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A&DC is a leading HR Consultancy providing expert solutions which allow our clients to Discover, Transform and Energise their intangible assets - their people.  Using leading edge processes and tools we provide a framework to help clients recruit, select, develop and retain talent.  As an authority in the field of Assessment and Development we follow best practice principles to deliver an effective solution which meets each individual client need. 

A&DC’s vision to be ‘Your Partner in People Strategy’ reflects our standing in the marketplace as a provider of full lifecycle HR Consultancy services and offers an intelligent and flexible approach to meeting the challenges of Assessment, Development and Talent Management. 

Managing Director of Site Managed Services.  Site Managed Services (SMS) is an associated specialist division of the right4staff Group which offers bespoke recruitment, staffing and workforce management provided on a client’s own premises, utilising a "Managed Service" delivery model.

MD and founder of Auridian Consulting. Ade has 19 years experience at the sharp end of IT. He has worked with many recruitment companies in a consultancy and training capacity.

Advorto is one of Europe's leading providers of on-demand, eRecruitment Management Solutions in the talent management market. Founded in 1998, Advorto uses a forward-thinking, consultative approach to assist organisations, such as Abbey, Blockbuster and Network Rail, to gain control over their recruitment process, allowing them to reduce time-to-hire and cost-per-hire.

Director at HB RIDA

Allison Boyce is a sourcing manager at Deloitte Services LP

Amelius Consulting offer Recruitment agency training and bespoke training in telesales, consultative selling, interviewing, negotiation, presentation skills, employment law, managing meetings, winning big business, management and leadership development. 

Andrew is the Managing Director of Aspen Partners International.  Aspen Partners is a leading specialist provider of corporate and RPO recruiting staff around the globe.

Recruitment Trainer & Coach Specialist in Motivation & Confidence Building.  Andy has been involved in Training for the last 9 years, initially with an International Recruitment Group.  He is enthusiastic and passionate about helping people to reach their full potential, focusing on motivational techniques to increase both control and confidence. He focuses on aligning individuals with their inner motivations to progress and develop, and then 'tunes up' the recruitment skills required to do the job well.

Andy Preston is a leading sales expert who specialises in working with recruitment companies to help them win profitable new business. Clients who've got results from working with Andy include Evolution Recruitment, SQ Computer Personnel, Antal International and Selecture Global. You can see more about Andy at www.andy-preston.com  You can also see more about Andy's bite-sized training for small businesses at www.salesbreakfast.net

Managing Director of Gencia Media Ltd who are developers of leading UK email marketing application LiveWireCampaign.co.uk. You can send a campaign to up to 50 recipients per month absolutely free (if you need to send more you can purchase a pay-as-you-go voucher).

The Association of Executive Search Consultants (AESC) is the worldwide professional association for retained executive search consulting firms.  The AESC promotes the highest professional standards in executive search through its industry recognized Code of Ethics and Professional Practice Guidelines.  The AESC also serves to broaden public understanding of the executive search process and acts as an advocate for the interests of its member firms.

The AESC also provides BlueSteps.com, a career management service for senior executives, and CorporateConnect, a service for HR professionals offering search industry information and access to the AESC membership directory.

Bill Boorman specializes in management development performance management and helping recruitment companies to achieve business growth. He has 22 years recruitment experience, 12 years as Training Director for a large UK recruitment Company. 

Bill Radin is a top-producing recruiter whose innovative books, tapes, CDs and training seminars have helped thousands of recruiting professionals and search consultants achieve peak performance and career satisfaction.

With an ever expanding client list of nearly 20 recruitment firms, BlueSky is the only consultancy focused on press relations and marketing for the recruitment industry. Whatever your specialty, we can provide solutions.

We believe that an in-depth knowledge of the industry is essential to understand the needs of our clients, communicate effectively with them and deliver quality results.  Directors Tracey Dunn and Adrian Barrett have extensive experience with some of the biggest names in recruitment under their belts, as well as many years working in PR and marketing.

Tracey worked as a consultant for financial recruiter HW Group, now part of Hudson, and went on to become their marketing manager. She was subsequently head of group communications for Balfour Beatty and an interim marketing manager for recruiter Parker Bridge, now part of Poolia. Adrian worked in recruitment for 12 years, in which time he managed offices of Michael Page and HW Group (now Hudson) before moving into marketing communications.

