Thursday 26th November proved a night to remember for members of the ARM team attending the lavish IRP Awards ceremony in central London.

Hosted by broadcaster and former MP Gyles Brandreth, the ceremony saw 15 awards presented – the only industry accolades to be presented by the recruitment industry’s trade body.

Kevin Green, the REC’s Chief Executive, said of the awards: “This evening is just the start of a journey which could take between 10 and 15 years in realising our goal of professionalising the industry and attaining Chartered status.

“This all starts with the IRP members themselves; in giving them recognition and respect for bringing such value and high standards through their own individual capabilities.”

Kevin added: “The awards ceremony was the perfect way to show just how far we have already come in attracting people with the highest professional standards, dedication and commitment to the recruitment industry. We salute all the winners for their exemplary qualities and skills and wish them all well in their future careers and endeavours.”

ARM’s admired people development programme is the brainchild of Derek Goff (ARM Learning and Development Manager), Samantha Templer (ARM HR Manager) and Mike Gawthorne (ARM MD). Together with the ARM board and senior managers, they recognised that investing in staff development was the smart view to take in the face of stiff market competition, tough conditions and the need for a talented future resource pool within the company.

Mr Goff said, “To win such a prestigious award is a great honour personally, and a well deserved accolade to all staff at ARM who embrace training vigorously in pursuit of providing an excellent service to our clients and candidates. A special mention should also go to the Directors and senior managers at ARM who completely endorse and support L&D initiatives across the business.”

ARM are specialists in technical recruitment across a wide range of industry sectors including Rail jobs, Aviation, IT and Engineering to mention a few.

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Advanced Resource Managers Limited
Langstone Technology Park
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http://www.arm.co.uk

In the world of Sales Recruitment, December is the month that we all dread: Companies delaying implementing recruitment programs until the new calendar year, festive parties taking priority over reviewing CVs, the market generally in wind down mode and a high volume of applicants applying for a relatively small number of vacancies. This year, the Sales Recruitment Team at Advanced Resource Managers has seen a shift away from that trend.

“ARM’s IT Sales Recruitment and Technical Sales Recruitment teams are currently assigned to a high number of Business to Business Sales Opportunities,” said Paul Fairclough, a Senior Consultant at the recruitment and training firm.

“Budgets have been approved, headcount confirmed, clients need the right individual in place yesterday and are encouraging us to send CVs and arrange interviews right up to the final mark of this calendar year,” he said. According to Fairclough, the only thing missing is the usual level of applicants.

After a testing year for many it appears that many high calibre Sales Professionals are using the run up to Christmas and the New Year as a period of recovery and are delaying identifying that next progressive career move.

This delay, whilst understandable, could be counterproductive for some. ARM expects high application volumes at the start of 2010 in line with a more positive outlook within the technical sales arena. If this is borne out, it will result in increased responses to vacancies and slower recruitment processes.

“My advice to all sales professionals looking for a new role or keeping a tentative eye open for that next challenge is simply this: you’re used to staying ahead of the competition, don’t forget that this can be a great time to gain that competitive advantage while other professionals may take their eye off the ball, however briefly,” Fairclough said.

ARM are specialists in Sales Jobs across a wide range of industry sectors in the technical recruitment market.

Contact:

Advanced Resource

Advanced Resource Managers Limited
Langstone Technology Park
Langstone Road
Havant
Hampshire
PO9 1SA

44(0)2392228228

Fax:

44(0)2392228229

http://www.arm.co.uk