Recruiters make up one in five of Sunday Times 100 Best Companies to Work For 2014
10 March 2014
Recruitment companies make up one in five of ‘The Sunday Times 100 Best Small Companies to Work For’ list this year.
Mon, 10 Mar 2014
Recruitment companies make up one in five of ‘The Sunday Times 100 Best Small Companies to Work For’ list this year.
This year’s figure of 20 is slightly down on last year’s, when 23 staffing companies appeared in the list.
Staffing companies make up nine of the top 20, up from six in 2013.
IT recruitment solutions provider Next Ventures, based in the City of London, is the top-ranked staffing company in overall second place, up from 70th in 2013.
The Sunday Times Best Small Companies to Work For list is restricted to firms with between 50 and 249 employees, and is compiled for The Sunday Times by work engagement specialist Best Companies.
1. Next Ventures (ranked second overall) (2013: 70)
2. La Fosse Associates, 4 (2013: 4)
3. Macildowie Recruitment Expertise, 5 (new entry)
4. Premier Group Recruitment, 6 (2013: 13)
5. Penta Consulting, 11 (2013: 8)
6. Austin Fraser, 13 (2013: 7)
7. Tate, 17 (2013: 62)
8. Worldwide Recruitment Solutions, 18 (new entry)
9. Arrows Group, 19 (2013: 83)
10. Aspire Global Network, 29 (2013: 90)
11. Lawrence Harvey Group, 34 (new entry)
12. Phaidon International, 36 (new entry)
13. ConSol Partners, 46 (new entry)
14. Macdonald & Company, 49 (2013: 65)
15. ARK International, 59 (new entry)
16. Spencer Ogden, 64 (2013: 52)
17. Retail Human Resources, 68 (new entry)
18. Resourcing Group, 73 (new entry)
19. G2V Recruitment Group, 86 (2013: 42)
20. Mane, 96 (new entry)
Darren Rosenfeld, director of Next Ventures, tells Recruiter that an important aspect of making his company an attractive place to work is providing a broad range of staff with targets that are achievable, rather than just the top 2% or 3%, which he says is the case with many other staffing companies.
Simon La Fosse, founder and chief executive officer of technology executive recruiter La Fosse Associates, which maintained last year’s position as the fourth ranked company overall, tells Recruiter that the most important thing to becoming a great employer to work for is to make it one of your strategic objectives. “Then it becomes easier to work out how you make that happen,” says La Fosse.
He adds that making staff “really happy” is the key to his company’s success. This is in contrast to the view of many CEOs he says, which is that happy staff are “a nice by product of success”.
This year’s figure of 20 is slightly down on last year’s, when 23 staffing companies appeared in the list.
Staffing companies make up nine of the top 20, up from six in 2013.
IT recruitment solutions provider Next Ventures, based in the City of London, is the top-ranked staffing company in overall second place, up from 70th in 2013.
The Sunday Times Best Small Companies to Work For list is restricted to firms with between 50 and 249 employees, and is compiled for The Sunday Times by work engagement specialist Best Companies.
1. Next Ventures (ranked second overall) (2013: 70)
2. La Fosse Associates, 4 (2013: 4)
3. Macildowie Recruitment Expertise, 5 (new entry)
4. Premier Group Recruitment, 6 (2013: 13)
5. Penta Consulting, 11 (2013: 8)
6. Austin Fraser, 13 (2013: 7)
7. Tate, 17 (2013: 62)
8. Worldwide Recruitment Solutions, 18 (new entry)
9. Arrows Group, 19 (2013: 83)
10. Aspire Global Network, 29 (2013: 90)
11. Lawrence Harvey Group, 34 (new entry)
12. Phaidon International, 36 (new entry)
13. ConSol Partners, 46 (new entry)
14. Macdonald & Company, 49 (2013: 65)
15. ARK International, 59 (new entry)
16. Spencer Ogden, 64 (2013: 52)
17. Retail Human Resources, 68 (new entry)
18. Resourcing Group, 73 (new entry)
19. G2V Recruitment Group, 86 (2013: 42)
20. Mane, 96 (new entry)
Darren Rosenfeld, director of Next Ventures, tells Recruiter that an important aspect of making his company an attractive place to work is providing a broad range of staff with targets that are achievable, rather than just the top 2% or 3%, which he says is the case with many other staffing companies.
Simon La Fosse, founder and chief executive officer of technology executive recruiter La Fosse Associates, which maintained last year’s position as the fourth ranked company overall, tells Recruiter that the most important thing to becoming a great employer to work for is to make it one of your strategic objectives. “Then it becomes easier to work out how you make that happen,” says La Fosse.
He adds that making staff “really happy” is the key to his company’s success. This is in contrast to the view of many CEOs he says, which is that happy staff are “a nice by product of success”.
