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App leads to re-brand of recruiter’s division

The stunning success of a national recruiter’s app has helped prompt it to re-brand its Internal Recruitment Division as the department experiences rapid growth. Berry Recruitment, headquartered in St Albans with branches across the country is to change the name to Professional Services division. It now has a team of more than 20 that recruit...
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Recruiting the Recruiter – putting the band back together

Almost 20 years after a trio of recruiters forged an award-winning team, they are back together after two of them recruited the third. Carol Grainger, Karen Grillo and Romy Palmer were a triumphant triumvirate in the early 2000s and have now put the band back together at Berry Recruitment. After their initial success Romy left...
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Wishing you a Berry Merry Christmas

We’d like to take this opportunity to wish all our clients, workers and followers a very Merry Christmas! This Christmas, instead of sending cards, Berry Recruitment Group will be donating £500 to Crisis, to help them support people facing homelessness and housing uncertainty this Christmas and year-round. Crisis offers vital services across the UK, including...
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Dial ‘R’ to Recruit; is phone communication becoming a lost art?

The new Head of Training at Berry Recruitment Group believes talking on the phone is becoming a lost art. Victoria Bari says those entering the industry often prefer emails and messaging, which are less effective than talking to people. She is urging the newer consultants at Berry Recruitment Group – which is headquartered in St...
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Jennie’s unstoppable rise

Award-winning Jennie Hallsworth has been promoted at Wild Recruitment in Portsmouth. Almost 20 years after walking into a recruitment branch looking for a job with responsibility, Jennie Hallsworth is now running it. In 2006 she visited Wild Recruitment in Portsmouth and ended up working there. She took to it like a duck to water and...
An un-FORE-gettable awards evening and conference

Berry Recruitment Group’s annual conference and awards ceremony was held this year at the exclusive Centurion Golf Club in Hertfordshire. Consultants came from across England and Wales to attend the event at which trophies were presented. All brands within BRG were represented: Berry Recruitment, Wild Recruitment, First Recruitment Services and Wild Berry Associates. Managing director...
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Training is more than a one-time event

BRG Training Manager, Victoria Bari, discusses the benefits and importance of consistent training for employees as we celebrate Learning at Work week. The majority of companies have a standard introductory training process for new starters, with additional on-the-job instruction depending on the role. Yet there are clear advantages in going beyond this and encouraging structured...
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Frustrated job seekers flock to fair

Job seekers unable to find work by applying directly to companies swamped a recruitment team at a recent jobs fair in Milton Keynes. Berry Recruitment had to boost its staff at the event to deal with the number of people looking for work. Despite many vacancies in the economy, some people find it hard to...
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Wild promotes Danielle to Manager

Wild Recruitment in Portsmouth has promoted Danielle McNally to Divisional Manager for Driving – ten years after she called the agency about a tele-sales job. Danielle was interviewed for the role she wanted but staff at the branch realised she’d make a better recruitment consultant. So she started work at Wild and has been promoted...
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Wild about meeting people face-to-face

The benefits of face-to-face communication are being undervalued, according to a recruitment leader from Portsmouth. Michelle Merritt believes the lockdown trend of communicating and issuing instructions through messages and notifications is potentially harming the economy. The boss of Wild Recruitment in the city says there is no replacement for seeing people face-to-face, whether in person...
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