FRS & Jamie Oliver

A team of First Recruitment Services' most successful Consultants have just celebrated a terrific start to 2010 with lunch at Jamie Oliver's restaurant in the Lanes in Brighton.  The group toasted a successful first quarter of the year having seen vacancies and temporary bookings increase at a dramatic rate as the country heads out of recession.

Prestigious New Offices

First Recruitment Services is delighted to announce that its Dartford Branch has moved to prestigious new state of the art offices at Crossways Business Park in Dartford.  FRS first opened in Dartford in August 2004 and has fast become one of the most high profile suppliers of temporary workers and permanent staff  to businesses in and around the town. 

Sarah Higginson, Manager of FRS Dartford, said "The team has settled into the new office very quickly.  Being on Crossways we are at the centre of both office and warehouse business in the Dartford area and look forward to continuing to supply high calibre temps and perm candidates to businesses throughout North Kent".

Annual Awards Ceremony

26 nominees attended the First Recruitment Services Annual Awards ceremony held at the prestigious Mayfair restaurant, Ken Lo's Memories of China on 22nd January 2009.  Numerous awards were presented including:

• Rookie Consultant of the Year
• Runner up Permanent Consultant of the Year
• Permanent Consultant of the Year
• Runner up Temporaries Consultant of the Year
• Temporaries Consultant of the Year
• Runner up Employee of the Year
• Employee of the Year

In addition, the board presented the prestigious Platinum Award, to a member of staff who has shown exceptional loyalty and service over a number of years.  This award was presented to Janet Bull of Corporate Headquarters.

Pictured are Donna Corney and Kelly Woodbridge who won joint Runner up Employee of the Year.

Charity 10k Run

On Sunday 26th October 17 staff from First Recruitment Services, one of the South's leading independent recruitment agency groups, took part in the Brighton 10k run to raise money for Cancer Research UK.

Anna Leppard, who organised the First Recruitment Services entry, said "Every member of staff who took part loved it, even if most of them were shattered afterwards! The driving rain did not put us off and together we have raised over £2,000 for charity".

First over the line for FRS was work experience student Jake Kaltz, son of the Company's Managing Director, Andrew.  He completed the course in 42 minutes. Andrew himself was the next FRS person over the line together with his other son, Joel.  First over the line from the branches were Loti Jackson of Haywards Heath and Briony Robertson of Brighton, both pictured.

Continued Growth

Recruitment International
September 2008

Despite tough trading conditions, First Recruitment Services, one of the South's leading independent agency groups, has reported a very healthy set of half year results.  Don Jeal (pictured), formerly of The London Stock Exchange, and now FD at First Recruitment Services said "Combined Permanent and Temporary division sales to the 30th June were up 16% on 2007's results, with pre tax profit up 20% for the same period".

Managing Director, and former BBC Job Doctor, Andrew Kaltz added "Increased sales across the board, together with four significant contract wins, have contributed to a brilliant first six months of the year.  Although some agencies are claiming to find it tough out there we expect to report additional growth and success as the year continues".

Flourishing World of Recruitment

Recruitment International Magazine
January 2008

Recruitment International asked industry experts to predict the top recruitment stories for 2008. Andrew Kaltz, Managing Director at First Recruitment Services, responded...

"In 2008 the wonderful world of recruitment will continue to flourish.  Huge worldwide agencies will continue to swallow up each other, grow even larger and squash margins and revenues in the process.  More excitingly, decent regional independent agencies will continue to provide a far better, personal service, for a decent fee with better quality candidates".

General Recruitment

Recruiter Magazine
March 2007

First Recruitment Services, which went through a management buy-out last year, has reported a 16% increase in turnover to £7.1m in 2006.

Pre-tax profit rose 111% to £417,000 it says.

Managing Director Andrew Kaltz said "2006 was an absolutely fantastic year in terms of growth and profitability.  Following the MBS, we were in an extremely strong position financially and increased sales and client acquisition has led to a further substantial leap forward.

The first quarter of 2007 is set to be another record breaker.  We have a terrific team at Head Office and throughout the branches who will continue to benefit from our further growth and success."

MBO Completed at First Recruitment Services

Recruitment International & Recruiter International
January 2006

First Recruitment Services, one of the South's leading independent recruitment agencies, today announced the completion of a Management Buyout, led by Director Andrew Kaltz, known by many as the Job Doctor following his stint as a recruitment agony aunt for the BBC.  The management were advised by the Gatwick Corporate Finance Team at Grant Thornton, led by Rupert Rawcliffe.

 First Recruitment Services Holdings Limited, a new company formed to enable the buyout, has purchased the entire issued share capital of First Recruitment Services Limited.  Kaltz is Managing Director and principal shareholder of the restructured £6 million organisation, with his colleagues, Simon Galvin and Tricia Morris, remaining as Directors and shareholders in the business.  Galvin and Morris started the company in 1999 and were joined in 2002 by Kaltz with whom they had worked together for many years at Office Angels. 

 First Recruitment Services has almost doubled its turnover in the last three years and has grown to a network of nine branches.  Morris will continue to work in the business indefinitely.  Galvin will gradually hand over his role to Don Jeal who is promoted to Management Accountant, having joined First Recruitment Services last year following a successful career at The London Stock Exchange.