The RAG Podcast - Recruitment Agency Growth Podcast

Because I’m away on paternity leave over the next couple of weeks, I’m giving you some super valuable information that I’ve recently shared as part of our Hoxo Academy Taster Sessions.I’m featuring a case study that I recorded about a company called Precision Sourcing. Simon Hair, the MD at the company, was previously on The RAG Podcast and was part of my Personal Brand Bootcamp in 2020, where I taught him how to build his brand and find warm leads daily on LinkedIn.As a result of that course, he enrolled his whole team in my training. At the end of 2022, I was working with over 32 members of his team, and they generated over 2.5 million Australian dollars, which is over 23% of their annual gross margin.So they did just over $10 million, and $2. 5 million of that was generated through Hoxo's warm inbound leads process that we taught them through the bootcamp. If you're interested in how this team have generated extra gross margin from LinkedIn, then listen up in this episode, I'm going to tell you 10 things they implemented to ensure that our 3X system, which is the process that everyone follows in our training, so well that they got success from everyone in the business. Also, as part of this show, you can click the link in the show notes, and there's a downloadable guide that gives you everything that I've said (including all the notes). So you can take it and use it in your agency. So if you want to build your personal brand on LinkedIn, if you want to get more inbound business, and want to get warm leads that win inbound business on LinkedIn, you've got to listen to today's show.I hope you enjoy it.__________________________________________Hoxo 20:10:5 Find 25 x warm leads on LinkedIn every week with our new FREE training!Our Hoxo 20:10:5 free course is now LIVE!We've just launched and have had hundreds of recruiters sign up!All looking to learn how to find warm leads on LinkedInWe're already receiving messages from people telling us about their initial resultsIt’s crazy!NOTE - a warm lead is someone who you can guarantee 100% knows who you are and has shown interest in you in the past 48 hoursAre you ready to learn?If so, download our free guide and access our free course today - https://bit.ly/3ZtbNKo__________________________________________Episode Sponsor: RecruitHubOur trusted partner RecruitHub helps new founders launch their own recruitment businesses in the UK, US & UAE. The community is growing rapidly, with over 70 founders on the RecruitHub platform.Everything you need to launch your own recruitment business with ease.- Receive 100% of the fees you bill- Own full commercial control of your business and increase its value- Cutting-edge tech stack, from ATS to sales automation- No admin - we handle everything from company registration to contracts to finance and support- No setup costs on the platform, no recurring fixed costs, and no surprise feesIf you're thinking of taking the next step in your career and want to discuss your business idea, please book a confidential chat with RecruitHub's team or learn more here: https://www.recruit-hub.com/uk-awareness/__________________________________________Episode Sponsor: UntappedUntapped is one of the hottest companies in the market right now, helping agencies in the UK, US, Middle East and Australia transition to the new world, leverage elite remote individuals, and even build whole offshore sourcing & recruiting teams. They source from the most exciting talent pools on the planet for recruitment staff and embed elite talent into your company to improve diversity, productivity and the cost of your teams. It’s a simple process, you pay a deposit to kick off the search, and they provide a candidates shortlist in 14 days. You can also put people through your own process and then hire perm or on a freelance basis, depending on your needs. They are totally transparent with salaries. Typically your global talent will earn 30% more than their local benchmark giving you high levels of motivation and work ethic, but you’ll still pay 70% less than a UK equivalent support. It’s a no-brainer to complement existing teams to handle surplus demand or to ease cost pressures. If you’re not using this time to rip up your business model and rebuild it with global resources, you are going to fall behind those that do. Due to demand and capacity restraints, they are operating a waiting list at the moment, so be quick to get in touch: www.tryuntapped.com

On this week's show, I’m speaking directly to our partner, Vincere.Vincere has sponsored the RAG Podcast for the last three years, and I have a lot of love for the brand and a great relationship with the business. I’m really grateful for the support they've given me and our industry.However, about a year ago, they were acquired by The Access Group which is the fastest-growing and largest software company in Europe. After they were acquired, the two founders, Bernie Schiemer and Eloise Sutton-Kirkby, exited almost immediately. Since the acquisition by The Access Group, there has been murmurings across the industry, and their reputation has taken some damage. So I interviewed Nick Thomson, the Commercial Director for The Access Group’s recruitment division. And Kristy Gilham, the Product Director at Vincere. She’s been with Vincere pre and post-acquisition. We had a really candid, hard-hitting conversation on your behalf. I