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Case Study: Modular Building Sales to Education

Background A tale of two attitudes!  We received a cautious enquiry from a leading modular building manufacturer who sell directly to the education sector.  Their Managing Director held the recruitment industry in very poor esteem having previously paid out high … Continue reading

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Case Study: Manufacturing Manager – Timber Frame Manufacturer

Background This business was undergoing significant change and development reacting to the changing market and needed to make its timber manufacturing plants more efficient and cost-effective. They had been trying to bring in lean manufacturing methods for over a year … Continue reading

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Case Study: Sales and Marketing Manager- Precision Engineering Manufacturer

Background A demanding brief in the precision engineering sector – an industry away from our main specialism. We were challenged to source candidates with international sales experience, selling to wide-ranging engineering industries, strategic sales and marketing planning experience. The successful … Continue reading

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Case Study: Maintenance Engineer – Timber Frame

A well known Timber Frame Manufacturer were looking for an Operations Director. Not a regular client, we were not initially working on this role, however, we got in touch with one of our candidates and they apply directly. He was … Continue reading

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Case Study: Portable Space – Modular Building

Background Portable Space are very much a client committed to finding a specialist modular building all-rounder who could sell, design and estimate as well as be happy operating at site level when required managing both sub-contractors and being their client’s … Continue reading

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Case Study: Pinewood Structures – Timber Frame

Background We were contacted by the Managing Director of Pinewood Structures, a valued client that we have worked in partnership with since 2008.  They were pleased to involve all the relevant parties during the early stages of the recruitment process … Continue reading

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How to secure top talent and keep them

Before the interview Work with your recruiter to develop a thorough job description. Detail the key must have skills but keep in mind things you will be flexible on and consider transferable skills.  List key benefits, this is a job … Continue reading

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Is time killing your recruitment process? And why you should now forgive your recruitment agency from pushing you – a bit

  We regularly analyse our stats at ARV Solutions. Whilst we don’t target our staff on achieving KPIs we know the importance of measuring and understanding them, to see where we can keep improving. (We particularly measure ourselves on outcomes … Continue reading

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How to retain staff – A survey exploring recruitment and retention of shop floor staff in the Offsite Construction Industry

We spent six weeks speaking to a cross section of clients from the modular building, light gauge steel, timber frame, and timber engineering industries, gaining the thoughts of their Manufacturing and Operations Directors or HR Directors to understand their thoughts … Continue reading

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