Introduction
techfolk® is an independent Bristol based IT recruitment agency, supporting the South West’s technology scene and beyond.
We help bring your organisation’s strategy and technology roadmap to life by finding people who share your values and by qualifying whether they have what it takes.
We offer an expert and personable service for permanent and contract staff, and can deliver across;
- Senior appointments: management | technical directorship | executive
- Software, Web and mobile: development | QA & testing | DevOps | team leadership | architecture
- User experience: consultancy | research | strategy | design | information architecture
- Data | database administration | big data
- Postgraduates: BSc | MSc | BEng | MEng | BA | MA | MBA | EngD | PhD | DPhil
- Infrastructure | networking | security
- Service desk | helpdesk | technical support
- Hardware | embedded | low level coding
- Programme & project management | business analysis
- Service delivery | change, configuration & release management
- Systems implementation | business intelligence | data warehousing
- Product management | technical marketing | pre sales | business development | account management
Our nationwide network is currently strongest in the South West, plus we support the tech hubs of Cambridge, London and Manchester. We’re also experienced in building entirely home based virtual teams.
Please do get in touch; we’d love to listen, ask and explore ways we can help.
Below is a description of our approach, methods and the results. You can hear what others are saying about our work here. And we’ll be adding new helpful articles and tools to the helpful resources for hiring page over the coming months.
Our approach:
We’re flexible and offer as much or little input as you may need. We can support the 360° process to help you get technical recruitment right first time. We’re ready to work in conjunction with your own direct attraction methods, as a long term recruitment partner, or in targeted activity on specialist requirements.
We collaborate with your technology and HR leadership teams to first understand the culture, aims and aspirations of your organisation. Together, we may discover change is required first or that recruitment isn’t yet necessary. When the time is right, we formulate pragmatic plans based on real world experience and with contingency built in.
We're used to tricky assignments, talking with communities of specialists who have niche skills. Following some thorough research and informed discussions we're soon up to speed on the current issues and market outlook. We always share this learning with you to help keep you well informed.
We tend to work ‘exclusively’, openly naming your organisation in our communications to help build your employer brand. We believe in providing a quality and personable candidate experience, from the very first interactions with people who may be interested in your organisation. We talk their language. We also pride ourselves on working impartially, establishing the facts so informed decisions are reached meaning reduced risk for everyone.
We’re proactive but not pushy; we respect everyone as an individual and we’re careful to understand their situation and aspirations. Our instincts can usually be trusted. We also know that no one needs a team of clones and we’re open to fresh ways of doing things.
All of our customers pay the same low percentage fee rates, across contract and permanent recruitment. We can operate fixed-fee models too. We can also consider flexible payment terms to accommodate early stage businesses. And we guarantee our work. Please contact us to request our T&C’s.
Our methods:
We relish a challenge and we love sharing ideas. We work hard at solving problems and we see things through. If we can’t help, we’ll try to find solutions or suggest someone who can.
We know that you’ll expect good coverage of your vacancies. We utilise the best available online services - more than some of our biggest competitors - including CV Library, CWjobs, GitHub, Indeed, Jobsite, JobServe, LinkedIn, Monster, Stack Overflow and TotalJobs plus many specialist and aggregator websites. Our adverts rank well, with nationwide reach, so are usually amongst the first vacancies that people apply for.
We work hard at SEO, so your job advert is usually found on page two or three of organic Google search results too. That’s something we’re proud of.
We underpin this with thorough search methods, expanding social media reach and targeted networking amongst our existing warm contacts.
With now up to three people who can be dedicated as your project team, we’ve capacity to handle campaigns of almost any nature. Our screening process is thorough and can include online technical testing. We provide quality notes from our technical screening discussions, so you can reach qualified assessments promptly and conduct well-informed interviews.
We’ve adopted Trello, the open source project management tool for managing the recruitment workflow; this gives you instant visibility of progress, at any time, with the learning shared and recorded along the way. We can integrate with your own processes too.
The results:
The success of our business is entirely dependent on the success of the people we serve. Our reputation has been built by putting others first, working hard and delivering.
Most of our work with other employers originated from personal recommendations and we’d be glad to put you in touch with people who can share their feedback of our work.
Our team has been employed within the IT industry, working alongside the kinds of people we now recruit. This combination of industry knowledge, resources and hard work all adds up, meaning we reach the people you need quickly, so you can deliver your projects without delay.
We look forward to working together soon. Please contact us and let’s see what ideas we can come up with.
Thanks for your time,
The techfolk team
