Helping you achieve better tech hiring outcomes
Hiring for a strategically important tech/IT role presents a valuable opportunity to strengthen your team with a candidate who will bring fresh perspectives and innovative skills. Selecting the best-match professional is crucial, so it’s important to approach the talent search process with care and consideration.
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With access to the UK's widest tech talent pools, the time to engage, and a robust (British Standards Institute audited) multi-step candidate assessment process in place, we have full confidence in our ability to facilitate exceptional matches between employers and candidates that will add measurable value and endure. We focus on securing authentic candidates with the essential skills, experience, and, importantly, genuine positivity around your brand and vision.
Experience & Expertise
As one of the longest-established independent Tech/IT recruitment consultancies in the UK, we have dedicated the past 25 years to exclusively focusing on tech talent search and engagement best practices. This extensive experience has allowed us to build up expertise and refine our processes, ensuring we consistently deliver measurable results.
The Deerfoot team is made up of highly experienced technology recruiters, with an average of 19 years of experience in the recruitment industry and 9 years at Deerfoot.
Ever mindful of our ethical and social responsibilities to all parties, we strive to be a trusted recruitment partner, delivering results across all tech departmental functional roles and technologies.
Tools & knowledge
From an AI diversity & inclusion tool to ensure our vacancy adverts show no bias; to best-in-class video interviewing software to reduce interviewing time for our hiring stakeholders, we tirelessly review, assess and adopt the best candidate attraction, selection and engagement tools. These include natural search technology that delivers better target candidate short-lists than Boolean and chatbot tech to provide a user-friendly engagement platform for candidates.
Additionally, we offer a platform for clients to review shortlisted candidates and easily schedule interviews.
Team training focuses on achieving process excellence and understanding technology across all tech roles and disciplines to enhance comprehension. We shy away from sales-based training and tactics but operate in a more considerate way that delivers better long-term outcomes for all candidates & hiring stakeholders.
Corporate & social responsibility
We hope we have a good collective social heart as a business. We know there is always room for improvement. It’s too easy to create policies on social and environmental impact, but it’s action that counts. We need to continually reflect and consider what we do, how we do it and why we do it.
We need to be comfortable with the answers. Generating profits and achieving growth is okay, but only if on reflection services or goods provided by an organisation do not have a detrimental impact on society and moreover are respectful of the environment.
Each month we donate a sum of money for each employee to http://www.ecologi.com . This organisation plant trees & funds the world’s best climate crisis solutions. Further, Deerfoot has donated over £50,000 to charitable causes.
One long term initiative is the way we link the support of one charity to the candidate’s we represent and present to clients. Every time we send a candidate’s CV to a recruiting client, we donate £1 to the Born Free Foundation (registered charity no. 1070906). Born Free protects many species and is devoted to compassionate conservation and animal welfare.
Diversity & Inclusion
We welcome partnerships with organisations that evidence and action a clear diversity, equality and inclusion policy and recognise the positive impact a strong diverse workforce can offer.
Improving DE&I is at the top of the corporate agenda and we are committed to supporting our clientele in this endeavour.
We utilise an AI tool to ensure our IT vacancy adverts are compliant and further are optimised to attract candidates from minority represented groups. For all IT vacancies, we aim to always present a diverse shortlist of qualified candidates.
Appropriate IT recruitment support
We offer a mature, objective, informed IT candidate search service that fully supports in-house HR/Talent teams and IT departmental managers. Our service delivery model is built on objective and fact-based communications, keeping in mind the ever-changing landscape of recruitment best practices.
We focus on quality and present just the best-match, authentic candidates, aiming for a 2:1 (CV submission to interview ratio).
We conduct certified biometric TrustID checks on all candidates to whom you extend a job offer. Additionally, we perform in-depth vetting to uncover even the smallest "red flags" in candidate findings.
