Season 7 | Ep5 - Joe Curtis on how his recruitment portfolio of 100 staff has grown in headcount and, importantly, profit, through a unique shared ownership structure which helps recruiters realise their ambition

On this week’s episode, I'm excited to be joined by an old friend, Joe Curtis. 

Initially, Joe was the founder of a recruitment company called 3Search, which then led to building a bigger business called 11 Investments. 

11 Investments is a series of niche recruitment organisations that work together and share a common goal with a central operational function. 

Joe's role as founder is to bring more people into the portfolio, both people who want to start their own recruitment company and also people who want to work for the portfolio. 

He's been responsible for growing the business to 100 people, which they’ve managed to do sustainably and profitably with a clear plan.

In this episode, we talk about:

• Joe’s journey of nine years of growth
• How remaining profitable throughout that process is really important. Manyrecruitment organisations don't make any money, and as a result, they suffer in times like this
• The importance of running a business with a clear direction
• The debate around working in the office and working from home. 3Search, 11 Investments, and the whole portfolio believe in working together in an office in London three days a week with a little bit of flexibility, and they're very clear on how and why they've built it that way

So, if you are in a position right now where you are feeling that, post covid, you don't really know the best way to run your firm - whether it's remote, in-house, or a combination - then you need to listen to this because Joe explains it perfectly. 

He's got to a headcount of 100 and they’re going towards 200, so there's a lot to  learn from this episode.

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