Two Names On The Company
Dennis and Frances Hickman founded their first company on April Fools’ Day, 2000.
They founded and acquired additional companies along the way and brought them under one roof, until everything merged in 2015 as Skilled Migration Group. Husband and wife, and for twenty-six years, founder and co-founder.
They have never said that second part publicly before.
When Frances walked into a workshop in Lusaka, she wanted to be the woman who ran deployment, not somebody’s wife.
It worked. But the workers we place have been thanking her in reviews for years, sometimes without quite knowing who they were thanking, and it seems silly to keep it up.
So: two names on the company. He finds the people. She gets them here.
Not “Just” People From The Office
When we assess a worker’s suitability for employment, we conduct the discussion face to face, in the worker’s home country. Nothing beats sitting down with a person in the same room: getting relaxed, getting comfortable, getting to know each other.
It works both ways. Workers need to know who they are applying with. Do these people really know the worker’s industry, and do they know it hands-on, or are they just people from the office?
These are our people. They are certainly not just people from the office.
The Founders
Frances Helen Hickman
Co-Founder of Skilled Migration Group, Documentation and Compliance
Co-Founder since 2000Certificate in TEFL
She built and ran the deployment and onboarding of every worker we placed for twenty-two years. Now she checks every document before an agent or adviser checks it.
Dennis Henry Hickman
Dennis “Den” Henry Hickman
Founder of Skilled Migration Group, Registered Migration Agent and Licensed Immigration Adviser
MARN 2619185IAA 202602618MMIA
A time-served welder and pipefitter who went and learned migration law. He interviews the people we place.
The Interview Team
- Brent Diflo · Interview Team Leader
- Peter Pelling · Caterpillar Dealer Trained Technical Interviewer
- David Mulongoti · Technical Interviewer and Technical Trainer
Registered Migration Agents and Licensed Immigration Advisers
Migration advice is regulated. Every agent and adviser who works on your file has a formal practice page you can check against the official registers:
- Dennis Henry Hickman, MARN 2619185 · IAA 202602618
- Dr Valerie Hirsch, MARN 2217837 · IAA 201900918
- Josephine Naomi Poole, MARN 2619279
- Yue Sun (Billy) Leung, MARN 2619275
Administration and IT
- Natalie Julienne
- Mohammad Rayhan Uddin
- Mary Akter
- Mohuya Akter
- Marzia Akter
- Marufa Akter