Recruiters mark 20 years of growth and success

An award-winning recruitment company that started with just three people 20 years ago is celebrating two decades in business, having grown into a 70-person operation with four offices and an international reach.

The ONE Group now has offices in Peterborough, Cambridge, Northampton and Potters Bar, with the last of these being the most recent to open in October 2023. The company serves clients from near and far, locally and as far away as Europe and the US.

ONE Group Founder and Director Tristan Drane said: “We are incredibly proud to reach this 20-year milestone. I am a believer of the whole being greater than the sum of its parts and that typifies what makes the business so special. It is a smorgasbord of people, talent, opportunity, drive, determination and many other things that make it the business it is today.”

The ONE Group was founded in June 2004 as Sphere Financial Recruitment and rebranded as The ONE Group in 2008. The original founding partners were Mr Drane, Anthony Barnes and David Bord, the last of whom left the business in 2018.

Mr Barnes remained with The ONE Group until his death in 2023, following which the company introduced a special recognition award in his honour.

The ONE Group has remained committed to prioritising the personal aspects of recruitment throughout its first 20 years. It is passionate about encouraging a supportive and positive culture, by empowering their consultants to prioritise customer needs.

The company’s aim is to go beyond transactional recruitment and re-establish the importance of putting people first, making them an exceptional business to partner with. Its most successful year was 2022, when it placed more than 1,200 candidates.

Over the years, The ONE Group has raised an impressive £147,571.25 for its chosen charity, Magpas Air Ambulance. To find out more, see theonegroup.co.uk