In 1994 we began talking about properly starting a company, something that we’d always thought about but never really got round to. Naturally we had recruitment experience we thought continuing this theme sounded like a good idea. We wanted to get away from the high-pressure, targeted sales nature of recruitment and realised that it was highly unethical to barter away someone’s life motivated purely by a commission.

So in August of 1994 we’d settled on the name of Acorn Recruitment. Our unique non-commission approach was revolutionary (and still is) and Acorn grew beyond our wildest expectations. Since we have quite literally helped tens of thousands of candidates find new and rewarding careers in and around the local area.

Nowadays we still work late, but we enjoy what we do a lot more. And we have grown – we’ve gone from having a living room to an amazing office and we help more people find more jobs than ever before.

And we’re all still friends, which is important.