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HR GO plc is a National recruitment and business services Group with a network of over 50 offices predominantly throughout the UK and Spain.

Recruitment International ranked HR GO plc as one of the top 65 recruitment organisations in the UK in their 2009 top 250 report.

2007 marked a major milestone when the Group celebrated its 50th anniversary and record profits. The company enjoys a turnover of circa £70 million, employs over 360 permanent personnel and pays over 4,000 temporary workers per week.

Through a programme of planned expansion and diversification, the Group now offers an extensive range of recruitment services to its customers.

HR GO plc is listed on the PLUS market. In 2009, HR GO plc won the PLUS Market "Company of the Year" award. .

The head quarters are based in Ashford, Kent.

History
The company was founded by Mrs Betty Parkinson in 1957. Working as a secretary in Tooley Street, London, fate was smiling on Mrs Betty Parkinson one December evening when her boss let her leave early and she was able to catch an earlier train home to Kent, narrowly missing the Lewisham train disaster in which 90 people were killed and 173 injured.

Betty quickly found temporary work at a Paper Mills in Dartford and it was here that she experienced her first taste of recruitment. The Paper Mills needed additional staff and within five weeks she had herself recruited nine people earning a profit of 10s (50p) per day for each of them.

This fuelled her ambition for recruitment and soon Parkinson Staff Bureau (PSB) was born in 1957. The success of Betty’s first office in Dartford, which originally started in her front room at home, soon led to a network of PSB branches throughout Kent and Sussex and the PSB brand still operates to this day, 50 years later, under the name HR GO Commercial.

HR GO’s Group Chairman, Jack Parkinson, Betty’s son, joined the company in 1977 and through a programme of planned expansion and joint venture formation, developed the company into HR GO plc as it is called today; a major plc Group made up of over 30 companies. ..

Operations
HR GO plc recruits for temporary, contract and permanent positions across a broad spectrum of industries and via a number of different brand names. These include HR GO Recruitment with its divisions of HR GO Commercial, HR GO Industrial, HR GO Catering, HR GO IT, HR GO Trades, HR GO Driving, HR GO Estate Agency, HR GO Exectec. Other brands in the Group include Eclipse Group Solutions, HR +, Belle Recruitment, RHL, HR Care to name a few. .

HR GO plc has a main Board of Directors which includes Jack Parkinson, Chairman; Chris Harvey, Group Managing Director; Hugh Billot, Group HR Director; Mark Kingston, Group Finance Director and Craig Vidler, Non-Exec Director.

HR GO Recruitment Ltd Board members include David Simons, Managing Director; Paul Burbidge, National Sales Director; Andy Hart, Business Director - North; Richard Tillbrook, Business Director - Southern Region and Scott Treacher, Director.

HR GO plc is a corporate member of the Recruitment and Employment Confederation (REC).