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A Star Recruitment

A Star Recruitment is a talent solutions firm that helps organizations secure reliable people and build resilient teams across changing market conditions. The company delivers temporary staffing, permanent recruitment, and contract hiring for entry level through supervisory roles, along with consultative support that aligns workforce plans to operational goals. Its consultants engage closely with hiring managers to scope roles, define success profiles, and design sourcing strategies that combine targeted advertising, database search, referrals, and community outreach. Candidates are screened for skills, safety awareness, right to work, and cultural fit, with reference checks and where required basic compliance checks prior to placement. For time sensitive needs, A Star Recruitment maintains active pools of prequalified workers ready to start on short notice, and provides flexible scheduling to support peaks, seasonal surges, and project work. For permanent mandates, the team manages the full lifecycle from brief to offer acceptance and onboarding, reducing time to hire while improving quality and retention. Clients gain real time visibility into requisitions, interviews, and placements, supported by clear reporting on fill rates, attendance, and conversion from temporary to permanent. Payroll is administered accurately and on time, with transparent timesheet controls and responsive issue resolution. The company emphasizes safety, communication, and dependable service, offering out of hours contact when operations run beyond the standard day. Whether supporting manufacturing lines, warehouses, logistics operations, contact centers, or office functions, A Star Recruitment focuses on delivering consistent performance and a positive experience for both clients and candidates. Its approach centers on partnership, accountability, and continuous improvement so employers can meet production targets and service levels, and job seekers can access fair opportunities, develop skills, and progress into stable careers.

Permanent RecruitmentTemporary StaffingContract StaffingAutomotiveAerospaceDefenseTruckingWarehousingDistribution

HQSt. Helens, United Kingdom

Bamford Contract Services

Bamford Contract Services is a UK based recruitment and staffing agency whose name and limited public references indicate a strong focus on supplying contract and temporary labor alongside permanent hires for clients that need reliable, flexible workforce solutions. With an emphasis on hands on delivery and fast response typical of contract staffing providers, the firm supports operations that scale up and down quickly, particularly in industrial, construction, warehousing, and logistics environments, while also handling office and commercial roles when clients require blended teams. Its service mix centers on sourcing, vetting, and deploying work ready candidates, maintaining meticulous compliance with right to work, health and safety, and industry regulations, and running accurate, on time payroll for temporary and contract workers. For permanent recruitment, Bamford Contract Services applies targeted search and selection to fill skilled and supervisory roles that sustain business continuity beyond peak periods. The agency prioritizes local market knowledge, maintaining talent pools of experienced trades, operatives, drivers, and support staff who can start at short notice, supported by consultants who understand site conditions, shift patterns, and clearance needs. Clients typically engage the company to reduce time to hire, stabilize attendance and productivity, and gain a single partner accountable for resourcing, onboarding, timesheets, and contractor care. Candidates benefit from transparent assignments, fair pay, and ongoing communication about extensions and next steps. While detailed corporate information is not provided in the sources supplied, the positioning summarized here reflects the functions most commonly associated with a specialist contract services recruiter operating across manufacturing and engineering supply chains, construction projects, and transport and distribution networks. This pragmatic, delivery led approach helps organizations keep projects on schedule and operations running smoothly, with a staffing partner that adapts to demand and aligns people, safety, and performance.

Contract StaffingTemporary StaffingPermanent RecruitmentAutomotiveAerospaceDefenseSupply Chain ManagementFreight ForwardingAirlines & Aviation

HQRochdale, United Kingdom

Argon Engineering

Argon Engineering is a UK-based recruitment partner dedicated to matching the right engineers with the right roles across FMCG and industrial markets. With more than a decade of focused experience, the firm blends research-driven talent mapping with practical industry insight to help employers hire with confidence and engineers advance their careers. From its base at 37a Bolton Street, Ramsbottom, Bury, BL0 9HU, Argon serves clients nationwide, offering a responsive, partnership-led model that goes beyond transactional hiring. Directors and senior consultants Ashley Hamer and Jordan Hamer lead day-to-day delivery, ensuring every assignment benefits from hands-on expertise and a deep understanding of how engineering businesses operate and what kinds of people they need. Clients tap Argon for retained services on critical or confidential mandates, competitive contingent search with a free-until-hire commitment, and structured volume account support designed to scale hiring while controlling cost. The company complements search and selection with advanced market information, salary surveys, and competitor analysis so hiring managers can benchmark offers, position employer value propositions, and make evidence-based decisions. Candidates receive full life-cycle support, including CV writing advice, interview preparation, and aftercare to ensure a smooth transition and strong retention. Argon emphasizes cultural alignment and commercial awareness, helping both sides focus on the qualities that drive performance, safety, and long-term engagement in engineering environments. Backed by national coverage and competitive rates, the consultancy stays close to both parties throughout the process to ensure smooth onboarding and better retention outcomes. Over 12 years the team has built a national network of 4000 registered engineers and supports dozens of active clients at any time, with live vacancies spanning design, manufacturing, maintenance, reliability, projects, and leadership. Whether a plant needs to secure a hard-to-find specialist, a manufacturer is growing a multi-site team, or an engineer seeks a better fit, Argon Engineering brings the strategy, insight, and service needed to deliver results across the UK.

