Business Advice that creates Clarity, Certainty and Confidence for Recruitment Business Owners

We help recruitment business owners improve profitability, build business value and plan confidently for growth, succession or exit.

 

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Specialist business advisory for the recruitment industry.

With over 30 years’ experience building, buying and selling recruitment, staffing and professional services businesses, PEPL works with ambitious business owners to achieve their goals

What does a recruitment business advisor help with?

A clear plan for your recruitment business

Clearer revenue, profitability and growth goals for your recruitment business

You will feel in control and confident about your future

What We Do

Business Advisory for Recruitment Business Owners

We advise recruitment business owners across the strategic, commercial and people decisions that shape growth and long-term business value, including:

Developing recruitment business strategies and plans

Setting and achieving strategic objectives

Planning sustainable growth for your recruitment business

Building diverse and inclusive cultures

Building the right structure as your recruitment business grows

Building, developing and retaining high-performing recruitment teams and leaders

Improving the systems and processes behind a scalable recruitment business

Strengthening financial disciplines, profitability and commercial performance

Making decisions around technology investments

Recruitment business succession, exit planning and sale preparation

Building a recruitment business that is resilient, valuable and less dependent on its owner

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Who We Are

PEPL Consulting was founded by Ben Wood following more than three decades building, growing, buying and selling businesses in the recruitment, staffing and professional services industries. Today, Ben brings that first-hand experience to recruitment business owners as an advisor on growth, profitability, leadership, M&A and exit planning. His growth strategies utilise both organic and M&A activity … and he never loses his cool.

For further information on Ben’s background, please go to https://www.linkedin.com/in/bmwood/ where you can also read posts related to his work with clients.

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“I advise on issues I have actual experience in, not just stuff that I’ve read about in books and blogs. This guarantees that I have valuable perspectives and insights to add to my clients’ own experiences.”

Calculator and recruitment business performance graphs for financial planning

Understand where your recruitment business can improve

Collecting real data is the best way to start any initiative. To collect the right data in the easiest way, PEPL has partnered with Mindshop to give you access to the free diagnostics below. Using these diagnostics before a session will guide planning and ensure data-driven decisions are made. If the session involves other members of your team, we recommend all participants complete the same diagnostic, so that the data can be collated and analysed before your session. Each diagnostic only takes around 5 minutes to complete. You will receive your results immediately. They will identify your best and least-performing areas, as well as show you how you compare to global benchmarks.
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Why Recruitment Business Owners Work With PEPL

Running a recruitment business brings a particular mix of commercial, people and growth challenges. PEPL gives owners an experienced advisor to test ideas, work through difficult decisions and turn plans into action.

A good idea is only 10% of the solution. The other 90% is implementation and hard work.

Whilst we hold our clients accountable for the goals they set, we also support them through the implementation process. Being part of the Mindshop advisory group means we have access to all the diagnostics, knowledge and resources to support every business situation.

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Ben Wood consulting with a recruitment business client at PEPL Consulting

Recruitment Business Advisory

12 month commitment

 

  • Quarterly half day in-person meetings plus telephone, email and virtual meeting support.
  • Meeting times are set upfront and the agenda for each meeting is provided by the client in advance to maximise effectiveness.
  • At each meeting, key issues and opportunities are explored; an action plan is agreed and progress is reviewed at the subsequent meeting.
  • You will have clarity on the next steps towards achievement of your “owner’s goal” and be more effective at working “on” your business.

From $24,000 plus GST payable in quarterly instalments in advance.

 

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Recruitment Business Advisory

12 month commitment

 

  • Quarterly half day in-person meetings plus telephone, email and virtual meeting support.
  • Meeting times are set upfront and the agenda for each meeting is provided by the client in advance to maximise effectiveness.
  • At each meeting, key issues and opportunities are explored; an action plan is agreed and progress is reviewed at the subsequent meeting.
  • You will have clarity on the next steps towards achievement of your “owner’s goal” and be more effective at working “on” your business.

From $24,000 plus GST payable in quarterly instalments in advance.

 

Let’s Talk

Testimonials

“Over the time I’ve had Ben as my advisor, our revenues have grown 3x. He’s a reliable advisor – he’s able to go into detail, but he stops me getting stuck in it; he has helped me to prioritise and simplify some strategic issues. He’s always available to me. As the business has grown, my role and my priorities have changed a lot and Ben has helped me and the business through these transitions.”

RY, Owner and CEO, Finance Sector, Melbourne

Testimonials

“When I engaged Ben as an advisor, I had recently been promoted into the CEO role of a $200m professional services business. Ben helped with my priorities and ways to face into some difficult decisions. In our fast-moving sector, people strategies are our lifeblood and Ben and I work on these continuously. He never tells me what to do, but holds me accountable for the things we agree I will act on.”

TR, CEO, IT Contracting and Professional Services, Melbourne

Testimonials

“Ben’s a straight shooter and not afraid to tell me the truth. That is what I need from an advisor. Over the 3 years I’ve used Ben, our profits have increased from $0.5m to over $4.5m. He has been a reliable sounding board on our go to market strategy and how to build resilience into the business. He has also helped me step back from the day to day by guiding me on my professional development. And he has held me accountable on these things.”

DF, CEO, IT Advisory and Training, Sydney

Testimonials

“My meetings with Ben are always valuable. It is often brainstorming sales strategies, but as a scale-up I am always straddling operations and strategy and Ben has provided a great toolkit to support this. He’s also helped with some major decisions like hiring a GM for the business. I always value his honesty and whilst this can be challenging at the time, it has always helped to either reinforce or redirect my thinking.”

PM, Owner and CEO, Construction Sector, Melbourne

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To book a complimentary 30 min discovery call to review your business needs and explain how we add value, please provide your details below. We will get in touch within two business days.

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