Season 7 | Ep9 - Mel Kang on his mission to build a top 200 law firm by focusing on being a headhunter!

The RAG Podcast - Recruitment Agency Growth Podcast

This week’s show is going to be a little bit different.

My guest is Mel Kang, the CEO of Mezzle, a consulting law firm, not a recruitment agency.

Mezzle takes traditional lawyers who work for traditional law firms and flips the model.

They attract lawyers who join them without a set salary but take home 70 percent of their annual earnings/ billings.

The reason Mel’s a guest on the show is because of how similar the law industry is to the recruitment industry. The way they set their firms up is almost identical.

Mel’s whole day job consists of headhunting lawyers from traditional firms and bringing them into Mezzle.

He launched Mezzle with his friend and partner Raj on the first day of the pandemic

Since then, they've now grown to 48 consultant lawyers in the UK and Dubai.

They are on track to become one of the top 200 law firms in the world.

I truly believe there's so much you can learn from this conversation as a recruiter or recruitment founder.

Understanding the way Mel thinks and is able to adapt and evolve, can make your recruitment company better. So take notes.

I hope you enjoy this one as much as I did.

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