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FACTFILE: ONYX RECRUITMENT


BACKGROUND: Ian was brought up in Peterborough and his first job was in St Albans in 1984. He said: “I was made redundant from an insurance broker in 1992 so I walked into a recruitment agency for help. A few days later I started working for them.” Michelle was born in Harrow and studied Modern English at The University of Luton.


Her first job was in Twickenham as a mortgage advisor. “I did it for six months and hated it,” she said. “I got into recruitment through a chance meeting over a bottle of wine.”


ON THE COMPANY: “It is our business and we care. We pride ourselves on our reputation and our service. We don’t make promises we can’t keep. We are open and transparent, and we make sure we deliver what we say we will deliver on.”


ON JOINING THE CHAMBER: “We came to Milton Keynes to set up an office and it was saturated with recruitment companies,” said Michelle. “So we wanted to go where we felt the need was greatest and that was with SMEs. We wanted to get to know SMEs and the local area and the Chamber was the first place we started to network at. It was our first foray into MK. We have a synergy with the Chamber. The people are really friendly and it is so well organised. There’s an element of fun at the Chamber events, you keep your finger on the pulse of local business and you find out about trends.”


Michelle Theuma and Ian Hardy


AUGUST/SEPTEMBER 2019 inbusiness 21


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