asked them what the hell they've been doing and why there's so much negative press regarding support and functionality - and what they are going to do about it.Are they actually going to make changes?In this episode, we break down🎙️ Some of the big ticket items they're working on🎙️ The reasons why you felt some pain and 🎙️ What they're going to do about the issues brought forwardAnd, hopefully, you're going to not only learn about the product, but also build some form of connection with the two people who are going to be the face of the brand and are going to be able to help you get to the bottom of any issues you have.This is the first in a series of conversations we're going to have with them. I want you to listen, come back to us with your questions and challenges, and we'll have another conversation. Over time, I want to make sure that we're holding them accountable to being the best operating system provider possible!Hoxo MessageAre you spending hours on LinkedIn and cold outreach and want more business coming to you over your competition? Well, if you're the founder or leader of a recruitment agency, here's what we can do for you at Hoxo.We will give you the training, support, and resources to take you from what I call an offline recruiter - reliant on posting jobs and sending emails to open up new customers, ultimately looking like every other recruiter on LinkedIn - to an online recruiter, being seen by over 25,000 relevant people driving a 200% minimum increase in engagement on your profile and seeing daily lead lists from LinkedIn that you can follow up within six weeks time.And if you don't perform, you don't pay. How can we make such a bold, results-driven promise like this? Two reasons:1) Whilst I've been building the RAG podcast, we've actually done what we say we’ll do for our clients. In less than two years, we built a business generating from zero to over 1 million views per month on LinkedIn, leading to multimillion-pound revenues with a sales team of me plus two people without making a single outbound call.2) Our track record - not only have we done it ourselves, but we've helped over 350 agencies and over 4,700 consultants do it as well, all in the last three years. Now, if that sounds of interest to you, make sure you fill in our contact form, and we’ll tell you how we can help: https://bit.ly/3jpuEWa

On this week’s show, I'm joined by Kyle Grainger, our newest RAG sponsor and the founder of a six month old recruitment agency, Untapped. Untapped specialise in finding remote, highly experienced recruiters for recruitment agencies in UK, US, Middle East, and Australia, sourced from untapped, low cost locations such as the Philippines and South Africa.The benefit of this model is that you can hire people with a proven track record, who don’t need too much management and training at a fraction of the cost of an equivalent hire in your location!As you may know, 75% of Team Hoxo is based in South Africa and I can say from experience that this has been an amazing move for us!The reason I brought Kyle on the show so early on in his journey was simple:Having raw conversations with people in the first six months will give any new or aspiring recruitment owner the opportunity to find out what the beginning stages of launching a company is really likeI 100% believe in what these guys are doing and have already used them for sourcing our talent internally!2023 has been a tough market and cost control has been on the agenda for most of us!Untapped provides a cost reduction, high quality talent solution.It's a complete no brainer. So listen up, take notes and reach out to Kyle if you're interested. Episode Sponsor: RecruitHubOur trusted partner RecruitHub helps new founders launch their own recruitment business in the UK, US & UAE. The community is growing rapidly with over 70 founders on the RecruitHub platform.Everything you need to launch your own recruitment business with ease.- Receive 100% of the fees you bill- Own full commercial control of your business and increase its value- Cutting-edge tech stack, from ATS to sales automation- No admin - we handle everything from company registration to contracts, to finance and support- No setup costs on the platform, no recurring fixed costs, and no surprise feesIf you're thinking of taking the next step in your career and want to discuss your business idea, please book a confidential chat with RecruitHub's team or learn more here: https://www.recruit-hub.com/uk-awareness/Episode Sponsor: UntappedSafe to say it’s been a tricky year for the recruitment sector globally, many have had to operate through uncertain times, making tough calls and streamline where possible.However, accessing lower cost resources internationally has proven to be the 2023 cheat code for business performance, but anyone who has tried it knows it’s not easy to get right. That’s where Untapped comes in. Untapped is one of the hottest companies in the market right now helping agencies in the UK, US, Middle East and Australia transition to the new world, leverage elite remote individuals and even build whole offshore sourcing and recruiting teams. They source from the most exciting talent pools on the planet for recruitment staff and embed elite talent into your company to improve diversity, productivity and the cost of your teams. Your UK team will also love the help with some of the repetitive, time consuming work that lands on their desk, improving their job satisfaction. They put around 3000 candidates per month through an intense 4 stage interview and online testing process to find the top 1% and secure these people roles in UK agencies doing research, marketing, finance, sourcing, end to end recruiting, coordination and account management. All candidates are benchmarked against UK competency frameworks and are tested for the highest level of communication and language skills.  