Forces recruitment network places 1000th candidate into permanent employment

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Cambridgeshire-based Forces Recruitment Services network has bucked the trend, opening ten new offices during 2011 to build a network of 24 UK-wide locations, with a further eight planned for 2012. It has just placed its 1000th candidate into permanent employment.

The placement was made by central London Regional Director, Jeff Prince, who sourced Neil Viveash, an ex-Royal Engineers Staff Sergeant, into a role as group facilities manager for a serviced office group client.

The placement came as part of a recruitment drive instigated to help and support ex-Servicemen and women through the MoD’s current redundancy phase: 4,200 job cuts in a second round of Armed Forces redundancies as part of the Strategic Defence and Security Review.

Forces Recruitment Services was established in 2001 operating from a single location in Ely, Cambs. In 2007 – with the Strategic Defence Review cuts impacting – the company planned its expansion via franchising with each regional director recruited from its own database of ex- military candidates. The first franchises were launched in 2008 and, as mentioned above, the growing network currently has 24 offices across the UK and is on target for a planned 40 locations by the end of 2014.

Managing Director Graham Brown is an ex-Army musician. He left the Army in 1993 following active service in the first Gulf War, and has been involved in sales and recruitment since leaving. He worked on Quest magazine for a number of years.