Permanent RecruitmentExec Search & Interim MgmtContract StaffingAutomotiveAerospaceDefenseFashion & ApparelFood & BeverageConsumer Electronics

HQRamsbottom, United Kingdom

AssureBio

AssureBio is a specialist recruitment partner dedicated to uniting the worlds leading Quality Assurance talent with life science organizations across the UK, Europe, and the United States. With over 30 years of combined pharmaceutical QA recruitment experience, the firm focuses exclusively on Quality functions that protect patients and elevate standards, serving pharmaceutical, biotechnology, biopharma, ATMP, MedTech, and CDMO clients as well as GxP consultancies. Through its Assure Total Talent solution, AssureBio provides an end to end, compliance led approach that covers urgent remediation needs, strategic leadership hires, and scalable project delivery. The company delivers permanent hiring from contingent through exclusive engagement to confidential executive search, and supplies contract and interim experts including Qualified Persons (QPs), interim quality leaders, QMS consultants, and specialist contractors deployed rapidly for MHRA and FDA remediation projects. AssureBio also offers an embedded consultancy partnership model to help GxP consultancies scale audits, QP services, and remediation work. Roles commonly covered span GMP, GDP, GCP, and GVP quality, including QP, QA leadership, QC and microbiology, validation, and manufacturing quality. Headquartered in London with a US presence in Boston, AssureBio combines speed, precision, and regulatory understanding to strengthen client compliance, safeguard reputation, and improve patient outcomes. Its one minute Assure Total Talent Diagnostic helps hiring teams quickly assess needs and map a route to the right QA and QP professionals, while insights across blogs, reports, and the QP Diaries podcast keep the community informed on market rates, hiring strategies, and career development. Known for a human first, trust led, and niche focused approach, AssureBio builds long term partnerships with candidates and clients, prioritizing ethical delivery, confidentiality, and measurable quality outcomes on every assignment.

Permanent RecruitmentContract StaffingExec Search & Interim MgmtHospital & Health Care (Nursing)PhysiciansPharmaceuticalsMental Health CareVeterinaryHealthcare & Life Sciences

HQLondon, United Kingdom

Belmont Recruitment Ltd

With more than 70 years of experience, the company operates as a full service commercial printer delivering lithographic, digital, and large format print alongside value added services such as storage, fulfilment and mailing, online web to print solutions, and hands on workshops. Based in Northampton on Barn Way, Lodge Farm Industrial Estate (NN5 7UW), the team blends craft printing expertise with modern technology to produce high quality, efficient, and environmentally considerate outputs for both national brands and emerging start ups. They support complex personalization projects and advise graphic designers and creative agencies on substrates, finishes, color management, binding, and production methods to achieve the results clients envision. The operation emphasizes continual investment in innovation to increase efficiency, reduce waste, and minimize environmental impact, while maintaining reliable customer communication and delivery. Beyond production, the organization runs popular Print Essentials workshops that walk attendees through the full print lifecycle, from artwork and paper selection to press, finishing, and binding, often including a guided tour of the plant to see the latest equipment in action. Their in house team spans creative and technical capabilities, from prepress and data driven personalization to large format signage, banners, exhibition systems, and point of sale, supported by warehousing, pick pack, and distribution to streamline campaigns. Clients range from household names to local businesses, and the same care is applied whether the brief is a short run targeted piece or a large scale, multi item rollout. Active on LinkedIn and other social channels, the company showcases case studies and community initiatives, including support for local organizations, reflecting a people first culture where long term relationships, clear service promises, and dependable delivery come first. The result is a trusted print partner that couples manufacturing rigor with agency level collaboration and practical, end to end support.

