Shilton Sharpe Quarry Voted Best Legal Recruitment Firm 2007

London, Wednesday 11 April 2007  

Shilton Sharpe Quarry (“SSQ”), the specialist international legal recruitment consultancy with offices in the UK, Germany, Italy, Australia and affiliated offices in New Zealand and France, won the coveted Best Legal Recruitment Firm 2007 Award at the annual Recruiter Awards for Excellence held at The Grosvenor House Hotel in London’s Park Lane on Tuesday 27 March 2007. 

SSQ was recognised for its innovation where the Awards host, Marcus Brigstocke, announced that ‘SSQ have impressed their clients by using a mix of traditional recruitment methodologies and effective use of recent technological tools such as candidate and client extranets and video CVs’.

"They're good at building long-term relationships, rather than just eager to pick up the fee for a placement" was the testimony of one client whom the judges called upon in support of their decision.

Gavin Sharpe, SSQ Director: “We are delighted to have won this prestigious award. We have been operating for four years and are proud at how quickly we have established ourselves as pioneers in the legal recruitment sector. It is especially encouraging that our innovation has been recognised together with our other core values of transparency and quality.”

The Best Legal Recruitment firm category was sponsored by The Lawyer magazine and the award was presented by the magazine’s publisher Libby Child to Gavin Sharpe.

For further information please contact:

Rafi Youngerwood: +44 (0)20 7187 7421; rafi.youngerwood@ssq.com

Notes to editors:

1.      About Shilton Sharpe Quarry: Founded by Nick Shilton and Gavin Sharpe in February 2003 as Shilton Sharpe International, SSI was joined by Gareth Quarry in May 2005 to form Shilton Sharpe Quarry. SSQ has offices in London, Frankfurt, Munich, Milan, Rome, Sydney and Melbourne and associated offices in Auckland and Paris.  Most consultants are qualified lawyers who have practised with major law firms such as Linklaters, Allen & Overy, Lovells, Norton Rose, Ashurst, SJ Berwin, Herbert Smith, Cameron McKenna and Olswang.  SSQ has pioneered the use of psychometric assessments within the legal recruitment sector, video technology for video CVs and corporate videos and also operates groundbreaking candidate and client extranets.  Additionally SSQ has a strategic alliance with the Holst Group, European distributor of the McQuaig system of psychometric assessments and related human capital tools. 

2.      About the Recruiter Awards: The Recruiter Awards for Excellence were launched in 2002 before an audience of 400 recruitment professionals in the Ballroom of The Dorchester Hotel. Rewarding excellence in recruitment practice from the very smallest regional agency to the largest national firms, the Awards recognise innovation and the highest levels of client and candidate service. The Awards welcomed more than 1200 recruitment professionals to the Grosvenor House Hotel in 2007 and are now established as the most prestigious event in the recruitment calendar.