After many years working as a Car Salesman at Citeroen and Mercedes, Yas Bacar from Southport decided to take some of his own career advice and make the jump into self-employment.

With no previous experience in recruitment, we asked Yas some questions regarding his experiences on training and life as a franchisee.

How was your experience building your identity?

They were supportive right from the start - from my business plan, to financial forecasts, creating names, various concepts of logos, to building my website and marketing brand! They did it all and ensure what type of Identity I wanted to create! Have a look at my website www.astonhunt.co.uk – the brand is awesome.

How was the recruitment training?

I thought the recruitment training was set and pitched at the right level for beginners. Being one and one with Leanne was so valuable as it was about learning needs.

The level of instruction was excellent as was the manner of the Leanne, the training centre is well set out and is also a working franchise operation meaning we had the opportunity to actually go out and get clients and candidates – the recruitment process – the sales process and this gave me real experience and increased my confidence. Then the continuous online I would admit that the training was really quite training and support. Now I am built to bill!

What’s the best part about being self-employed?

There are two parts to being self-employed for me the first is all your work is rewarded financially and through the satisfaction of negotiating the deal and seeing it through to the end with great results. The second is sourcing the work, finding new contacts whether on social media or word of mouth or simply just dropping into somewhere.

Aston Hunt powered by Job Bank saves my clients thousands of pounds, this is the real job satisfaction for me, at a time when businesses need to cut back and save money, and my business thrives!