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Eve embarked upon her career in recruitment some 15 years back, undergoing a ‘baptism of fire’ within the industrial sector. A keen advocate of best practice experienced during those fledgling recruitment times, Eve has built upon these robust foundations, perpetually crafting her skills.

Swiftly progressing to a position within one of the UK’s top specialist education recruiters, this move was the start of a flourishing career that was to span the 12 years that followed. Eve was no stranger to promotion during her time with this key player, with a meritocratic rise through the ranks, from Senior Consultant, Regional & Divisional Team Leadership roles, and latterly ascending to Partnership Manager.

As award recipient of “Consultant of the year” and nominee of “Manager of the year” with this long-term employer she was eager for a new challenge during early 2011; it was at this juncture that Eve accepted the position of Consumer Marketing Team Manager with a top-tier specialist search agency, a key player within the FMCG sector.

Eve leads our Sales & Marketing recruitment team, focussing on FMCG and consumer durables. Her methodical, tenacious, and professional approach sits well against a backdrop of considerable tenure and experience within the professional recruitment arena. Ever passionately focussed on exceeding the expectations of her clients and candidates, this is an exciting challenge for Eve.

“With the groups expansion into the development of specialist permanent recruitment software systems for talent management and back-office well underway now, we anticipate the appointment of a Technical Director within the group. In addition to a further 3 specialist permanent consultants this year” stated UK MD Tim Burns

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Like many, Kirsty didn’t enter the world of the working with the express intention of embarking upon a career within the recruitment sector. Following a succesful career in sales Kirsty assumed responsibility for the development and expansion of out-sourced labour provision for a key regional player across the commercial sector.

During the ensuing 4 years of helping clients find the right candidates and candidates develop their careers, Kirsty was no stranger to promotion. Thriving in her key role within the company’s most successful division, she became the recipient of several new business awards.

Bringing passion, a stronger than before drive to succeed, and heaps of experience in best-fit results to the team at GPRS, the futures bright for Kirsty for sure.

Kirsty focusses on permanent placements within the Work Based Learning sector across the Midlands region. ]]> http://www.gprs.uk.com/?p=new/news/?id=43 Fri, 27 May 2011 13:18:12 +0100 The Giraffe
(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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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. ]]>