Grafton Employment Group

Grafton Recruitment offers an effective solution to recruiting for both private companies and the public sector. We can recommend the right candidates for your vacancy by matching both their skills and your company environment with the candidate. We have long standing relationships with our clients and endeavour to create a close working partnership. This allows us to understand the needs of our clients.

We are able to tailor an outsourcing solution, for example personnel and payroll services, or manage your recruitment process as a main supplier. We can design and implement assessment centres and psychometric testing as well as offering HR Consultancy and Outplacement services.

Grafton Recruitment is part of the Grafton Employment Group which was founded on Grafton Street, Dublin, Ireland in 1982. The Grafton Employment Group comprises 7 sector leading brands across a growing network of 70 offices in 16 countries and is the leading employment solutions partner in Ireland and Central and Eastern Europe. Our mission is to create better value for our clients through finding, nurturing and managing talent. We offer our clients a comprehensive range of industry specific recruitment, diagnostic and HR consultancy services focusing on talent attraction, organisational efficiency, workforce management and growth.

We work with our client at a new level of understanding. By engaging with our clients at a new level we are able to deliver :

• The best talent, when and where you need it
• Flexibility and scalability
• Seamless and consistent local expertise and project implementation
• Market insight and compliance
• Linguistic capability and cultural alignment
• Creative embedded and bespoke solutions
• Cost reduction and productivity gains
• Long term and deep client relationships

We deliver the competitive edge that our clients need to thrive in the global marketplace.

Our range of bespoke employment services includes:

The Grafton Employment Group is so much more than just the sum of its parts.

Our group comprises 7 key brands:

Grafton Recruitment- Global Permanent and Temporary Recruitment Provider
SpenglerFox- Global Executive Search and HR Consultancy network
Grafton ESP- Global Recruitment Process Outsourcing and HR Consultancy organisation
Grafton Technologies- Central and Eastern Europe’s leading Technical specialist recruitment partner
Blueprint Appointments- Irelands Leading Technical specialist recruitment partner
Maryb.ie- Ireland’s leading Administrative staffing provider
Grafton Healthcare- Worldwide recruiter of professionals allied to medicine

Key Stats:

• 600 highly trained consultants and support staff who speak a total of 53 languages
• 28 years delivering HR and recruitment solutions
• Wholly owned network of over 70 offices in 16 countries: Chile, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Turkey, UAE and the UK
• Market leader in Ireland, The Czech Republic, Poland, Hungary and Slovakia.
• We payroll 23,000 temporary workers on a yearly basis and fill over 6000 permanent vacancies.
• Cutting edge fully integrated global database of over 1 million candidates who speak
• Co-founder Ken Belshaw received the Gratias Agit Award for services to the Czech Republic in 2006
• Co- founder James Kilbane was a finalist in the International Category of Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year 2007
• ISO 9000 : 2001 status assessed by independent auditors SGS bi-annually
• We have been the recipient of the Queens Award for Enterprise on two occasions from 2002- 2006 and from 2006- 2011
• Committed to developing skills and improving the quality of life for children locally and in developing countries. As part of our corporate social responsibility programme we work with local organisations and global partners Children in Crossfire, Unicef and Business in the community to help to achieve our aim.

Our portfolio of clients includes multi-national organisations, public and private sector bodies and small and medium enterprises across the world. Sectors of strength include Finance/Banking, Energy, Public Sector, Pharmaceutical, Healthcare, IT & Technologies, FMCG, Professional Services (including site selection), Shared Service Centres (SSC) and Contact Centres.

Our Mission:
Our mission is to empower people and organisations to be more competitive, through finding, nurturing and managing talent.

Our Values:

• Passionate- We demonstrate our spirit, pride and passion by delivering professional excellence every day. We are a local company so we have a commitment to our local communities, worldwide. It is essential that we act ethically and with integrity in everything that we do to deliver the best service to clients and candidates across our network and at home.
• Enterprising- we don’t see borders or barriers- only opportunities. If our client has a problem we must strive to find the solution whether that means creating new services or entering new sectors or geographies. We strive to explore and innovate because it excites us and because we want to be the best.
• Agile- being agile is not just about being responsive but about being proactive. We always need to be one step ahead so that our clients and candidates can be too. We have great resources at our fingertips and we mobilise our resources and expertise quickly to solve problems- By being alert, acting swiftly and making good decisions we help our clients and candidates become more competitive, productive and successful.
• Collaborative- whilst we are all strong as individuals, as a team we are unstoppable. Working together with each other, our clients and our candidates we can achieve a whole new level of engagement. This means asking the right questions and listening to the answers- This means understanding and appreciating our different experiences and expertise and using our combined insight and skills to build lasting relationships and deliver first class service.
• Effective- We believe in delivering the best and most effective solutions for our clients and candidates every day. If you have a problem to solve, we have a problem to solve so at the end of every day we ask ourselves:
  • Did we solve the problem?
  • Did we deliver for the client and candidate?
  • What does our client need and how can we better fulfil that need
  • Only by constantly challenging ourselves can we move forward, together.