25 years of delivering excellence

I spent a lovely evening at the lavish Mandarin Oriental last night at an event organised by Highfield Human Solutions.  They were celebrating their 25th anniversary and had invited a number of senior clients and candidates.  Despite being “press” (barely, I know!) I don't normally get invited to these sorts of events. However, Highfield are the search company I worked for before setting up UK Recruiter - and they are so great that I've never quite escaped from them.  As evidenced by how they actually got me to organise the party! 

The food and service at the Mandarin was exceptional – I can highly recommend it and as business networking events go it was actually a lot of fun.  Despite being there in my Highfield capacity I managed to get a bit of UK Recruiter work in – discreetly mentioning our ukrecruiterjobs site to a few senior HR contacts.  DeeDee from Recruiter was there with some of the team from their new Resourcing magazine (which is worth checking out by the HR recruiters amongst you) and I met up with a "regular" from our discussion board (hi, Mitch).   

The speeches were brief, with a typically amusing one from Marcus Lorenzo and a heartfelt one from the MD Sherilyn Shackell. There were moist eyes as she commended over 20 years' of service from her Financial Controller, Rita.  Later, after everyone had crowded round the chocolate cascade (hotels like the Mandarin can't just call it a chocolate fountain!), the evening ended with the distribution of goodie bags.  I always think these are a great idea and in this case the contents were provided by a number of Highfield’s clients (freezer bags from Almondy, USB pens from Sky, That was Easy buttons from Staples, notebook from Monsoon, sauces from HJ Heinz and snacks from UB to name a few). 

So congratulations to Highfield on reaching this fabulous milestone.... and maybe I'll ought to try a bit harder for the contents of the goodie bags at our next networking event.