Recruitment franchise is a prime candidate for profit

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Antal International is a leading business to business franchise where owners are channelling their professional business skills and experience by placing top professionals every day; generating thousands of placements a year, millions of pounds in placement fees and becoming recruitment industry leaders.

The Antal Recruitment Franchise supports professionals with a range of ambitions: from those who desire the flexibility and lifestyle of being a ‘one man band, to those who have aspirations to build a profitable team and create a sustainable business that can be sold.

Delivering more than recruitment
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After 19 years in global recruitment, with offices in 32 countries across five continents, Antal’s extensive studies show that clients want the best of both worlds: they want to feel confident that their recruitment consultant has a good understanding of their business and can add tangible value by finding talented people who make a high impact on the companies where Antal places them.

Tony Goodwin, Founder and Chairman of Antal International, expands this further: “Clients expect a personalised consultancy service from someone who understands their business needs, combined with the safety and reassurance of a global brand “The vision behind the launch of the Antal International franchise nine years ago was to attract, train and develop talented franchise owners to drive a recruitment brand that would go far beyond the norm.

Antal Owners are achieving and benefitting from this vision: “We are noticing that clients are not just interested in the delivery of a candidate, they are keen for us to provide information about their competitor’s organisation, activities and achievements,” says Russ Klinger, an Antal UK Owner in London, who has moved a high profile energy broking team and several senior energy traders within the last six months.

Antal Owners and their consultants are adding tangible value to clients on a daily basis. Doug Bugle, Antal’s Chief Executive Officer who has 26 years’ experience in recruitment Franchising, says: “Our Owners are conducting high level business discussions and influencing key hiring strategy in FTSE and SMEs regularly, and are getting a huge buzz out of it, and believe me they can justify their fees, which average £8,000 to £25,000 per placement.”

Tony Jones, Antal’s Chief Operations Officer, who previously ran his own successful recruitment franchise, is open about how Antal training is combined with franchisees’ professional backgrounds, making them high profile players in their industry. He says:“Many of our Owners write regular ‘thought leadership’ articles that get published globally, bolstering their industry status and leading to financial and intellectual rewards.”

Franchisee Liz Dillon places retail professionals and produces a regular piece for a leading retail trade magazine. Because of this, she was invited to speak at a global retail event in Moscow. Liz is not alone: another Antal Owner was invited to present his findings at an all-expenses paid financial services conference in Madrid, and there are many dozens of such examples globally.

Thought leadership
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Antal is one of the very few organisations that provide a truly global quarterly overview of hiring and firing trends, achieving enormous media coverage worldwide. Regularly featuring in some 300 media outlets, the Antal Global Snapshot is now a brand in its own right, quoted and used by McKinsey Consulting, Ernst & Young, The Wall Street Journal, The Economist, The Financial Times, Personnel Today, as well as many additional broadsheets, business journals and websites. Many of Antal’s Owners are interviewed by the BBC.

CNN and CNBC to give their view on forthcoming labour market predictions.

“The labour market is one of the biggest macroeconomic indicators and a contemporary topic on every corporate agenda, and very few companies have the global capacity to interview some 15,000 business leaders across 32-plus countries on a quarterly basis to produce a report of such value,” says Tony Goodwin.

Tony adds: “At this more recent time in the history of Antal, I also felt it important to give something back to society, and that’s why every time someone completes the Antal Global Snapshot we donate euro to the Antal Charitable Foundation.”

Some of the charities Antal supports are The Duke of Edinburgh Award, Chance UK and Smiling Children (for disadvantaged children in Afghanistan).

Literally tens of thousands of decision makers and candidates are watching the Antal Global Snapshot each quarter to track supply and demand hot spots in the job market.

Award winner
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In summarising Antal’s global success Graeme Read, Group Managing Director, says: “After 18 years of building a sustainable and recognised recruitment brand on a global scale, we are proud to be recognised by winning the Recruitment International Award in 2010 for ‘Best International Recruitment Company’ ahead of many of our competitors.”

David Head, Publisher of Recruitment International magazine, says:“Our blue-chip panel of 18 industry experts, including bankers, brokers, lawyers and associates, clearly chose Antal as the International Recruitment Company of the Year in November 2010.”

In 2010 Antal launched 26 offices, including in the UK, India, Germany, Israel, Egypt and Switzerland.“When you have an entire world to launch new offices, the challenge requires absolute laser beam focus,” says Liz Kilford, Global Marketing Director.“We have successful businesses in both developing and developed economies such as China, Poland and India, as well as in the UK, Germany and France -just a few of the 32 countries where we have offices.”

“Liz continues: “This in itself is an incredible achievement, but what makes Antal even more extraordinary is that these offices are fully integrated, working on the same franchise training model and providing the same outstanding delivery service to clients. On top of this, our offices are sharing business with each other and working together on global accounts.”

UK market focus
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Doug Bugie is bullish about potential in the UK. When asked what strategy he would employ to tackle this market Doug responds: “We are investing heavily in hiring additional staff to enhance the training and support of our franchisees. We have also invested substantially at being present at franchise exhibitions and in the economic, business and franchise media. We will see a substantial increase in UK franchisees’ profitability, brand awareness and growth, and we especially look forward to sharing this mutual success.”