No matter what the size of your business, surrounding yourself with recruitment mentors and experts means you can access people who combine strategic vision with specialist knowledge of the recruitment industry to help you exceed your business goals.
How does it work?
We have no set structure as every business owner and leader is different. Naturally we love to meet our customers but depending on what support you need we will tailor our solution around you. That could mean meeting monthly, quarterly, delivering a service or just being on the end of a phone.
Meet the experts
We think it’s fair to say that the team have experienced all the highs and lows associated with running your own recruitment business including, recessions, COVID-19, booms, labour shortages, talent shortages and much more. It’s this experience and knowledge that we share with you to help you navigate the opportunities and challenges that lay ahead by supporting you along the way. We offer flexible support based around your needs whether that be providing advisory support, advice on how to build and sell RPO / MSP solutions, coaching and mentoring, HR advice, Finance advice or practical help with L&D programmes.
Meet Andrea, who started her recruitment career at a search firm before moving to a global staffing company.
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Her career developed from top billing consultant to successful team manager working on a contingency and retained basis. She transitioned into L&D and gained extensive experience of delivering onboarding, skills and management training.
In 2017 She moved to a global tech recruiter well known for rapid growth and market dominance. She was responsible for the development and delivery of consultant skills training, gateway to management and early management development training. She led the re development of onboarding training along with consultant success metrics and conducted many performance coaching sessions with consultants and managers across the UK, US, Europe and APAC.
She is known for developing and delivering relatable, practical, commercially focused training and coaching, working closely with senior management to support and achieve business objectives.
Meet Paul, an experienced Board member with over 20 years’ experience of successfully building and leading teams.
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Having led multiple sales teams to thrive and sell a variety of talent services, Paul understands the value of marketing, research, and innovation to stand out from the crowd. His expertise and down to earth approach have resulted in creating a strong network of trusted relationships and friends for life, within the recruitment sector. With this trust, he has personally built, sold, and implemented a number of RPO and MSP solutions along with selling bespoke Talent Advisory Solutions. In addition, he has led multiple teams at the coal face of agency recruitment supplying Blue and White-collar workers, engineers, digital and IT specialists.
Meet Catherine, an experienced fractional CMO with over 20 years B2C and B2B marketing experience, the last 15 of which she has specialised in the recruitment sector.
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Catherine has a passion for using marketing to support recruitment business growth, having gone from a global corporate brand, to scaling specialist, SME agencies. She has successfully built marketing functions as profit centres - fuelling business growth with strategic marketing and collaborating with Sales to drive recruitment businesses forward.
She excels in using her B2B marketing knowledge to drive client acquisition and lead management through to revenue. As well as using brand strategy tactics to ensure that you're always selling the best version of yourself, and that your customers are encouraged to use your services time and again. Catherine provides marketing, brand and website strategy services, as well as mentoring of in-house marketers.
Meet Miles, who since 2004 has been providing sound expert advice and actively supporting recruitment sector businesses improve.
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Miles has worked in Recruitment, Staffing & Talent since 1998 whilst providing RPO Solutions, Sales and Product Development since 2003. In 2004 Miles began his role as a Recruitment Business Adviser and from 2015 became a Non-Exec Director, Leadership Coach & Mentor. He has delivered Projects to over 60 clients working on Deal Structuring; Funding, MBO, M&A and trade sale experience since 2012. Group CEO, CCO & CSO experience in the Recruitment Agency, Invoice Finance, Bill & pay back office, intermediary/Umbrella, practice/psc accountancy and talent tech experience.
Meet James, an experienced learning and development consultant with 25+ years of recruitment industry experience.
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Since 2013 he has supported c100 recruitment agencies from generalists to specialists to search firms, across the globe to grow and develop their teams. The style of his training content is based around effective structures and his delivery style is similar to that of a coach; believing that the learners should be thinking, brainstorming, practising and engaging wholeheartedly in the content, NOT listening to a monotone seminar!
He’s an experienced content designer, writing academy programmes for UK and US-based recruitment firms to use in-house and he also delivers high-impact training sessions for new recruits, experienced consultants, and management teams.
Our associates
Elevate your recruitment agency with expert guidance and support. In today's competitive recruitment market, you need a strategic edge with the right advice and support. Our curated network of recruitment industry advisors and experts offers unparalleled support and advice to help your agency thrive.
They have been carefully selected because we know them, trust them and they all have a proven track record in the following areas:
- Statement of Work (SOW): Ensure you have ironclad agreements that protect your agency's interests.
- Public Sector framework navigation: Secure government contracts with expert guidance on complex frameworks.
- Legal and compliance: Avoid costly missteps with up-to-date advice commercial agreements including customer terms and conditions.
Contact us today at info@northstarpeople.com and we will connect you with our associates.