AN expanding recruitment company has transferred from Simonstone to Blackburn to add to its own workforce.

On Friday SER Limited moved two junctions down the M65 to increase the size of their premises from 2, 600 square feet. to 5014 square feet.

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This will allow the UK wide and international specialist technical and engineering recruitment services provider to boost its workforce from 32 to 49.

The company has relocated from the Time Technology Park in Simonstone to Capricorn Park on Blackburn's Greenbank Business Park.

SER has already launched a planned period of growth by recruiting a business development manager and marketing manager.

In late 2005 managing director Gary Bentley, born at the then Rossendale Hospital, started out as a sole trader operating from a home office in his families’ home in Haslingden, a property that he still owns now.

In 2006, Gary Bentley, now 41, recruited his first employee Paul Murphy who remains a member of the team.

This June the company celebrates 10 years since they became a limited company and now plans to create a further 17 new positions over the next 18 months.

Gary Bentley said: "From starting out with six copies of the yellow pages to where we are now is a fantastic achievement, and everyone who has worked for SER has contributed to that growth.

"Recruitment agencies often have a negative reputation, but we are working hard to change peoples views of recruitment by rolling out new services to make our clients lives easier, such as full recruitment managed services for the SME sectors.

"At SER, we know that changing jobs is a huge decision for anyone, and we aim to make it easier for them too, we make it our aim to truly understand what a candidate is looking for and align them to a client who is looking for someone just like them.

"We really believe recruitment is a partnership.”

Blackburn with Darwen regeneration boss, Cllr Phil Riley, said: "This is good news.

"I am always pleased to see new companies with high quality jobs moving into the borough especially when they are seeking to expand.

"I am glad their new offices will provide them the space to do some recruitment of their own."