Opus Recruitment Solutions is one of the fastest growing recruitment companies in the UK.
Across the IT industry they cover a number of markets in permanent, temporary and contract IT solutions and are positioned to provide IT professionals at all levels.
The company has grown significantly over the past 7 years and now has not only increased profits year-on-year, but has offices in Bristol, London, Sydney and Amsterdam as well as having an entity set up in Norway.
The London office also has an experienced team of specialists in global energy and engineering recruitment, across both permanent and contract markets.
They have received numerous awards and accolades such as being included in The Sunday Times Virgin Fast Track for 2012and 2013 and making it onto the Recruiter Hot 100 for the past three years. Darren Ryemill, Founder and CEO also received an award for ‘Entrepreneur of the Year’ in 2013 from Recruitment International. Opus was also personally selected by Lord Young, The Prime Minister’s Enterprise Advisor, and Sir Terry Leahy, to become a founding member of Accelerate250,identifying Opus as “one of the UK’s top 250 businesses.”
Year-on-year they have seen a 46% increase in headcount and with opportunities to quickly progress at Opus, their retention rate is very high. In six short years, Opus has grown significantly and by the end of 2014 they will have in excess of 100. Darren Ryemill told us that, “Growing at the rate we would like has been a major challenge. We have a huge amount of demand from our clients and are always on the lookout for talented people to join us.
The Opus Professional Services Group has changed a great deal over the last year. They now have Opus Information Technology, Opus Global Energy & Engineering, Baltimore Consulting Group, McLean Ross, Hinton Spencer, talent cubed and Addocura within the group. All recruitment related businesses that deal with different sectors and provide different services.
In 2015 their planned growth will continue as they expand into new geographic regions – Sydney and Amsterdam with a US office planned for 2015. Furthermore, divisions are growing with group headcount looking to double in 2015.
If that wasn’t enough Opus are expanding into new market sectors and growing their client base in Energy & Engineering, Public Sector, Utilities, Graduate Recruitment and the rollout of their RPO offering.
Opus says that they love challenging the status quo and redefining the ways things are done. Darren Ryemill added, “We want to drive things forward in a new way that excites us, our clients and the industry at large.”
Going from £0 turnover to £20million + turnover within six years of incorporation is a fantastic achievement, and putting the infrastructure in place to double this turnover to £48millionwithin the next year is perhaps an even greater achievement.
Impressive indeed from a business opened on the back of a recession in 2008, that has worked hard to get some fantastic client names on board, and then delivered the high quality of service and candidates that has ensured clients keep coming back to Opus.