It’s a simple process, you pay a deposit to kick off the search, they provide a candidates shortlist in 14 days, you can put people through your own process also and then hire perm or on a freelance basis depending on your need. They are totally transparent with salaries. Typically your global talent will earn 30% more than their local benchmark giving you high levels of motivation and work ethic but you’ll still pay 70% less than a UK equivalent support. It’s a no brainer to complement existing teams to handle surplus demand or to ease cost pressures. If you’re not using this time to rip up your business model and rebuild it with global resources, you are going to fall behind those that do. Due to demand and capacity restraints, they are operating a waiting list at the moment so be quick to get in touch: www.tryuntapped.com

This week’s show is going to be a little bit different. My guest is Mel Kang, the CEO of Mezzle, a consulting law firm, not a recruitment agency.Mezzle takes traditional lawyers who work for traditional law firms and flips the model. They attract lawyers who join them without a set salary but take home 70 percent of their annual earnings/ billings. The reason Mel’s a guest on the show is because of how similar the law industry is to the recruitment industry. The way they set their firms up is almost identical.Mel’s whole day job consists of headhunting lawyers from traditional firms and bringing them into Mezzle.He launched Mezzle with his friend and partner Raj on the first day of the pandemic Since then, they've now grown to 48 consultant lawyers in the UK and Dubai.They are on track to become one of the top 200 law firms in the world. I truly believe there's so much you can learn from this conversation as a recruiter or recruitment founder. Understanding the way Mel thinks and is able to adapt and evolve, can make your recruitment company better. So take notes. I hope you enjoy this one as much as I did.__________________________________________If you’re a recruiter who’d love to listen and learn from some of the greatest recruitment owners and leaders then you need to listen to the RAG Podcast! We’re having real and raw conversations with successful recruitment entrepreneurs about what is happening in their businesses right now and their plans to navigate market changes.Episodes are released every Wednesday at 12pm GMThttps://www.youtube.com/c/HoxoMedia?sub_confirmation=1__________________________________________Episode Sponsor: RecruitHubOur trusted partner RecruitHub helps new founders launch their own recruitment business in the UK, US & UAE. The community is growing rapidly with over 70 founders on the RecruitHub platform.Everything you need to launch your own recruitment business with ease.- Receive 100% of the fees you bill- Own full commercial control of your business and increase its value- Cutting-edge tech stack, from ATS to sales automation- No admin - we handle everything from company registration to contracts, to finance and support- No setup costs on the platform, no recurring fixed costs, and no surprise feesIf you're thinking of taking the next step in your career and want to discuss your business idea, please book a confidential chat with RecruitHub's team or learn more here: https://www.recruit-hub.com/uk-awareness/__________________________________________Episode Sponsor: UntappedSafe to say it’s been a tricky year for the recruitment sector globally, many have had to operate through uncertain times, making tough calls and streamline where possible.However, accessing lower cost resources internationally has proven to be the 2023 cheat code for business performance, but anyone who has tried it knows it’s not easy to get right. That’s where Untapped comes in. Untapped is one of the hottest companies in the market right now helping agencies in the UK, US, Middle East and Australia transition to the new world, leverage elite remote individuals and even build whole offshore sourcing and recruiting teams. They source from the most exciting talent pools on the planet for recruitment staff and embed elite talent into your company to improve diversity, productivity and the cost of your teams. Your UK team will also love the help with some of the repetitive, time consuming work that lands on their desk, improving their job satisfaction. They put around 3000 candidates per month through an intense 4 stage interview and online testing process to find the top 1% and secure these people roles in UK agencies doing research, marketing, finance, sourcing, end to end recruiting, coordination and account management. All candidates are benchmarked against UK competency frameworks and are tested for the highest level of communication and language skills.  It’s a simple process, you pay a deposit to kick off the search, they provide a candidates shortlist in 14 days.  You can also put people through your own process and then hire perm or on a freelance basis depending on your need. They are totally transparent with salaries. Typically your global talent will earn 30% more than their local benchmark giving you high levels of motivation and work ethic but you’ll still pay 70% less than a UK equivalent support. It’s a no brainer to complement existing teams to handle surplus demand or to ease cost pressures. If you’re not using this time to rip up your business model and rebuild it with global resources, you are going to fall behind those that do. Due to demand and capacity restraints, they are operating a waiting list at the moment so be quick to get in touch: www.tryuntapped.com