Bob Marshall, CPC, CIPC started in the search business in 1980 and became Western Regional Manager for over 60 Management Recruiters Intl. offices in 1984.  In 1986 he founded The Bob Marshall Group, International, training recruiters across the nation as well as the United Kingdom, Malta, and Cyprus.  In 1996, he returned to working a desk full time and continues to train recruiters.

CEO of Cheltenham-based Oriel Group which is a specialist provider of outsourced financial solutions and business services to recruitment agencies and SME's.

Brian Whitfield has owned two IT staffing firms over the last 14 years after beginning his career as a computer programmer. He sold his first firm during the previous boom and still ‘works a desk’ in addition to managing his company.

Bryan Edwards is Managing Director of ABC Training Solutions Ltd. He delivers a wide range of interpersonal /managerial/customer care workshops and designs tailored training materials for organisations.

Bullhorn is the global leader in on demand recruitment software, providing the only completely integrated front office solution for recruiting companies. Bullhorn's clients (1,400 companies and 14,000 users across the globe) achieve the highest placement rates in the industry. Delivered through software as a service, Bullhorn continually meets the evolving business needs of its clients.

Caitrin O'Sullivan is the Public Relations Coordinator at iCIMS, the third-largest provider of applicant tracking/talent acquisition solutions.  To learn more about how iCIMS can help your organisation, view a free online demo of the iCIMS Talent Platform.

Having been steeped in the TMT sector for over 20 years, Caroline has established a significant track record for senior appointments across the industry. Latterly, Caroline has used her wealth of experience to successfully recruit in the SME sector for clients ranging from £1m to £100m turnover. Well known throughout the industry for her excellent reputation and commitment to deliver, Caroline is extremely experienced in selecting suitable candidates and will handle your executive search personally.

Carolyn B. Thompson is the President of Training Systems, Inc., a customized training and HR consulting company that helps small and medium sized organizations enhance their ability to recruit, inspire and retain quality employees and improve performance through training. Training Systems, Inc. also provides training design and facilitation services to training companies and the training departments of large companies, and professional and trade associations. Carolyn B. Thompson is an experienced trainer and consultant knowledgeable in the challenging area of employee recruitment, inspiration and retention. She’s written and published a book entitled "Creating Highly Interactive Training Quickly and Effectively", wrote the books "Interviewing Techniques for Managers" and "The Leadership Genius of George W Bush" and is currently writing a book about on-the-job training, and co-authoring another book about using biblical principles to manage employees.

Dr. Charles Handler is the president and founder of www.RocketHire.com. Throughout his career he has specialized in developing effective, legally defensible employee selection systems. He has taken what he learned developing recruiting and selection solutions for a wide variety of organizations and combined it with his love of technology to help clients develop new models for employee selection. His philosophy focuses on combining sound science with innovation and practicality to create online hiring strategies that provide ROI and demonstrate the value of human capital. Charles has a Master's and Ph.D. in Industrial Psychology. 

''Winner of the Recruiter Awards for Training & Development (twice) and the National Training Awards Yorkshire & Humber. Chris is Training Director of 'The 8020 Training Company'. Providing bespoke turnkey solutions from Induction training through to coaching senior management, contingency and retained in a wide range of vertical markets for over 16 years. If you're looking to sustainably improve your sales conversion ratios, then we can help you get the balance right. Right People, Right Tools, Right Processes, Right Technology.

Christine Jenner is a Partner in the employment department of Davies Arnold Cooper LLP.

Glen Cathey has more than thirteen years of experience in the recruiting and staffing industry and currently serves as the vice president of recruiting for Kforce, a large publicly traded staffing firm. When not working a recruiting desk, he has recruited, trained, and managed highly productive teams of up to 24 recruiters responsible for 700 – 900 hires per year. In his current role, he trains hundreds of information technology, finance and accounting, clinical research, and health information management recruiters nationally who are responsible for over 10,000 hires annually. In his personal time, he is the author of www.booleanblackbelt.com where he shares his thoughts and theories.

CM Murray LLP is a City-focused specialist employment and partnership law boutique. Our core areas of work are in the financial services, recruitment and legal sectors.  We act for employers and senior executives, particularly in relation to Executive exits and appointments, Team moves & High value discrimination claims.  The common thread through all of our work is the high-value, complex nature of the matters on which we are instructed and the strategic and highly personalised level of support provided to our clients.

