Why should a recruitment funder be a UK Finance member?
QUBA Solutions and UK Finance: What Our Membership Means for You UK Finance serves as the collective voice of the banking and finance industry in the UK. Representing over 300 member firms, it plays a key role in promoting competitiveness, driving innovation, and ensuring that customers receive the support they need from financial service providers. […]
Benefits of permanent recruitment funding
Why would a recruitment consultancy have their permanent invoices funded? That’s a great question—and one we hear from time to time. Funding your perm invoices offers several benefits. While not every recruitment business will need it, it can be an extremely helpful—and sometimes essential—solution. The main benefits are as follows; Cashflow This is probably the […]
Reporting requirements for employment intermediaries
Employment intermediary reporting is an essential part of running a recruitment agency; submitting the reports are compulsory. Read our help guide to employment intermediary reporting below. What is an Employment Intermediaries Report? An agency that supplies temporary workers to an end client and does not pay those workers on a PAYE (Pay As You Earn) […]
5 Steps To Setting Up Your Own Recruitment Agency
The first 5 steps to setting up a recruitment agency of your own.
Traditional Invoice Finance Alternatives
How does traditional invoice finance work? If you use a bank for recruitment finance, they will typically advance anywhere between 70% to 90% of the invoice value. How does that work in practice? In simple terms, you will produce your own invoices and upload them to the bank’s invoice platform. The bank will advance the […]
Why Security Checks are so Important
Working in the recruitment world, you might already be aware of the need for security checks. Here we delve into why security checks are so important, and how they can ultimately help your business. Why Security Checks are so Important – In Short The Importance of Security Checks in Recruitment Security checks are particularly vital […]
Is it a risk to start a recruitment business in 2023?
Let’s start off by acknowledging that seemingly every year brings about new challenges. New dramas and new potential concerns and anxieties about the state of business and the state of the world! 2023 is no different. No pandemics or Brexit or new wars on the horizon [we hope]. Instead, the media is warning at full […]
Can’t Find the Right Talent? Go to them!
With recruitment the way that it currently is – more of a bunfight over the best talent than ever before – it is vital to find new ways to expand your search, expand your reach, and expand your business’ pulling power. We know it in life, and in business; “standing still” in never synonymous with […]
What Are Your ‘Bad Clients’ COSTING You?
Running a successful business doesn’t just rely on your ability to win new work and clients. It relies on dropping bad clients too. Letting go of work may sound counter intuitive, but it is so often a fundamental key to a business’ success. You wouldn’t believe how many customers we’ve seen running temp desks at […]
More Women Are Starting Businesses Than Ever Before
Last year, according to the Times, an all-time high of 145,200 new businesses were started by female entrepreneurs. Although women-led businesses still only account for 17% of all UK business, the number is on the rise. Across the UK, a growing percentage of high-growth scale-ups are being led by women. Acknowledging and celebrating this is […]
Frequently Asked Questions: Transferring Funding Providers
Why would you change funding providers? There are a few reasons that you may consider transferring your current funding provider, here are some of the main ones: Your current deal is not cost effective It’s no secret that you need to pay your invoice finance provider for their services. With a percentage of each invoice […]
What are the steps to setting up your Recruitment Company?
If you are an established recruiter right now, you already have everything you need to be able to set up your own successful recruitment company. 2022 promises to be another incredible year for the recruitment industry, and the trend of recruiters setting up on their own to capitalise on the booming market is continuing. It […]
Does your recruitment company start-up need Gross Status or are you being mis-sold to?
There is plenty to think about when setting up your recruitment business, and lots of things that quite frankly you are better off leaving to the experts.
The Top Things Recruitment Owners Wish They Knew Before They Started
if you’re setting up your own recruitment company then going in with your eyes wide open is going to save you a LOT of time, money and stress.
Key Information Documents
Importance of implementing Key Information Documents within your business.
What is the Cost of Starting a Recruitment Business?
If you have decided that forming your own agency is the route you want to take, you will no doubt be asking yourself; How much money do I need to start my own recruitment agency?
Questions to ask yourself when choosing your funding provider
For a recruitment business, aligning yourself with the correct funding provider is key whether it is your first day in trading or your fifth year. Funding can be provided in several different methods, with additional back office elements changing from one provider to another. As such, ensuring your financier matches your business needs is key.
When to transfer funding provider
We have many recruitment agency owners looking to see if the grass is greener, so here are some key elements to consider when thinking about transferring providers.
What You Need to Know When Setting Up a Recruitment Agency
If you're an experienced recruiter and want to look at forming your own recruitment business, then our guide should help you get started
What can you learn from top business leaders?
In any walk of life, learning from those that go before you is the most assured way of avoiding prior mistakes and repeating successes. Taking the time to understand why someone is successful can help you to mirror that in your own life, or business. With that in mind, what can we learn from […]
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