RENOVO, the York recruitment practice has practised what it preaches when it comes to clients reinventing themselves and setting new targets.

The firm was first established in 2004 as Hamilton Caine, an executive recruitment venture specialising in the banking and financial services sector.

Then came the credit crunch and as it fell into loss, the company was forced to reduce its own headcount from 18 to six by the end of 2008 But by reinventing itself as Renovo, under the same chief executive David Twiddle, the firm now employs 27 people at Kings House in King Street and boasts that it assists 1,100 people every month, putting three people back to work every working hour and has 3,300 people using its bespoke package. Reasons enough for Renovo to seek the Small Business Of The Year title in The Press Business Awards 2010.

Renovo’s radical repositioning in the economic storm meant that it now provides low-cost and innovative workforce solutions for private and public sector organisations and government agencies.

To do this it has invested computer technology linked to a new initiative titled “From Recession To Recovery.”

It helps companies to make redundancies and provides support to displaced employers and to those carrying on. It also helps organisations to recruit, using low cost online recruitment tools and expertise.

Renovo has also developed a new programme to get newly-unemployed professionals back to work and provides support to the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP).

The programme, which began in April 2009 will run until next March and it is responding to the rapidly increasing number of professionals becoming new job seeker allowance claimants.