Start your recruitment business, build your clients and revenue supported by a salary. Benefit from a brand built over decades, marketing and leadership support and a global community of experienced recruitment business owners and leaders.
“With Express, being around for 40 years, obviously the success that they’ve had, their formula and their process as a business is obviously very, very exceptional and successful. So they were the key things, there wasn’t anyone else in the market that could offer that.”
Brad Laudenbach, Franchise Manager, Express Employment Professionals, Chatswood
“You’ve got the whole support of Frontline behind you to start your business, from marketing, a rich database, a brand that’s already out in the industry, I had 4 months to set up a business without any risk”
Carmella Dudding, Agency Owner, Frontline Education Wellington
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Steve shares how he is finding the program and what systems are in place to help him stay on track whilst he builds his franchise recruitment business on a salary with Express.
The salary ranges from $100k up to $150k base plus a $10k car allowance + super depending on your level of experience.
Depending on the business type (permanent vs temp/contract/perm) how quickly you build your client base and revenue it could be 6 months (permanent) to 18 months (temp/contract/perm) as a general range. The transition to ownership is worked through based on whether you are starting in our Frontline (permanent business) or Express (our temp/contract/perm business), your individual performance and key milestones.
Yes, these vary by brand/model.
You are largely responsible for business development/lead generation. However, we do provide you with lists of businesses within your territory and provide marketing tools to assist you with your business development activity. You also benefit from national contracts and established client relationships within both brands which opens up opportunity for new business.
You receive extensive support including, Marketing Campaigns, Brand Management and Marketing Asset Creation technology, Finance, Legal, HR and Operational support and 1:1 business coaching.
The biggest challenge is following the set system for success. This requires self-discipline and tenacity.
However, the system has been proven time and time again over a 30 and 40 year period and is used by over 850 businesses worldwide.
We provide extensive rewards and recognition across the business including annual sales incentive trips locally and internationally. Annual Awards which are celebrated at an annual conference for you and your staff. We also regularly run short sales incentive programs designed to motivate and incentivise you and your teams.
Systems include, ATS systems, marketing and social media management tools, prospect databases, websites, pay rate compliance and learning management systems amongst others.
The biggest barrier to success is a lack of desire to do business development activity and not following the system.
Yes, however we provide finance options so you do not have to utilise savings and also offer the business at a significant discount to recruiters in our program.
No, you don’t if you don’t want to. We have options to help you transition to ownership without having to have the cash up front.
For our permanent recruitment model, you need to have enough placements in your pipeline to cover your salary and account for any possible fall outs. For our temporary model you need to be billing 2000 hours per week consistently for a few weeks.
Yes, these vary depending on the model.
Firstly you are not alone, you are part of a network of other supportive business owners, you are supported by a head office team including your own coach and you have a lot of back office support leaving you to grow the business.
You also benefit from the brand awareness built over decades, marketing campaigns, group buying discounts, financial, legal and HR support.
Yes, we have a dedicated learning and development team delivering ongoing training for you and your team as well as two face to face learning events a year. You also have access to a dedicated online Learning Management System so allow you to access training 24/7 On Demand.
You can within a set framework and set of rules. These rules also protect other people within the network from recruiting in your territory.
We assist with invoicing and collections for the Frontline Perm Model, for the Express Temp/Contract/Perm business we do the invoicing and we also underwrite the payroll for casual employees that are employed by Express and placed on-site with clients. We assist with forecasting and financial planning via our 1:1 business coaching. We also provide the tools to ensure you are financially compliant with payrates etc. In addition you also benefit from group buying power with job boards and other vendors.
We have policies in place to allow you to work with other franchisees and national clients in these scenarios.
Primarily to grow your income and wealth and build an asset. Many of our owners have actually have built intergenerational wealth by bringing their children into the business who have gone on to become multi franchisee owners.
Financial support whilst you get started is key. Other challenges we help with are brand awareness, promotion, daily coaching support, loneliness and isolation, finance, legal and HR support as well as ongoing development.
Some of the key ways we are different to X Recruiter.
We are a regulated model meaning you are protected via the Franchise Code of Conduct. We have legal obligations that we must comply with. We have a much longer track record (30 years in ANZ and 40 years globally). We are much larger, with over 850 businesses working within our model worldwide and revenue generation of $3.67billion dollars annualy.
When you join us you join a brand that’s established and been in market for decades. We also support you with national marketing campaigns that help you attract candidates and clients.
