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About Us

Grounded in Experience

Ensuring you get the support you need, when you need it.

With extensive experience across recruitment, TA and talent management, we know how challenging yet rewarding your role is, and our purpose is to make your life easier.

Our advisory board

We have an Advisory Board made up of current and previous Heads of Resourcing and Talent, consultants and industry experts; ensuring that we provide our members with the best support and materials they need to do their jobs effectively.
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Emma Mirrington

Managing Director

Anna Milbank

Commercial Director

Rachel Dalboth

Strategy & Development Director

Aby Wojick

Membership Engagement Manager

Kaylee Skates

Membership Acquisition Manager

Louise Finch

Membership Engagement Executive

Laura King

Content & Insight Manager

Zoe Printer

Events Manager

Abigail Allan

Events Administrator

Anthony Ball

Training & Consultancy Manager

Rhianna Clements

Membership & Team Administrator

Shannon Swanepoel

Training Co-ordinator

Our Four Pillars

and what we do to help in-house recruiters

The Firm has been providing support to thousands of in-house recruiters since 2007. Our four pillars have been with our business since the start and we stand by our values, bringing each of our key pillars into action every single day.

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Support

Practical templates and resources as well as industry insights to help you deliver against both the practical, tactical and strategic elements of your role.
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Connect

Advice, support and encouragement through our discussion forum, member messaging platform, and live or virtual events, as well as a job board connecting you to new work opportunities and projects.
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Develop

Recorded training and live masterclasses as part of membership to help you stay on top of your game, or live off-shelf or bespoke capability, mentoring and consultancy solutions to meet individual, team and hiring manager needs.
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Inspire

Annual awards that showcase the very best of in-house recruitment and TA, and events that inspire through real-life content best practice and research.
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Emma Mirrington

Managing Director

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Emma has over 20 years Talent Acquisition and Talent Management experience working for organisations such as Unilever, Sky and Mars. Emma is passionate about supporting and developing members to help them reach their full potential and in her role as Managing Director leads The Firm team to enable this.

In her spare time Emma is kept very busy with three kids, two cats and a house renovation!

Anna Milbank

Commercial Director

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Having spent 16 years working in Recruitment on the agency side, Anna moved across to the world of in-house recruitment by joining The Firm back in 2013 to develop the partnership and commercial aspect of the business and help bridge the gap between suppliers and our members. Now as co-owner of the business Anna is passionate about delivering the best quality content, insight and events to the TA community.

Her two boys and two cocker spaniels keep her busy in her free time, she loves keeping fit and especially her new Peloton!

Rachel Dalboth

Strategy & Development Director

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Rachel spent over 20 years working as an in-house recruiter and Leader for the likes of Nokia, Fluor and Unilever, prior to joining The Firm in 2018. With responsibility for developing strategies that further strengthen The Firm’s membership and training propositions, Rachel is passionate about upskilling recruiters and hiring managers and loves nothing more than presenting or facilitating one of the many Firm events, training sessions and masterclasses. 

Rachel is a frustrated pop star at heart and is often found singing into her hairbrush when not in the recording studio.

Aby Wojick

Membership Engagement Manager

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Aby has worked as a Membership Engagement professional for 12 years, supporting different industries within the charity and not for profit sector, supporting HR services through to small creative businesses, as well as working for the Equality Challenge Unit which works to advance Equality, Diversity and Inclusion for staff and students in Higher Education. Aby is passionate about supporting people in their roles and actively collaborating to progress diversity and inclusion across the board, both within and beyond the TA industry.

In her spare time, Aby enjoys cooking, cycling, yoga, music and festivals.

Louise Finch

Membership Engagement Executive

Like many, Louise started her career in agency recruitment, before moving to Inhouse recruitment and later Talent Acquisition. Having worked in the private and public sector her love of people, making connections and the Recruitment industry led her straight to The Firm.

Weekends are spent on the River Wye paddleboarding, walking, exploring or with family and friends making memories.

Laura King

Content and Insight Manager

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Laura spent over 11 years as a recruiter, primarily in-house (and during that time, was a Firm event attendee and awards nominee!), before joining The Firm to utilise her recruitment background to help the team create great content for our members. She’s got a passion for ED&I and candidate experience and loves finding ways to make our members jobs easier.

Outside of work, you’ll find her at the stables, or with her nieces and nephews or on the sofa with a book or a boxset – but always with her dog!

Zoe Printer

Events Manager

Zoe has been at the Firm since June 2022 and is responsible for the delivery of all the in person and virtual events. Prior to the Firm Zoe looked after the Events and Marketing for a not for profit charitable organisation creating event experiences for the NHS, Police and Fire & Rescue. Zoe took a round about route to becoming an Events Manager. She graduated from the university of Birmingham with a first class degree in War Studies and her first stab at the corporate world was on a Graduate scheme doing Business Development in the Defence industry. With now over 5 years of events experience under her belt, Zoe is passionate about creating unique high quality event experiences.

Outside of work you can find Zoe on the stage with her local Amateur dramatics group, baking a cake or taking her Minitature Schnauzer teddy for a long walk.

Abigail Allen

Events & Training Administrator

Abi started with the Firm in August 2022 as an Events Administrator, supporting the events teams with organising all the exciting events The Firm produce! Prior to working at The Firm she was at Legal and General as a Work Allocator, and before this worked at Specsavers for 5 years as an In Store Trainer. Outside of work she is a keen music fan and can be found attending gigs and updating her record collection.

Anthony Ball

Training and Consultancy Manager

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Anthony has been working in the recruitment industry for over twenty years, having worked as an in-house recruiter and recruitment manager across various large corporations including Unilever, Centrica, and Easyjet.

Anthony is now utilising his experience, working at The Firm as Training and Consultancy Manager, designing and delivering training for TA and Hiring Managers, and working on projects to support key client initiatives.

Rhianna Clements

Membership and Team Administrator

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Rhianna has worked within Administration for several years, having started her career after leaving University, where she studied towards a Law degree. As Membership & Team Administrator at The Firm, Rhianna’s role is to manage all membership and team administration processes, from setting our members up to booking team travel. She is also on hand as first port of call for any queries!

When not at her desk, Rhianna is kept busy with her two dogs, Bailey & Rosie.

Shannon Swanepoel

Shannon has worked within the property market for many years, either within Real Estate or Legal and has had 8 years’ experience attending to internal compliance, training bespoke conveyancing software and was part of the induction team. She has since moved from Cape Town, South Africa to the UK and did various temp and contract work.

On weekends she spends her time with her family, watching movies, going for walks and being a mom taxi, for all the sport!

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