This week's show is going to be different. I am featuring a recent webinar I hosted for the recruitment industry where I had over a hundred people turn up and I've had countless messages asking for this information.At Hoxo, we help brand recruitment agencies and their people better. People are your biggest asset in your organisation. Every single recruiter at a desk level can have such a huge impact on your brand, on your market, and on your business.I think it's fair to say everyone knows now that you should be getting your team to post more on LinkedIn. But asking them to do it and actually getting them doing it are two very difficult challenges that we see across the industry. So in this 30 minute episode, I'm going to:🎙️ Tell you why your recruitment team should be posting on LinkedIn🎙️ Give you three things to get your team to do to raise the output and the quality of their output🎙️ Give you some really simple metrics to track performance. So what are the KPIs and measurements you should be looking at on a monthly and a weekly basis to ensure that your team are moving in the right direction?At the end of this episode, click on the link attached to the show notes, and download our show notes for free. So take your own notes and then you're going to get my notes and you'll be able to take advice and put it into practice and get things moving in your agency tomorrow.__________________________________________Hoxo MessageLinkedIn for recruiters: Transform your team's posting power in just 30 minutes! Download our resource for an overview of:- Why your team should be creating and posting content on LinkedIn- 3 important steps to get your recruitment team to post​- What to expect from your teams each week on the platformGet your copy here: https://academy.hoxomedia.com/download__________________________________________Episode Sponsor: VincereVincere’s TimeTemp is your complete integrated timesheet and workforce management solution, pre-built, pre-integrated, and designed so no matter how much your business grows, you’ll be able to keep track of every single worker.All changes inside Vincere will sync with TimeTemp and feedback into your account, automating the entire process with two-way sync from your front to back office.Vincere’s TimeTemp enables you to create shift schedules, search available workers, shortlist,and book assignments in seconds.It’ll also allow you to track time, leave, and expenses with its built-in pay rule engine,DoorClock and mobile app for the on-the-go.Find out more on vincere.io/rag

On this week’s show, I’m excited to be joined for the third time by DSP (David Spencer-Percival!).The founder of Life Science People, a global life science people provider based in the UK with offices in the US and soon to be opening in Europe. They are just under three years old with 100 staff.The first time David was on the show, they were on their way to a hundred people - they were flying. The second time, earlier this year, David talked about how they'd lost a lot of money in the downturn at the end of last year - £800,000 in three months. The market just wasn't great. Now, he's back on the show to share that they've just secured £4 million in investment funding by Silchester Partners. This discreet, private hedge fund now owns 20% of his business and the £4 million is going to fuel their growth for the next 10 years to help them get to 1000 people. In this 30 minute episode, we cover:🎙️ The process of the funding,why they needed it, and how they got it over the line🎙️ What he’s going to do with the money🎙️ Derisking as a founder on the way up🎙️ His epiphany - he sold Huntress Group and Spencer Ogden too soon and now he’s on a much longer term trajectory Anyone who's looking to grow, scale, sell, exit, you've gotta listen to this. DSP is an industry legend!__________________________________________Hoxo MessageAre you spending hours on LinkedIn and cold outreach and want more business coming to you over your competition? Well, if you're the founder or leader of a recruitment agency, here's what we can do for you at Hoxo.We will give you the training, support and resources to take you from what I call an offline recruiter, reliant on posting jobs and sending in emails to open up new customers, ultimately looking like every other recruiter on LinkedIn - to an online recruiter, being seen by over 25,000 relevant people driving a 200% minimum increase in engagement on your profile and seeing daily lead lists from LinkedIn that you can follow up with in six weeks time.And if you don't perform, you don't pay. How can we make such a bold, results-driven promise like this? Two reasons1) Whilst I've been building the RAG podcast, we've actually done what we say we’ll do for our clients in less than two years. We built a business generating from zero to over 1 million views per