Superfastrecruitment

Superfastrecruitment http://www.superfastrecruitment.co.uk
We provide marketing training, coaching and content resources for recruitment and staffing companies across the globe.

We are based in Cumbria in the UK We help Recruitment companies get more candidates and clients, through recruitment marketing.

Can you really generate business from a database of just 22 contacts?Sharn wasn’t convinced.She had recently switched se...
04/09/2026

Can you really generate business from a database of just 22 contacts?

Sharn wasn’t convinced.

She had recently switched sectors, so unlike recruiters sitting on databases containing thousands of contacts, she was starting with just 22.

A couple of weeks after joining us, she put together her first campaign.

And then something happened.

A client she hadn’t worked with for over a year got back in touch.

They needed help with a Technical Director role.

Sharn secured the assignment exclusively.

The fee?

£18,000.

Now, not every campaign is going to produce an £18k fee. But there’s a really important lesson here.

You don’t necessarily need a huge database.

You don’t need thousands of LinkedIn connections.

And you certainly don’t need to wait until everything is perfect before you start.

Sometimes the opportunity is already within your network.

You just need to give people a reason to remember you and restart the conversation.

Brilliant result, Sharn.

03/09/2026

Short posts or long content? You do not have to choose.

They do two different jobs. Short-form gets you seen. Long-form gets you trusted.

Most recruiters lean heavily on one and neglect the other.

In my latest short video I break down what each one is for, and why you need both.

What would change if you genuinely believed you were capable of more?It’s an interesting question.Because one of the big...
02/09/2026

What would change if you genuinely believed you were capable of more?

It’s an interesting question.

Because one of the biggest things that holds us back isn’t always a lack of knowledge, experience or opportunity.

Sometimes it’s the story we’ve been telling ourselves for years.

“I’m not good at that.”

“I could never do that.”

“I’m not confident enough.”

“I’m too old to change.”

“I’ve never been that sort of person.”

Say something often enough and eventually it starts to feel like a fact.

Which is why I love this quote from Lady Gaga.

There’s something incredibly powerful about deciding that the story you’ve been telling yourself doesn’t have to be the story you take forward.

You don’t have to feel completely confident before you start.

Sometimes you start first.

You take the action.

You prove to yourself that you can do it.

And gradually, the belief catches up.

What’s one thing you’d do differently if you stopped questioning whether you were capable of it?

The recruiter who is everywhere is hardly ever the best recruiter in the room.They're just the one you can see.I talk to...
02/09/2026

The recruiter who is everywhere is hardly ever the best recruiter in the room.

They're just the one you can see.

I talk to a lot of owners who've privately convinced themselves that the competitor filling their feed must be better than them.

Better, more connected, winning all the good work. It eats at them.

Then I look at the two side by side, and the truth is almost always the opposite. The visible one isn't more skilled. They've simply decided to be seen, and they've kept it up.

Visibility and ability are two different things. We assume they travel together, that the best people naturally rise to the top of the feed. They don't.

Unfortunately.....The feed rewards whoever shows up, not whoever is best at the job.

Which is oddly good news if you're the quiet expert. It means the gap between you and the recruiter you envy isn't talent. It's exposure. And exposure is a decision, not a gift.

You don't have to become a different person or post ten times a day. You have to stop letting the most visible recruiter in your market be someone with half your experience.

So a fair question to consider: who in your sector is more visible than they are good, and what are they doing that you've talked yourself out of?

You did not get worse at recruiting. The market just stopped hearing from you.I had a call last week with an owner who h...
01/09/2026

You did not get worse at recruiting. The market just stopped hearing from you.

I had a call last week with an owner who has placed people brilliantly for fifteen years.

Sharp, well-liked, genuinely good at the job. And privately worried that recruiters with half her experience seem to be everywhere while she has gone missing.

Here is what I told her, and it's true for most people reading this.

This is almost never a capability problem. You know how to run a search. You know how to look after a client.

What's happened is simpler and less comfortable: you got busy delivering, the visible stuff slipped, and after a few months of silence, the market forgot where you were.

Attention doesn't stay put. It moves to whoever shows up.

The fix isn't a personality transplant or ten posts a day. It usually starts with finding the one thing that's really slipped.

For some owners it's the network they stopped talking to. For others it's a message that no longer says anything different. For plenty, it's simply having no habit that survives a busy week.

Different problem each time. Which is exactly why the generic advice never lands.

So a question worth sitting with: if a good client thought of your sector tomorrow, would your name come to mind, or would you have to reintroduce yourself?

“Pressure is a privilege.”Billie Jean King’s line. Watching her talk at the US Open brought it straight back to me.Five ...
28/08/2026

“Pressure is a privilege.”

