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Press Release GPRS becomes the UK's first specialist Permanent Staffing company to be awarded the new IIP Gold standard Accreditation

Posted by The Giraffe on Friday 27th May, 2011

PRESS RELEASE

(April 2011)

STAFFORD BASED GPRS RECRUITMENT RECOGNISED AS A GOLD STATUS INVESTOR IN PEOPLE ACCREDITED BUSINESS.

Stafford based GPRS Recruitment; The UK’s leader in specialised Permanent Staffing has recently been awarded the coveted Gold status following their recent Investors in People assessment. This status is only awarded to those organisations operating at the very highest levels of people & systems management practice.

Commenting on the award, Sarah Morgan Executive Director for the company said, “It’s a truly fabulous achievement. We knew having grown considerably over the past 3 years since we first achieved recognition, that we’d be under some pressure to achieve again. Gold standard was a tremendously present surprise. A great job by each and every member of our team”.

Carole Fox, Director for Business Development at Investors in People West Midlands, comments: "We are delighted that GPRS Recruitment has achieved Gold status. This is an exceptional achievement and the highest accolade a company can achieve. The Investors in People Framework offers a wealth of opportunity to deliver the results you need to improve productivity and take your organisation further.”

GPRS Recruitment, based at The Town’s Bankhouse employs 11 staff, and is seeking to increase this further throughout the 2011-12 financial year. They specialise in the provision of permanent professionals within the WBL & Training, Human Resources, Professional Services & Information Technology Sectors UK-Wide. The business was established back in 2007, and has weathered the storm of the past couple of years well. The business is also shortly due to receive the REC (Recruitment & Employment Confederation’s) coveted Audited status.

Recent research, conducted by the Centre for Business Performance at Cranfield School of Management, showed that working with Investors in People increases profitability by enhancing managerial skills and increasing the performance of managers and their teams. It also inspires a high-performance management culture and an effective learning environment, both of which help to improve business performance.

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About Investors in People:
•Investors in People offers a practical, flexible and easy to use framework for improving business productivity, performance and competitiveness in organisations of all types and sizes through good practice in people management.

•An organisation that has achieved Investors in People has been successful in adopting and maintaining its three fundamental principles:
•Plan - developing strategies to improve the performance of the organisation, from business goals to leadership strategies;
•Do - implementing those strategies, taking action to improve the performance of the organisation;
•Review - evaluating and adjusting those strategies, measuring their impact on the performance of the organisation.

•The UK Commission for Employment and Skills has strategic ownership of the Investors in People framework. Investors in People is part of the UK Commission’s ambition to improve skills, employment and productivity across the UK.

•The Investors in People framework is delivered by a partner network:

1.In England, the network of Investors in People Centres.
2.In Scotland, Scottish Enterprise (SE) or Highlands and Islands Enterprise (HIE).
3.In Wales, the Business Skills Delivery Team at the Department for Education, Lifelong Learning and Skills, Welsh Assembly Government.
4.In Northern Ireland, the Department for Employment of Learning.

For more information on Investors in People please visit www.investorsinpeople.co.uk />

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GPRS Recruitment is awarded Level 1 Investors In Diversity status

Posted by The Giraffe on Friday 20th August, 2010

Another first for us as GPRS becomes the UK's first specialist permanent recruitment business. Here's what Rosie Cottrell - Operations Director at the National Centre for Diversity had to say about our recent achievement......

Dear Tim,

On behalf of the National Centre for Diversity I would like to congratulate you, your staff and your stakeholders on the successful achievement of the Investors in Diversity standard at Level One.

Please find attached your assessment report for the achievement at Level one along with the stakeholder diagnostic reports.

I’ve attached the ‘achieved Level One Investor in Diversity logo’ to this email. This should now be used in marketing materials and such we would encourage GPRS to promote their success as widely as possible from this point.

Once again, congratulations on your success to date and we look forward to continuing the good work across the coming months.

Best wishes

Rosie



Thank you to all of our internal & external stake-holders who contributed their time to help with the assessment over past months. Yor help is most appreciated.

We are genuinely impressed and inspired by the excpetionally high grade achieved, and re-itterate our commitment to all to keep up the good work.

GPRS Recruitment takes pole position as the first UK specilaist recruiter to incorporate QR technology into our Marketing-Mix

Posted by The Giraffe on Friday 20th August, 2010

GPRS Recruitment breaks new ground again. Throughout 2011 we'll be incorporating QR codes for all Mobile job alerts. Yet to follow on the technology theme we unvail our job-feed Application during Q1 2011. Please scan and pass on our url QR code (attached)now.

Need a QR Generator for your smartphone or Android?...visit http://reader.kaywa.com/ and download one right now.

Have fun, pass it on, and check back soon for many exciting QR code developments.

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GPRS announces imminent release of the UK's benchmark Salary & Benefits Survey for the WBL, E2E & W2W Sectors

Posted by The Giraffe on Friday 20th August, 2010

With a firm anticipated release date of 10th September 2010. GPRS salary specialists have been 'crunching the numbers' behind the scenes for a number of weeks in preparation.

Yes it's finally here in just over a fortnight....the 2010-11 Salary & Benefits Survey for the WBL, E2E & W2W Sectors. To reserve your copy now to be personally mailed to you hot off the press contact your Market Sector Specialist.

Chris Errington chooses a bright future with the team at GPRS over other career development options. Welcome aboard Chris.

Posted by The Giraffe on Friday 20th August, 2010

Chris Errington joins the team at GPRS Recruitment to help with our expansion of our specialist Professional Services recruitment team in September 2010.

Chris another highly experienced recruitment professional has been placing robust mid-senior level technical professionals since the early 90’s. Commencing in UK & European businesses spanning such notable names in some households as Bentley, Jaguar, Rolls-Royce, Ferrari & McClaren.

Since back then Chris has had significant experience in many allied sectors including Material handling, Supply Chain, Aerospace, Process Packaging, FMCG, Construction....and of course the wider Engineering & Manufacturing disciplines. With well over a decade of experience Chris is a far cry from the ‘white-socks & gelled-hair brigade’ for one still so comparatively young.

We congratulate Chris on his recent choice of specialists with whom to develop his career. We wish him well, and pledge our absolute support for the bright future Chris has within our business.