MAYDAY Recruitment Group announce acquisition of Elevate Corporate Training

The acquisition of Elevate was a natural next step for MAYDAY, following the creation of a training division in 2020 which grew successively from an internal focus to include other Agency Recruiters and Industry Suppliers both inside and outside of the recruitment space. MAYDAY have always leaned on the power of life-long learning and shined a strong light on developing their people; as the saying goes, “What if we train our people and they leave…?” “Yes, but what if we don’t train them and they stay?”

Alongside the existing Future Recruiter program focussed on Rookie Recruiters (which has seen their clients’ rookie retention rate rise to 92.5%), the recent Elevate acquisition has allowed the extension of MAYDAY’s repertoire to include a robust 2-day Advanced Business Development program, two 2-day Leadership programs (both Emerging and Advanced), and over 50 modules of sales, leadership and soft-skills training.

Our team will deep-dive into Mindset & Resilience, Improving Communication Through Understanding Different Personality Types, and Time Management Skills, for example – not to mention Elevate’s one-on-one Executive Coaching division.

The Elevate methodology tailors every training session to the people within the room, so whether they're a brand-new recruit or a long-standing veteran, attendees gain maximum value for their time, and embody learnings that they can immediately put into action to achieve results.

Our team will conduct a thorough discovery session to understand training needs from a management perspective, followed by a series of short phone interviews with select attendees ahead of the session to gain their perspective on key areas of development.

Workshops are then specifically designed and delivered with a mix of theory and practical activities that ensure learning is fun, engaging and leaves everyone feeling like their time was well invested. Each participant puts together a thorough plan of how they will embed and implement their learnings, which they are encouraged to share with their managers for further and regular development updates.

There is also the option of follow-up coaching with an Elevate Coach to continue to open the attendees to new ideas and possibilities, and of how to successfully roll them out.

Attendees are not only encouraged but inspired to participate actively in the sessions as the most influential training is not a ‘sit and absorb’ experience.

The power of discussion is critical, the shared insights, implementing learnings where attendees will sit forward and take note, and where long-term memories are formed that have a real impact on their work.

Our recruitment training team are all extensively experienced within the recruitment industry, including cofounding Director of MAYDAY, Imogen Storie, CEO Lynne Johnston, Training Manager Vanessa Cole & MAYDAY’s first million-dollar biller, Caroline Soutar.

Each brings a strong passion for developing others, and real-world examples of their trials and tribulations along their journey to success; it’s often in the sharing of where things went wrong that others’ bravery grows, and lessons shared become lessons learned.

All workshops have been tried and tested on MAYDAY’s internal teams and leaders, with a real focus on how and where to improve the content and delivery for future attendees.

Feedback for the Business Development Success Program:

“As a Senior Recruiter, this was a great way to refresh on business development training as well as learning new ways and methods of doing recruitment, some of which I have already implemented to educate clients and close deals Vanessa, Imogen and Caroline bring great energy to each session, they all present well, make learning easy, enjoyable and ensure everyone is engaged and contributing to sessions.

Whether you’re an old timer like me or new in to the recruitment scene, I highly recommend this training programme to anyone doing business development.” – Jordan, Attribute Group