Redundancy was the best thing that happened...im now a select franchisee

Graham Rowan

Graham Rowan feels that agreeing redundancy terms was the driver for a number of positive changes. He is now a proud franchise partner of Select Franchising and successfully runs 9 franchises across Scotland.

Select Franchising are the UK market leaders in recruitment franchising and have three unique and established franchise brands: Select Appointments (office staff), Parkhouse Recruitment (industrial, technical and engineering staff) and Select Hospitality (hospitality staff).

As a Select franchise partner we provide everything you need to get started and make your own business a success.

Graham has seen the success of franchising with Select “I had been keen to run my own business for a few years and agreeing redundancy provided the ideal platform to start out on my own. I think it is important for people to realise that they don’t need to be victims – it’s not always easy but they can take control. By doing this, I shook off the negative perceptions normally associated with redundancy and viewed it as a golden opportunity to really think about what type of business I wanted to run.”

Graham continues “We opened our first Select Appointments branch in Glasgow in December 2006. Since then, we have built the business to 9 franchises over 3 locations by reinvesting in the business, concentrating on a quality service to our clients and sheer hard work and determination with our teams.”

Graham and Lorraine are excited about continuing to develop their businesses in 2009 ”We’ve come a long way in a short time. Things are never certain, especially in the early life of a business and we have a long way to go, but we’ve made a great start and redundancy feels like a distant memory already.”

Many of our franchise partners generate over £1 million per year in sales and go on to open second and third franchise offices with us. The majority of our franchise partners have had no previous experience of the recruitment industry – so just imagine what you could achieve!

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