DiscoverThe RAG Podcast - Recruitment Agency Growth PodcastEp 18 - Marc Sumner on his 20 years as a recruitment owner and realising he wasn’t the right person to manage the people in the business if he wanted to grow!
Ep 18 - Marc Sumner on his 20 years as a recruitment owner and realising he wasn’t the right person to manage the people in the business if he wanted to grow!

Ep 18 - Marc Sumner on his 20 years as a recruitment owner and realising he wasn’t the right person to manage the people in the business if he wanted to grow!

Update: 2019-05-16
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Marc is the CEO and Founder of Robertson Sumner - an IT Sales and Technical Recruitment Agency based in Gerrards Cross UK. 

Marc started the agency 20 years ago after earning £200k in his only 1.5yrs as a recruitment consultant (at the age of 21 years old).

A man who openly didn’t have a growth plan for a long time, he enjoyed building the business with a small group of great people who all benefited from the shared financial success.

However, after a tough few years during and after the Global Financial Crisis, Marc realised that he was actually holding the agency back in the plans to grow further.

Since changing his role personally and appointing Calum to lead the team, he has seen year on year growth and now plans to double the headcount in the next few years..

A great guy and a really enjoyable chat, there are lots of nuggets to take away in this episode!

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Ep 18 - Marc Sumner on his 20 years as a recruitment owner and realising he wasn’t the right person to manage the people in the business if he wanted to grow!

Ep 18 - Marc Sumner on his 20 years as a recruitment owner and realising he wasn’t the right person to manage the people in the business if he wanted to grow!

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