This month Chase Zander successfully passed its ISOQAR external audit for the 3rd year running.

It has been recommended by the lead auditor who visited Chase Zander's Head Office in Greenwich early in January, that their ISO 9001:2000 accreditation is renewed for a further 3 years.

The feedback received following the audit was excellent "Chase Zander is a company who continue to provide extremely professional services in a difficult financial climate. Areas reviewed included:- Training; Purchasing; Client / Candidate Placement; Customer Feedback" wrote Bob Sillence, Lead Auditor ISOQAR.

The team at Chase Zander appreciates the value added to their organisation through maintenance of their ISO accreditation. Through the regular internal auditing of its business processes and procedures and the review of its customer feedback, all of which is promoted by ISO 9001:2000, Chase Zander is able to easily identify areas for training and improvement.

"We are thrilled to have received praise from ISOQAR and to be registering again for this accreditation. Through our ISOQAR status and the activities which support it, we are well equipped to deliver an outstanding service to our candidates and clients" explains Emily White, Business Support Manager, Chase Zander "We look forward to continued success in 2009 and beyond".

On the 13th November Change and IT Directors along with senior management involved in Change came together again for Chase Zander?s 2nd Change Director Forum. The event focused on IT-Enabled Change and sparked an interesting debate from the floor into the issues facing change programmes and projects which often rely heavily on the introduction of new information technology.

?We invited an interesting mix of Business and IT professionals from different organisations in the hope to hear perspectives from different experiences and to learn from them. The evening?s discussion was lively and often challenged the experiences of the guest speakers which is exactly what both of our speakers were hoping for as well? says Emily White, Event Organiser, Chase Zander.

The format of the evening?s programme was a mix of practice and theory, with a presentation from Ray Cornish, Director European Business Implementation at ACE European Group Ltd talking about his experiences of Business Led IT-Enabled Change and following that the Forum heard from Dr. Sharm Manwani, Associate Professor of Information Management at the Henley Business School.

The Change Director Forum aims to provide a great opportunity for debate and ideas sharing and also the networking session for change professionals is a big pull for the attendees.
?It was encouraging to see so many faces back from our first event held in June this year. It really is this continued support from our candidates and clients which will see the forum improve and succeed in the future? continued Emily White.

The Change Director Forum Report for the November event will be published on this website soon.

This year Chase Zander turned its focus on Corporate and Social Responsibility to its local environment by supporting London based charity Trees for Cities.

The whole team at Chase Zander from both London and Birmingham offices turned out at The Isle of Dogs in London to work on a sustained gardening project for the charity. Weeding, trimming, tidying and planting flowering bulbs in a children?s public park, was the order of the day.

?We were extremely lucky with the weather, planned for one of the coldest week?s of the year so far we were all worried that we would freeze and be miserable, but the sun was shining that day and even though there was a chill in the air, we all had so much work to do that we were actually warm and loved every minute of the experience? commented Emily White, Event Organiser for Chase Zander.

It was important this year for Chase Zander to contribute to a worthwhile charity which supports the environment. The team also felt that this corporate challenge day would be an excellent excuse to get everyone out into the fresh air and doing some exercise!

?Our team was guided by Greg, one of Trees for Cities? gardeners and project manager. He was extremely friendly, knowledgeable and passionate about the project. We had the opportunity to learn something about the work involved and about the charity in general and all came away with smiling faces and a sense of doing something really good for our local community?.

Chase Zander has teamed up with the charitable organisation Trees for Cities in a pledge to plant one new tree in a UK city for each placement it makes from this month onwards.

The team at Chase Zander is further supporting the charity Trees for Cities by offering their services and funding for a day of tree planting at The Isle of Dogs in London in October this year.

"We have been considering our corporate and social responsibility in new ways this year and liked the idea od combining good work for the environment, giving something back to the local community and the health and wellbeing of our team in one charity day event" explains Emily White, Business Support Manager. "This is a great excuse to get us all out in the fresh air working our muscles whilst doing good for our local environment" continued Emily.

Adam Tallamy, MD at Chase Zander originally wanted to run a tree planting scheme such as this to give something back to the local environment and its a really great way of saying thank you to the clients and candidates working with Chase Zander.

"Our Environmental Policy and green efforts is something we have all been working on together to improve over the past year. We aim to become environmentally accredited in the very near future to recognise all of the good green work we have been doing" added Emily.