month on LinkedIn leading to multimillion pound revenues with a sales team of me plus two people without making a single outbound call.2) Our track record - not only have we done it ourselves, but we've helped over 350 agencies and over 4,000 consultants do it as well, all in the last three years. Now, if that sounds of interest to you, make sure you fill in our contact form and we’ll tell you how we can help: https://bit.ly/3jpuEWa__________________________________________Episode sponsor: RecruitHubOver 70 founders have launched their businesses on RecruitHub in the UK, US, and UAE.One of them was Stuart Mitchell, Founder of Hampton North in the US.With experience in both the UK and US markets, million-dollar biller Stuart Mitchell formed Hampton North to tackle the biggest problem in cyber security; the talent shortage.Before launching his own business, Stuart felt like he had run out of growth and he wanted to achieve a better work-life balance for himself and his team. For Stuart, this meant he could spend more time with his daughter.He now is on a mission to create the best cybersecurity recruiting team in the industry, with the support of Recruit Hub, The world’s most powerful recruitment start-up solution.His only regret once joining Recruit Hub? Not joining sooner.Link to his full story: https://l8.nu/ryze

Part 2 with Ben Wallin and Dan Cox on growing their business to 31 recruiters and being no longer reliant on their own billings within 24 months of trading!On this week's episode, I'm excited to be joined for the second time by Ben Wallin and Dan Cox, who was previously on the show 12 months ago in August 2022. Ben and Dan are the founders of Edison Smart (previously Edison Search).When I interviewed these guys in 2022, we talked about how, in just over a year, they billed £1.7 million in revenue, grown to just under 20 staff, and they were on this absolute mission called Project 2024.So a year later - have they achieved even more growth as predicted?In this episode we find out how:👉They've grown to 31 employees👉They've opened up an entity in the US👉They've got boots on the ground in Dubai👉They're absolutely flying from Basingstoke recruiting internationallyThey specialise in smart technology, which is super niche and they work in a very specific way. Ben and Dan are so methodical in their approach that not only have they grown to 31, but they've done it by building an infrastructure around them of core teams, including leadership, operations, marketing, and L&D. Now their personal billings are a really small % of NFI.This is almost unheard of in our sector inside the first 2 yrs!Now, I often get asked:How do I become more operational?How do I work on the business, not in the business? This episode tells you how to do it and gives you a roadmap to follow. __________________________________________Hoxo MessageAre you spending hours on LinkedIn and cold outreach and want more business coming to you over your competition? Well, if you're the founder or leader of a recruitment agency, here's what we can do for you at Hoxo.We will give you the training, support, and resources to take you from what I call an offline recruiter, reliant on posting jobs and sending in emails to open up new customers, ultimately looking like every other recruiter on LinkedIn - to an online recruiter, being seen by over 25,000 relevant people driving a 200% minimum increase in engagement on your profile and seeing daily lead lists from LinkedIn that you can follow up with in six weeks time.And if you don't perform, you don't pay. How can we make such a bold, results-driven promise like this? Two reasons1) Whilst I've been building the RAG podcast, we've actually done what we say we’ll do for our clients.In less than two years, we built a business generating from zero to over 1 million views per month on LinkedIn leading to multimillion-pound revenues with a sales team of me plus two people without making a single outbound call.2) Our track record - not only have we done it ourselves, but we've helped over 350 agencies and over 4,700 consultants do it as well, all in the last three years. Now, if that sounds of interest to you, make sure you fill in our contact form and we’ll tell you how we can help: https://bit.ly/3jpuEWa__________________________________________Episode Sponsor: Vincere

On this week’s episode, I'm excited to be joined by an old friend, Joe Curtis. Initially, Joe was the founder of a recruitment company called 3Search, which then led to building a bigger business called 11 Investments. 11 Investments is a series of niche recruitment organisations that work together and share a common goal with a central operational function. Joe's role as founder is to bring more people into the portfolio, both people who want to start their own recruitment company and also people who want to work for the portfolio. He's been responsible for growing the business to 100 people, which they’ve managed to do sustainably and profitably with a clear plan.In this episode, we talk about:Joe’s journey of nine years of growthHow remaining profitable throughout that process is really important. Manyrecruitment organisations don't make any money, and as a result, they suffer in times like thisThe importance of running a business with a clear directionThe debate around working in the office and working from home. 3Search, 11 Investments, and the whole portfolio believe in working together in an office in London three days a week with a little bit of flexibility, and they're very clear on how and why they've built it that waySo, if you are in a position right now where you are feeling that, post covid, you don't really know the best way to run your firm - whether it's remote, in-house, or a combination - then you need to listen to this because Joe explains it perfectly. He's got to a headcount of 100 and they’re going towards 200, so there's a lot to  learn from this episode.