Article Archive
Ipod winner
Published: April 2010
Relay's drive to encourage workers to receive their payslips electronically continues apace, with awareness programmes on the benefits and prize draws for those registering to do so.
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Relay and ‘Sham Allardyce’ Bring Benefits to BD3
Published: March 2010
‘Fit For Business’ Football sponsorship boosts community
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The Consultancy Of The Future NOW
Published: January 2010
With the New Year come plans for radical changes to Relay’s operational architecture that will make the company “unrecognisable” within months.
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Relay’s ‘Search for Superstars’ drives post-recession growth plans
Published: November 2009
Growing Relay Recruitment has rejected the takeover of competing agencies in its continuing expansion programme for ‘acquisition through recruitment’.
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More Net Results
Published: August 2009
Proof that grass roots sports sponsorship can lead to dramatic success comes in the form of Bradford Sunday Alliance League Premier Division heroes, Relay Recruitment Rovers, whose achievements led to it being asked to host Guiseley AFC in a pre-season friendly recently, at its new Myra Shay pitch.
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Take More Time Over Recruitment Decisions
Published: April 2009
Relay is advising businesses to be more methodical and discriminating when considering recruitment spends and to avoid ‘panic buying’ when staffing.
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Relay: The Next Generation
Published: May 2009
Relay has appointed former Millennium Recruitment head, Louise Mottershaw, as Business Manager, Wakefield and South Yorkshire.
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Reaping the rewards of sound financial governance
Published: June 2009
The biggest test for recruiters now is demonstrating the working capital they need to reassure clients says Relay’s money man
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STILL Going For Growth!
Published: January 2009
Evidence that Relay Recruitment is bucking current market trends comes with its Number 21 slot in the Fast 50 2009.
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UK Skills Nod for Relay
Published: June 2008
Hot on the heels of Relay's FOURTH industry Oscar win, we have been nominated for the Yorkshire heats of this year's UK Skills National Training Awards.
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Relay Wins Yet Again! Fourth Industry Oscar for Trophy Cabinet
Published: May 2008
We are celebrating winning our FOURTH industry Oscar - a 'Recruiter Award For Excellence 2008' - in the Best Marketing Campaign category.
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Relay's Boomerang Effect
Published: April 2008
Returning Executives Strengthen Company.
Relay is enjoying the 'boomerang effect', with four senior staff returning in the last six months.
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Fifth 'Oscar' Nomination for Relay
Published: March 2008
Relay is celebrating being nominated for an industry Oscar for the fifth time.
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Relay Races Ahead as Sector Suffers Increased demand for 'singular service offer'
Published: February 2008
Relay Recruitment, has bucked the decline in the recruitment sector by posting record-breaking end of year results and a best ever year start.
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'Space Race' Success
Published: December 2007
The inaugural Relay Recruitment 'bounceathon' fundraiser for the National Autistic Society in Roundhay Park, Leeds, drew several hundred spectators, who watched some 60 'hopper jockeys' bounce a 200m circuit, then carry their mounts for nine further laps.
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Relay Wakefield Launched
Published: December 2007
Relay Recruitment has opened new Wakefield Area Offices, on the city's Wood Street.
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Relay Recruits
Published: June 2004
To both accommodate recent rapid growth and drive further expansion, Relay has made five key appointments at its Leeds and Bradford offices.
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Company’s third national award
Published: April 2004
Relay has won the Best Recruitment Marketing Campaign category at the prestigious national Recruiter Awards for Excellence 2004.
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Appointment announcement
Published: July 2003
West Yorkshire’s Relay Recruitment has appointed supply-teacher specialist, Matthew Howes, to head up its new Education Division.
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Its a jungle in there!
Published: January 2003
The workplace is a hotbed of inequity, back-biting, prejudice, dishonesty and amorality, says Relay survey
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A site for sore eyes
Published: June 2003
As you will have noticed by now, Relay’s website has been completely revamped. We are immensely proud of the new presentation, but what makes the upgraded online service so special, is that it has been specified, designed and constructed by those who make most use of it.
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Don't leave it to chance
Published: August 2003
Relay’s latest Client Satisfaction Survey highlights the benefits of working with an REC-accredited consultancy.
