Paul Bennett

1999

Based – Head Office

Paul is the Managing Director and Owner of the business. Having moved from his home in South Wales where he had his own Landscape Design and Construction business and completing a BSc degree at the University of Wales Swansea, Paul was ready to take on a new challenge in the South East of England.

The business was started in 1999 in Dartford, Kent, Connect Personnel now has offices in Dartford, Chatham and Sittingbourne.

Hardip Bains

February 2003

Based – Head Office, Chatham

Hardips official title is the Company Coordinator with main responsibilities for everything finance in and out of the company.  Hardip started with Connect in 2003 and is considered to be the heart of the business.  Working alongside the Directors and being involved in every aspect and changes of the business since 2003, she is the “go to” person when you need a decision to anything you are not certain about.

Hardip has a great sense of humour and enjoys her weekly park runs and keeping fit.

Zung Tang Bennett

Director

1999

Zung is a Director of Connect Personnel having come into the business in the year 2000 after working for Hays in central London. Zung also has over 20 years of recruitment experience working in both the Office and Industrial sectors.

Zung is a regular golfer and vice-captain of the ladies team at Faversham Golf Club.

Lisa Doran

Joined March 2017

Based – Sittingbourne Branch

Lisa spent most of her recruitment career in London and then relocated to Sittingbourne.  She became an invaluable part of the branch. Lisa deals with temporary and permanent Industrial Recruitment from Drivers to Warehouse Operatives as well as catering staff.

Lisa has built a great rapport with all the clients in the Sittingbourne area through her honest, down to earth personality and great sense of humour.

Paulina Fijol

Joined July 2016

Based – Dartford Branch

Paulina started as an On-site Co-ordinator working with one of our larger clients, dealing with up to 190 temporary staff per day. She has progressed within the company to the role of Accounts Manager at our Dartford branch. Paulina has transferred all the skills she learned on-site to looking after the day-to-day running of the Dartford branch.

Paulina brings her bubbly happy personality into the company and is always full of energy.

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Joanna Zazula

October 2015

Based – Head Office, Chatham

Joanna joined our Chatham branch as an office administrator and then moved to Head Office as Payroll and Accounts Assistant.  Her role has since developed to communicating with clients and staff on a regular basis.

Joanna has excellent communication and administrative skills which she acquired through her previous customer service roles.

Joanna is a fitness fanatic and laughs uproariously throughout the day.

Irina Bucur

Irina has proved her reliability by working for one of our clients and being promoted very quickly, we then asked her to join our existing team in our Dartford Office and she said yes. She is a very motivated and hard-working person with a friendly personality and always happy to help.  She is also a very quick learner culminating in her being able to speak four languages fluently!

Back in her country she finished her Bachelor degree in Social Assistance and Marketing what helps her to understand the role better and be able to efficiently communicate with a wide variety of people who come into our office.

On a more personal note, Irina makes the most amazing cakes which she often brings into the office for the staff, so we are all thankful in many ways that she has joined us!

Zaneta Zuska

Zaneta joined our Chatham office at the same time as her colleague Aleks and both work closely to manage the day to day running of over 30 clients.  Zaneta is also Polish and brings a multi-cultural dimension to the company alongside Sapana from Nepal and Mihaela from Romania.

Aleksandra Duda

Aleks joined the very busy team here at Connect based in the Chatham office and has quickly become an important part of the company in her role as Account Co-ordinator.

She is fluent in both English and Polish which comes in handy with our Eastern European temporary staff.

Welcome to the team Aleks!

Mihaela Ispir

We welcome Mihaela into our team here at Connect Personnel.  Mihaela was a primary school teacher in her home country of Romania and worked in that role for four years.  Since being in the UK she has worked at various jobs including being a pastry chef which she greatly enjoyed but now wants to come and join us in the office.

She now joins our team as a bilingual Recruitment Administrator supporting the team both in Chatham and Dartford.

Sapana Shrestha Ghale