Warwickshire-based Pertemps Network Group becomes a Gold Investor in People

By Peter Davison

30 May 2023

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Tracy Evans, Group HR and Quality Director

Warwickshire-based recruitment specialist Pertemps Network Group has been awarded a We Invest In People Gold Accreditation award.

The award was revealed at an internal awards ceremony on Friday by Group HR and Quality Director Tracy Evans.

Pertemps has been accredited by awarding body Investors in People (IIP) for more than 20 years, reflecting the amount of time and resource we devote to looking after our people, creating a great place to work and helping develop their skills and careers.

Now though, after interviews with more than 60 staff from across the group, including Scotland and network group companies, Pertemps has been awarded the sought-after gold standard – attained by only seven per cent of organisations who take part in the assessment process.

Lifetime President Tim Watts said: “I have always been justifiably proud of the company and its people and how you always go above and beyond.

“We have maintained our status with Investors in People for more than 20 years, but I am absolutely delighted now to have been awarded this gold standard.

“It speaks volumes about how much this business believes in its people and invests in its people and we will always continue to do so.”

Over the last 30 years IIP have accredited more than 50,000 organisations. The ‘We invest in people’ accreditation is recognised in 66 countries around the world, which makes it the global benchmark when it comes to people management.

Across the UK, only 16 per cent of companies hold Investor In People status.

By Peter Davison

Peter Davison is deputy editor of The Business Magazine. He has spent his life in journalism – doing work experience in newsrooms in and around Bristol while still at school, and landing his first job on a local newspaper aged 19. By 28 he was the youngest newspaper editor in the country.

An early advocate of online news, he spent the first years of the 2000s telling his bosses that the internet posed both the biggest opportunity and greatest threat to the newspaper industry and the art of journalism. He was right on both counts.

Since 2006 he has enjoyed a career as a freelance journalist. He lives in rural Wiltshire with one wife, two children, and three cats.