About Arras People

Arras People first started because the directors 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 first hand how difficult it was to recruit project management professionals. Arras People was launched as a high quality project management recruitment service.

After a successful first year in business, Arras People had already been working with clients such as VISA, Barclays, National Police Improvement Agency and T-Mobile.

With a new tender from the Office of Government Commerce (OGC) Arras People became a preferred supplier for public sector project management recruitment.

We first introduced the Project Management Careers Clinics due to popular demand. Arras receives calls every day from people wanting to talk about their careers. They often have questions about qualifications; how to move on in their careers or get some advice about their CVs.

We wanted to make sure we were giving the best advice possible based on each person’s individual experiences so it made sense to offer 30 minute 1-2-1 sessions.

Project Management Careers Clinics are still a very popular service with around 10 sessions per week. See the careers clinic service

It feels like such a long time ago now but online advertising; recruitment databases and managing candidates expectations were all still in its infancy.

Arras People launched its candidate registration system – aProfile – which enabled us to proactively manage candidate registrations and contact.

We’ve come a long way since that day and now use a recruitment system customised for project management skilling and profiling.

Arras People started the Project Management Benchmark Report – and it’s still going strong today.

The Report gives us a snapshot of the project management profession in the UK and each year includes salary and rate levels; insights into project management qualifications and covers special areas each year based on developments in the job market and economy.

Take a look at the latest report

Arras People started its long term association with the Project Management Institute (PMI) when director, Lindsay Scott became the PMI Network magazine careers columnist.

Lindsay still writes the column for PMI as well as contributing to other online resources for PMI – all focused on project management careers.

Arras People new website launched.

With project management becoming a career of first choice for many graduates, Arras People started offering project management career lectures to UK universities.

We wanted to make sure that graduates were given an insight into working in the UK in a project management role and give them practical advice on taking the first steps into project management.

The Agency Workers Regulation (AWR) came into effect this year which meant a change in policies for all our contract and freelance project management practitioners.

Now in our second decade in 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. Throughout the process strong communications are key to ensuring a successful outcome.

Arras People start providing career counselling services to project management practitioners who are long term unemployed through the DWP Executive Support scheme

Arras People started introducing project management career workshops and webinars to help assist a wider range of project management professionals – both here in the UK and overseas.

The workshops included; getting into project management; perfecting your CV; using Linkedin for opportunities; standing out in a competitive market.

Guidance is still available today in our PM Careers section.

The Handbook of People in Project Management is published – co-edited by Arras Director, Lindsay Scott.

Arras People become part of the Capita CL1 contract for contract and freelance project management resources for central government.

With lots of urgent vacancies and a quick turnaround for vacancies across all areas of government, Arras People created a new recruitment process for security cleared project management freelancers.

New Off-Payroll Regulations for IR35 came into force, Arras People changed the way we advertise, recruit and manage contract staff for the public sector.

Today Arras People remains the UK’s only project management recruitment specialist, 100% focused on project management recruitment.

The employment market and the project management industry may have changed a lot over the last 15 years and so has Arras People. The only thing that has stayed the same is our guiding principle, “treat people as you yourself would like to be treated”.

Talk to us about your requirements today.