Wilson builds Stanton House
27 October 2015
27 NOVEMBER 2015 | DEEDEE DOKE
27 NOVEMBER 2015 | DEEDEE DOKE
Five years on from establishing Stanton House as a new recruitment business, chief executive Neil Wilson can safely say that the finance/accounting, change management and digital recruiter is no longer a start-up.
“Coming through that first phase is one of my proudest achievements to date,” Wilson told Recruiter.
Now turning over £18m per year, Stanton House was created following Wilson’s departure five-and-a-half years ago from professional services firm Badenoch & Clark (B&C), where he was first joint managing director and then MD for 10 years. Joining forces with Wilson to create the new business as director and co-founder was fellow B&C veteran Nick Eaves.
Wilson has kept a low profile in the intervening five years as he and Eaves built the business from the ground up. Experiencing “a massive learning curve” in starting up, Wilson said he encountered the “brutal reality” of having to rediscover his own business development and recruiting skills after his years as an MD had forced him to focus internally. At the same time, he was handling all of the managerial and troubleshooting aspects of starting up a business.
“It’s a very humbling thing,” he said. “At first, you feel not like you’re not doing any of it very well.” However, he rates “doing frontline recruitment again, being out there to win business from my network, learning how to do it again” as being one of his best experiences of starting Stanton House.
Stanton House has 45 employees and offices in London, Reading, Edinburgh and Hong Kong.
Five years on from establishing Stanton House as a new recruitment business, chief executive Neil Wilson can safely say that the finance/accounting, change management and digital recruiter is no longer a start-up.
“Coming through that first phase is one of my proudest achievements to date,” Wilson told Recruiter.
Now turning over £18m per year, Stanton House was created following Wilson’s departure five-and-a-half years ago from professional services firm Badenoch & Clark (B&C), where he was first joint managing director and then MD for 10 years. Joining forces with Wilson to create the new business as director and co-founder was fellow B&C veteran Nick Eaves.
Wilson has kept a low profile in the intervening five years as he and Eaves built the business from the ground up. Experiencing “a massive learning curve” in starting up, Wilson said he encountered the “brutal reality” of having to rediscover his own business development and recruiting skills after his years as an MD had forced him to focus internally. At the same time, he was handling all of the managerial and troubleshooting aspects of starting up a business.
“It’s a very humbling thing,” he said. “At first, you feel not like you’re not doing any of it very well.” However, he rates “doing frontline recruitment again, being out there to win business from my network, learning how to do it again” as being one of his best experiences of starting Stanton House.
Stanton House has 45 employees and offices in London, Reading, Edinburgh and Hong Kong.
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