Search Recruitment Services
Suited for filling niche and confidential roles
Our retained search service is ideally suited to filling niche, confidential, and business-critical roles, as well as supporting complex, project-based hiring requirements where specialist expertise and discretion are essential. This approach ensures clients benefit from a focused, highly consultative service designed to secure the best available talent.
Retained search is often the preferred solution when recruiting for senior, director-level, or project-specific leadership roles. By working on a retained basis, we dedicate specialist resources to identifying and engaging top-tier candidates with the precise skills, experience, and delivery capability required. Our deep industry knowledge and extensive network allow us to access high-calibre professionals who may not be actively seeking new opportunities but are open to the right strategic or project-led engagement.
By partnering with Spectrum IT for retained search, clients gain a thorough, confidential, and outcome-driven recruitment process. We understand the importance of high-stakes appointments and time-critical projects, and work diligently to ensure seamless, successful placements. With a proven track record across senior leadership and project-based IT recruitment, Spectrum IT is a trusted partner for organisations looking to secure exceptional technology talent.
Our Services Include
Talent Insights
We are able to provide data analytics on potential candidate pools, profiling talent by industry experience, skill set, and location to support targeted and diverse hiring strategies. In addition, we offer salary and package benchmarking based on company size, sector, location, and role, enabling businesses to remain competitive and aligned with current market rates.
Recruitment Portal
We can provide a personalised client applicant tracking system (ATS) which is co-branded as the client. CV tracking, interviews, and feedback is handled via this ATS. This helps to reduce client administration time logging CVs, arranging interviews, and providing feedback. The ATS acts as a central repository of recruiting data for clients
Job Specs & Coversheets
CV & Interview Review Workshop
Working in partnership with line managers / talent teams to help consider the most effective ways to review CVs and to ensure each application is being reviewed in a fair and transparent way
Recruitment Process Improvement
We can make recommendations to help improve your recruitment process. Lengthy drawn-out interview processes can often deter some candidates from progressing with an application
Bespoke Management Information
Providing management information on all aspects of a recruitment process via our CRM, we can monitor anything from CV feedback duration, CVs to interview ratio data, average process length and anything in between. Please reach out to a consultant with your MI requirments
Digital ID Checks
We have the ability to carry out digital right to work checks for employees via an approved government software package. This product conducts biometric and passport chip checks as part of the process
Background Screening
We can undertake all aspects of screening according to your requirments, including financial checks, DBS, references, and previous employment history
Tech Community Speakers
Spectrum IT supports a host of technology events in the community. If you are interested in speaking, please let us know and we will link you up with an event organiser. Our technology events are a great way to give back to the technology community
Looking to Submit a Vacancy?
Have an IT job you'd like to fill? Tell us about your job vacancy or send us a job specification and one of our consultants will be in touch to discuss it further