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Our Story – Written by Stephen Borer, Partner at DMC Recruitment<\/h4>\n

I have worked in recruitment for over 25 years. I have thought of leaving the industry many times over the course of my career \u2013 especially at the times when a candidate turns down an offer, or a client pulls a role that you have been working on for 4 months \u2013 but somehow I just must face that I am a career recruiter. I am good at what I do, and, if forced, I will admit I like the damn industry!\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

However, traditional recruitment agencies are broken and that\u2019s not the landscape that I can or want to work in anymore. KPI-led environments, outdated technology, rigid lack of flexibility and, most importantly, no real opportunity to make serious money.. <\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I started in recruitment in London in 1998, a decade after Michael Page, Robert Walters, James Caan etc were making their money in recruitment in the same city. Recruitment in the \u201880s and 90\u2019s was great. No expenses-spared client entertainment, highflier trips on helicopters, and consultants driving Porsches. Since then, it hasn\u2019t been the same. Not if you work in one of the large recruitment agencies. You might get a highflier\u2019s trip occasionally and even a reasonable amount of client entertainment, but you don\u2019t make any money yourself. Not compared to what they did. Not real money.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

In 2013 a friend of mine introduced me to a new model of recruitment. Technology had evolved, social media had removed the reliance on candidate databases, and the balance of power had shifted. Consultants were no longer trapped having to work for the big firms to work in recruitment.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

That year, I left Michael Page as Operating Director for Canada and moved to Alberta where I started from scratch on a \u2018desk\u2019 where I had literally no clients. That desk was building materials. By the end of 12 months, I had doubled my previous year\u2019s large-agency, Director-level income\u2026. and I skied EVERY day for a whole season while working (admittedly hard!) in the afternoons.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I had been introduced to a new type of agency. It changed my life.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>8 years on, one thing led to another and my friend and business partner, wanted to take the business down a different path, leading his business in a direction that differed from my personal approach.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The Start of DMC<\/h3>\n

Exiting our former business via a management buyout, Shawna Wagner<\/a>, Alexandra Mather<\/a> (the now three Partners of DMC Recruitment) and I set up a new business – DMC Recruitment.\u00a0<\/a><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Determined to incorporate and build upon the good that we had learned from our previous business, we set up DMC based on the following values which are, and will always remain at the core of our model:<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n