Wilcock Consulting are outplacement, recruitment and consultancy specialists servicing the gas industry by providing individuals with specific skills or by undertaking fixed scopes of work. The range of skills includes accounting, distribution, safety, marketing, transmission and utilisation. Wilcock Consulting operates internationally and has worked in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Egypt, Eire, India, Indonesia, Israel, Japan, Norway, Pakistan, South Africa, Thailand, Ukraine, Uruguay, USA and Vietnam. The company also provides training courses which are designed to assist companies with the technical development of their employees. Courses include: Transmission Engineering, Incident Management and Pipeline Damage Procedures, Plastic Pipe Engineering and Gas Utilisation.
In 2001 Wilcock Consulting was recognised by its peers in the recruitment industry for its positive attitude to age diversity in employment. The Gas Industry, with support from the Government, established a number annual awards called The Age Positive Awards of Excellence. The awards are intended to recognise those recruitment businesses which recruit consultants based on skills and abilities not on arbitrary numbers such as their date of birth.
In the category for agencies with 100 plus employees we were placed second, behind Office Angels. The Rt. Hon. Ian McCartney MP, Minister of State at the Department for Work and Pensions wrote personally to congratulate us on "setting a sterling example for the recruitment industry."