About this episode

Max Kozin discusses the challenges and systems involved in starting a blue-collar recruitment agency from scratch.

Send us Fan Mail He landed his first deal within days of launching Trade Plus Recruitment. No inherited database. No clients waiting. No one telling him what to do next. We sit down with Max Kozin to talk through the part nobody glamorises: payroll exposure, insurance, health and safety compliance, and the mental load of starting a blue-collar recruitment agency from scratch. We get into the systems he built to move fast. Max uses Loxo to send candidates a structured pre-screening form that u...

People in this episode

Guest: Max Kozin

Topics covered

• blue-collar recruitment
• entrepreneurship
• payroll exposure
• health and safety compliance
• starting a business

Keywords

• blue-collar
• recruitment
• entrepreneurship
• payroll
• insurance
• health and safety
• Loxo

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Trade Plus Recruitment, Loxo

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