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For most people, the idea of arriving at work naked is the stuff of nightmares and would normally result in a ’sitting bolt-upright in bed in a cold sweat’ scenario.
But this was not the case for the guys and girls at Sub-Sight’s sister company the Aspire Recruitment Group, one of the largest independent construction recruitment agencies in the south-east of England, who took part in the follow-up series to Virgin Television’s groundbreaking ‘Naked Office’ – airing now on Virgin 1 (Virgin Media channel 119, Freeview channel 20 & Sky channel 121).
The series investigates whether working naked will help to break down barriers within the office and increase positivity at a time in which doom and gloom for many industries has become the norm.
Leading behavioural change specialist and leadership guru Seven Suphi spends a week with each of the companies involved with the aim of helping them to “push their boundaries and become a close team that trust each other enough to get naked together”. The process takes each of the individuals involved on a personal and professional journey as they build up towards the dreaded ‘Naked Friday’.
With the recession in full swing Aspire had, understandably, found life tough over the past year, as had the construction recruitment sector in general.
“During tough times it is important to make bold decisions and not be afraid to stand out from the crowd”, Operations Manager, Laura Kirton explained. “So when we were given the chance to work with Seven to help bring our team together and move the company forward we jumped at it.”
“The nakedness bit was really secondary to what we wanted to achieve together as a company and we really feel that we operate better as a unit as a result.”
Laura, who played a leading part in the week’s events, continued, “Obviously, the programme-makers will focus in a huge way on the nakedness but we can take or leave that part of the process. For us it’s more about the ways in which we stand out from the other construction recruitment companies and are able to pull together as a team to really add value to our clients’ businesses.”
Links
Naked Office:
www.virgin1.co.uk/shows/naked-office/about.php
Aspire Recruitment Group:
www.aspire-recgroup.co.uk
Follow Aspire on Twitter:
http://twitter.com/aspirerecgroup
Aspire Recruitment Group, Sub-Sight’s parent company have begun supplying trades, labour and machine operators to a number of contractors on
all of the various Olympic sites in East London.
Workers sourced, vetted and fully referenced by Aspire are now working on the Olympic Stadium site, the Athlete’s Village site and the site of the new Westfield Shopping Centre.
This will only have a positive effect on the image of Sub-Sight within the construction industry and is bound to encourage more and more main contractors to use Sub-Sight when looking for a local sub-contractor.
Sub-Sight benefits from the existing, and developing, relationships between Aspire Recruitment and many of the most prominent main contractors and developers in the industry, and it is these relationships which have secured new business for many of the sub-contractors currently advertising on Sub-Sight.
Why not click here and see what Sub-Sight can do for your business? Whether your company is a main contractor, or developer, or a sub-contractor, Sub-Sight has something to offer and can help to build new business relationships in an industry which has been shaken by recent financial condidtions.
Interested in how your company can become involved in the London 2012 Olympics construction projects? Email Adrienne Ritchie for more information on the process.
Since its inception in March 2009, Sub-Sight has helped scores of sub-contractors in the South-East of England find new business due to their inclusion in the directory.
Now, due to phenomenal demand, Sub-Sight has extended its scope to cover another 13 counties (see below) and, as a result, has set a target of £25m in new contracts for sub-contractors in this newly extended area.
The 4000+ current projects within this region amount to a total value of over £3.8billion so far this year, ands this does not include the work going on in preparation for the London 2012 Olympics. This means that there will be somewhere in the region of 80,000 sub-contract packages going out to tender. Our intention is to ensure that, through effective networking on their behalf, our Sub-Sight members pick up a proportion of this work.
£25million works out at less than 1% of the total works being carried out in the region. Not such an unrealistic target after all? It stands to reason, when analysing these figures, that many of the sub-contract packages on projects in this region must be going to firms from outside the geographical region. Sub-Sight aims to re-claim a portion of the revenue in the Midlands and South-East of England for local firms.
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Is your company based in any of the following counties?:
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- Bedfordshire
- Buckinghamshire
- Berkshire
- Cambridgeshire
- Essex
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- Gloucestershire
- Greater London
- Hampshire
- Hertfordshire
- Leicestershire
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- Lincolnshire
- Norfolk
- Northamptonshire
- Oxfordshire
- Suffolk
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- Surrey
- Warwickshire
- West Midlands
- Wiltshire
- Worcestershire
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Sub-Sight, and parent company Aspire Recruitment Group, got this summer’s entertainment calendar off to a flying start with a fantastic day out at Towcester Races last week.
The Towcester Races trip is just one of a Summer full of events planned for clients in 2009 with further events such as the final British Grand Prix at Silverstone, further racing days at the Cheltenham Festival and Ascot, a charity Sky-Diving event in aid of Global Angels and a ‘Beat the Recession’ seminar aimed at our partners in the construction industry.
These are just a few of the corporate events planned for the coming year:
- Friday 19 June – Sunday 21 June 2009 – British Grand Prix, Silverstone
- Tuesday 16 June – Saturday 20 June 2009 Royal Ascot
- Saturday 15 August 2009 – Global Angels Skydiving Event
- November 2009 (date TBC) – ‘Beat the Recession’ Seminars, Various Locations
Interested in taking part in one of our corporate events and networking with contacts form companies who can benefit you or your business?
