Yorkshire recruitment specialist Stafforce opens four new offices

Yorkshire recruitment specialist Stafforce Recruitment is expanding its national branch network by four new offices, including two in its South Yorkshire heartland.

The business, which is headquartered in Rotherham but has a 28-strong network of branches and on-site operations stretching from the North of Scotland via London to Chichester on the south coast, will launch the new operations in Sheffield, Doncaster, Wolverhampton and Docklands in London in January.

The move extends Stafforce Recruitment’s presence into the West Midlands for the first time, doubles its operations in the capital and significantly strengthens the company’s position in the Yorkshire region.

Stafforce Recruitment previously had offices in Doncaster and Sheffield but consolidated its South Yorkshire operations during the recession as the region was hit by heavy job losses.

Stafforce Recruitment founder and chairman Nick Cragg said that with demand for workers now growing across all regions of the UK, it was the right time to put the company’s expansion plans into action.

He said: “Growing the Stafforce Recruitment brand on a national basis has been on the agenda for some time but with economic uncertainly blighting the UK and Europe over recent years, we needed to pick the right time to do it.

“We have seen demand for staff increase across the majority of sectors we service and that seems as if it is set to continue, so we believe that now is the time.

“We have some really fantastic people heading up our new offices with many years of recruitment experience between them. I’m extremely excited by the expansion, which is the first of a number we have planned over medium term.”

“There are a lot of exciting investment projects in South Yorkshire at the moment and our ambition is to be involved in those and to play our part in ensuring the economic potential of the region is realised.

“To do that without a strong local presence would be difficult, we need to be part of South Yorkshire’s respective business communities so that is why it is important for us to launch these new offices now.

“But the same goes for London and Wolverhampton. We want to capitalise on the upturn in these areas also so need to be truly integrated into the community to enable that to happen.”