TAB’s impact has given Rose Recruitment’s Darren Aggasild a blueprint for future growth
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TAB’s impact has given Rose Recruitment’s Darren Aggasild a blueprint for future growth WHEN YOU HEAR THAT SOMEONE HAS MOVED FROM BEING A BANK MANAGER to owning and running a recruitment business, you might think that’s quite a change in direction! But Darren Aggasild, owner of…
TAB’s impact has given Rose Recruitment’s Darren Aggasild a blueprint for future growth
WHEN YOU HEAR THAT SOMEONE HAS MOVED FROM BEING A BANK MANAGER to owning and running a recruitment business, you might think that’s quite a change in direction! But Darren Aggasild, owner of Rose Recruitment, explained “Banking is a selling industry now, and about customer service, and that’s just what recruitment is – just a different ‘product’ to sell.”
After his business degree, Darren’s first role was in banking. He stayed in the sector for 6 years until he was head hunted to go into recruitment by one of his customers. For the next few years Darren held Senior Positions with established agencies in Aberdeen. He was then tasked with opening up Adecco in Aberdeen from scratch; he had 4 successful years. In 2015, Darren had the opportunity to buy Rose It’s interesting how TAB has had an impact on Recruitment from the then current owner who Darren’s home life, too. Darren’s fiancé appreciates was looking to exit. At the time, the business how TAB has helped keep him grounded and she turnover was about £500k and in need of some knows that he is now encouraged to think about modernisation in terms of moving online and making the implications of his actions, taking away previous it more procedural to enable growth. The business stress and worry. last year posted a seven figure turnover result, giving them a 48% increase on the previous year. “Aside from the business impact that TAB Just as Darren was buying the business, hard times has made, and continues to make, I’ve came to Aberdeen as the oil crisis hit. Darren had developed some great new friendships been through tough times before but it turned out in my other TAB Board Members. They to be much worse than he thought. People were being made redundant and some of the key sectors are such a diverse group but all going for Rose were badly hit. through the same types of issues as me.” Darren said, “Recruitment was still happening but in different industries, so we had to be resourceful and we changed our focus to construction and hospitality which really helped us through the recession.”
Despite nearly going under in his first six months due to huge bad debts he had inherited, pure grit and determination got Darren through. At the time, Darren had a young child so stress levels were pretty high.
Two years into his business, Darren came across The Alternative Board. He was feeling isolated and needed someone outside the business to talk to and didn’t want to keep taking his troubles home.
“TAB has helped me with some delicate issues I’d been shying away from, or just wouldn’t have thought to address,” shared Darren. “I was constantly fighting fires but now I have the right people and procedures in place, I have been able to book to go away in the Summer for 3 weeks and I know the business will be fine without me.”
Darren is a self-confessed ‘dreamer’ and is pleased that TAB reigns him in and gives him the focus he needs to move his business in the direction he really wants to go. With an ambition to open branches in other cities around the UK, Darren feels the work he’s done with TAB has given him a blueprint for that future growth.
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