Email or call Ashley Percival-Smith on 01604 609010 for more details.
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As the construction industry faces the country’s biggest recession in over fifty years, many principal contractors are facing a quandry when lining up sub-contractors for the various parts of their building projects.
“Price or Loyalty?”
… is this the question being asked by building firms during these financially trying times?
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It’s well documented that certain companies, or more correctly, certain people, just work well together. After all, there’s nobody as reliable as somebody with whom you’ve worked alongside for years. They’ve delivered time and time again on site after site and have never let you down. At the very least if you have been let down you’ve put processes in place to make sure that it doesn’t happen again.
So, without doubt, when that kind of professional relationship is built between a contractor and a sub-contractor – and the same can be said to be true within any industry – it tends to last.
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Now, just throw the small matter of a major economic downturn – one that very few people alive have seen the like of – into the mix. The pressure which this type of financial climate brings can be felt in many ways and the construction industry is, historically, one of the first to be hit by such a downturn.
Despite the calls by economists for us to spend our way out of the recession, and as people inevitably stop spending money, businesses are forced to cut costs. Plain and simple.
So, the completion of projects on or under budget is a major concern in these times. Costs are driven down at each stage of each project. Subbies feel the pinch. Some may go under. Some have. Those principal contractors which do not react quickly enough to the financial contraction may also suffer. Some may go under. Some have.
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So what is the net result of all this? Many companies will survive this financial crisis. A number will not. And what happens to the business relationships enjoyed in the past when at least one of the parties no longer exists? It is as if it has never been. What happens to the fantastic camaraderie enjoyed on site when a contractor is forced to drop a subbie because of financial constraints placed upon them by the company which has just taken them over? It’s as if it never existed.
So the upshot is that principal contractors are being forced to find new sub-contractors. Building firms are being forced to take work outside their usual catchment areas. Subbies are having to find new contacts at main contractors in order to find work.
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Networking within the building business – a normally important process within any industry – becomes vital to the survival of any company at times like these. This is where a concept such as Sub-Sight comes in.
Then why is this online directory different to any other and why can it really make a difference to the construction sector? The secret is really to be found within the organisation behind Sub-Sight, the Aspire Recruitment Group – one of the largest independent recruitment agencies in the south of England.
Having been recruiting for construction companies for around a decade, Aspire consultants are in contact with over a thousand contacts at principal contracting firms every week. Thus, the Sub-Sight concept is fuelled by some of the best relationships in any industry, not just in construction. As a trusted recruiting partner to many of the largest building and civil engineering firms in the UK, Aspire staff have been there to advise developers from outside the geographical area on local subbies on many occassions.
What Aspire have done in this instance is to put a more structured process behind this by launching an online construction supply chain mechanism at a time when the industry needs just such a networking tool. Sub-Sight aims to connect principal contractors with sub-contractors
If you represent a sub-contractor based in Beds, Bucks, Herts, Cambs, Northants, Oxfordshire or Warwickshire, and your company is not already on www.sub-sight.co.uk, then please click here to register your interest and find out more.
Alternatively, if you work for a principal contractor why not click here to register, for free, for your login to Sub-Sight.
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The Tresham Institute, the Northamptonshire college of Further and Higher Education, is set to begin construction again, with £63m redevelopment plans which will see new buildings at its Wellingborough and Corby campuses as well as an extension to the newly redeveloped Kettering Campus. This news comes within a month of the official opening at the Kettering site.
Negotiations are ongoing with Northamptonshire County Council, who currently own the site used by Corby Community College, in order to build its new £42m Corby Campus. Corby’s ongoing regeneration will be boosted by the development of the new 14-acre site on the eastern approach to the town.
The new Corby Campus will continue to offer subjects currently available such as Construction, Motor Vehicle and Hair and Beauty as well as additional provision in Sport, Business, Health and Care and employer-led work. The building has been designed by Bond Bryan and will be a mixture of brick and zinc exteriors with a wood lift column as a feature in the main atrium. Learning pods for each curriculum will also be built with a small library and computers for learners to gain the right information.
The development will provide much needed space in order to develop the an Higher Education centre on the campus as part of the government’s ‘University Challenge’ scheme, the aim of which is to provide a platform from which to launch a bid to become North Northamptonshire University.
In addition to the new site in Corby, Tresham Institute has also been successful in securing a site to maintain a presence in Wellingborough town centre and will be building a brand new £16million campus in the site that is currently being used as the Jackson Lane car park. The new campus in Wellingborough will provide a focused skills centre to offer training in Engineering, Motor Vehicle, Construction and Early Years.
In collaboration with local schools, Tresham will be building a £6million extension on its brand new campus in Kettering to provide new vocational opportunities. The extension will include high quality catering facilities, expanded hair and beauty salons and create a business and enterprise centre.
Work will start on all three campuses in April 2009. The Kettering extension is due to be completed by Autumn 2010 and the brand new campuses in Corby and Wellingborough are due to be finished by Autumn 2011.