ContractorUmbrella was formed in 2002 to offer an employment service to those individuals who do not want the hassle of running their own Limited Company. We remove the administrative burden and simply require you to submit your timesheet and expense claims on a weekly/monthly basis – it really is as simple as that!

Dan has a PGCE, and has worked in the field of HR for both Marks and Spencer plc and Eurostar.

He is a Master Practitioner and Trainer of NLP, a coach certified by the CIPD and Oxford School of Coaching and mentoring and accredited to use Belbin, MBTI and Firo-B self development tools.

 He is an accredited Louise L Hay trainer and life coach, and a Reiki Master.

Dave is responsible for Alexander Mann Solution's global people strategy, positioning the company for future global expansion and ensuring the success of the company's international client relationships.  David joined AMS in February 2007 having spent 10 years with IBM in a variety of roles, including HR Director for the UK, Ireland and South Africa.

Barracuda Digital is a search marketing consultancy based in central London. They can help you make your website more search engine friendly and attract qualified visitors from all the leading search engines.

David Shindler is the author of “Learning to Leap, a Guide to Being More Employable”, HotHiveBooks.  An experienced coach, consultant and facilitator, David helps people at any life stage accelerate their employability.  He also owns the Employability Hub, an online forum where people share and learn about employability issues and runs the Learning to Leap group on LinkedIn.

David Steel is Research Director at Exacta Research, a recruitment research company who provide a candidate research service to help clients find the best possible candidates across all sectors and levels.

Dean Gollings is a recruitment trainer who specialises in the professional recruitment sector. This article is extracted from his e-book ‘How To Be A Great Recruitment Manager – Leadership Tips, Strategies and Horror Stories From  the Recruitment Frontline, which is available to download at www.deangollings.co.uk

Denise Walker FREC is a business professional, with 23 years’ experience of business, sales, people management and process management, gained in the Recruitment Industry. Through her manaDenise Walker has 23 years' experience in the recruitment industry, as a recruitment consultant, manager, owner, MD, business consultant and trainer.  She helps business owner/managers to maximise sales, profitability and performance through bespoke business consultancy, training services and interim management.  She also runs occasional development events for REC and Cranfield University.  Previous experience includes setting up RITE for REC and running her own recruitment business for 12 years before selling it in an MBO.

A recruitment professional with over 10 years experience across a diverse range of industries. Currently the Talent Acquisition Director of a company operating in construction across 16 countries, he is responsible for recruitment process and employer branding. He has previously worked in-house for multi-national corporations, and before that was an agency recruiter for several years.

As international training and performance development specialists to the professional recruitment sector, Lander Associates is perfectly placed to work with you and your team to achieve the best results to put you above your competitors.

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Gareth is a highly successful recruitment professional with a background in new start ups across a variety of sectors. Gareth heads up the Permanent division of Top Gear Recruitment Ltd, one of the norths premier supply chain recruiters. Gareth and his team currently place senior and board level candidates across a wide variety of Logistics, Retail, FMCG and Industrial Clients. Gareth and the Top Gear are the recruiters of choice across many blue chip clients as boasting a portfolio of solutions aimed at offering the same services on a shoe-string budget for their loyal and growing SME customers.

Gary Burnes is a VAT Senior Manager at Saffery Champness Chartered Accountants. He has a specialist interest in all VAT issues impacting on recruitment companies and the particular issues arising from withdrawal of the VAT staff hire concession for employment businesses. Senior VAT Manager within the VAT Team at Saffery Champness

General Manager of Recruitment Counsellors a specialist homeworking organisation who provide a franchise opportunity for experience recruitment consultants offering autonomy and a genuine opportunity to retain between 70 – 90% of fee income

Set your next conference or AGM alight with sales author and motivational speaker Gavin Ingham. To find out more about how we can help you to boost sales motivation and results with cutting-edge sales products and programmes visit www.gaviningham.com now. Go to GavinIngham.com now to read our motivational blog, view free sales training videos and join our Sales Success newsletter absolutely free. Gavin Ingham is a sales author & speaker and you can get his free Sales Success newsletter at www.gaviningham.net.

Managing Director of The Recruitment Training Company, has over 18 years recruitment experience, gained in both Australia and the UK.