Billie Jean King’s line. Watching her talk at the US Open brought it straight back to me.
Five words that reframe most of what a business owner carries around.

Here is what she meant by it. If you feel pressure, it is because you are in a position that matters. You have something at stake. Nobody feels pressure about something they do not care about.

Now think about that in your own business.

The pressure you feel about your pipeline exists because you have a company to
fill it for.
The pressure about payroll is there because you employ people who rely on you.
The pressure about standing out in your sector? You only feel that because you have decided to compete.

I am not going to pretend pressure feels good. It does not.

What I am saying is that how you read it changes what you do next.

Read it as a threat and you react. You panic post. You blast the database. You go quiet when things get uncomfortable, then wonder why the pipeline is empty eight weeks later.

Read it as proof you are in the game and you do the opposite. You keep going. You post when you do not feel like it. You make the calls on the flat days as well as the good ones.
Billie Jean King did not win by avoiding the pressure moments.

She won because she learned to stand in them.
The same principle applies to you and your recruitment or search business.
The owners doing well right now are not the ones with no pressure. They are the ones who kept showing up while carrying it.
What pressure are you currently reading as a problem, when it might be proof you are exactly where you need to be?

I’m still struggling to believe has gone.As a country music fan, this one has really hit me, and I have shed a few tear...
27/08/2026

I’m still struggling to believe has gone.

As a country music fan, this one has really hit me, and I have shed a few tears over the last 48 hours.

And while there are plenty of inspirational Dolly quotes being shared, I keep coming back to one that always makes me smile:

**“It costs a lot of money to look this cheap.”**

Classic Dolly.

Funny, completely self-aware and absolutely unapologetic about who she was.

But there’s a serious business lesson hiding in there too.

Dolly made being Dolly look effortless.

The hair. The clothes. The humour. The songs. That instantly recognisable voice and personality.

But behind it all was an incredibly smart businesswoman who understood the power of a brand long before most of us were talking about personal branding.

And that's worth thinking about ....

The people and businesses that make marketing look effortless usually have a lot going on behind the scenes.

They've worked out what they stand for.

They show up consistently.

They invest time, thought and often money into staying visible.

And most importantly, you know exactly who they are.

There was never any danger of Dolly Parton blending into the background.

Maybe there’s a lesson in that for all of us.

Every week there is another headline about who will build the world's biggest AI supercomputer...and yet we already own ...
27/08/2026

Every week there is another headline about who will build the world's biggest AI supercomputer...and yet we already own one 🤷♀️

All eight plus billion of us.

Your brain. The most powerful processor on the planet.

And most of the time we leave it running the wrong programme.

Because as a recruitment business owner, you are carrying a lot.

Revenue targets.
Team performance.
Market shifts.
Clients going quiet.

When that mounts up, the brain defaults to its oldest software.

Criticism. Doubt. Overwhelm.

Sound familiar?

Here is the good news.

It can be reprogrammed.

Let me get a bit sciency for a second.

You have something called a Reticular Activating System. The RAS.

It is the filter that decides what reaches your conscious awareness.

Buy a red car, and suddenly every car on the motorway is red.

That is your RAS doing its job.

Point it at a goal instead of at your own inner critic and three things happen.

1. Your decisions get clearer
2. You start spotting opportunities you have been walking straight past
3. The bandwidth that worry was eating becomes available for strategy

The recruitment businesses doing well right now are not always the ones with the better tech.

They are the ones using the technology between their ears better.

So here is the question.

If you pointed all that processing power at one goal this week, what would it be?

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Karen and her team had done well over the years and wanted to take their growth and business to the next level.Most of t...
27/08/2026

Karen and her team had done well over the years and wanted to take their growth and business to the next level.

Most of their placements and job orders came from referrals, which was great, though not predictable or scalable.

That is when they decided to join Superfast Circle to support their demand generation goal. You can access their full case study in the comments below and in our Insta bio.

TikTok can get you candidates.I couldn’t find any evidence it will get you clients.And I did go looking. A recruitment o...
26/08/2026

TikTok can get you candidates.

I couldn’t find any evidence it will get you clients.

And I did go looking. A recruitment or search business that had won a PSL, a retained brief, an exclusive assignment, because a hiring manager spotted them on TikTok.

Not one. Not in the UK, not in the US, not in Australia.

Does that prove it’s never happened? No.

But it tells you something, and the audience data explains why. The people who sign off recruitment spend aren’t on there.

Which brings me to the bit that costs business owners real money.

We talk about recruitment marketing as though it’s one thing.

It isn’t. It’s two jobs.

Attracting candidates. Winning clients.

Different people. Different messages. Different channels.

Mix them up, and you can post away for six months, watch the views come in, then wonder why your client pipeline hasn’t moved an inch.

Full breakdown in the latest episode. Link in the comments.

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