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Relay finishes first...again
Published: November 2001
Relay Recruitment has notched up an entirely unprecedented achievement by taking its sector’s most coveted national prize for the second time in three years at the Recruitment Industry Awards 2001.
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Relay launches vocational support awards
Published: April 2002
Relay has launched a national programme to identify outstanding young people and help them achieve their particular career goals.
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Appointments announcement
Published: April 2002
Relay Recruitment has made two senior appointments. Alex Golding has been promoted to Operations Director, while Hannah Corbett rejoins us from Flame as Commercial Manager.
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Striking a balance
Published: July 2001
As part of its Fit for Business campaign, Relay has imported a revolutionary fitness technique from the US, appointed a personal trainer for staff and installed an in-house gym at its Bradford headquarters.
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Relay signs up the next generation
Published: June 2001
Relay Recruitment, has drafted in experienced Consultant, Penny Shield as part of its drive to free up established players to launch a branch network next year.
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Txt mssgs r grt 4 bznz!
Published: July 2001
Recognising the potential of text messaging as a powerful direct marketing tool has paid off for Relay Recruitment reporting a staggering response rate.
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Kate's permanent role
Published: October 2001
Yorkshire’s Relay Recruitment has strengthened its Commercial Division with the appointment of Kate Walker to head up the Perms Desk.
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Relay recruitment scoops top honours
Published: February 1999
Relay Recruitment has beaten off stiff competition from over 800 companies nationwide to win the prestigious Royal Mail Winning Post competition - a challenge that celebrates the cream of the crop in innovative, effective direct marketing techniques.
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Relay puts clients before the kart!
Published: July 1999
High-octane adrenalin was in the air as clients of Relay Recruitment whizzed round the racetrack at the company’s Annual Grand Prix, held at Bradford's Pole Position go-karting stadium.
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A wash and brush up in employment law
Published: September 1999
Invitations in the form of a specially branded shampoo, face cloth and wash bag are being delivered to HR professionals and company directors for Relay Recruitment’s ‘Wash & Go’ Breakfast Briefing.
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Bradford, Leeds and Tokyo... Relay goes global!
Published: October 1999
Many recruitment consultants will go that extra nine yards for their clients, but Steven Street of Relay Recruitment recently undertook a 14,000-mile round trip to interview and appraise a candidate.
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High fliers get their wings
Published: November 1999
Relay Recruitment’s Partnership with Schools initiative has seen high-flying pupils from Dixon’s City Technical College in Bradford gain their paragliding licences at HM Richard Allen Barrack in Topcliffe, North Yorkshire.
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The breakfast club
Published: November 1999
The latest series of Breakfast Briefings from Relay Recruitment has proved a hit with Yorkshire HR professionals and company directors.
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Charity relay race
Published: December 1999
Relay Recruitment is donating the money it usually spends on Christmas cards to charity instead, and has organised a special trolley dash to this end.
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Asking the right people
Published: October 2000
An ambitious initiative thought to be the first of its kind that brings sixth form students and employers together has been launched in Bradford by Relay Recruitment.
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Race to support sporting
Published: November 2001
Relay Recruitment’s grass roots sports sponsorship programme has clocked up its 50th beneficiary, Queensbury Celtic AFC, outside Bradford.
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Relay goes to town
Published: November 2002
New Leeds offices to spearhead dramatic expansion programme
A clutch of new services, a strategic alliance with Monster.com and key senior appointments have underpinned Relay’s establishment of new central Leeds offices.
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Relay bucks the trend
Published: November 2002
As the recruitment sector’s severe downturn deepens, Relay Recruitment has announced that operating profits have risen 37 per cent, while fee income in the first quarter of the current year is up 54 per cent on the same period last year.
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Careers Question Time road show
Published: October 2003
The new academic year has kicked off with a fresh series of Relay’s Careers Question Time events across West Yorkshire. The CQT Road show completed its run with an outstanding forum at Allerton Grange High School in Leeds.
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Recruiter awards for excellence
Published: February 2004
Relay has been nominated in the Best Recruitment Marketing Campaign category of the prestigious Recruiter Awards for Excellence 2004.
