ARV Solutions - Agent Profile

ARV Solutions was established as a specialist recruitment agency by Jim Roach in 2003, following 14 years main-stream recruitment agency experience recruiting across technical roles in construction, manufacturing and engineering. “Having gained a lot of recruitment expertise and spent years growing and managing teams for other people’s businesses it was time I tried to run my own.”

Adding Real Value
ARV Solutions was established very much with a service led business model, where we would put significantly more time, investment and strategic thinking into traditional, emerging and innovative recruiting methods across niche market sectors. “I was really frustrated at the widespread perception that the recruitment industry was too pushy, offered at best a mixed quality of service, for high fees. A sales lead approach persisted in the industry and this worked well for agencies – but less so for candidates and clients.”

Our primary aim at ARV Solutions has been to grow through repeat business and referral, gained through providing successful results for clients, combined with interesting and added value marketing efforts. “We genuinely aim to Add Real Value in what we do – this is what ARV stands for”.

Coverage
Based in Bristol, we recruit across the whole of the UK as well as International markets, specialising in filling jobs in construction, manufacturing and technical recruitment, with our particular specialism as the leading recruitment business for the offsite construction sector. We are experienced in recruiting from Graduate level through to the Chief Executive. We are pleased to have been selected to run recruitment related training for the DWP and Jobcentres, and to have recruited for some of the largest companies through to innovative new start ups.

People
We have been fortunate to attract a highly experienced and growing team of staff to the business, each taken on for their recruitment skills and potential, along with the desire to work ethically and professionally in an environment where we prioritise successfully filling jobs as the primary performance indicator (and we keep them here with free bacon or sausage sandwiches every week!). We have plans to grow the team further and broaden our coverage, with the same service and quality led approach.

Resources
“I used to believe we had something close to the same resources as many of the largest agencies though I am often now told we are ahead. I agree with my father’s saying that good tools never cost you anything” says Jim Roach.

As well as our people, we have invested in a combination of systems and software that we truly believe is hard pushed to be bettered anywhere in the industry. The advanced recruitment software package we use was even implemented by a certain well known record company entrepreneur to track their galactic applications! (Our MD, Jim Roach was asked to provide their initial training). We have world class accurate CV processing software, the most advanced Job posting tools, a new advanced interactive website, with the increasingly important mobile version, the latest software for our servers and PCs. We have always taken a lead in innovative means of recruiting, from understanding effective job board advertising, through to the effective use of social networks for recruiting: our offsite construction group on Linkedin now has over 1000 members.

Clients that come to ARV Solutions tend to speak well of us and continue to use our services ongoing and largely exclusively, making life simple for them and working well for us. We will always strive to maintain this as a means of growing our business. We welcome all enquiries from new clients who we hope will also want to keep coming back

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