The Mike Ames Recruitment Show

Everybody is looking for a silver bullet that will speed up winning high value clients. There is one, but most people ignore it.

Or, they know what it is, but dismiss it out of hand for a range of re…

Statistically you only place 1 in 5 contingent roles you work. For retained its closer to 98% and here’s how you convert to be retained.

But first a warning.

If you’ve been used to working contingent…

Winning clients hasn’t been a big problem recently, but it will be if the recession bites hard.

Vacancy scraping and speccing candidates won’t be as effective, so what can you do?

That’s the theme of…

Like it or not video is here to stay and many have dabbled with it in one form or another.

But few have really made it work as an effective sales tool to win new clients, except for one person I know…

You’d have to live in a cave to not be aware of how powerful building an online community can be, especially for recruiters.

A tribe of people who have opted to join your WhatsApp, Facebook, Mighty o…

There are a lot of recruitment companies in the UK – over 30k in fact. But, why are some successful and others not?

Wouldn’t it be great if we could have a discussion around this with somebody who sp…

Probably the most common obstacle to growing a recruitment company right now is a lack of suitable candidates.

Just imagine how much more money you could make if you could find more talent and then p…

Whether you want to change to scale up, become more profitable, win more new clients or attract better employees there are four obstacles you ALWAYS have to overcome.

We see it all the time. The owne…

What will happen once Furlough ends?

We interview a Global HR director and former HR consultant about furlough, preparing for redundancies and what we can learn form China as it leaves lockdown.

Note…

No one is 'fine'. Not in this current situation and we know that. So we reached out to someone who specialises in managing such situations. 

Emma Dredge is a Mindfulness and mindset coach who works f…

Alan Kenny ran the European arm of Mimecast, a legal technology business. A self confessed fan of proximity manangent he was forced to embrace remote management and he made an astounding success of i…

NOTE: this is the audio recording of a webinar held earlier in the year.  it can be found on flair.co.uk/prospering-recruitment-downturn

During the recruitment downturn of the early 2000s Jumar Solut…

Don't get me wrong, I love 360 recruiters as they are the most efficient type of recruiter. But building a business based purely on them will hinder your scalability, because they are:

• Hard to Find
• …

In the UK, 0.2% of recruitment business are sold via Trade Sale -  those aren't great odds.

• So what can you do to be more appealing to a buyer?
• How can you maximise the value you get?
• What can you d…