Working at Harper Recruitment Group

Harper Recruitment have been offering high quality recruitment services across Nottingham, Leicester, Derby, and the wider East Midlands region since 1987.

Whether you’re looking for a job or to hire, we have an expert team of consultants ready to guide you through the entire recruitment process from beginning to end.

Our History:

Jane Harper formed ‘Harper Recruitment’ in 1987. After working with both a national organisation and a small privately-owned firm and she believed there was a gap in the market for a professionally focused consultancy. Harpers provide a balanced combination of professional corporate service levels and the intimate market knowledge/understanding offered by a local supplier. Most importantly we ensure that the "human element" is maintained throughout the entire process.

Holding firm to these beliefs Harpers went on to be the consultancy of choice for a large degree of the East Midlands businesses from PLC’s (sole commercial supplier to Boots group for many years) to trusted recruitment partners for OMB/SME’s across the region. The candidate relationships developed throughout this time has seen placement support for some of the regions industry leaders and key figures along with multiple generations coming to Harpers for guidance and advice with their career development.

Our Core Values:

Harpers prides itself on offering a personalised, professional, tailored service and solution, no matter what guise you engage with the business. The last 30 years plus has stood testament to our founding beliefs and still, today, form the core of Harpers business mantra.

Our Recruitment Consultants:

Our consultants have market leading experience in the East Midlands recruitment sector, with an average of 10+ years’ experience in their given fields, making us one of the top independent recruitment agencies in Nottingham and the East Midlands. Staff retention is one of our key USP’s, our consultants and support team tend to stay with us for many years, with an average of 9 years’ service in our Nottingham office, providing our clients and candidates with unparalleled regional market knowledge and understanding.

Quality of Service:

Our consultants are rewarded on service delivery and project performance, along with sales achievements. This ensures that our team is 100% focused on providing the most suitable candidates to fill our client’s roles. Naturally, the only true measure of the quality of service that we provide is what our clients and candidates say about us: in the last 3 years alone, over 38% of our candidates have come from referrals and 89% of our clients have given us repeat business. See our Testimonials page for more information.

Candidate Flow:

The critical success factor for any recruitment agency is to be able to consistently provide high quality candidates. We attract candidates partially because of our reputation and because of continuous consistent presence in the East Midlands commercial recruitment market. Valuing a traditional approach to candidate attraction whilst embracing the latest technological advances in Web and Social Media attraction methodology.