FROM JULY 2015'S RECRUITER MAGAZINE

From white water rafting to cake baking, you’ve been letting us know what you’ve been doing apart from recruiting

DEMENTIA FRIEND

Ricky Martin, founder of science and technology recruiter Hyper Recruitment Solutions, baked a (delicious-looking!) chocolate cake for the #dosomethingnew challenge in support of the Alzheimer’s Society in an effort to help reduce the stigma around dementia. The company is an official ‘Dementia Friend’.

MAJOR PLAYER

Marketing and creative recruiter Major Players recently held an event with Google to highlight how technology is reshaping marketing, how to reduce fragmentation with a unified technology approach and how to use programmatics to build personal customer relationships.

EAT CAKE

When PR and marketing recruitment firm Brand Recruitment senior consultant Hannah Szurek left to go travelling, what did her colleagues do? Got her this amazing cake, that’s what!

WHITE WATER RAFTING

International recruiter Asoria Group’s latest team bonding exercise took them to Lee Valley, the home of the national kayaking team, for a spot of white water rafting. Three people, including two directors, literally hit the water!

HITTING THE TARGET

Global specialist recruiter PageGroup is celebrating after hitting its £200k fundraising target for Alzheimer’s Research UK. Employees across all 31 offices in the UK scaled great heights, ran marathons and cycled hundreds of miles between them to reach the incredible milestone, in a nationwide effort as part of the company’s two-year partnership with the UK’s leading dementia research charity.

The partnership saw staff around the country cover more than 200,000 miles between them as they raised money to fund two PageGroup Research Scholarships. These scholarships have brought two talented new scientists into the dementia research field on three-year PhD programmes, helping give a vital boost to the number of researchers working on the condition.

PURBECK PURSUIT

Staff from recruitment specialist TeamJobs took to the saddle, the road and the water to help raise £8k for Macmillan Nurses and Prospect Hospice in the Purbeck Pursuit. Poole-based TeamJobs took part in the event, with seven other teams from around the UK, which TeamJobs also sponsored. The Purbeck Pursuit involves an eight-mile cross country run, followed by a 15-mile mountain bike ride, a six-mile kayak, a six-mile treasure hunt and a ‘fun’ relay race.