About Arras People

Arras People was established in response to the growing demand for quality, experienced project management resources within many of today's organisations.

Initially focusing purely on supplying programme and project office roles, Arras soon added to its services by becoming a Programme and Project Management recruitment agency in response to a growing demand by our clients.

Arras People now provides excellent programme and project management candidates alongside our professional project office support personnel across all industry sectors.

Why Project Management?

The directors who started the business in 2002 had previously worked as programme managers, project managers and project office managers.

When a once in a lifetime opportunity came along to start their own business, they saw a gap in the market and had experienced firsthand how difficult it was to recruit project management professionals. Arras People was launched as a high quality project management recruitment service.

Now in our seventh year of business, Arras People continues to grow and provide quality services beyond that of other project management recruitment agencies, meeting the demands of clients looking for quality project management resources. All of our consultants are project management professionals with experience in providing recruitment and resourcing solutions.

Our project management recruitment services are delivered using best practice project management principles - like initiation, planning and delivery.

Knowledge-Based Project Management Recruitment

When working with you we like to describe our approach as "knowledge-based recruitment", which simply means our consultants have all worked as practitioners within the field of programmes and projects at some point in their careers and are using their first-hand knowledge of programme and project management to find the best person for your role. For each new requirement we follow a simple but effective method - based very much on the principles of best practice project management: initiation, planning, selection, delivery and support.

Using our prior project management experience and effective process provides us with numerous benefits and differentiators. We pride ourselves in being able to:

• Understand your programme and project objectives within an organisation
• Quickly understand your organisations project culture
• Understand the structures, processes and tools you have in place
• Gather information about your organisations ethos and culture and the people you attract
• Assist in developing your job and person specifications where you may not have them available
• Surpass other project management recruitment agencies with tailorable know-how and experience rivalled by no other

Our approach also gives the following benefits when talking to our candidates:

• We understand the role they perform
• We work to understand the experience and qualifications they have gained
• We spend time finding out about the person behind the C.V.
• We represent all our candidates accurately and with great care
• We represent our clients with accuracy and great care

Our respect for both parties gives us a key differentiator, we do not just broker CV's and as a consequence we have hundreds of project professionals already registered with us and satisfied clients who come back for more.

Directors of Arras People

> John Thorpe

> Lindsay Scott