Permanent RecruitmentContract StaffingExec Search & Interim MgmtDigital MarketingContent CreationPublic RelationsPublishingOnline MediaAll industries

HQNorthampton, United Kingdom

DCT Recruitment Ltd

DCT Recruitment Ltd is a Liverpool based recruitment agency headquartered at Suite 518B, Cotton Exchange, Old Hall St, Liverpool, L3 9LQ. The company delivers temporary and permanent recruitment services to employers and jobseekers across the Liverpool City Region, Merseyside, Lancashire and Cheshire, operating with a clear ethos of Delivering Careers Together. DCT focuses on four core sectors, Commercial, Construction, Hospitality, and Industrial, supporting both blue and white collar requirements for small, medium, and large businesses. Typical commercial roles include administration, customer service, inbound and outbound telesales, payroll, HR, PA and secretarial, team leaders and management, accountants, business development managers, and other office based positions. In the construction and industrial arenas, DCT supplies skilled trades and technical workers such as bricklayers, carpenters, electricians, maintenance and engineering staff, mechanics, drainage engineers, production and logistics operatives, and site labor across projects driven by ongoing regional regeneration. Hospitality hiring spans front and back of house roles for venues and operators that need reliable, service oriented people. For employers, DCT provides a streamlined process that covers vacancy submission, targeted search and select across a well established candidate database and large social following, thorough vetting and interviewing, and efficient shortlisting and onboarding so only the right people reach the final selection. The team also offers practical advice on hiring strategies and invites businesses to request a free recruitment review. For candidates, DCT offers regular job opportunities and a simple registration process that raises their profile with local employers and builds talent pipelines so they can be first in line when the right role appears, whether they seek flexible temporary work or a long term career move. Candidate support includes application and starter forms, work finding services agreements, timesheets, and clear temporary worker terms of engagement, ensuring a smooth and compliant onboarding experience built on integrity, transparency, and personalized service.

Permanent RecruitmentTemporary StaffingContract StaffingResidential DevelopmentCommercial Real EstateConstructionAerospaceDefenseConsumer Goods Manufacturing

HQLiverpool, United Kingdom

Collingwood Executive Search

Collingwood Executive Search is a boutique leadership hiring firm based in Tarporley, Cheshire, serving organizations across the UK since 2005. The company specializes in retained executive search and complementary solutions that reduce hiring risk and build long term leadership capability across four core domains: Private Healthcare, MedTech and HealthTech, Building Products and Construction, and Technology. Rather than relying on a candidate database, Collingwood treats every mandate as a fresh research project, running rigorous market mapping and proactive outreach to create targeted longlists and culturally aligned shortlists. Assignments are structured with clear milestones and transparent communication, with typical timeframes of 4 to 8 weeks to deliver a qualified shortlist. Alongside executive search, Collingwood provides talent mapping and pipelining to supply live market intelligence, location and competitor talent insights, and salary benchmarking, enabling clients to validate role design, compensation, and succession plans before committing to hire. The firm also offers outplacement and leadership development to support individuals and teams through change. Known for straight talking, sector fluency, and a partnership ethos, Collingwood works closely with founders, HR leaders, and managing directors to define success criteria, align on culture and values, and calibrate the brief as real time market data emerges. Where the initial profile or budget collides with market reality, the team uses evidence from outreach to refine targets without losing momentum. Case studies span hospital leadership appointments, medical director and director of care searches, managing director and operations director hires for building product manufacturers, and commercial leadership roles within industrial and technology driven businesses. With a strong presence across the North and nationwide delivery, Collingwood blends headhunter craftsmanship with data led insight to consistently secure high performing, values aligned leaders. The firm reports a 97 percent success rate on retained searches over the last year and benefits from long standing client partnerships and high levels of repeat business, reflecting a methodical process and commitment to outcomes beyond placement.

Exec Search & Interim MgmtPermanent RecruitmentSOW/ProjectsHospital & Health Care (Nursing)PhysiciansPharmaceuticalsInterior DesignSoftware DevelopmentCybersecurity

HQTarporley, United Kingdom

D&D Recruit

D&D Recruit is a US and UK staffing partner that began in the United Kingdom in 2013 and has supported clients across the United States since 2018. The firm focuses on the automotive, manufacturing, warehousing, and government sectors, delivering temporary, contract, and direct hire recruitment solutions designed to stabilize operations, improve efficiency, and reduce turnover. With nationwide reach from East Coast to West Coast and experience supporting multi site programs in more than 15 states for Tier 1 automotive suppliers, D&D Recruit mobilizes reliable talent at speed, from high volume shifts to specialist and leadership roles. Their teams place assembly and machine operators, maintenance technicians, quality engineers, production and plant supervisors, and senior leaders up to director, VP, and COO level, with particular depth in plastics and industrial manufacturing. The companys approach combines on site presence, rigorous compliance, and data informed workforce planning to cut overtime costs, maintain throughput, and meet seasonal or project driven peaks without disruption. In the public sector, D&D Recruit is SBA and SAM.gov registered and provides compliance led temporary, contract, and direct hire solutions for federal, state, and local agencies, offering transparent pricing, rapid mobilization, and coverage across large scale, multi location programs. Clients value the firms ability to operate as an integrated partner, aligning HR and operational expertise with plant floor realities, safety standards, and quality objectives, and many rely on sole supply agreements for consistent delivery. Rooted in values of teamwork, respect, passion, and quality, D&D Recruit emphasizes long term success for both clients and candidates, evidenced by enduring placements and strong retention outcomes. With offices in Florida, Kentucky, Michigan, and Texas, and a UK base in Runcorn, the firm provides attentive, always available support and a family style service ethic, uniting high volume staffing with strategic direct hire to build resilient, high performing teams.

