As Business Manager at Personnel Placements I support Keith
and Julie Hanson, the business owners with the day to day running of the Agency
as well as being a hands on recruiter. I’ve been part of the team at “PP” - as
the Agency is affectionately known within the local business community - for
the past 12 years so have seen many changes along the way! Starting as a
permanent consultant, I have also managed the commercial temporary desk and
moved into my present role 3 years ago. I’m currently training with 6
colleagues to climb the 3 Peaks in August to raise funds for the local hospital
and so am climbing hills, walking coastal paths and running up the many flights
of stairs we have in the office in a bid to finish the challenge in 24 hours!
Personnel Placements is a generalist Agency that was
established by Keith and Julie in 1986, so we are in our 26th year!
Initially supplying secretarial and administration staff we now cover all
sectors and are the area’s largest independent Recruitment Agency, supplying
temporary, interim and permanent staff.
Salisbury is a great place to work, full of beautiful
historic buildings including our Cathedral – with the tallest spire in England
and a real mix of large, blue chip companies as well as smaller, niche businesses
that we recruit for.
Our success is down to having a team that is passionate
about what they are doing and who work hard at building lasting relationships
with our clients. We really get to know our clients, many of who started out as
candidates! Salisbury is a small place and our reputation has been built on
honesty and ability to adapt and be flexible when needed as well as supporting
the local community as a whole. Not every business is the same and our ability
to tailor our service for each, individual client has given us the edge.
Recent involvement in local Business Events, Networking
Groups and social networking has helping to increase our brand awareness and
also established connections with other businesses that may not need our
services currently but who recommend us to others, send candidates our way and
generally take an interest in what we have to say.
As the industry has changed we have also had to look at new
ways to add value and be more competitive without compromising on the quality
of our customer service. We provide an HR & Training Advice service to
complement the recruitment side of the business and use TEAM as a way of being
able to recruit at senior levels and for more specialist or technical
positions. Keith also runs local HR Forums which give support to stand alone HR
Professionals and we are using our new website blog to provide free, helpful
advice to job seekers and businesses alike.
Personnel Placements is one of TEAMs founder members and
Keith currently chairs the TEAM Executive and Specialist Recruitment Divisions,
one of the fastest growing divisions within the TEAM network. We were
absolutely thrilled to be voted TEAM member of the year by our fellow members
earlier this year.
We appreciate the value of TEAM and have worked with several
members to not only supply staff outside of the area but also supply clients
locally. We work frequently with agencies nearby, such as Karen and the Team at
Personnel Selection Andover, Bev at White Horse Employment Trowbridge and Liz
at Dovetail in Bournemouth and we’ve also utilised specialist recruiters such
as Focus Select – Ross and Asad have helped us on more than one occasion to find
IT Professionals for local Salisbury businesses. We have also been able to use
supply both temp and permanent staff to clients in London via the TEAM network.
Benefits are not only financial, attending Regional TEAM meetings, sharing
ideas and just using each other as “a sounding board” has been really useful.
Our ethos has always been a simple one – we work with
honesty and integrity, and we have found that all TEAM members we work with do
so with the same level of trust and cooperation.
It works because we talk to people and get to know the TEAM
consultants we work with as well as we would our client. So I hope to be
talking to even more of you very soon!
