When Arena Resources Ltd was acquired by Lorien PLC in 1996 Lorien’s management were so impressed with Colleague that they persuaded the Managing Director, Will Minns, to help them implement it across the group and Mike Granger, Colleague’s creator, was permitted to sell Colleague to other recruitment businesses. After finishing his project with Lorien, Will founded online recruitment businesses Hy-phen.com in 1999, selling it to the Spring Group in 2001, and eventually returned to Colleague in 2002 after acquiring the IPR and setting up Colleague Software Ltd.

Since then our experience, flexibility and close relationship with recruitment leaders has put us ahead when it comes to understanding your needs. We’ve worked closely with our specialist clients, and thought leaders, to ensure we continue to remain innovative and adaptable in a rapidly evolving environment.

Since 2017 we have closely aligned ourselves with Microsoft’s vision to reinvent productivity to empower every person and organisation on the planet to achieve more – or in our case recruiters and recruitment businesses.

Today we have 3 UK offices and Colleague is used by hundreds of specialist recruitment businesses who value a partner that is knowledgeable, trustworthy, reliable and indispensable.