__________________________________________Hoxo MessageAre you spending hours on LinkedIn and cold outreach and want more business coming to you over your competition? Well, if you're the founder or leader of a recruitment agency, here's what we can do for you at Hoxo.We will give you the training, support and resources to take you from what I call an offline recruiter, reliant on posting jobs and sending in emails to open up new customers, ultimately looking like every other recruiter on LinkedIn - to an online recruiter, being seen by over 25,000 relevant people driving a 200% minimum increase in engagement on your profile and seeing daily lead lists from LinkedIn that you can follow up with in six weeks time.And if you don't perform, you don't pay. How can we make such a bold, results-driven promise like this? Two reasons1) Whilst I've been building the RAG podcast, we've actually done what we say we’ll do for our clients in less than two years. We built a business generating from zero to over 1 million views per month on LinkedIn leading to multimillion pound revenues with a sales team of me plus two people without making a single outbound call.2) Our track record - not only have we done it ourselves, but we've helped over 350 agencies and over 4,000 consultants do it as well, all in the last three years. Now, if that sounds of interest to you, make sure you fill in our contact form and we’ll tell you how we can help: https://bit.ly/3jpuEWa__________________________________________Epispde Sponsor: RecruitHubOur trusted partner RecruitHub helps new founders launch their own recruitment business in the UK, US & UAE. The community is growing rapidly with over 70 founders on the RecruitHub platform.Everything you need to launch your own recruitment business with ease.- Receive 100% of the fees you bill- Own full commercial control of your business and increase its value- Cutting-edge tech stack, from ATS to sales automation- No admin - we handle everything from company registration to contracts, to finance and support- No setup costs on the platform, no recurring fixed costs, and no surprise feesIf you're thinking of taking the next step in your career and want to discuss your business idea, please book a confidential chat with RecruitHub's team or learn more here: https://www.recruit-hub.com/uk-awareness/

On this week’s show I’m sharing one of the most powerful episodes I've ever recorded with a lady called Janette Marx. Jeanette is the global CEO at a company called Airswift, a huge workforce, staffing and solutions organisation headquartered in the US with 62 offices worldwide, 900 employees, and 7500 contractors that they support. Jeanette's been with the business for nine years and in the recruitment industry for over 20 years. She previously worked for Adecco and was leading a huge operation for them across the US.What I love about Jeanette is her mindset and how she's done what she's done while going through so much!She's an author of a book called Together We Rise, which she co-authored after the pandemic with 16 other female leaders in the staffing industry globally.She shared how she’s grown her career as an entrepreneur and become a global CEO as a female whilst having a baby and running a business. Everything she's done to get to where she was at the beginning of 2023. And then we talked about the impact of finding out that she had stage two breast cancer at the beginning of March this year and how she dealt with the news.Because the book she wrote was about dealing with crisis moments and stress and how to stay calm, she managed to put everything in the book into practice and between the beginning of March and the end of April, she was back to work, cancer free.She went through a series of different operations, she built a team of doctors around her and she took control of a life or death situation and has come back to work with a different sense of appreciation for life. She's still incredibly motivated to give back, build a business and help her people, but she also has calmness, which has come from getting through something so serious.In this episode there were moments where I had to take a deep breath and as I was getting quite emotional myself. I'm just inspired by such an amazing woman who and what she's achieved. And I think anyone out there who's dealt with serious illness themselves or seen their family members or friends go through it can resonate.And anyone who's at the helm or wants to be at the helm of a larger business, you can also resonate with with different things we discussed. If you’re interested in reading ‘Together We Rise’, you can find it here: https://amzn.to/3KglF41__________________________________________Hoxo MessageAre you spending hours on LinkedIn and cold outreach and want more business coming to you over your competition? Well, if you're the founder or leader of a recruitment agency, here's what we can do for you at Hoxo.We will give