StartHub Newsletter #22 🚀
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Hello and welcome to the monthly StartHub newsletter - read by 3,235 recruitment professionals around the world.
It’s been a strong H1 across the board, with founders seeing renewed client confidence and ramping up hiring, while many RecruitHub Founders continue to expand their teams.
We’re thrilled to welcome some incredible new talent to our community, and we have a lot to share; from product rollouts and platform enhancements, to a recap of our vibrant NYC meet-up and announcements for upcoming events in London and California.
In this edition
RecruitHub is the leading all-in-one platform to launch and scale a recruitment business in the UK, US, UAE and Europe.
If you’re thinking about starting your own business, book a confidential chat with us to discuss your ideas or DM Edmund Blogg
Happy billing!
RecruitHub team
New Founder Launches 🚀
We're super excited to welcome new founders into our community of 100+ founders across the UK, US, UAE & Europe.
🚀 🇺🇸 - Harry Green, Greenstone Partners Global - Networking & Cyber
🚀 🇬🇧 - Lee Harding and James Hounslow, Indigo GTM - SaaS GTM search
🚀 🇪🇺 - Matthew Bewick and Kieran Dines, Oakdale - Technology Consultancy
🚀 🇺🇸 - Bobby DeMarco Jr., RSD Search - Regulatory & Clinical Headhunter
📅🗽🤝 Founder Meetup - NYC, June 12 & 13
Our US customer meetup brought together a dynamic mix of founders, tech innovators and business leaders for an energising session focused on the future of recruitment, leadership incentives, and performance management.
Here's what we covered:
🎧 Founder Podcasts: recording sessions for founders to share launch stories, CVPs, and EVPs, generating valuable insights for their communities.
🤖 AI in Recruitment: Discussing AI’s evolving role, with companies like SourceWhale and Spott showcasing new features to streamline prospecting, communication, and automation.
🌐 Community Marketing: Our Fractional CMO, Chris Pollard highlighted how authentic, trust-based community-building approaches drive sustainable growth through engaging content, peer interactions, and storytelling.
💡 LTIP & Incentives: We explored outcome-driven leadership incentive models, such as weighted metric-based plans to align rewards with key business objectives.
📈 Sales Management: Founder discussion on best practices including tailoring meeting cadence and structure to specific goals, encouraging celebrating wins and fostering team growth for better performance.
🚧🔍 Navigating non-competes
One of the biggest reasons high-performing recruiters hesitate to launch their own companies is because of ‘non-competes’, and worrying about the fallout and legal ramifications of creating their own company.
💡But let’s clarify a key point – the term ‘non-compete’ itself is usually very misleading.
While many employment contracts do contain a ‘non-compete’ clause, this is virtually always unenforceable (legally), and it’s much more helpful to think in terms of your ‘post-employment restrictions’.It depends a lot on country, state etc., but in very broad terms, your previous employer has a right to protect their business from your disrupting their staff and client relationships as a result of having recently worked there.
This means you (almost always) can start a firm that ‘competes’, can work the same market… but you usually can’t (for a ‘restricted period’ after leaving, often 6 to 12m):
❌ Work with clients that you have worked with recently while employed (often in the 12m leading up to termination)
❌ Work with prospective clients who were just about to become clients when your employment was terminating
❌ Solicit / headhunt staff from your previous firm
There are 101 nuances, and it’s ALWAYS a good idea to get an experienced expert to:
📄 Review the exact language in your contract
⚖️ Develop clear lines on what is and is not likely to be legally enforceable (e.g., what you can and can’t do)
📝🚶♂️ Guide you through the resignation process – a huge amount of how things play out post-termination are linked to how you present your resignation and future plans
🤝 Support you through any follow-on issues
📈 Ebook - Recruitment Agency Start-Up Guide
If you’re a high-performing recruiter, there’s never been a more exciting time to start your own business. 🚀
The rewards are BIG.
💰Based on successfully launching over 100+ agencies, we share our top 9x tips for making the move from agency employee to thriving start-up owner. 🙌
Download your copy here
Inside the Hub
☀️ Summer Masterclass Series – You Set the Agenda
Starting this summer, we’re launching a series of bi-weekly live webinars with subject matter experts from across our Founder Community and hosted by the RecruitHub team. Over 8 sessions, we’ll dive into topics that you help select. Early suggestions include:
💂UK & 🌵SoCal Founders Meetup
Following the success of the NYC Founders meet-up, we are replicating that magic in the UK and SoCal in the coming QTRs
New guides, frameworks and documents
🗂 Business Plan Workbook
✅ Onboarding Checklist
👥 Employee Strategy Workbook
🎯 Employee OKRs
🚀 Career Development
📅 12-Week Onboarding Plan
🧰 Support Available
🚀 Wins and shoutouts!
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Why people partner with RecruitHub
We've spoken to lots of founders this year to gain insight into why they decided to start a business, their journey to launching and advice for anyone who's thinking about becoming a founder.
See how RecruitHub works in under 90 seconds
Recruitment Mentors Podcast
RecruitHub co-founder, Edmund dived into all things recruitment start-ups with Hishem Azzouz
Among the many topics topics discussed, they hit on:
Check out the full episode