Head of Interim Management Practice

Enhance Media are a specialist online recruitment research, strategy, training and advertising agency. We conduct the largest piece of online recruitment research in Europe and combine the results with our other research (including RIO delivered in conjunction with the REC) to deliver specialist online recruitment strategy and advice to clients. In addition, Enhance are the only company in the UK accredited to deliver online recruitment training to a standard such that Enhance Media training provides each delegate with a national BTEC Level 2 qualification in online recruitment. Enhance also deliver highly targeted online recruitment advertising to job boards, search engines and social media.

Glen Cathey has more than thirteen years of experience in the recruiting and staffing industry and currently serves as the vice president of recruiting for Kforce, a large publicly traded staffing firm. When not working a recruiting desk, he has recruited, trained, and managed highly productive teams of up to 24 recruiters responsible for 700 – 900 hires per year. In his current role, he trains hundreds of information technology, finance and accounting, clinical research, and health information management recruiters nationally who are responsible for over 10,000 hires annually. In his personal time, he is the author of www.booleanblackbelt.com where he shares his thoughts and theories.

Graham Ruddick is Managing Director of online recruitment business Talent Direct and runs a digital consultancy working with a variety of other businesses in recruitment. He has worked in senior strategy, marketing and e-commerce roles at NEC Group, Emap, Trinity Mirror and Reed Exhibitions.

Founder of Talent Revolt, the UK focused split fee exchange which allows recruiters to work together on difficult searches.

Managing Director - Travis Research Europe Ltd who formed Travis Research in 1992 which operates from offices in Tring, Hertfordshire.  Travis Research has a team of 7 Researchers and business is gained through recommendation, many of their clients have used their research capabilities since the company began.  Due to the demand from our existing clients requiring research training, Ms Travis now undertakes training programs on a regular basis.  She is also joint Chairman for the Executive Research Association. 

Heather Townsend is the founder and driving force behind The Efficiency Coach. The Efficiency Coach offers coaching and consultancy to SME's, Entrepreneurs, Professionals and Startup Businesses. Heather's blog - The Thoughts And Ideas Of The Efficiency Coach is highly regarded and much read. Follow Heather on twitter for regular efficiency tips.

If you'd like to know how a life coach can help a candidate build their confidence at interviews then please email me with your query.

Helen is Managing Director of HB RIDA, an initiative she set up with James Caan which focuses on advisory and consultancy services within the recruitment sector. These include a unique set of development programmes to assist recruitment business owners to grow and develop their own recruitment firms and if required, to lead them to a successful exit once certain business levels and milestones have been achieved.

Helen is an experienced Recruitment Professional with working knowledge as well as demonstrable expertise of the Recruitment Industry. She is well known for being the Acting Chief Executive of the trade body that supports and represents the recruitment industry, The Recruitment and Employment Confederation (REC). As well as holding posts such as Executive Director of RITE, Helen has worked at all levels in the recruitment industry from Consultant to Director.

Adele is best known for forming online recruitment solutions business HotLizard in May 1999 and is responsible for developing the business to a £2M turnover and to the successful acquisition by the Aspire Media Group in January 2009. HotLizard has worked with over 400 clients over the last 11 years, including Telegraph Jobs, Pulse and Global Radio.

Hugo Pickering runs a corporate communications consultancy specialising in online recruitment communications and owns Online Recruiter, providing web services to recruitment businesses. He specialises in search engine optimisation services. His wider business interests are aimed at supporting the marketing efforts of businesses in a number of industries and markets.

Inspira UK provides intelligent HR solutions to a cross-section of human capital and brand related issues. For more information please visit www.inspira-uk.com.  For media information please contact Jacinta Francis at Miranda Leslau public relations & consultancy on 020 7263 5618/0797 793 9116 or via email at prconsultancy@mirandaleslau.com

The IT Job Board works with the UK and Europe's leading businesses and IT recruitment agencies to offer thousands and thousands of live permanent and contract IT jobs throughout the UK and Europe everyday!

ITEC Systems has been developing and supporting Itris recruitment software since 1998. As a company, we continue to grow and now stand at 23 employees - over 75% of whom are involved in development, technical support or training roles within the company. We invest in our continually upskilling and developing our own staff, the most recent example of which is putting our training team through CIPD accreditation

James Osborne is the founding director of Innergy Ltd
(www.innergy.co.uk), an award-winning consultancy and training
organisation.  James has over 14 years recruitment and HR experience at
senior level and currently works with some of the UK's leading
recruitment agencies enabling them to "improve performance, increase
profitability and embrace positive change".

