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Company History

2010

            6 December 2010       Milestone!  We turn 10 years old!                       

              November 2009         Milestone! 1000 officers trained!

                      August 2010       Company CEO asked again to judge PublicAffairsAsia magazine's 2010 Gold Standard Award

                       March 2010        Company is unofficially 10 years old, but we wait for 6 December 2010 to celebrate the formal birthday.

2009

                         June 2009         Company CEO is appointed as one of only 40 international judges for PublicAffairsAsia magazine's

                                                      inaugural 2009 Gold Standard Awards to be held in December 2009.

                          April 2009         Milestone! 900 officers trained.

                       March 2009         e-Learning Grant Recipient 

                                                     Along with our partner Registered Training Organisation (RTO), Learning Options,

                                                     TPARC is awarded ACT/ federal funding for an e-learning project under the Australian Flexible

                                                     Learning Framework.

                                                      Our team is one of only four ACT business/RTO partnerships in the State to receive funding from

                                                      federal government for our project  to embed e-learning in the small and micro-business sector.

2008

                    2 August 2008       TPARC contributes to new publication aimed at middle and senior public affairs
                                                      managers in the Asia Pacific area. www.publicaffairsasia.com.

                                                      The Public Affairs Recruitment Company was approached to provide the Australian perspective
                                                      on the public affairs industry and invited to join the Advisory Council.

                     1 August 2008       Milestone! 800 officers trained.

2007          1 January 2007       Milestone! 600 officers trained.

2006   18 September 2006     Company moves into larger premises due to expanding business in recruitment and training.

2005           1 January 2005      Milestone! 400 officers trained.

2003                     April 2003     The Public Affairs Recruitment Company commences professional development courses in Canberra.

2001               October 2001     The Public Affairs Recruitment Company wins New South Wales/ ACT Microbusiness Award -
                                                       Women in Business Category within 10 months of establishing the business.

2000      6 December 2000      Establishment of The Public Affairs Recruitment Company.

                           March 2000      A phone call from a senior colleague asking for public affairs staff triggers a change in direction

                                                      for the business from major  communications campaign work to recruitment (but it takes 9 months

                                                      for the market to convince us to do it).

1999   24 September 1999     Establishment of KA Paxton Enterprises which commenced the recruitment business.