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JPA - Press Releases

October 2007
Its official, JPA's Caroline Albrecht based in the Leeds office rec2rec division is 'the best recruitment consultant' in Yorkshire.

Caroline had no idea she was nominated for the award at ‘the Yorkshires finest ‘event held in Leeds on the 21st September. She was pleasantly surprised when she realised she had won. She thoroughly deserved the reward due her professionalism, dedication, integrity and consistently achieving her targets.

 April 2007
JPA Recruitment to Recruitment is expanding into the Irish market. The office will be headed up by Ann-Marie Smee who has moved back to her native land after working in the R2R space for JPA in Edinburgh for the past 2 years.

Ann-Marie looks forward to providing clients and candidates with a first class professional service and will facilitate internal transfers as well as recruiters looking to make an international move - a service which is not that readily available in Ireland at present. Please contact, Ann-Marie Smee on 00353 87 9885528 for more information.

 March 2007
JPA Recruitment to Recruitment is delighted to announce the opening of its Sydney office to cover Australia, NZ and Dubai. Robin Clarke heads the operation having spent 3 very successful years with JPA in the UK.

Anne-Marie Butts and Caroline Walker complete the team and are based in London. Our service is tailored toward relocating candidates from the UK to Australia, NZ and Dubai, and Australia, NZ and Dubai to the UK and also within the domestic market. We have established relationships with major recruitment companies across all sectors and at varying levels of seniority. These agencies range from boutique brands through to national and international brands.

August 2006
JPA has launched its commercial side after much market demand. This division is headed up by Charlie Ryan who has spent 9 years in Commercial Recruitment and feels there is still a golden opportunity to bring the qualitative feel to the temporary world.

JPA has already led the field providing service to its clients across the various disciplines of permanent recruitment. In response to the ever-increasing demand, JPA Commercial was launched to provide a fast, professional solution for our clients. JPA Commercial provides high-calibre candidates into a variety of roles, spanning a number of industry sectors. We have access to over 10,000 candidates who are seeking temporary positions each year.

This also allows the try before you buy factor to new clients who feel they have been let down in the past and more importantly it will allow us to cover those short term positions.

James Pritchard, Managing Director of JPA Group of Companies states "We are determined to 'bring a permanent feel to a temporary world' and in the few months we have been operating we can already provide testimonials to that effect.

Charlie reiterates, "We want to remove the perception that a temporary candidate can be less able than a candidate who would be suitable for the permanent role. After all the temporary candidate has less of an induction, often has to take things on board at a faster pace and demonstrate their worth in the role. We are removing the, 'we only need a temp' or it’s 'just a temp' perception and ensuring the best candidate for each role is provided, regardless of whether that role is temporary or permanent."

"We have already made a difference to a number of organisations and are increasing weekly which proves the market demand is very much there."

If you would like a face to fact meeting please call 020 7821 4824 and speak to one of the commercial consultants.

December 2005
JPA Buys back shares from Pertemps

JPA Recruitment now in its 7th year of trading has bought back 20% of the shares from the 25% shareholding Pertemps had in JPA.

James Pritchard the group MD commented, "We sold 25% to Pertemps in 2000 to help facilitate JPA's growth by taking over all JPA's back office functions allowing it to concentrate on sales. It also enabled JPA to move into a spectacular office location next to Buckingham Palace which needed a large covenant.

Tim Watts, Chairman of Pertemps helped JPA grow from 8 staff in 2000 to 34 currently and open 3 new branches. It has been a great partnership which has allowed JPA to grow into a major voice for its sectors."

JPA has now put the 20% share buy back into an EMI option share scheme available to its managers.

 May 2005
JPA Acquires Bandtrace

JPA Recruitment has recently acquired the Rec 2 Rec firm Bandtrace. Gavin Jasper, MD of Bandtrace commented, "This is a great opportunity for Bandtrace to join forces with the no. 1 Rec-Rec Company in terms of size in the UK and allows my firm to utilize all the back office facilities provided by JPA."

James Pritchard, MD of JPA said " We are delighted to welcome Bandtrace into the group and wish Gavin and his team every success for the future."

Gavin will be part of the London Rec 2 Rec team covering the Home Counties.

 April 2005
Recruiter Awards

JPA sponsors the Best IT Recruitment Firm in this year's awards.

 December 2004
New REC division

A new division of the REC is planned be up and running in the new year. The focus of this new division will be to improve the image of the rec to rec sector and it will have its own code of conduct.

James Pritchard, Managing Director of JPA, and a newly appointed regional director of the REC for London, is one of the prime movers behind the scheme. He says the new division would have a formal complaints line to police the industry.

If Members of the new division want to further demonstrate their professional integrity, they can also opt for an audit by the REC. This system of self-regulation would make sure that all sector members adhere to their code of conduct. Pritchard said, "if people sign a code of conduct and then they throw it in the bin and don't do what they say, they will not be well looked upon by other members of the group".

He added: "If you go against the REC code of conduct, you could be struck off. If an agency is not a sector member and not a member of the REC, you deal with them at your peril."

The R2R forum - set up earlier this year by leading rec to rec companies - would continue as a managing director's dinner club.

 November 2004
New Regional Director

James Pritchard , Managing Director and founder of JPA, has been selected as London's Regional Director for the REC. James has a great passion for the industry and he hopes that this position will enable him to create a forum in order to receive comments and suggestions from others in the industry to drive the sector forward.

 
 
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