Corporate Social Responsibility
At Permanent Solutions Direct, we are building a company with integrity and social conscience. As such, we are mindful of the importance of working within the wider community.
We have taken the opportunity to help others with our business acumen and knowledge, built up over 33 years collectively within recruitment.
Through our commitment as a business to engage with as many community projects and voluntary organisations as possible we have consistently dedicated between 75 – 100 hours of support per year.
Lisa Jarvis – Director
As a School Parent Governor for a local Junior School in Copthorne, Lisa sits on the Staffing and Finance Committee, offering her expertise in this area as a compliment to fellow board members’ skills and experience.
Lisa Jarvis is a Fellow of the REC (www.rec-irp.uk.com) and a voluntary member of the Steering and Awarding Committee for the REC’s Certificate in Recruitment Practice qualification. The Certificate is an ideal qualification for those new to the industry or those with experience but without any formal training or qualification, and the REC are now a recognised Ofqual Awarding Body (Ofqual are the Government’s Office of the Qualifications and Examinations Regulator). More information can be found at www.rec.uk.com/qualifications.
The Farlington Apprentice
The Farlington Apprentice Group
Farlington Apprentice was an internal competition run by Farlington School for Year 10 girls, aged 14 and 15 years old.
Over the 5 days, six pupils had to perform a range of tasks set by businesses in the community to determine which one of them would be hired.
Each day of the week one girl of the original six was eliminated.
Monday’s challenge was run by the West Sussex County Times, Tuesday’s by Harrison’s catering company, Wednesday’s by Permanent Solutions Direct and Harris Lord, Thursday’s by Radio Mercury and Friday the last hurdle was to decide how to spend a hypothetical £1m gift to the school, the remaining two girls had to present their ideas to a panel.
Permanent Solutions Direct’s particular day was Wednesday where Lisa Jarvis MD of Permanent Solutions Direct and Justine Harris Joint MD of Harris Lord in Horsham designed an assessment centre style day for the four remaining girls. This consisted of writing CVs, a team building session where we challenged them to build a structure at least 50cm tall, which could hold a small bottle of water with only a West Sussex County Times, a ball of string and some sticky tape, they had to write a letter asking for work experience to Radio Mercury, do a listening and memory test, a rigorous competency style interview to a panel, a computer assessment and an in-depth personality assessment which was provided free of charge by Colin Golding MD of Goldisc Training.
“I was delighted to be part of the whole Farlington Apprentice experience and was thoroughly impressed by the determination, commitment and focus that the finalists demonstrated – not to mention the high standard of CV’s they produced and the manner in which they conducted themselves during structured, competency based interviews!” Lisa Jarvis, Permanent Solutions Direct, Henfield.
“The Farlington Apprentice was an inspired idea by Sara Greer, The Marketing Director of Farlington. The feedback from the girls and parents of the girls was incredibly positive.
The girls were put through rigorous challenges, which a lot of business people would have found difficult, frankly all the judges on the final day were really impressed, we had to keep reminding ourselves that these girls were only 15. An incredible amount of work went into that week, it was a fantastic project to be involved in and will have a lasting impact on all the girls that took part.” Justine Harris, Harris Lord Recruitment, Horsham.
The Company
Permanent Solutions Direct supports Breast Cancer Care by holding ‘pink’ raffles at our Seminars, sending ‘pink ribbon’ Christmas cards to all our clients and partners.
We support our staff, candidates and clients with sponsorship of their charities of choice.