Crimson

Permanent IT Recruitment

The Permanent IT Recruitment market is a demanding one; it is exceptionally competitive and
beset with challenges such as:

IT skills shortages
Shrinking workforce/ageing population
Contract marketing increasingly buoyant
Best candidates are harder to entice
Economic uncertainty

At Crimson, we pride ourselves on providing innovative, flexible and effective recruitment solutions and, for every client we engage with, we evaluate which recruitment solution best fits.

Our clients want the right candidate with the right skills and at the right time and we recognise that, in recruitment, there isn’t a one size fits all approach to making this happen.

A crucial part of our commitment to give our clients a quality-driven, results-oriented service is to offer a wide range of value added services along with proactive consultants to account manage your recruitment.

Our consultants work alongside you, providing the best solutions and service for your business and ensuring that we stand out from our competitors by:

Fully understanding your business and being engaged in the challenges that you face.
Being part of your team and actively working to provide solutions - not just services.
Exceeding your expectations in both service delivery and results.

Crimson’s Ethos

Honest, results-focused, pragmatic, open and supportive are what we aim to be with all of our clients. We are proud that 98% of our business comes from referrals and some of our client relationships stretch back nearly 20 years. Our aim is to consistently remain as your first choice, by providing the best solutions and service to our clients. In order to do this, we need to do more than just talk the talk.

Supplementary Services We Provide:

Technical testing and interviewing
Thomas International Personality Profile Analysis
Recruitment event management and assessment centres
Advertised recruitment & response management
Psychometric testing
Assisted interviews
Bespoke referencing
Mercury – e-recruitment software
Master Vendor Agency Management
Interim Executives/Contractors
Onsite recruitment
Salary surveys and market guidance
Retaining staff workshops

Talent Attraction Division

The best candidates are rarely in the active job market. They are unlikely to post their CVs on job boards or regularly check online adverts and may not be registered with a recruitment agency. Crimson has a dedicated Talent Attraction Division to target these individuals and, unlike our competitors, we invest considerable time into developing relationships with the passive jobseeker so that we know where to find them when you need them!

FACT: Only 24% of our placed candidates come from Job Boards

Candidate Best Fit

We understand that finding the right person for your job is only half the battle; retaining them can be just as challenging. At Crimson, we pride ourselves on being more than ‘job fillers’. We find candidates for you that want to stay in the jobs that we place them in. Trying to shoehorn a square peg into a round hole for a short term gain can be damaging to your business. Crimson goes to great pains to ensure candidates presented to you are the right cultural fit for your organisation and that career expectations are managed.

FACT: 83% of permanent candidates placed by Crimson since 2005 are still working in the roles we placed them in.

Candidate Screening

We understand that your time is too precious to waste on interviewing unsuitable applicants, so we are uncompromising in the discipline with which we screen potential candidates. We only represent candidates who we have thoroughly screened and qualified. Our consultants are trained in various aspects of interviewing and assessment and, because we have our own IT services company, we can make use of our own technical consultants to assess candidates when needed.

Our Consultants

It really is our people that set us apart from our competitors. We make it our business to understand yours and make your life easier, which is why our consultants are committed to continuously advancing their knowledge of your business, the people you like to hire and issues that affect your business. Additionally, each of our consultants is a subject matter expert in a particular field (e.g. recruitment law and legislation, interviewing and assessment) and all of our consultants undertake IT training and are taught not to recruit on buzzwords – they understand what sits behind the lingo and how to delve behind a CV.