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clientexpert Recruitment - Information for Clients

clientexpert aims to be a trusted partner to our clients in search of and securing the very best talent to take up permanent and contract positions.

In our experience, technology recruitment firms tend to lack technical expertise, this makes it difficult for them to really understand what skills a job needs and to find out if a candidate is actually suitable for a job. This may explain why the practice of 'keyword' recruitment has become prevalent; clients are inundated with CVs based on database searches of keywords and can end up receiving hundreds of CVs that need to be reviewed. This benefits neither the employer nor the candidates, and totally defeats the objective of using a recruitment company.

We operate in a different way.

Our recruitment team

- are all technical specialists who have practical experience of systems delivery. This is a major advantage in understanding technical requirements and identifying people with the capabilities to do a particular job. We are proud of our technical expertise and find our clients appreciate the fact we have real technologists doing recruitment rather than non-technical consultants.

We work with you

- to understand your business objectives, technology plans and culture. We meet with you and apply our technology expertise to clearly understand the experience, knowledge and qualities required to succeed in each role. We document each job requirement and agree it with you. If needed, we help you define your technology needs and develop a strategy that will enable you to achieve them. Our technical skills, expertise and reputation, will bring forward candidates you may not otherwise have access to.

Finding Candidates

- With a documented and agreed requirement we will commence finding candidates – some of the ways we do this are: our database, via industry organisations and forums, finding names from our industry sources and at your competitors’ and sometimes advertising.

Interesting and Selecting Candidates

- We speak to the most suitable candidates to find out if they are interested or could be tempted to take an opportunity with your company. Using the job specification and our technical expertise we will develop a set of questions to provide a basis for selection and may review examples of the candidates work. Candidates passing initial selection will be provided with information about your company and will be asked to attend a follow up meeting usually face to face and occasionally by telephone. During this meeting we will look again at technical skills and find out about their experience, approach to problem solving, management style, interests and personality in relation to your needs.

Presenting Candidates

- In the interest of time, ‘Suitable’ candidates’ information will be sent to you by email. This will include the CV, the notes taken during selection and samples of work where appropriate. You can decide whom you would like to see or find out more about. We will set appointments for telephone or in person interviews.

- In parallel we will discuss terms of remuneration and advise on what will be needed to bring the candidates you want on board. We want everyone to feel they are getting a good deal as this will secure the most suitable candidates and help you retain them.

From Candidate to Employee or Consultant

- We will assist with the set up of additional meetings and negotiation of employment terms.

- For contract placements we will deal with administration of payments to the sub-contractor, provide timesheets and review performance with you periodically as you require.

Some examples of Roles and Skill sets we recruit for:

Roles:

- Senior Technology Managers

- Project Managers

- Product Specialists

- Business & Technical Analysts

- Trading system developers

- Application Architects

- System contingency, fail-over and recovery specialists

- Developers and Application Design experts

- Data Modellers

- Data Mining and Cleanup specialists

- Database and System Administrators

- Reference and Market data specialists

- Data Migration specialists

- Test and Development environment support

- Data security and Information Risk Management specialists

- Off-shore development specialists

Skill sets:

- C++, C, Java, J2EE, Spring, Hibernate, .net, Python, perl and SQL , XML

- Financial application technical and functional specialists for front, middle and back office banking applications

- Quantitative Developers specialising in credit, equity and interest rate derivatives

- Systems contingency, disaster recovery, network and infrastructure monitoring

- Electronic trading and connectivity specialists

- Project Management – software development, systems support, outsourcing

- Process Improvement and six sigma

- Training and information presentation

- Technical Writing

- Web Design

- Specialists in package software including Murex, Calypso, Front and Siebel

- Database designers, administrators for Sybase &Oracle

- Data distribution – Sybase Replication, MQ other messaging technologies

- IM / Presence technologies e.g. Jabber XMPP

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