How a tech-powered, temp-focused recruiter used QUBA Solutions’ experience and services, including back-office and finance, to bolster their growing business.

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Overview

Founded in May 2022, Principal Education combines a unique blend of human experience and the latest recruitment tech to connect candidates and clients. All packaged in a unique, simple-to-use app.

A driven recruiter in the education recruitment space, in their first year of trading they achieved a strong £972,000 in sales. But their most ambitious goal is to achieve the equivalent of 5,000 days of sales within the first five years of founding – that’s around £1m a week in sales overall.

Although there were plenty of risks involved in starting a new business, Principal’s Director, Stephen Joseph’s, biggest driver was simple. “There were many factors that led us to start out on our own, but being masters of our own destiny was the overriding one.”

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The challenge

When Principal Recruitment Technology began with just its two founders, they faced their fair share of challenges and growing pains in their first year as first-time business owners. However, to reach their goals they had to learn how to grow into a ‘proper’ business and all that it entails. Hiring and managing staff, understanding the systems and processes, writing contracts, working with HR, internal issues, support and more, there was a lot to wrap their head around.

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The solution

Even when Stephen Joseph met with other recruitment funders, QUBA Solutions had the experience, connections, and expertise within the education sector to help Principal Recruitment Technology grow their business. From QUBA’s useful software and complete back-office solutions, to setting up systems, working with data transparency, and connecting them with legal, insurance, and group companies, like Aviso and Clipper. Principal also felt that QUBA understood and believed their vision more than other companies.

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The results

QUBA’s support as a trusted partner has enabled Principal Recruitment Technology to grow, helping the company become more stable, more reliable and more predictable. In turn, this has helped them to predict cash and plan further growth to achieve their larger goals.

And with over 160 five-star business reviews on Google and counting, when it comes to satisfied candidates and clients, the numbers speak for themselves.

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When they get the right support from the right partners, businesses can truly thrive.

Stephen, one of Principal Education’s Directors had this to say:

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‘QUBA are taking care of the whole package and they give you full autonomy in how you work with them and how they support your clients… QUBA’s just become part of the business, really. It’s just a function in the background, so we don’t have too much to do with daily because it just forms part of our processes. And that helps us just focus on what we need to do.’

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