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Warrington’s new recruitment company 6Talent on track for £250k turnover in first year

Warrington-based 6Talent a recruitment company set up in 2014 by Results Through Digital (RTD) is on track for a turnover of £250k in its first year.

6Talent was set up to service RTD’s staff requirements and is now actively placing talent in its competitors’ businesses.

The company has 2 staff members at the moment, with a further two to begin before the end of the year.

The new recruitment company is aiming for turnover of £1 million per annum for the first five years.

The initial funding for the new company came from the RTD group, but as RTD were looking at a recruitment bill of hundreds of thousands without setting up their own recruitment company it was more a matter of diverting funds and using them in a more logical way.

By setting up 6Talent, RTD saved the cost of recruiting people and found a new business model.

Group Chair Kevin Harrington told Bdaily: “When we set up 6Talent we decided the one thing we wanted to do was to help businesses rather than just recruit people.

“We take a brief from the client of course but we also help them look at their culture.

“For SME’s every new person you take on will make a difference to that culture for good or bad.

“People are surprised that we recruit staff for our competitors but we look at it differently. Companies that do what we do – websites, digital marketing and apps – make up about one per cent of UK businesses – about 5,000 of us.

“With almost five million businesses in the UK there is plenty of work to go around and if you can help people along the way why would you not do that?

“Once we start to talk to clients they realise that because we began 6Talent because we wanted to recruit our own staff they know we understand where they are coming from.

“We want to change people’s perceptions of recruitment. Businesses want more talented people – recruitment is seen as a chore but hiring talented people is an exciting thing.

“We’re Cheerful, no nonsense, consultative, business focused and we help businesses grow.”

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