BERRY RECRUITMENT GROUP

Ukraine mercy mission saved by goodwill and generosity

A kind-hearted recruitment manager from Harlow who set out to deliver aid to Ukraine’s refugees had an adventure he never expected after his van’s engine died in Poland. Patrick Casey, who works for Berry Recruitment, along with friends Tony Hayward and Cliff Green, were so moved by the plight of the war’s victims that they...
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BRG posts fulsome financial results

Berry Recruitment Group (BRG) anticipates continued strong growth through 2022 as it releases its latest financial figures. The group’s accounts to the end of 2021 showed its profits before taxes, depreciation and amortisation (EBITDA*) up 49 percent on the previous year to £2.27m. The business, which includes the brands Berry Recruitment, Wild Recruitment, Wild Berry...
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Anti-social behaviour harms business

Businesses need to be on top of their social media messaging or they could lose out on the brightest recruits. That’s the warning from a recruitment group which says the candidate shortage has put more power in the hands of job-seekers. Wild Recruitment said the situation has reversed because previously they’d advise candidates to check...
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Wage rises cease as businesses struggle

Wage increases amongst blue collar workers have plateaued and some are even reducing, according to a leading recruiter. The candidate shortage led to higher wages for many workers across multiple sectors, including warehouse work, manufacturing, hospitality and driving. Employers even raised wages to the same higher levels across the country – meaning the London amount...
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Will standardised pay cause a capital flight?

Berry Recruitment warns of a potential ‘flight from London’ due to increased pay rates being standardised across the country. Lee Gamble, managing director of Berry Recruitment, said many people in the south-east could relocate in order to secure a higher standard of living. He said that some national companies have decided that all staff should...
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New recruitment business opens in Wild West London.

London’s Bloomsbury is home to a new Wild Recruitment branch that specialises in hospitality, catering, driving and industrial work. The Tottenham Court Road business was launched to take advantage of the huge number of new employment opportunities in those sectors. It is part of Berry Recruitment Group (BRG) which works from nearly 40 outlets across...
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Berry’s onsite-offsite hub model is rolled out

Berry Recruitment has launched the first of its new offsite hubs that it believes will be the template for future onsite recruitment. The Hybrid Onsite Resource Centre (HORC) in Washington near Sunderland will serve those businesses that require larger numbers of workers. Whereas previously Berry Recruitment might have placed its recruiters within a client’s company,...
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Get to know BRG’s Group Training Manager Becky Booker.

Meet our experienced, knowledgeable and incredible Group Training Manager Becky Booker. Becky shares her recruitment story and reveals all about life at the Berry Recruitment Group. Get to know Becky: What do you like most about working for the Berry Recruitment Group and what are you most proud of ? What is your experience?...
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Business makes a beeline for BuzzHire

After Uber, Deliveroo, Zapp…. ‘BuzzHire’ – the on-demand app for instant jobs and workers. A staffing tech platform is capitalising on London’s hospitality and delivery sectors’ return to normality and is seeing a surge in growth. BuzzHire places power in the hands of the workers and is set to revolutionise on-demand gig-employment. The award-winning tech...
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Workers treasure leisure so bosses face losses

Some businesses have as many workers as they did pre-Covid but they are working half the hours because they want a better work-life balance. Berry Recruitment, one of the country’s leading employment companies, said the staff got used to having more leisure time while on furlough and during lockdowns. With the country opening up, these...
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