Beyond Interactive is the first and only specialist full-service online recruitment advertising agency outside of London. Pioneers from our very inception, we look upon digital advertising somewhat differently to others and it’s our transparency that really sets us apart. To our clients, online recruitment holds no mysteries and we advise them to make clear and confident decisions about their recruitment strategy.

James Whitelock is a seasoned online recruitment expert, working for Vedior, Randstad and now as Digital Strategy Manager for Empresaria Group plc.  At Empresaria, James is responsible for designing and deploying an online strategy for the Group and act as a point of contact for the operating companies on all online, digital and eBusiness matters.  Empresaria Group is an international staffing group with specialist temporary and permanent recruitment, training and process outsourcing operations worldwide. The company has achieved rapid growth through investing in existing businesses, new start ups and management led acquisitions.

Jamie Panter is a Founding Partner of City Therapy Partners, a Cognitive Hypnotherapy Practice based in The City, created by Professionals for Professionals in order to help you progress to the next level both personally and professionally.

Jill Mytton is a Recruitment Commercial Risk and Compliance Expert. She has worked in senior management and director level positions in the recruitment industry for 20 years has a law degree, MBA and is a member of ICSA as well as being a Fellow of the Institute of Recruitment Professionals. Before setting up her own consultancy business she was Head of Legal Services for a large independent recruitment company T/O £350 million. She is Lead Consultant at REC Advice Plus.

Passionate about sharing best practice within the recruitment industry, and enthusiastic about increasing performance and productivity, Jo Gregory has been helping recruitment companies to grow for over 12 years.

Since 2005 John Toppin has worked as a specialist independent advisor to owner managed people businesses on how to change and operate their businesses more successfully. This comes after over 20 years as Finance Director, Commercial Director and Chief Executive in marketing, creative and professional services firms.

He has first hand knowledge of how to grow and sell these businesses and understands the issues they will encounter – helping his clients to anticipate and circumvent potential problems. These can include staff motivation and performance, disputes between shareholders, client procurement and owner aspirations and frustrations as well as financial and commercial matters.

John is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountant in England and Wales and an SME Funding Advisor.

Jonathan has an extensive background in the Search Industry and founded Recruitment Store in August 2005. He delivers Recruitment Training Solutions across the UK, EU & Middle East and has facilitated the application of learnt skills for 100’s of Recruitment Consultants & Managers to enable them to achieve their goals.

Julie used to manage the Psychological Testing Centre at the British Psychological Society and was responsible for setting and maintaining standards in Psychological Testing. She now manages the Consultingtools partnerships with academic institutions, trains and advises in the use of psychometrics and regularly writes about the psychology of fame, celebrity, entrepreneurship and personality for magazine, journal and blog articles.

Katherine is MD of Keeping HR Simple - on a mission to keep HR simple for businesses everywhere.  She is passionate about making sure that HR and employment law are made accessible to business owners as well as ensuring they recruit the right staff for their business in the first place. 

Kelly Magowan has been specialising in the arena of Human Resource Management, Recruitment and Career Counselling for close to 12 years. In 2008 Kelly launched Six Figures, the premium job site for $100K+ jobs, a site created to provide job seekers with a trusted online source to find six figure opportunities across all industries and professions.

Kes Thygesen is one of the founding partners of Inovaz, the recruitment technology company behind OVIA (Online Video Interviewing Application) and Jobium (a video and location-based job board platform).  Using structured video questions answered using a webcam, recruiters are able to screen candidates based on soft-skills without the need to interview in real-time. With the belief that video interviewing should be the natural progression over phone-screening, Inovaz will continue to pursue its mission to shape the role of video in recruitment.

Laura is AIRS Executive Director of Global Training

As an experienced research expert with over 15 years of experience, Laura serves as AIRS Executive Director of Global Training.  She leads AIRS sourcing research and course development.  With an extensive and diversified global recruiting background, Laura is a frequent presenter at national and international industry conferences. She has made appearances at Onrec, AESC, ERE and Kennedy Information. Since joining AIRS in 2000, Laura has trained numerous recruiters and corporate clients from many different industries around the world.

Laura began her recruiting career as a researcher for executive search firms working on international and domestic projects. Previously, she also worked as a Recruiter for J.D. Edwards in Denver, Colorado and as a Technical Recruiter for EMDS in Brussels, Belgium. Laura received her Bachelor’s degree from Colorado State University-Pueblo and also studied extensively in Tübingen, Germany.

