Edge Recruits

He co-founded a recruitment business in 1986 which he built into a national agency and which is now trading as Randstad in the UK.

For the last ten years he has been working out how best to transform the original ‘branch based’ recruitment agency business model into a more effective, efficient and profitable structure, driven by the knowledge that the ongoing erosion of margins and increasing costs must inevitably lead to change being forced on the sector.

Rather than wait for this to happen, having met John Ross and found that he shared this vision for the future, they combined forces and created Edge Recruits – what they believe is the first ‘virtual’ high street recruitment agency designed from the ground up to provide ‘generalist’ recruitment services UK wide but without a branch network – and capable of setting new standards of performance over the next decade.

Chris is a well-known and respected figure in the recruitment industry with a reputation for challenging convention. He has served as a director of FRES for many years (now the Recruitment & Employment Confederation) and was the UK's representative for CIETT - the international body representing the temp industry worldwide. Chris was invited to speak on the future of the industry at the first ever World Leaders in Recruitment Conference in London in 1997 and his (then) contentious predictions are now coming true – a fact that he is keen to capitalize on!

Chris, age 52, lives in Devon with his wife and three daughters where he likes getting out on the water and the moors when time (and body) permits and, despite advancing years, is still into his rock music and running.