Arras People celebrates seven years of business

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Arras People, the Project Management Recruitment Specialist, is celebrating the company’s seventh birthday throughout the month of April. The month-long celebration will be highlighted by a full day of free Project Management Careers Clinics for project management candidates.

Formed in 2002, the founders used their own experiences to form a company that was able to offer knowledge based recruitment services in response to the growing demand. The principal of using experienced project management practitioners to deliver recruitment services still holds strong and defines the company in the marketplace.

“It is an approach that is based on respect to all our clients, be they clients looking to take on new hires or candidates looking for a new opportunity,” said Managing Director and Co-Founder John Thorpe. “It sounds simple, but from our own experiences of the marketplace and from conversations we have with individuals it still marks us out in the crowd.”

The free day of the popular Project Management Careers Clinics on the 27 April are 30-minute one-to-one telephone consultations assist project management professionals who need independent advice in their pursuit of the next step in their project management career. Most often, clinic participants gain advice and feedback on their CVs. However, other clinic participants have used the clinic to get a better feel for the job market, received advice on project management training, and guidance about developing their careers.

The clinic, which normally charges a small fee, was recently offered for free at the Project Challenge Spring Show 2009 at the NEC Arena in Birmingham. So strong was the response for the service that the available slots were fully booked online within 10 days.

“We have a lot of good memories to look back on, and we think going forward that the Clinics will continue to stand out as our unique way of extending our expertise in the field to project and programme management professionals,” said Dan Strayer, Marketing Co-ordinator at Arras People. “When you get down to it, the Project Management Careers Clinic is one of the most popular tools we have to show that we are here for our candidates as well. Any way you cut it, everybody is a winner this month with Arras People.”