Permanent RecruitmentTemporary StaffingContract StaffingAutomotiveAerospaceDefenseSupply Chain ManagementFreight ForwardingAirlines & Aviation

HQUnited Kingdom

Cloud 9 Recruitment

Cloud 9 Recruitment is a specialist search and selection firm founded in 2007 that connects mid to senior level talent with leading employers across the UK and Europe. Rooted in deep expertise in Packaging and Print, the business is widely networked across corrugated, cartons, labels, flexibles, consumables, tapes, packaging machinery, P.O.S, timber and pallets, food services, luxury packaging, plastics, and glass. Building on more than 25 years of hands on sector experience, Cloud 9 has expanded into high growth, skills scarce markets including Renewables, Life Sciences, and Automation and Robotics, covering domains such as wind, solar, hydrogen, EV infrastructure, pharmaceuticals, biotech, CROs, mechatronics, robotics integration, and smart manufacturing. The firm delivers permanent appointments through retained and contingency search models, focusing on commercial, technical, and operational leadership roles such as sales and business development, account management, operations management, and heads of function. Cloud 9 augments every mandate with value added services including psychometric and skills assessments, market mapping, talent pipelining, salary benchmarking, shortlist development, interview coordination, and offer management, ensuring each hire aligns to culture, capability, and long term retention goals. Its candidate experience is deliberately confidential and advisory, providing CV guidance, interview preparation, and proactive introductions, and only advancing profiles with the candidates explicit permission after a full briefing. For clients, the consultancy applies a structured, project managed search process that is transparent and ethical, supported by rigorous screening and referencing. Trusted by SMEs and global groups alike, Cloud 9 leverages its niche market knowledge, long standing relationships, and focused delivery model to reduce hiring risk and time to hire while elevating quality of shortlist. Whether scaling a packaging division, launching renewable energy projects, strengthening a life sciences team, or accelerating an automation program, Cloud 9 acts as a committed partner to secure hard to find talent.

Permanent RecruitmentExec Search & Interim MgmtSOW/ProjectsAutomotiveAerospaceDefenseHealthcare AdministrationMental Health CareVeterinary

HQNelson, United Kingdom

Connect Recruit

Connect Recruit is a UK recruitment agency based in Chester that focuses on connecting the right person with the right job across multiple specialist sectors, including construction, healthcare, HR and finance, industrial and warehouse, technology, and transport and logistics. The firm combines the scale and reach of a nationwide recruiter with the agility and awareness of a local partner, delivering a professional yet personal approach backed by consultants who work exclusively within their sector and know their markets inside out. With many years of experience across temporary and permanent hiring, Connect Recruit also supports contract engagements and manages contractor timesheets, ensuring smooth delivery for clients that need flexibility to cover absences, seasonal peaks, or project driven workloads. Their delivery driven process emphasizes candidate commitment, interview coordination, attendance, and offer acceptance, followed by hands on onboarding support to help new hires integrate quickly. The team proactively searches industry networks, adds a headhunting focus to reach passive talent, and rigorously pre screens for skills and culture fit so only quality, well matched candidates move forward. Regular 12 month reviews and open, two way communication enable them to act as a strong brand ambassador, share market intelligence, and continuously improve time to hire and quality of hire outcomes. Clients from SMEs to blue chip organizations cite responsive service, efficient updates, and sector expertise, including deep technology and telecoms knowledge, while candidates highlight attentive support tailored to their needs. Connect Recruit invests in consultant training through a structured internal program, underpinned by a strong compliance ethos and clear policies including a Modern Slavery Statement and privacy commitments. With nationwide coverage, a robust database, and sector led teams across white collar and blue collar disciplines, the company delivers temporary, contract, and permanent talent solutions that help organizations scale with confidence and jobseekers secure roles where they can thrive.

Permanent RecruitmentTemporary StaffingContract StaffingSoftware DevelopmentCybersecurityData ScienceIndustrial AutomationSupply Chain ManagementFreight Forwarding

HQChester, United Kingdom

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