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Tackling the driver crisis
Published: February 2005
Relay and the Road Haulage Association are holding a free breakfast briefing at Hollins Hall, Guiseley, on 25th February at 08:00, to raise awareness of the impending and hard hitting Working Time Road Transport Directive 2005.
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Relay nominated - again!
Published: February 2005
After winning at the Recruiter Awards 2004, Relay has been nominated for its industry’s most prestigious prizes once again this year.
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Tackling the driver crisis part II
Published: March 2005
Relay and the Road Haulage Association held a successful breakfast briefing at Hollins Hall, Guiseley, recently to raise awareness of the impending and hard hitting Working Time Road Transport Directive 2005.
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Recruitment in Halifax and Huddersfield
Published: June 2005
Relay Recruitment is bringing its unique approach to staff supply and HR services to Kirklees and Calderdale, with the opening of new area headquarters on Halifax’s Central Street.
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A safe pair of hands
Published: August 2005
Relay has signed up former Bradford City FC goalkeeper, Jon Worsnop, as group industrial manager.
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Relay's race for charity
Published: September 2005
Sign up to sponsor Steven’s marathon effort
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Microsoft's west Yorkshire connection
Published: December 2005
Relay staffing for world’s first next generation console.
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Recipe for success
Published: January 2005
Relay starts the New Year with the launch of its new catering division. Servicing both hospitality and industrial operations, Relay Catering’s head is Stephanie Sowden.
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'Dogshare' is a worldwide hit
Published: February 2006
Relay has been making headlines around the world, with print, broadcast and online reports on every continent about its new initiative to reduce stress and lift morale in the workplace.
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Relay's training day
Published: March 2006
Relay Recruitment, has celebrated its sponsorship of Ilkley Rugby Football Club by presenting specially commissioned training shirts to the First XV team.
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Minty fresh recruitment!
Published: May 2006
Relay has pressed into service a million Tic Tacs in the latest strand of its multi-award winning marketing campaign.
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Relay into York
Published: June 2006
After revolutionising staff supply in West Yorkshire, we have opened flagship offices on Micklegate, York, where we plan to tackle North Yorkshire’s staff and skills shortages.
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Relay backs up client
Published: November 2006
Everybody claims to offer perfect back-up, but Relay managing director, Steven Street, really means it.
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Relay is top of the tree!
Published: December 2006
The biggest, if not the best, fairy at Relay Recruitment has been revealed in a staff competition for charity.
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Relay Recruitment has made three senior appointments.
Published: June 2007
A major focus for new group business manager, Jonathan Davies, will be sales growth through the development of existing business and recovering lapsed clients. He will also organise a group wide strategy for researching new prospects.
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Bradford Team’s Record Breaking Success
Published: June 2007
A Relay-sponsored community football team has achieved what is thought to be an unprecedented feat in the game, having been promoted as champions of their division four times in four successive years.
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Bouncing for autism!
Published: October 2007
‘Hopping mad' Relay fundraiser set for Roundhay Park. Relay Recruitment is enlisting volunteers and sponsors for a charity fundraising race with a difference in Roundhay Park, Leeds.
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Relay enlists Blair for marketing role
Published: May 2007
Relay has appointed Tony Blair to a key communications role. His brief is to promote the company in as impactful a way as possible.
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Exciting new alliance with hammondsdirect
Published: April 2007
AGENCY PANEL USHERS IN CHANGE, Market leading law firm, Hammondsdirect of Bradford and Manchester, is benefiting from human resources efficiencies delivered by a new, streamlined model, Recruitment Outsourcing.
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York high flier joins Relay
Published: February 2007
One of York’s most experienced recruitment professionals, Elaine Harvey, has signed up with the city’s newest, most idiosyncratic consultancy.
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Julie’s Recall to Relay
Published: January 2007
Relay Recruitment Halifax has appointed Julie Bates as branch manager at its Central Street offices following business growth in Calderdale.
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Relay high-flier graduates with £1/4m
Published: January 2007
The first graduate of Relay Recruitment’s combined staff development and stakeholding programme, Laura Cousins, has been awarded equity in the company worth over quarter of a million pounds.
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‘Polska Strona Bradford’ Website Launched
Published: January 2007
Relay Recruitment has worked on the construction and promotion of the first website for Polish workers in Bradford and surrounding areas.
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