Laura and Julie Sharpe
An innovative mother and daughter team are enjoying a runaway success on Tyneside and Teesside having turned the recruitment industry on its head with the ethos ‘less is more’. Julie Sharpe and daughter Laura set up Sharpe Recruitment this year with the aim to bring more to the North East job market than just pedalling CV’s, and their aim at bringing a Jerry Maguire style ‘fewer clients- more time’ approach is bringing rewards.
Laura’s efforts to help a former joiner turned health care worker prepare for his interview was featured on BBC LOOK NORTH on Wednesday 21st October at 6.30pm. Laura, who has previously worked in recruitment in London, Yorkshire and the North East, says the industry has often missed a vital part of the role it should be playing.
“Too often agencies have concentrated on targets and turnover, when in the midst of this recession there are people with very real fears about just how difficult it can be to get a job, there are issues of confidence, of moving into unknown areas, they often need someone to trust to help them through what is a really very difficult time in their lives.”
In the BBC Look North item featuring jobseekers, Laura takes Derek Southall from Skelton on Teeside shopping for an interview outfit whilst offering interview advice and coaching to help him get his dream job, demonstrating that a fully rounded recruitment service provides support as well as highlighting the continuing skills shortages across all sectors. Sharpe Recruitment say they are addressing the human side of the job market from the candidates perspective rather than seeing the candidate as a means of currency. Paradoxically their focus on clients and candidates needs has resulted in more people queuing up for their services.
Julie, with a background in Business Marketing and Sales, says the need for client care in the recruitment process has never been more obvious. “It was very quickly apparent that jobseekers were looking for more than the available recruitment companies were offering. Many people were thrown into an environment that was alien to them, having been in secure employment most of their lives they were very much in need of support, encouragement and guidance, in these straightened times recruitment should not be about numbers, it is about nurturing and nursing, after all when you’re out of a job you need someone you can really trust to get you back into employment.”
For high res photos and more information contact: Julie Sharpe on 07815 286057 or email julie@sharperecruitment.co.uk