International Forum: How to be successful in 2025 – is recruiting internationally the answer?

Amy Davies is the Managing Director of Workwell Global, a global Employer of Record (EOR), whose mission is to help companies to ‘Hire talent; whoever and wherever in the world they are.’  Workwell Global combines the workforce management companies it recently acquired; PGC Group (2024), Whitefin (2023), and 6Cats (2022) into a streamlined global workforce management solution.  Prior to its acquisition, Amy successfully scaled PGC Group as Managing Director.

Amy works with a vast portfolio of UK recruitment firms supporting their leadership teams with international expansion.  Her deep expertise and experience of the North American and European staffing markets has supported many firms to initiate their expansion plans from their home market before landing and expanding in international territories.

Amy is also the nominated and elected APSCO Committee Representative for the UK and has a prominent profile in the UK staffing market often speaking at public events in the areas of international expansion, employment payroll compliance and building high performing teams.

Jon started his career in the year 2000 in the contract recruitment sector leveraging his language skills in the French and German speaking markets. After 4 years recruiting contractors into the Mobile Comms and SAP sectors, he switched paths and joined an international contractor management company.
 
Throughout his career Jon grasped every opportunity to enhance his knowledge and understanding of all things international compliance from a recruitment sector perspective and shared this with his recruitment business clients.
Jon was a co-founder shareholder owner of both 6CATS International and subsequently 6CATSPRO via which he supported the international compliance helpdesk for APSCo members for over 5 years.
In late 2024 he founded and launched Clarke Pro Compliance Limited known as “PRO” to deliver as the go to specialist compliance consulting partner for the international recruitment sector. Having launched on his own he successfully sought APSCo Trusted Partner status in December 24.

With over thirty years of experience in recruitment, Nick has amassed expert industry knowledge. His career highlights include twenty-two years in senior leadership at a $1 billion global recruiter. In 2015, he co-founded Adepto Technical Recruitment, focusing on supporting highly regulated sectors like the Chemical and Pharmaceutical industries. The company offers a range of services including contingent, retained, and Global MSP/RPO solutions. Adepto Technical Recruitment manages recruitment processes and that of the client’s recruitment supply chain for permanent hires and contractors, handling payroll, fiscal responsibilities, and compliance in well over twenty different countries worldwide.

Former Strategy consultant now leading Growth / Transformation, M&A and Partnerships in the Recruitment and Legal Divisions at The Access Group - the UK’s largest private software player.

Previous experience across a broad range of functional and commercial roles - product development, marketing, sales, operations and corporate strategy.