Are you an experienced recruiter billing over £250k and ready to take your own recruitment business to the next level? Get the funding you need to start up with full mentoring from Rhys Jones, coupled with world-leading back-office support.
Our comprehensive, end-to-end solution is built on our extensive experience and tailored to ensure your recruitment business flourishes from day one. With our percentage of revenue reducing the more you bill, we’re committed to your success, with a partnership that guarantees our full support.
Our holistic approach covers every aspect of your business, from finance to strategy, so you can focus on what you do best—placing talent and growing your agency. We’re here to help you succeed, not just give you advice. Let’s build something remarkable together.
With Rhys Jones as your mentor, you’ll benefit from the guidance of someone who has successfully navigated every stage of building a recruitment business.
From being the top 360 biller in his first role, to founding and growing Elliot Marsh into a thriving recruitment firm, Rhys has hands-on experience in driving business success.
After successfully taking two recruitment businesses to sale, Rhys completed the prestigious Business Growth Program at Cranfield School of Management and founded Davison Gray.
Through Davidson Gray, Rhys is focussed to helping recruitment entrepreneurs, founding Davidson Gray to mentor and support ambitious recruiters. His proven track record, coupled with his passion for growing recruitment businesses, ensures you’ll receive expert advice tailored to every stage of your journey.
Beyond investment and mentoring, you’ll have access to the tools, systems, and resources you need to thrive. We offer comprehensive back-office support including, finance, legal, marketing, and in-house factoring.
Covering everything from finance, legal, marketing, and in-house factoring to CRM and management and LinkedIn, we provide a hands-on, fully bespoke service designed around your needs.
Whatever your sector, specialism, or how you want to grow your business; our back office team will help you build the brand, technology and processes you need to quickly establish your new recruitment startup.
This isn’t just about support—it’s a partnership, built to help you grow efficiently and effectively. As you scale, our team will grow with you, adapting to your needs to ensure continuous success.
We’re selective about who we invest in, seeking recruitment entrepreneurs with the drive and experience to succeed. To ensure we’re the right fit, our partners must meet the following criteria:
You should have a proven track record managing the full recruitment cycle.
We partner with specialists, not generalists, and prefer those with sector experience.
You’ll need to be based in the UK and establishing a UK business.
You will have a history of consistently high billings or successful management experience.
We work with those committed to growth, not lifestyle businesses.
Already have a network in place, as we do not provide data or leads for cold starts.
No, once onboard as a partner we are a true partnership. We take only a percentage of the revenues you generate when you become successful. We provide comprehensive support services to get your ideas off the ground. While you will not need any capital for start up, you should consider the funds you will need to sustain your lifestyle between leaving your current company and making your first placements.
Yes, you can bring a team or a business partner. In fact we encourage it – having a partner or small team can help you grow quicker and provide much needed support. Davidson Gray will work with you to establish a suitable shareholders agreement and the infrastructure you need to support a team from day one.
Partnering with Davidson Gray provides you with personal mentoring from Rhys Jones and a tailored back office solution. This allows you to concentrate on scaling your business, knowing that everything else is taken care of by our experienced team.
As well as personal mentoring from Rhys, he also acts as a director and minority shareholder in the partner business alongside you, providing you with the benefits of a Non Executive Director, from day one.
We give you a fixed term contract committing us to give you all the help we promise, and in return we take a small percentage of revenue. This percentage decreases over time and the more you bill the smaller the percentage.
Every startup business is different and a large part of what determines this is you. We don’t rely on templated web designs or ‘cookie cutter’ business plans, we help establish your startup strategy to suit you and your business goals. We have an experienced and dedicated team ready to help you from day one. The initial setup can be as quick as 6 weeks, but we advise that on average it takes a few months.
You should on average be able to pay yourself 75% of your billings.
Yes, whilst we typically support new start ups, Davidson Gray is also able to support those with existing recruitment businesses.
One of the many benefits of partnering with Davidson Gray is that you receive our knowledge and expertise in building a solid infrastructure to scale your recruitment business
We consciously only back a few select recruiters to ensure you receive a personal approach and direct mentoring from Rhys.
We endeavour to respond to all enquiries. You will be made aware at each stage whether Davidson Gray is the right partner for you.
We have a comprehensive marketing support infrastructure that is very much tailored to you. During the launch phase for instance, we provide branding and SEO services. Hands-on support also comes in the form of content creation; email campaigns, as well as social media setup and planning. We also provide ongoing training and support on things like; social software and tools, job ad writing and the latest marketing trends.
Preparation of end-of-year accounts, personal tax returns, and other reports are all done for you. You also have access to consultancy and advice when you need it.
You will receive your own personalised platform tailored to your clients and the currencies you require – Our system has been designed to remove all the headaches involved with traditional factoring services.
We carry out a comprehensive factoring service including:
– Streamlined Pay & Bill service which can invoice clients and pay candidates.
– Paying in different / multi-currencies.
– Assisting with compliance checks on contracts to ensure your business is protected for the use of internal timesheets, payment days etc.
– Providing a comprehensive credit control system, ensuring no invoices slip the net.
– Inclusive comprehensive credit insurance offering market leading protection against issues such as queried invoices and insolvencies.
– We can act as a primary and secondary timesheet authoriser, should you be on annual leave/ absent.
– Offering weekly timesheets with monthly payments.
Working from home can be the best solution to start with, we set you up with and provide amongst other things; virtual phone numbers and addresses, email accounts, a database, website, business cards, cloud storage, plus an IT team for support should you need it. Working from home can also be lonely so don’t forget the invaluable mentoring service from Rhys and the team. Co-working spaces may also be an option for you if you live in a city.
