What sectors does Andrews Recruitment Group specialise in?

ARG specialises in Building Materials, Manufacturing, Automation & Controls, Industrial Engineering, Civil Engineering and Renewable Engineering.

Does Andrews Recruitment Group work with candidates or employers?

Both. ARG works with hiring businesses seeking specialist talent, and with candidates looking for their next role.

Where is Andrews Recruitment Group based?

Andrews Recruitment Group operates UK-wide, placing candidates across England, Scotland and Wales.

How does the ARG Candidate Cloud work?

The Candidate Cloud is ARG's pre-market talent pool. Candidates upload their CV and are matched to roles before they are publicly advertised.

What is the ARG placement guarantee?

ARG offers a 12-week staggered replacement guarantee on all permanent placements. Weeks 1-4: 100% replacement. Weeks 5-8: 75% credit. Weeks 9-12: 50% credit.

Does ARG recruit Plant Operators and Plant Managers in aggregates?

Yes. ARG recruits Plant Operators, Fitters, Welders and Plant Managers across the UK aggregates industry including quarrying, ready-mix and bulk materials.

IvyLens is an independently owned software and intelligence platform created and owned by Tom Andrews, founder of Andrews Recruitment Group. It analyses hiring friction, vacancy performance and market positioning. Andrews Recruitment Group uses IvyLens under licence; all intellectual property rights in IvyLens remain with Tom Andrews.

RecXchange is a recruiter collaboration and split-fee network platform created by Andrews Recruitment Group, enabling agencies to access each other's candidate pools.

What is AMIVY Designs?

AMIVY Designs is a trading name of Andrews Recruitment Group, offering intelligent web design and digital branding services.

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Industrial Engineering · Multiple permanent hires

Two hires in one quarter, both still in post

The measure a client actually cares about is not time to hire. It is whether the person is still there.

The brief

A building products manufacturer needed two different roles filled inside one quarter — a Procurement Manager and a Planning Engineer. Two disciplines, two pools, and a supply chain function that could not absorb a failed hire in either.

How ARG worked it

The process below is ARG's standard approach to a specialist brief, documented on how to hire. It is what every brief gets, described as such rather than as a narrative about this one.

1A briefing call that establishes the competence the role actually gates on, the shift or travel pattern, and whether the budget and the brief can both be true.
2A direct search rather than an advert, worked against the sector network rather than a job board, with RecXchange widening the pool beyond ARG’s own book.
3A shortlist of three to five people with a written summary on each, screened before submission so the hiring manager interviews only the people worth interviewing.
4A 12-week staggered replacement guarantee on the placement: 100% in weeks one to four, 75% in weeks five to eight, 50% in weeks nine to twelve.

The outcome

Both roles were placed within the quarter and both people are still with the business. The client connects the two facts directly: retention is the measure that matters to them, and they attribute it to the quality of the matching rather than the speed of the fill.

“ARG placed a Procurement Manager and a Planning Engineer for us within the same quarter. Both are still with us. Retention matters and their matching clearly contributes to it.”
— Supply Chain Director, Building Products Manufacturer

Where this comes from

The brief and the outcome above are the client's own account, taken from their review on ARG's reviews page and quoted in full. Nothing about the client, the fee or the timeline is stated beyond what they published. The process section is ARG's standard method, not a reconstruction of this search.

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