Staff at The Recruitment Group was formed by amalgamating independent agencies in nine locations with more than 40 years' experience between them.

The group was founded by a team of recruitment professionals who had had successful careers in the industry. They felt that a joined-up approach to acquiring agencies with excellent reputations but minimal economies of scale, gave the best of both worlds — size and excellent service levels.

Its head office is based in Castle Donington, in Derbyshire, and there are offices in Oxford, Witney, Abingdon and Banbury, in Oxfordshire, Birmingham, Leicester, Peterborough and Boston, in Lincolnshire, Rugby, Nottingham and Wrexham.

The company is committed to putting the human touch back into recruitment and takes a "people-first" approach.

This ensures that from day one, each candidate and client it works with is taken care of and is truly heard and understood. This approach, it says, is just one of the many reasons that 93% of its permanent candidates have stayed with the organisations in which they have been placed for over 12 months, and 91% of its temporary candidates complete the length of their initial assignment.