Snow Valley is the UK's leading provider of e-commerce services. We work with top retailers like LK Bennett, Clarks Shoes, Majestic Wine and Liverpool FC, delivering integrated e-commerce solutions through e-commerce consultancy, design, hosting, online marketing and recruitment services. Snow Valley Resourcing is an e-commerce specialist recruitment service available to online retailers who are adding talent to their teams.

Founder and Consultant at Link Humans, Laurent lectures at Business Schools and Universities (ESSEC uk, Reims Management School, Rouen Business School…) on how to use Social Media and Social Networks.  He gives more than 20 talks every year and has run more than 40 Linkedin and Twitter workshops.  Laurent writes articles about Social Media and Social Networks and has been quoted in the press.

Louise Fernandes is the Professional Support Lawyer in the Employment Department at Field Fisher Waterhouse LLP

Managing Director of UK Recruiter.  UK Recruiter is the information resource for the UK Recruitment community.

Managing Director of S.A.L.T. (Europe) Ltd, London’s First Licensed Sandler Sales Institute.  Marcus is a seller who trains not a trainer who teaches selling. 20 years in sales, 10 in recruitment, he’s made almost every mistake possible. He helps recruiters who are frustrated by downward fee-pressures, prospects who won’t commit, refuse to pay retainers or take too long making hiring decisions.

CEO of Calverton Factors Limited an independent Invoice Finance company.

Mark Whitby is a coach, consultant and trainer who helps UK recruiters to maximise their performance.

Director of Natural Training, a company that focuses purely on providing fresh, relevant and highly practical sales and communication skills training with an emphasis on developing your brilliant natural potential. Natural Training runs open workshops and company specific in-house training across the UK.

AIRS is a market leading provider of recruitment training and technology, focussed on Candidate Sourcing. Having been established for over 10 years in the US, we have recently opened a UK office and have successfully adapted our solutions for the UK market. 

Co-owner of TechTrak, a telephone names sourcing firm based in the U.S. Maureen has been telephone names sourcing since 1996, having stumbled into this arcane business after twenty plus years of selling small businesses. She couldn’t be more pleased and considers herself to be one of the most fortunate people on the planet.

Head of Resourcing for 2bhr Ltd. Specialising in headhunting at mid to senior level in Retail & FMCG. Mel's background is pure search (headhunting), with some time spent in an advertising agency focussing on assessment and selection before joining 2bhr to set up the Resourcing division.

Before joining right4staff in March 2003, Melissa had 10 years experience with the global recruitment and staffing organisation, Kelly Services. Progressing from Consultant to Regional Operations Director, Melissa has extensive experience of managing multi-site regions, major account implementation and management together with the design and delivery of temporary and permanent recruitment projects

Merlin Ward is a copywriter and you can find out more about him by visiting www.merlinward.com

Managing Director of Glover Daniels. Glover Daniels is established as one of the leading recruitment to recruitment executive specialists, offering a totally confidential and consultative approach to senior recruitment within the sector

Michael Phelps is a former financial services recruiter and LinkedIn subject matter expert for a Fortune 500 recruiting company.  He now works in his family business, Phelps Research Services, with his father and sister as the VP of Research and a LinkedIn Trainer.  He helps clients understand their competitive landscape and their prospects’ buying habits through business research, training and social media. Michael has won multiple awards for best practice sharing and training.

The product Quick-Recruit uses .Net technology and is delivered as SaaS; moving forward i-BR want to offer the complete "solution" to recruitment companies, a "one stop shop".   Also we are continuing to provide free technical and market information sheets written for all via our newsletter and website.

MESO Marketing provides marketing, business planning and growth services to recruitment companies, enabling them to raise their profile, drive new sales and reach new levels of profitability.   MESO was formed in May 2010 by Mike Ellingham, a marketing professional with more than 17 years expertise as a manager and director for some of the UK’s leading specialist recruitment brands.   MESO can undertake specific projects and campaigns, such as launching new brands, creating more effective websites, raising awareness through e-newsletters/PR and obtaining feedback through customer market research.  Mike also acts as a retained part-time Marketing Director - offering small and medium sized companies with the benefits of an experienced and successful senior marketing professional for a cost effective monthly rate.   

Mike is Managing Director of Web-Based Recruitment.

Mike Walmsley is well known as an international recruitment trainer and presenter of the world’s largest range of recruitment-specific videos.

