Here Come the Recruitment Girls..

Here Come the Recruitment Girls...

The former co-director of recruitment agency Recruitment Now is returning to his roots - allowing his wife and business partner to take full control of the business.

If we can, you can member Peter Nixon launched Gateshead-based Recruitment Now alongside wife Sarah more than four years ago.

Now, with the business raking in a turnover of more than £1.6m and rising to be one of the region’s leading agencies in both permanent and temporary recruitment, Peter is returning to work for his long established family business - Newcastle plant and site accommodation hire company Nixon Hire.

Recruitment Now’s managing director and fellow If we can, you can member Sarah Nixon said: “Peter’s remit was always to help me get Recruitment Now established and now that we are in our fifth successful year, he is returning to his family business where he always remained as a director.

This will allow me and my team to take the business forward. For the first time we are an all-girl recruitment agency.”

With permanent staff recruitment at an all-time low due to the current economic climate, Sarah has driven the temporary side of the business forward to new heights in the last quarter, investing in payroll services, new E-Marketing software and pricing structure. As a result, the company’s turnover soared in 2008 and is set to grow even further in 2009.

Peter Nixon said: “Having taken time out to help Sarah start Recruitment Now in 2004, the timing was right to leave her to it and return to my plant hire roots. Sarah is a strong woman with bags of drive and enthusiasm and I’m sure the business will continue as strong as ever with her at the helm.”

Having moved into new premises, ‘The Big Yellow Building’ on the Team Valley industrial estate in May, Recruitment Now has cemented itself as a leading supplier of temporary and permanent staff. Sarah said: “It’s no secret that we are facing troubled times economically in the UK and, as such, companies are less likely to commit to permanent staff.

“We realised this and so made a massive effort to drive the temporary side of our business by adding new divisions and providing admin support to our top temporary consultants. We are now able to offer temporary staff in the catering, commercial office and training, engineering, technical, industrial, and driving divisions and have over 300 temps out each week.

“On the permanent side of the business we have not been affected but have had to reduce our fees in order to make our service affordable for our repeat clients.

“We firmly believe that those with the right staff, external support network, attitude, drive and determination will remain successful.”