Yolk Recruitment - Bucking the Trend
31/01/12
Yolk Recruitment launched in January 2009 at the height of the recession and when the job market was at its lowest. The timing was a conscious decision, in order to succeed, Yolk and it’s people had to build the right foundations based on personal relationships and with immaculate ethics and working practice.
Using our professional experience in both recruitment and sales to setup a dedicated sales recruitment agency, the first in South Wales. This approach differentiated us from other agencies and despite the tough economic climate we had a successful first year.
At the start of 2010 we moved into larger premise and took on three new employees. We knew the key to our success was our previous experience in sales so we only recruited those with professional experience in their field. Soon our clients were so happy with our results that they started to offer us other roles such Marketing Recruitment and IT recruitment. Initially we turned these roles down as they were outside our field of expertise and we did not feel we could offer our clients the same level of service they had begun to associate us with.
We then took the decision to diversify our services and brought on board a specialist marketing recruiter. This was a big step for us as it meant we were putting our reputation on the line but it ultimately proved successful. We expanded our services further offering business support, HR and contact centre recruitment.
Midway through 2011, due to exponential growth, we had to relocate to another new office. This was never part of our business plan but sometimes in order to succeed, you have got to be adaptable to change. At the start of his year we had another recruitment drive bringing the team up to 16 and launched our IT recruitment division.
We take recruiting for ourselves just are seriously as we do for our client base and our people are our strength. Growing businesses need employees who use their own initiative to contribute to the growth of a company. We recruited people that not only had the skills and experience we required but understood our values and saw the potential of joining a fast growing company. One of the most rewarding parts of the last three years has been seeing our colleagues grow achieve their goals and knowing that we contributed in our own little way.
So we start the year on an upward curve, bucking the trend with the next step to open an office number two in Bristol.
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Written by Jonathan Bennett+
