A first-person introductory video by James (Entrepreneur James) describing his move from a senior role at a UK recruitment IT company to founding a remote recruitment business. He recounts startup struggles (financing, leaving a high-paying job), operational milestones—growing to a remote team of over 12 staff and achieving turnover just under £1,000,000 within two years—and his focus on building scalable systems so the business supports a desired lifestyle (e.g., taking Mondays off). He promises to share ongoing insights, strategies, and stories to help others start or grow recruitment businesses.
Questions this video answers
Over 12 staff.
Turnover just under £1,000,000 achieved within two years.
Hi, thank you for visiting the website entrepreneurjames.com so the reason why I set up this website was I wanted to really share my journey as a passionate entrepreneur that set up their own business in the recruitment space. After working for many years for a leading recruitment IT company based in the uk, I decided obviously to start my own business. And I experienced a lot of interesting stories along the way in terms of struggles from starting up, in terms of financing my business, in terms of leaving a very highly paid and successful recruitment job with shares in a business, to actually starting from day one as one employee in a very small office, well, actually working from home and then a small office all the way to having a remote team of over 12 staff and creating a turnover just under a million pounds, all within two years. Now what I'd like to do over the coming week, weeks and months, is share some unique insights into how I've done that, the challenges and journeys that I've come through, and some unique steps and strategies on what maybe can help you either start your own recruitment business or help grow your recruitment business to make it more in line with your lifestyle. So I've always been a big believer and very passionate about being successful and always wanting a nice house, the nice cars, the millions of pounds in the bank. But obviously I realized that it wasn't just about the money. The money was a means to an end in terms of getting to some sort of status and getting some of the nice things that everybody enjoys. And because I've built the business, I've managed to enjoy some of those fruitful rewards. So I've got myself a nice home, a nice car, well, a couple of nice cars, a Porsche 911 and a range Rover up to now. And what I've noticed was it wasn't really that I was seeking, I was seeking the recognition and also the lifestyle. So the lifestyle is, what I mean is you can come to work when you want, you choose your own hours, you don't have a massive team in terms of the office to manage and you don't want to be stuck in a day to day job where really you're just a highly paid employee in your own business. A lot of recruitment business owners, I mean there's over 4,000, 5,000 recruitment companies or more that start up every year and a lot of them fail. And one of the reasons is obviously they don't build systems and processes in their business to make sure that it can be scaled and maintained. Number two, they don't focus on the money aspect. So a lot of recruitment business owners when they get into that space. I was one of them. I was so immersed in actually building the business, doing the website, building the logo, the brand, going out there, meeting clients, trying to do PR myself for free, building a remote team, to building inbound leads, to getting candidates, to getting candidates over the line and closing them, and to actually growing the relationship with my current clients I had into retainer model or an exclusive agreement. There's so much that you can do when growing a recruitment business. It's a very lonely space and it's very hard to focus. So what I wanted to do from building my website and my blog series was really to give you a unique insight into my day to day running of a successful recruitment business and how I've done it, the steps that I've done and a lot of stories that I can share with you to hopefully give you the confidence to keep growing your recruitment business or be maybe starting up in your own recruitment business. There's a lot of people that always want to think that they can go and grow business or start their own recruitment company, but sometimes they don't have either. Not necessarily the guts to start, but maybe they're in a secure job, they run a really good basic in terms of recruitment package, they're earning great commission and they really want to go and wait and have that unique lifestyle business. But they're strapped. They're either golden handcuffed where they are in terms of the recruitment company they work for or they feel scared they might feel trapped and not want to go and take the risk. So really I just wanted to get the name out there, terms of my points on what it is, what it takes to build a recruitment company and the unique steps and processes that you need to learn to still have the Chester be a multimillionaire in terms of a business owner if that's what you want, or how you balance that between maintaining that lifestyle. So I have a dream of having Mondays off and I've managed to build that in my business in the first two years. So now I don't really work Mondays. If I do, it would just be passion projects on the side or something about developing my own personal brand or my entrepreneurial ventures. So that was one of the uniquenesses that I started the business and I wanted to still maintain the lifestyle, but I still want to have the income as well. So really I just wanted to share this video with you guys to hopefully get you subscribed on board to my website and my blogs and I'll be sharing some really cool, unique insight tips on how you can either start your own recruitment business and maintain a lifestyle, or end up growing your business and maintaining that lifestyle by building a fully remote business. Thank you.