you the training, support, and resources to take you from what I call an offline recruiter, reliant on posting jobs and sending in emails to open up new customers, ultimately looking like every other recruiter on LinkedIn - to an online recruiter, being seen by over 25,000 relevant people driving a 200% minimum increase in engagement on your profile and seeing daily lead lists from LinkedIn that you can follow up with in six weeks time.And if you don't perform, you don't pay. How can we make such a bold, results-driven promise like this? Two reasons1) Whilst I've been building the RAG podcast, we've actually done what we say we’ll do for our clients.In less than two years, we built a business generating from zero to over 1 million views per month on LinkedIn leading to multimillion-pound revenues with a sales team of me plus two people without making a single outbound call.2) Our track record - not only have we done it ourselves, but we've helped over 350 agencies and over 4,700 consultants do it as well, all in the last three years. Now, if that sounds of interest to you, make sure you fill in our contact form and we’ll tell you how we can help: https://bit.ly/3jpuEWa__________________________________________Episode Sponsor: VincereVincere’s portals is a quick-win solution for agencies in need of a no-code candidate and clientportal. It’s your one-way ticket to attracting top-tier candidates and clients with everything they need in one place.Easily set up your candidate, client, and job portal straight within your Vincere account andconfigure it to your own brand and theme so it feels like you.You can publish jobs from Vincere’s Job Portal and sync them directly to your website in oneeasy click. You can also offer candidates a quick and easy job search interface, so it’s made easy for them to find their perfect role.And for your clients, you can offer them unique logins so they can access everythingthey need 24/7, so they can rate and review candidates and arrange interviews.Find out more on vincere.io/rag

I'm super excited to be joined by Alexander Antoniou, the founder of AL Solutions, a Life Sciences specialist recruiter headquartered in London, just over five years old, with 25 staff.Now, the reason I wanted to interview Alexander is because he’s not only grown AL Solutions, but he's also built a portfolio of five other businesses that he does the back office support for. They share infrastructure, and he's basically set other people up.Alexander is only 25 years old!He got into recruitment at 18. Having said to his parents, who wanted him to become a lawyer, that he was going to have a gap year and just work in sales to save some money for university. He then became the top performer at a local life science recruitment firm, and two and a half years later, at the age of 20 years old, he went out and set up AL Solutions, which stands for Antoniou Life Science.Alexander is an incredible guy with incredible energy. He’s so young and has achieved so much.He looks at the business with energy, passion, and a level of simplicity. I believe we could all learn from the way he runs his business.You’re going to enjoy this episode if you are a recruiter looking to start your own business in the future or if you're looking to grow and you want to think a bit clearly and a little bit more simply about the whole solution. __________________________________________HoxoAre you spending hours on LinkedIn and cold outreach and want more business coming to you over your competition? Well, if you're the founder or leader of a recruitment agency, here's what we can do for you at Hoxo. We’ll give you the training, support, and resources to help you stand out from the competition and reach over 25,000 relevant people and drive daily inbound leads on Linkedin in 6 weeks - and if you don't perform, you don't pay. Now, how can we make such a bold, results-driven promise like this? 2 reasons:1. Whilst I've been building the RAG podcast, we've actually done what we say will do for our clients in less than two years. We actually built a business generating from zero to over 1 million views per month on LinkedIn leading to multimillion pound revenues with a sales team of me plus two people without making a single outbound call.2. Second is our track record. Not only have we done it ourselves, but we've helped over 350 agencies and over 4,700 consultants do it as well, all in the last three years. Now, if that sounds of interest to you, follow this link: https://academy.hoxomedia.com/get-started59434285 __________________________________________Episode sponsor: RecruitHubOver 70 founders have launched their businesses on RecruitHub in the UK, US, and UAE.One of them was Stuart Mitchell, Founder of Hampton North in the US.With experience in both the UK and US markets, million-dollar biller Stuart Mitchell formed Hampton North to tackle the biggest problem in cyber security; the talent shortage.Before launching his own business, Stuart felt like he had run out of growth and he wanted to achieve a better work-life balance for himself and his team. For Stuart, this meant he could spend more time with his daughter.He now is on a mission to create the best cybersecurity recruiting team in the industry, with the support of Recruit Hub, The world’s most powerful recruitment start-up solution.His only regret once joining Recruit Hub? Not joining sooner.Link to his full story: https://l8.nu/ryze