News

RUSSELL Taylor Group has appointed specialist recruiter Mark McVey to head up its Liverpool-based Facilities Management Division as the business sees this sector workforce as being increasingly important to the UK’s economic growth and productivity. Mark joins the company at a time when the Facilities Management market is predicted to rise by £10 billion by 2022 and outsourc...

Ben Evans, recruitment consultant in Russell Taylor Group’s Technical and Engineering Division, looks to breaching the “leaky pipeline” of the education system as a solution to attracting more women into successful careers in engineering. SET with the task of writing a blog about women in engineering, as a 31-year-old male recruitment consultant and not a female engineer it ...

A NEW community partnership by Russell Taylor Group is banking on young people learning about business from an early age. The venture with Bishop Wilson CE Primary School in Burton Village will also help to prepare its pupils for the world of work. Launching the initiative was the opening of the school’s bank and shop where children, using their own currency, are learning th...

RUSSELL Taylor Holdings has relocated to new headquarters as part of a major growth programme for the rapidly expanding technical and engineering recruitment business. The company, currently the fastest-growing privately-owned recruitment agency in the UK, has moved into the historic Burton Manor in Burton Village following a massive restoration project to save the Grade II ...

With no obvious gender bias when it comes to hiring women for engineering jobs, why does a small percentage still only take up engineering as a career? Melanie Mortin, recruitment consultant in Russell Taylor Group’s Technical and Engineering Division, looks into the ways forward to address the issue. ​ WHERE do you start when putting your thoughts together on the topic of W...

RUSSELL Taylor Holdings Ltd, the Wirral-headquartered engineering, construction and logistics recruiter, has acquired Cheshire recruitment firm Perpetual Partnerships. The investment by the business - earlier this year named as the UK’s fastest growing privately-owned recruitment company – will see a targeted growth plan for Perpetual Partnerships and look to create 15 new j...

BEN Russell, chief executive at Russell Taylor Holdings Ltd, has been appointed to the board of Wirral Chamber of Commerce. One of the region’s leading entrepreneurs, Ben has driven the Wirral-headquartered recruitment business, originally set up as a father and son operation, to one with a multi-million pound turnover and currently employing more than 400 staff. Earlier thi...

OPENING the door of engineering opportunities for women has put Russell Taylor Group at the heart of finding solutions to the nation’s skills shortages. With the annual shortfall of engineers in the UK reckoned to be as high as 20,000 – a figure that could possibly rise if a Brexit outcome reduces the country’s international intake of labour – plugging these skills gaps has ...

RECORD figures have been announced by Russell Taylor Group as the company reports that its fees for permanent job placements in the first third of this year have doubled. The news co-incides with recently released data which reveals that businesses are continuing to hire staff despite the current political impasse at Westminster and that employment in the UK has hit an all-t...

RUSSELL Taylor Group has appointed Daniel Flack as regional trades manager for its London and South of England operations to help drive the business’ growth strategy and develop the company brand in new markets. His main focus will be on the delivery of a complete construction trades workforce to service major current and planned building projects in and around the capital. ...