This event is titled:  Selling or Sustaining - the differences of trading for an exit or trading for a lifestyle

About:
Ideal for those Directors looking to move their business to the next level, anyone thinking of creating a new business from scratch, or wanting to help enable an MBO or sale of their existing recruitment organisation.  We'll help you understand how to make a lifestyle business work for you, put in place the plans necessary to exit your existing business or establish a brand new recruitment business with the end goal of a sale in mind.

The event is ONLY open to Director level (and above) recruiters.  If you are a Managing Director, Operations Director, Commercial Director or CEO of a recruitment consultancy then please register.  Recruitment Directors within corporate firms are also welcome to attend.  We are also unfortunately unable to accommodate non executive directors at these events.

Date: Thursday 9th February 2012

Location: RBS Offices, London

Timings: 3.00pm to 6.00pm (after the event you are invited to networking drinks)

Format: Informal networking, speaker sessions and structured networking.

Speakers:

Sarah Mitchell, Investment Director, HB RIDA
Sarah will be giving an overview on the differences between having a recruitment business as a lifestyle, and building a recruitment business with a view to Exit"
Sarah started her career in the Recruitment Industry going down the traditional route of Consultant, Manager, Regional Manager and finally Operations Director.  She has worked with and mentored both small and large organisations assisting them to deliver results and to grow. Her strengths are both operational and people managmenet and she works very closely with a number of our businesses providing leadership, coaching and mentoring helping them to achieve their strategic goal.

Adrian Kinnersley, Managing Director of Twenty Recruitment
Adrian has over a decade of recruitment experience, has been through an MBO with Astbury Marsden.  He is an equity partner in Twenty Recruitment and is engineering the current exit strategy. 
Adrian will be talking about his own experiences of the differences between a lifestyle business and creating, running and managing an organisation for a profitable exit.

Gail Sampson, Managing Director of Knockbuckle Associates
Gail has over a decade of recruitment focusing mainly on senior and executive permanent placements across all sectors. Since the arrival of her second son in 2008, she has been running her lifestyle recruitment and training business from offices in Surrey.
Gail will be sharing her experiences and tips on how to make it a lifestyle business work for you!

RBS will be on hand all afternoon if you have any questions.

Helen Reynolds, Managing Director of HBRIDA will be at the event.  She is unable to present but will be on hand to answer questions.

Sponsors: Broadbean, Fish4, Juice TDP, Bond Adapt Software and Optimease

Feedback from previous Directors Only Events

A winning combination, well organised and highly informative with great opportunities for networking with like minded people.

Thank you Lou found the whole afternoon very interesting!

Very good, well run and attended

Excellent value really!

Enjoyable event, well organised and well worth attending

An excellent day!

Sponsor Information:

Broadbean
Broadbean is the global leader in providing sophisticated yet easy-to-use candidate attraction tools that help recruiters improve efficiency and increase return on investment.  Our software makes it easy to distribute jobs and search for talent online, while providing tools that optimize your recruitment process and integrate internal systems.  The analytics we provide give insight on your most successful channels and provide metrics to increase effectiveness, ultimately lowering the cost of your online recruitment spend. Broadbean helps 30,000 users, ranging from one-man staffing agencies to international corporations recruit people online.  Put simply: we make recruiting people online quick, easy, and effective.

Juice TDP
Juice is a game changing Talent Development Platform hosted in the cloud and aimed at recruiters worldwide. The Juice TDP offers on-demand video-learning featuring how to guides, comedic drama and practical exercises to make learning easy and fun as well as utilising online quizzes to test individual knowledge retention.  The Juice TDP is by far the most cost effective and comprehensive way to induct and train recruiters, refine and improve established billers, develop managers and hone the leadership skills of directors.
The business is run day to day by the founders Roy Ripper and Matt Trott and the board includes entrepreneurs Dan McGuire, Graham Palfery-Smith and Alex Raubitschek.  http://www.juicetdp.com/

Bond International Software
Bond International Software is a global provider of recruitment and human capital management software and services. Our market leading products include Bond Adapt, Talent and Vantage, as well back office software and services including Bond TeamSpirit, Payrite, Payroll Services and People Services.  Our specialist staffing software, Bond Adapt, is designed specifically for recruitment organisations and is recognised as one of the world’s leading staffing solutions.  Bond Talent, our talent acquisition and applicant tracking software, fulfils the needs of corporate recruiters in today’s new technological environment; make hiring the right talent easier and more efficient.  For more information please visit www.bondinternationalsoftware.com, www.bondadapt.com or www.bondtalent.com.

Fish4jobs
Fish4jobs is one of the UK’s best known job sites advertising jobs in all sectors across the UK. Receiving 1.4 million visitors a month (ABC Oct, 2011), popular candidate searches on Fish4jobs include: Administration, Retail, Customer Service, Catering and Hospitality, Driving and Sales jobs. Fish4jobs has exceptional regional coverage and a network of 30+metropolitan and local jobsites affiliated with Trinity Mirror’s market-leading regional newspaper portfolio.
Fish4jobs offers recruiters a variety of ways to target the right candidates for their job vacancies from job postings and CV database to banner advertising and email products. http://www.fish4.co.uk/

Optimease
Search Engine Marketing for Job Boards and Recruitment companies. SEO web design and PPC management.  Web Marketing, understanding it is OUR job!
Extensive experience developing SEO friendly websites for recruitment agencies and job boards. Interfacing with Indeed.com, IDIBU and other recruitment sites as standard. In addition to job search functionality and jobs by email our recruitment websites interface with social media such as Twitter and Facebook to maximise applications for your job vacancies. http://www.optimease.com/