Recruiter set to smash 2021 growth plans
Derby-based Sky Recruitment Solutions is set to smash its 2021 growth plans three months early as job vacancies boom.
The recruitment group, which includes Nottingham-based sister company Capella Professional, had two offices and ten staff this time last year but has rapidly expanded to eight locations and 25 staff.
It is now seeking five additional staff members by September, meaning its original target of employing 30 staff by the end of this year will be achieved with months to spare.
The company, which has sites in Derby, Ripley, Burton, Mansfield, Nottingham, Castle Donington and two in Huddersfield, said it recognised huge growth potential in the recruitment market early on in the pandemic.
As a result, it set high-reaching expansion targets, which it has consistently achieved throughout 2020 and 2021, returning record turnover, client numbers and employment placements.
David Torrington, managing director of Sky Recruitment Solutions, said: “We will have completed our growth plans for 2021 by the end of September, which is fantastic.
“We’ve been riding on the crest of a wave and we’re already looking towards 2022, and thinking ‘what next’?”
He said his firm’s need to recruit additional staff was down to an increased demand for its services.
“We’re seeing lots of new clients where they’re finding other recruitment agencies can’t supply the staff they need.
“Recruitment agencies are generally struggling to supply staff, but Sky Recruitment Solutions has been innovative and always found ways of satisfying our clients’ needs. I’d be delighted to meet any new client who is concerned about meeting demand as a result of the national industrial staffing shortage.”
Beckie Elliott, business manager for the firm, said the enormous level of activity and job vacancies were “across the board”, in manufacturing, packaging, assembly and distribution particularly.
She said: “Companies are contacting us left, right and centre every day where they’ve not been able to find suitable job candidates due to the national shortage. It’s really busy, but really good news for Sky, as we’ve managed to deliver.”
