevent.vipmembervault.com/products/view/1110290