Group GTI
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| ISIN | 🆔 |
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| Industry | Careers Tech |
| Founded 📆 | 1988 in Reading, Berkshire; 34 years ago |
| Founders 👔 | Mark Blythe, Adrian Wood |
| Headquarters 🏙️ | , , |
Area served 🗺️ | |
Key people | Mark Blythe (Chairman) Sally Dicketts (Non-Executive Director) Simon Martin (CEO) Sarah Coiley (CFO) |
| Members | |
Number of employees | 180 (2023) |
| 🌐 Website | groupgti |
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Group GTI is a company based in London, Oxfordshire and Ireland, specialising in student recruitment and career development services. Group GTI provides resources and opportunities to students and graduates across the United Kingdom.[1] Through its portfolio of brands (targetconnect, targetjobs, gradireland, Recruiting Solutions and Cibyl), Group GTI partners with universities, employers and students, to facilitate the transition from education to work.
Company Timeline
| Year | Details |
|---|---|
| 1988 | GTI Surveying; GTI Quantity Surveying; GTI Food Science Journals.[2] |
| 1989 | GTI Civil & Structural Engineering; GTI Construction Journal.[3] |
| 1990 | GTI Law Journal, GTI Engineering; GTI Information Technology Journal.[4] |
| 1991 | GTI City & Finance Journal and the GTI Water Journal.[5] |
| 1992 | Oxford University Careers Service Guide. The Pupillage Handbook published in partnership with The General Council of the Bar. |
| 1993 | University Careers Service Guides added for the University of Bristol, University of Cambridge, University of London, University of Edinburgh and the University of Manchester. |
| 1994 | Careers Service Guides expand to 17 universities. GTI Engineering Construction Journal was then added.[6] |
| 1996 | GTI Careerscape – the first student careers website in the UK started. The website featured a character called Dr Job who answered students’ careers queries. Partnership was then established in Ireland with the Irish University careers network. gradireland was then developed, a careers and jobs directory specifically for the island of Ireland with an office situated in Dublin. |
| 1999 | GTI Careerscape then rebranded to doctorjob.com[7]. Dr Job brand grows to include termly general careers magazines for all students. |
| 2000 | GTI set up French office to deliver Careers Service Guides with leading French Grandes Ecoles. GTI journals and other products eg Capital Chances (including TARGET Europe title) - rebranded to form targetjobs. |
| 2001 | GTI acquires Staufenbiel Institute based in Koln, Germany.[8] Staufenbiel were a careers publisher operating across the German market. GTI developed pioneering online Application Tracking Systems for major employers. |
| 2002 | GTI Careers Journals and doctorjob.com rebranded to Target Law etc and targetjobs.co.uk respectively. First gradireland publications then released. |
| 2004 | Staufenbiel Institut becomes part of Group GTI. |
| 2005 | The first National Graduate Recruitment Awards. |
| 2006 | Majority control of Group GTI acquired by Exponent Private Equity.[9] Mark Blythe and Adrian Wood remained as minority shareholders and retained a board seat. New senior management recruited to lead business chaired by John Weeks. |
| 2008 | Acquired the graduate careers business division of Hobsons from Daily Mail and General Trust.[10] This included Absolventum Kongress, a large careers business in Frankfurt and Trendence, a research business in Berlin. The GTI France operations were then closed. GTI acquired Casigma – a careers service management system from the University of Warwick. This was the precursor to targetconnect. |
| 2009 | GET directory replaced by UK Top 200 directory. |
| 2012 | Relaunch of Casigma into targetconnect to help automate careers service operation. Five universities then start using the platform. |
| 2016 | Mark Blythe returns to GTI to assist with strategic direction and special projects. |
| 2017 | Staufenbiel and all German operations were sold. Trendence retained. Inspiring Futures, a schools careers charity merged into GTI’S school leaver operations. |
| 2018 | Trendence Berlin sold, but UK operations retained and later rebranded as Cibyl. Inspiring Futures closed. |
| 2019 | Exponent sells its holding in Group GTI to Causeway Capital and Mark Blythe[11]. Simon Martin joins as CEO and Sarah Coiley as CFO. |
References
- ↑ "The 10 Best UK Job Boards (For Graduate Jobs)". Practice Aptitude Tests.
- ↑ https://www.waterstones.com/book/gti-civil-and-structural-engineering-journal/alison-wood/karen-neale/9781901122947
- ↑ https://www.waterstones.com/book/gti-civil-and-structural-engineering-journal/alison-wood/karen-neale/9781901122947
- ↑ The GTI law Journal. 1999. OL 18282963M. Search this book on
- ↑ https://www.waterstones.com/book/gti-city-and-finance-journal/karen-neale/alison-wood/9781901122893
- ↑ "GTI Engineering Design and Construction Journal".
- ↑ "Doctor Job". Web Archive. Archived from the original on 2000-11-09.
- ↑ "Staufenbiel wird Teil der GTI Group - HORIZONT".
- ↑ "Exponent PE invests in Group GTI".
- ↑ "A Fusion Deal - DMG Information Inc sells Hobsons Group's corporate division to Group GTI". 22 June 2011.
- ↑ "Group GTI".
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