Jason Perry, FCIPD
Co-Founder & Director
Jason is an experienced Recruiter and recruitment business owner, having launched ASL Recruitment in 1998.
A Chartered Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel & Development (CIPD), Jason's background is in HR & Training and psychometric profiling. In addition to being an active member of the recruitment industry and the business community, Jason has worked on major government contracts in the training and education sector, establishing an initiative to deliver funded qualifications to those in the workplace seeking to further their career and qualifications. He is frequently invited as a guest speaker at events, presenting on recruitment and HR-related topics and is often heard providing commentary and opinion to the BBC News on employment-related issues.
Connect with Jason on LinkedIn and email him at jasonp@aslgroup.co.uk
Insights from Jason
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Why Engineering Projects Are Being Delayed by Hiring — Not Design
20 Mar 2026
The assumption is usually complexity
In most high-end engineering environments, delays are typically put down to complexity. Tight tolerances, evolving specifications, integration challenges, supply chain disruption — all the usual suspects tend to take the blame. And to be fair, those things do cause problems. But increasingly, they’re not the reason projects are slipping. More often than not, the issue is something much simpler, and slightly less comfortable to acknowledge: the right people aren’t in place when they’re needed.
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The Shift Back to PAYE Contractors in High-End Engineering Roles
24 Mar 2026
A quiet shift is happening
Over the past few years, most conversations around contract hiring have been dominated by IR35, compliance, and how businesses adapt to it. That hasn’t gone away. But underneath that, there’s been a quieter shift — particularly in high-end engineering environments.
More organisations are starting to move back towards PAYE-based contractor models.
Not across the board, and not always deliberately. But it’s happening often enough to be noticeable. And in many cases, it’s not being driven by policy, but by what actually works in practice.