BRW, July 14 2011
Leo D’Angelo Fisher
Former teacher Jeremy Waters spent 10 years in London, during which time he set up a successful recruitment business. But when he returned home to Melbourne to get married last year, he found that employers were not lining up to greet him with open arms. “Coming home, I had certain expectations but the reality turned out to be something else,” he says.
Waters, a physical education teacher and an elite sportsman in his own right, went to Britain in 2000 to pursue a long-held dream to play county cricket.
That year, Waters, then aged 23, and a business partner started SANZA Teaching Agency to held Australian and New Zealand teachers find work in London schools. The business was so successful that Waters had to cut short his cricket career after a few years.
By 2010, when SANZA merged with Tradewind Recruitment, which also specialises in the education sector, it had grown to a $15 million a year business with 32 employees in the UK, Australia and Canada. Waters stepped down as chief executive to return to Melbourne but is a director on the board of parent company ABACO Recruitment.
Waters decided to step out of recruitment and start afresh in Australia. “Having started in recruitment at such a young age, I got burnt out,” he says. “I didn’t want to be defined as a recruiter. I wanted to do something else".
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