‘Hard work’. ‘Work hard’. That’s all he heard and saw since childhood. Little wonder then that Satnam Brar himself drew immense inspiration from these words and made them the mantra of his life. The results are there for all to see. At 33, he is the managing director of Maximus, a £10 million ERP recruitment specialist company. The youngster has created a stir in the highly competitive recruitment business industry and has carved a niche for himself providing complete resourcing solutions for Oracle and SAP across Europe. The youngest of three children of immigrants from Punjab, Satnam does not tire of saying how his father came to London with £3 in his pocket. He started work the next day and had no time for a break or holiday since then. So much so that he even worked a shift the night he got married. Satnam grew up seeing his mother juggling a job, bringing up the three kids and running a home and his father working hard. That image and the hard work put in by them stuck on his mind. With time, his father had saved up enough to buy a shop and then another. As a lad he remembers helping his father out in the shop. “I used to stand on a milk crate to reach the till. That was how my learning began….