1st Contact Restructures to Become First Global ’Bricks and Clicks’ Recruitment Solution

1st Contact, the recruitment and traveller services specialist, today announced a major restructure of their three international recruitment companies. 1st Contact Education and 1st Contact Medical will merge into one company to be called 1st Contact Recruitment, and 1st Contact Joblink will be sold.

The restructure sets 1st Contact Recruitment to become market leader in the education and medical sectors, said MD Mike Kaye. By having real world offices and our new dynamic job-search website, we shall be the first genuine recruitment solution that brings together both job seekers worldwide and the UK’s hospitals, schools, LEAs and Trusts.

1st Contact Recruitment with offices in the UK, Australia, South Africa and New Zealand, will operate under the central management of Managing Director Mike Kaye, who will also remain joint MD of the 1st Contact Group. 1st
Contact Joblink, which specialises in placing semi-skilled workers, has been bought out by its management and will trade under the name of London Link.

Confidence in recruitment websites is at an all time low, but few High Street chains can deliver on what schools and hospitals want at affordable rates. By developing the ’bricks and clicks’ solution, 1st Contact Recruitment will be able to guarantee both quality and affordability across those vital sectors where recruitment budgets are already stretched to breaking point.

1st Contact has walk-in offices in London, Australia, South Africa and New Zealand allowing education, social work and medical professionals worldwide to have direct access to both 1st Contact’s specialist consultants and their job vacancies across the UK.

Schools and hospitals are aggressively recruiting overseas to fill the void. 1st Contact is ideally placed not only to place quality candidates already in the UK but also those planning to come to live and work in the UK in the near future. The qualified teachers and medical professionals coming from our overseas offices want the reassurance of a job waiting for them on arrival. For schools and hospitals particularly, such pre emptive recruiting will cure their ongoing recruitment migraine.’