Established by James Kilbane and Ken Belshaw in 1982 on Grafton Street Dublin, the Grafton Employment Group is the leading employment solutions partner in Ireland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary and Poland. The Grafton Employment Group is so much more than just the sum of its parts.

It is a group that allows you to work at a whole new level of engagement, a group that can create tailor-made employment solutions from our network of sector leading brands.

Our approach allows our clients and candidates not just flexibility, but local market resources across the globe.

With over 70 offices in 16 countries we offer something truly unique, a global network that is considered local, in each and every market we operate in. This we believe is as much to do with how we do business, as where we do business.

Our Team

But before networks and markets, systems and services, if you were to ask us what is the one single thing that makes us better, the answer would be our people. We are a team of 600 highly trained consultants and support staff who speak over 50 languages.

Industry Expertise:

Our consultants have industry expertise in a variety of key industries including:

Our founders believe wholeheartedly in committing to local communities. We have retained this commitment and our in-depth knowledge of local talent pools and economic environments mean that we are best placed to meet local resourcing challenges, worldwide.

Our Sector Leading Brands

Our network comprises 7 key brands:

Our Network:

We have offices in:

Chile, Czech Republic, Denmark , France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Turkey, UK and UAE.

Our clients:

Our clients are multi-national organisations, public and private sector bodies and small and medium enterprisesacross the world.

We have a world wide database of over 1 million candidates and an organisational turnover of €120 million. Our network is wholly owned which means that we must work harder for our clients and candidates to retain and reinforce our professional standards and reputation.

We payroll 23,000 temporary workers on a yearly basis and fill over 6,000 permanent vacancies.

Our Awards and Accreditations

Co-founder Ken Belshaw received the Gratias Agit Award for services to the Czech Republic in 2006.

Co-founder James Kilbane was a finalist in the International Category of Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year 2007.

ISO 9000 : 2001 status assessed by independent auditors SGS bi-annually.

We have been the recipient of the Queens Award for Enterprise on two occasions from 2002- 2006 and from 2006- 2011.

We are committed to developing skills and improving the quality of life for children in local and developing countries. As part of our corporate social responsibility programme we work with local organisations and global partners Children in Crossfire, Unicef and Business in the Community to help to achieve our aim.