I don’t usually do self-congratulatory posts, but I’ll make an exception today because I realise that we’ve been in business for 21 years today – and 21 years feels like a milestone! Here goes:

𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐰𝐞’𝐯𝐞 𝐚𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐝

• We’ve placed many hundreds of people in permanent and contract jobs, making a significant positive difference to a large number.
• We’re now a full-service IT recruitment company recruiting entire IT teams from support engineers to CIOs.
• We have relationships with many companies – mainly in the Midlands – who use us to do all their IT recruitment on an exclusive basis. Most of these are medium-sized businesses with IT departments of between 5 and 100 people.
• We’ve helped startup businesses to recruit their very first people – key appointments we’re proud to have had a hand in.
• We survived the recession of 2008, grew during covid, and we are busy even in the current uncertain market.

𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐰𝐞 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐚𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐝

• World domination – we’re still a boutique firm serving a relatively small number of clients. But we like it that way!
• Perfection – we have had a few failures along the way. Some people have left jobs sooner than we hoped, others haven’t started jobs at all, and one or two have caused trouble on their way out. Although not our fault, it’s always disappointing.
• Maintained relationships with all our clients. Things change: businesses get bought out or go bust, key contacts retire or move on, new HR directors come along. All these things will challenge the best relationships. Sometimes we’ve been the beneficiaries though. Sorry, other agencies!
• Specialisation – we have tried to identify a particular niche several times, but have always come back to full-service IT recruitment. Because our clients ask us to.

𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭’𝐬 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐝

• We use LinkedIn every day – in early 2003, it didn’t exist.
• We do video interviews in all cases, unless we’re asked not to. These are very useful, saving time for all parties and often eliminating the need for a complete interview round. Hinterview is the platform we use – highly recommended.
• We don’t work from Matt’s in-laws’ annexe any more. Several office moves later we’re now based from home most of the time – although we still have an address in Burton on Trent, famous as the world centre of brewing and IT recruitment.
• We do finance recruitment too! Not directly though – we refer this to our partner company ABPM Recruitment Ltd.

𝐏𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐬𝐭𝐮𝐟𝐟

Within the team we’ve had marriages, divorces, births, bereavements, house moves, health scares, beard growth, hair loss, waistline changes, memorable holidays, and more. Children who weren’t born when we started are now at university. We’re older, wiser, and better at recruitment.

𝐓𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐤 𝐲𝐨𝐮

So – a heartfelt thank you to all our supporters, employees past and present, people and businesses who’ve worked with us over the past 21 years. Family, too, of course. It’s been fun!