Jason Guy
Managing director, People Plus Recruitment

Monday
After hobbling into the office nursing a football injury from the weekend, the ‘light bulb’ flickers in my head… ISO external audit! Luckily I had prepared and after an initial headscratching five minutes I found myself on the right side of the auditor. Having passed our third audit with flying colours, I continued working on features for our new website. With such a busy day I’d almost forgotten about my injury.

Tuesday
Arrived in the office and receive two CVs of consultants who have been made redundant by local competitors. I immediately arrange an interview with one who caught my eye as she lived near our Cannock branch and had commercial perm experience, an area we want to capitalise on. Submit our latest advert for the Wolves FC programme. We have a full-page ad for each home match until the end of the season. It’s certainly paid off and has generated plenty of interest. Talked myself out of going to the gym, something about an injury…

Wednesday
Our sister company, education recruitment specialist First Resourcing, is to start supplying secondary, as well as primary, schools with supply teachers. I received the figures for the branches and updated our weekly in-house sales competition, the ‘People Plus Premier League’. I presented our Coventry manager with a bottle of bubbly for his league-topping performance in February — I failed to mention that the bottle was in fact bubble bath. Still, he can aim for a clean start next month.

Thursday
Opened an email informing me of my appointment as a Prince’s Trust mentor. As we started our business through the Prince’s Trust I’ve always wanted to give something back and this was the ideal way. I wasn’t expecting an answer so soon after last week’s interview, but it must have been the eye contact and firm handshake that clinched it.

Friday
A consultant from our Wolverhampton office rang to say he’d been given an opportunity to supply 10 staff to a local sandwich manufacturer. The client was finally bowled over by our gangmasters licensing accreditation and agreed to 10 staff for a weekend shift. I had promised to take my wife out for a meal and not talk about work. Usually, the week’s events are still buzzing around my head but this week was easy — I’d written it in my diary!


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