Last week we held our first Directors Only event of 2014 at the RBS offices (with Arithon, Forest Group, Oil & Gas Jobsearch, Firefish Software and Roy Ripper sponsoring). These are our small group learning and networking events specifically for Directors of recruitment businesses.
This one, with around 60 Directors in attendance, had three excellent speakers:
Darren Ryemill
Darren RyemillCEO and Owner of Opus Recruitment Solutions. Darren has grown his business from start up in 2008 with four staff to a £13 million turnover business employing 53 staff in 2013. His business has twice been in the Virgin Fast Track 100 and he is obviously friends with Richard Branson!Darren spoke about engaging your team for recruitment success.
Nick Robeson
Nick Robeson Having delivered Interim Management solutions since 1997 its fair to say Nick has a good grasp on this market. He has started a business, bought one and sold one prior to launching Hemming Robeson in 2011.Nick spoke about creating a successful niche and, having bought, built and sold businesses in this space, he touched on what he has learnt so far.. Nick has written a blog post to accompany the event!
Stephanie Asplin
Stephanie Asplin Founder and Managing Director of The Crewing Company. Stephanie set up the company in 2005 and now owns one of the most successful media recruitment specialist agency in the UK with a turnover last year of 3 million.Stephanie shared her successes, failures and lessons learnt.
Post event feedback told us 100% of attendees enjoyed the event and I’m going to share some of the comments for the blatant purpose of enticing you to attend future events…
- It’s great to see the energy and drive of successful and engaging business leaders
- Drinks at the end was a nice touch
- First event, really enjoyed it.
- Stephanie’s session was really inspiring as she demonstrated her experience of taking calculated risk that made her who she is today.
- More of the same please
- It was good opportunity meeting people with years of experience in the recruitment industry especially for a new start up like myself
- Great event, great presentations. We have signed up for two directors to attend the rest of the years events
Our next Directors event is on 8th May and early bird tickets are half price at the moment!
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I thought it was a terrific event, ant the speakers were absolutely fascinating! I’m used to attending lots of events, where the same old people are trundled out to give the same old presentations; which are really only interesting the first time. However these three speakers were so captivating, they left us more curious about them, than when they started.
They say you should always leave an audience wanting more, and these speakers certainly did just that.
With speakers of this calibre, I need to know, when is your next event?