Founded in 1937, Mishcon de Reya is a law firm with offices in London and New York offering a wide range of legal services to companies and individuals. They have 15 years of experience advsing and litigating for the recruitment industry.

Managing Director of The Internet Group Ltd (TIG). TIG is an award winning managed service provider (MSP) and a Microsoft Gold Partner. The company offers professional and reliable IT services that reduce costs, dramatically improve efficiency and boost profitability for businesses of all sizes.

Monster is the leading provider of online careers and recruitment resources committed to connecting organisations with individuals.

For individuals thinking about a new job, new career, or a new direction, Monster helps you explore the possibilities and find the opportunities that are right for you.

For employers looking to recruit the most qualified candidates, Monster offers innovative technology and superior services to streamline your entire hiring process.

Neil Johnston is a Senior Associate in the Employment and Pensions Group at Field Fisher Waterhouse LLP.

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Nick Woodward is the Commercial Director of Etz Timesheet Solutions.

 Etz takes the time out of timesheets. With automated, powerful and easy-to-use software Etz saves recruitment agency back office costs by up to 70%. In just 60 seconds Etz can turn a candidate timesheet into a client invoice.

Nido Marketing are a B2B Telemarketing Company who help their clients grow through intelligent, targeted telemarketing to key decision makers.

OraRuth Rother is Director and co-founder of HireMatch.Me, an innovative and new online job matching and assessment solution for employers, which aims to bring recruitment and expert candidate profiling into the digital age.

Drawing on a wealth of expertise accrued from over 20 years in relationship and team management, international commerce and the communication disciplines, Ms Rother provides employers with a swift, effective candidate-sifting tool and a specialised compass for both jobseekers and companies to navigate the jobs market to find that “perfect fit”.

Osborne Brook have been creating sites that communicate well for the last twelve years.  Well written content and standards-compliance are their biggest priority.

Paris Sheppard is managing director of InsideOut, specialists in back office services for the recruitment sector.

With over 20 years recruitment experience and the last few years being heavily involved in using social media, Peter now advises employers on how to use social media for both internal and external talent management initiatives, as well as "more traditional" on-line recruitment activities ranging from attraction to measuring results.

Servicing over 100 recruitment agencies across the country, PH Media Group is the country’s leading supplier of audio marketing

Director of Optima Corporate Finance

At Adira, a great looking website is just the start. Adira deliver results by setting measurable objectives and developing a strategy to achieve them. This sets Adira apart from the average web designer and makes a solution from Adira a very powerful tool in the arsenal of any company.

Founder of UK Recruiter, the information resource for recruiters and recruitment in the UK.

Recruitment Dad is an experienced recruitment professional with in excess of 15 years service in the industry. Having been very successful as a recruiter, managing consultant, billing manager and senior regional manager for some of the most successful recruitment companies in the world; He has experienced first hand exactly what it is like, and more importantly, what it takes to be successful – consistently. Most recently, he has specialised purely in training, learning and development and has been involved in the development of all levels of staff from resourcer through to director level with innovative training interventions, coaching and complete cultural change programmes across whole businesses. It will also comfort you to know that this has been to a variety of different market sectors and all to high acclaim. All this means that you can have the peace of mind to know that Recruitment Dad’s advice is sound, reliable and most of all it works.

Manager of the Internal Recruitment Division at Parker Bridge, the finance, banking and office support recruiter.

Partner at Saffery Champness and a member of its Professional & Consultancy Services Group, a group specialising in advising recruitment businesses.

Richard Smith is a director of RKH Consulting, an independent recruitment consultancy specialising in the appointment of Sales, Marketing, New Media and Administration professionals.  Away from RKH Consulting, Richard is a Social Media enthusiast, budding entrepreneur and online marketing strategist with experience in web design, sales training and coaching after being trained by some of the world's experts.

Pilat's unique fusion of consultancy and technology sharpens our clients' competitive edge by delivering excellent HR practice. Uniquely, Pilat not only advises on how best to run HRM processes, but also provides the feedback and technology solutions to turn theory into practice.

Ross started his professional recruitment career in London at the beginning of 1989. Since then he has worked in the UK and three cities across Australia. Known as the ‘the recruiter’s recruitment expert’ Ross now runs his own business as a speaker, trainer and coach, based in Melbourne, Australia.

