Aplins Competitors

We’ve been helping people find the right jobs and helping employers find the right people since 1961. The reason we’ve been so successful is simple: we make sure we know our business inside out. Permanent, temporary, or contract positions, private or public sector, we do our utmost to find the right people for the right jobs. Our LinkedIn page offers an insight into our internal culture, industry updates, and knowledge from some of our most senior board members. You can also find job search advice as well as advice for those already happily employed! To view all of our latest roles, visit our website on the link below.

CV-Library is an award-winning job site that helps companies of all sizes and industries to hire faster, for less. Offering a wealth of recruitment products, including access to our database of more than 21 million CVs and a range of job-posting options, employers and agencies can find permanent, graduate, contract and freelance candidates on one easy-to-use site. We’re known for great customer service and market-leading innovations, with inspired hiring solutions such as targeted CPM Display Advertising and Pay for Performance recruitment packages. Discover more: www.cv-library.co.uk/products To find out how CV-Library can help you find the best candidates, call 01252 810995 or visit www.cv-library.co.uk/cvdatabase Looking for your next job? Search thousands of vacancies: www.cv-library.co.uk/search-jobs Want to work for a dynamic, award-winning company? View our vacancies: www.cv-library.co.uk/work-for-us Our achievements include: • Winner: 'Personality of the Year' (Lee Biggins), OnRec Awards 2025 • Winner: 'Best Generalist Job Board', IHR Supplier Awards 2025 • Winner: 'Best Customer Success Team (Job Board)', DJAx Awards 2024, 2025 • Winner: 'Creative Offline Marketing Award', OnRec Awards 2024 • Winner: 'Best-Performing Company Overall 2024', Megabuyte50 2024 • Winner: 'One to Watch' & 'CEO of the Year', TV250 Awards 2023 • Winner: 'Tech Company of the Year', South Coast Tech Awards 2023 • Winner: 'Best Generalist Job Board', NORAs (2015, 2016, 2017, 2019, 2022, 2023) • Winner: 'Employer of the Year' & 'Innovator of the Year', Thames Valley Business & Community Awards 2022 • Winner: 'Best Job Board' 5 years running, Global Recruiter Awards 2015-2019 • Winner: 'Technical Innovation' at the OnRec Awards 2019, 2020 & 2022 • Named 'Recruitment Website of the Decade', NORAs 2020 • Named one of the UK's 50 best-performing privately-owned technology companies by Megabuyte50 2016, 2017, 2018, 2022, 2024, 2025 • The highest Trustpilot rating in the industry

Blue Arrow is the UK’s Best-Known Staffing Agency, placing tens of thousands of candidates into temporary and permanent jobs for employers in the transport, logistics, call centre, hospitality, manufacturing, retail and public sectors, each year. Blue Arrow is the most searched recruitment agency on Google by name and has achieved unrivalled candidate reach from six decades of placing people in work. Blue Arrow’s candidate community spans five generations of jobseekers. Blue Arrow is an award-winning employer that has been recognised as a Platinum Investor in People and is frequently among the Top 100 Best Companies to Work For. Blue Arrow is powered by its 350+ recruitment experts and market-leading technology.