3:00pm - 5:00pm, 5 March 2025
(Europe/London)
(Europe/London)
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Event Details
International Forum
Wednesday 5th March
Registrations and refreshments 2:30pm-3:00pm
Meeting 3:00pm-5:00pm
Venue: The Anchor Room, Monument Meetings, 20 St Dunstan's Hill, London, EC3R 8HL
Networking drinks from 5:00pm
Key Takeaways
• Insight into the critical questions to ask before expanding into a new region
• How to balance risk, compliance and business viability
• US high demand sectors
• Where AI integration in international recruitment is having a positive impact
Meeting Agenda
3:00pm Welcome & introduction
Stephen Shorter, Group CEO, Cobalt Recruitment & John Mortimer, Co-Founder, Angela Mortimer Group
3:05pm APSCo update
Moya Rylands, Commercial Director, APSCo UK
3:15pm Recruiting in EMEA
Jonathan Clarke, MD & Founder, Clarke Pro
Jon will help you understand what you don’t know and what you need to ask before expanding into the EMEA regions. He’ll give you insights into the pitfalls to avoid and explain why time is the most valuable resource in an international project. Jon will help you find a balance between the risk, compliance and running a viable business. His aim is to show you how to improve the ration of offers to deals.
3:35pm What will the US recruitment landscape look like under Trump?
Amy Davies, MD, Workwell Global
Amy will give us insights into market projections for the in demand sectors, which trends are driving the US staffing market in 2025 and how AI is embedded into areas of US staffing rather than just the top of the funnel activity.
4:00pm Panel session on how to maximise on sales internationally
A chance to ask our experts your burning questions and to share your experience of recruiting in country and outsourcing.
Panellists:
- Mehdi Este, MD, Access Recruitment Automate
- Nick Bradley, Owner/Director, Adepto Technical Recruitment
- Amy Davies, MD, Workwell Global
- Jonathan Clarke, MD & Founder, Clarke Pro
4:50pm Feedback and close
Who should attend?
Business owners and senior leadership teams looking to expand internationally.
Speakers
Mehdi Este
Access Recruitment Automate , General Manager
Mehdi, as co-founder of Elay, played a pivotal role in designing a groundbreaking platform to revolutionise candidate attraction and business development through AI-enabled automation. Now, as part of Access Recruitment, Mehdi continues to drive innovation and excellence in recruitment technology. With a passion for empowering recruiters with cutting-edge tools and solutions, he continues to shape the future of recruitment through his dedication to advancing industry standards.
Amy Davies
PGC Group, Managing Director
Amy Davies is the Managing Director of Precision Global Consulting (PGC) Group, a US business who offer strategic expansion advice and employer of record solution across North America.
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 staffing market has supported many firms to initiate their expansion plans from their home market before landing and expanding in the US or Canada.
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 Clarke
Clarke PRO Compliance, Founder
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.
Nick Bradley
Adepto Technical Recruitment, Owner
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.