Chemistry Recruitment are changing the way people experience recruitment. Pioneering a recruitment process with the CIPD and BPS proven to be over 75% accurate at predicting future performance of candidates, chemistry believe recruitment businesses should be paid on performance and as a result put their fees at risk dependent on a 6 month review after placement.

Managing Director of Recruitment Juice

Director of SJ Beale HR Consultant

Set up xpanse in 2007 in response to what she saw as a need for more bespoke recruitment training. Sarah has over 20 years industry experience and has trained, coached and developed staff in many recruitment and blue chip companies up and down the UK.

Sarah Callery is Managing Director of Intuition Global. Sarah has over 12 years experience in the recruitment industry both in the UK and internationally. She has a broad understanding of the complete recruitment lifecycle predominately employer branding, applicant tracking systems and pre-selection assessments. She works closely with a number of ATS providers in EMEA and APAC integrating assessments helping organisations streamline their recruitment processes and reduce recruitment costs.

Scott Beardsley is co-founder and vice president of recruitment services at Q4B, a recruitment solutions and consulting firm specializing in recruitment process outsourcing based in Texas. He developed the processes behind Q4B's recruitment solutions. He has 16 years of experience and is an author, speaker, and consultant.

Scott Love gives recruiters a step by step system that anyone can learn.  If others can be successful in this business, so can you.  As a consultant and trainer to the industry, Scott has helped organizations get better margins by improving their operational performance and client development strategies, and has helped recruiters to master the business and get better production with more peace of mind.

Simon is the Founder and Managing Director of Heywood and has worked within the recruitment sector for more than 14 years. In addition to his work at Heywood, Simon was a co-founder of Supporta Plc (SOR), a support service business that successfully listed on the Alternative Investment Market (AIM) in February 2001.  Simon regularly attends and contributes to the REC's Recruitment to Recruitment Sector Group.

Simon Meth is a Corporate Recruiter & Career Counselor at San Diego Corporate Recruiter. 

Simon North, co-founder of Position Ignition, one of the UK’s leading career consulting companies specialising in helping individuals and organisations with their career development, management and direction. Simon is an expert in recruiting, HR and career transition.

Sital Ruparelia works with six-figure professionals who want to be more effective and achieve their career goals. This can involve help in earning more money, transition or promotion, working less or changing to find a more meaningful and enjoyable career.

Corporate trainer and coach.

Stephen O’Donnell FREC, has been in the recruitment industry for 21 years. Having run 2 fast growing recruitment agencies, in 2000 he founded AlljobsUK.com as a comprehensive portal to every recruitment resource for candidates in the UK. In 2001 AlljobsUK.com devised, and continue to host, the National Online Recruitment Awards (NORAs).

Described by the US National Association of Personnel Services as possessing "the most in-depth knowledge of search and recruitment in industry history", lecturer/trainer on five continents, Steven Finkel is the producer of many excellent training products (www.stevefinkel.com).  He is also the author of acclaimed hardbound book "Breakthrough!", considered to be the definitive work for experienced recruitment consultants.  Available and reviewed on AmazonUS or through his website, and highly recommended.  Contact directly (preferred) at (US) 314-991-3177.

Lisa Scales is Co-Founder and Managing Director of Talent on View, a technology business providing video, social collaboration and community software to recruitment businesses so they can connect to and capitalise on the intellectual and creative content of employee and customer conversations. Lisa has over 15 years experience working in the recruitment industry in a variety of senior roles and also has client side experience of working for a large law firm in the city in a HR role.

Tom Atkinson is the Managing Director of Cash Simply

BlueSky is a marketing and PR consultancy that specialises in the recruitment, HR, business education and professional services sectors.  We offer a wide range of marketing communications services depending on the requirements of individual clients, from PR support on specific projects to acting as an outsourced marketing department, providing advice or input at any time.

Trish Newman is an award winning international recruitment expert.  Her experience ranges from temp consultant at Manpower (UK) to Operations Director at Kelly Services (UK) to CEO and President of $600m global staffing company, Westaff, inc. She's a FIRP, a certified business and career coach and a member of the Institute of Directors.

UK Recruiter is the information resource for the UK Recruitment community.

Principal of Warren Kemp's Recruitment Matters. Warren's experience in recent years in a management consultancy, training, coaching and hands-on capacity has meant working with recruiters in a variety of arenas.

William Buist is founder of the Societal Web and runs a consultancy specialising in helping businesses to utilize social media to deliver business results through cooperation and collaboration.