Member Article

Wetherby recruitment firm Cooper Vance expands with help from Connect Gazelles

Wetherby-based recruitment experts Cooper Vance have reported a business turnover growth of 57% year-on-year, along with a 39% increase in new clients and projects for the first quarter of this year.

Cooper Vance have been aided by the ‘Springboard’ mentoring offered by entrepreneur membership organisation, Connect Gazelles.

Prior to the Connect Gazelles mentoring meeting, Cooper Vance were functioning under two company names; United Recruitment Group (for managerial recruitment) and Cooper Vance (for executive recruitment.)

Business partners Andrew Pickersgill and Liam O’ Flaherty were placed by Connect Gazelles with ‘Entrepreneurs in Residence’ Deirdre Bounds and Adrian Holmes who quickly identified that United Recruitment sounded far too generic whereas Cooper Vance was more personal and reflected the personality of the business and style a lot better.

Therefore it was obvious the company needed to re-brand under the one name and focus on Cooper Vance Recruitment.

Cooper Vance has since recruited a new member of staff, Lucy Addison, who has successfully opened a new division, specialising in media recruitment, and relocated to new offices in Wetherby.

The extra space in the new offices will allow the addition of two new team members who are currently being recruited.

They have already been appointed recruitment partners for West & North Yorkshire Connect Gazelles.

Andrew Pickersgill says, “We are delighted with the impact of the Connect Gazelles Springboard session. As a result, we have fundamentally changed the focus of our activity which resulted in us more clearly defining our message to the market.

“We have also developed two recruitment related products which will offer the SME market in Yorkshire an alternative to the traditional recruitment business approach. All of this has emanated from the initial Springboard session.”

Connect Gazelles offers its members’ access to Yorkshire’s most successful business people who give their time free to help Yorkshire businesses grow. They have all grown their own businesses to £30 million-£200million turnovers.

Nick Butler created the Connect Gazelles in 2011 to enable Yorkshire’s ambitious companies to learn from over 45 of Yorkshire’s most successful entrepreneurs, create jobs and grow.

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Clare Burnett .