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AWOL Recruitment Ltd

AWOL is a West London rental living brand focused on delivering an effortless, community driven experience for modern renters through well designed apartments, transparent pricing, and attentive service. Centered around two flagship locations, One West Point in North Acton and North Kensington Gate in North Kensington, AWOL offers a wide choice of studio, 1, 2, and 3 bedroom homes set within landmark developments. One West Point rises 54 storeys, with 701 thoughtfully planned apartments positioned in one of Europes largest regeneration zones, steps from North Acton station on the Central line, while North Kensington Gate overlooks the Grand Union Canal near Willesden Junction and features generous private balconies and a vast communal roof garden. AWOL simplifies move in with utilities set up, high speed wifi available, and a residents app that streamlines requests for repairs, cleaning, and building services. Security and convenience are built in through CCTV and secure fob access, 24 hour concierge in select buildings, and practical amenities such as bicycle storage. Reflecting its promise of a 5 star lifestyle without hidden costs, the brand curates a calendar of community events to help residents connect, from book clubs, yoga, and communal breakfasts to pub quizzes and pet friendly gatherings. Additional facilities, including event and co working space at The Club and a dedicated dog grooming and training room, extend the live, work, play proposition. Prospective residents can book viewings online and via partner portals, while current tenants access dedicated applicant and resident portals for a seamless digital experience. Across every touchpoint, AWOL focuses on exceptional customer service, value for money, and a cultured, connected neighborhood feel so residents can spend more time enjoying their home and less time managing it.

Permanent RecruitmentTemporary StaffingContract StaffingResidential DevelopmentCommercial Real EstateConstructionInterior DesignConstruction & Skilled TradesHospitality & Retail

HQLancaster, 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

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

Croft Associates

Croft Associates is a boutique executive search and talent advisory firm based in the UK, known for a highly personalised, confidential and thorough approach to search and selection, talent mapping and outplacement. Founded in 2006 by Richard Croft following senior roles at Norman Broadbent and Warren Partners, the firm brings more than 25 years of headhunting expertise to help clients find exceptional leaders and build effective senior teams. Croft Associates partners closely with boards and leadership teams to understand culture, values and role requirements, then delivers discreet, headhunter led research that identifies both active and passive candidates. The firm has completed executive and non executive mandates across utilities and energy, building materials and construction, manufacturing, financial services, media, retail and education, with representative appointments including CEO, COO, CFO, Chief Commercial Officer, Group Finance Director, Commercial Director, Managing Director, Group HR Director, Head of Engineering, Head of Technology, Chief Technologist, and Non Executive Director and Remuneration Committee Chair. Beyond retained search, Croft Associates provides talent mapping to give clients market intelligence and medium to long term pipelines, evidenced by projects such as senior engineering market mapping and management team RPO for building materials manufacturing and distribution businesses. Its one to one outplacement and executive career coaching services support senior leaders through transition with practical planning, assessment and ongoing onboarding support through the first year in role. The firm follows a rigorous process from consultation and solution design to research, candidate contact, assessment, longlisting and shortlisting, offer management and onboarding, underpinned by values of honesty, professionalism and confidentiality. Clients have included leading international and UK organizations such as Unilever, Trinity Mirror, AstraZeneca, Saint Gobain and United Utilities, as well as fast growing SMEs and sector specialists in builders merchants, digital cinema, property management and multi utility connections.

Exec Search & Interim MgmtRPOPermanent RecruitmentAutomotiveAerospaceDefenseEnvironmental ServicesWater ManagementUtilities

HQFrodsham, United Kingdom

Focused Construction

Focused Construction is a UK recruitment partner dedicated to delivering bespoke labour solutions for the construction industry, connecting employers and jobseekers through a straightforward platform that features Search Jobs, Jobseekers, Employers, and Sign In sections. Operating across a wide network of locations nationwide, the agency supplies qualified trades and site professionals for projects that range from short term cover to longer phased builds and permanent team hires. Its core talent pool includes electricians, plumbers and pipe fitters, joiners and carpenters, painters and decorators, plasterers, groundworks labourers, steel fixers, skilled labourers, foremen, site engineers, and site management personnel. Reflecting the real demands of active job sites, Focused Construction supports roles spanning CSCS labourers, bricklayers, dryliners, tilers, scaffolders, setting out engineers, quantity surveyors, and construction managers, as well as plant and equipment specialists such as 180 and 360 operators, rollers, and loaders. Clients gain access to vetted professionals aligned to site requirements, timeframes, and safety expectations across civil groundworks and utilities, residential developments, commercial builds, refurbishments, and fit out programs. For candidates, the agency provides transparent job listings, simple registration, and a steady stream of opportunities that cover entry level to experienced trades and supervisory positions, helping them secure consistent on site work with reputable contractors. Employers benefit from responsive communication focused on start dates, shift coverage, and project milestones, along with a consultative approach that prioritizes reliability and role fit so that crews arrive prepared and projects stay on schedule. By concentrating exclusively on construction, Focused Construction brings market knowledge about skills availability, regional demand, and certification requirements that matter most to contractors and developers, building a practical, hands on recruitment partnership grounded in the realities of the job site and the career goals of the people who keep it moving.

Temporary StaffingPermanent RecruitmentContract StaffingResidential DevelopmentCommercial Real EstateConstructionInterior DesignConstruction & Skilled TradesGeneralist - blue collar professionals

HQLiverpool, United Kingdom

Douglas Stuart

Douglas Stuart is a specialist recruitment and talent advisory firm focused on energy, infrastructure, and supply chain markets. From its base in the United Kingdom the company delivers global executive search, permanent hiring, and contracting solutions that place leadership and hard to find technical talent into complex, safety critical, and capital intensive environments. Its sector practices span the full energy value chain, including upstream, midstream, and downstream oil and gas, renewables, nuclear, and utilities; infrastructure across construction, power generation and distribution, and public services; and supply chain domains such as shipping, ports and terminals, warehousing, airfreight, rail, and road transport. Consultants combine deep market knowledge with a structured search methodology, rigorous competency and behavioral assessment, and clear, evidence based reporting that keeps stakeholders aligned. Beyond hiring, Douglas Stuart provides talent management and HR consulting services, including role definition, workforce planning, salary benchmarking, diversity and inclusion reviews, and graduate program design, helping clients reduce time to hire and improve cost per hire while raising quality. The firm has delivered assignments across the UK, Europe, and Asia, supporting searches from senior managers to director and VP level, and coordinating complex international relocations and onboarding. Clients value weekly progress updates, transparent shortlists, and honest candidate feedback, alongside tools such as headroom assessments that reveal future potential. Whether building project teams, appointing a project director for an FPSO, strengthening HSE leadership, or scaling regional commercial and operations functions, Douglas Stuart partners closely with employers to understand culture, strategy, and growth plans and to secure talent that will perform and stay. The result is a practical, high integrity service that recruits effectively, helps retain people, and supports long term organizational performance.

Exec Search & Interim MgmtPermanent RecruitmentContract StaffingOil & GasRenewable EnergyMiningFreight ForwardingAirlines & AviationMaritime

HQMacclesfield, United Kingdom

Focus Point Consulting

Focus Point Consulting is a boutique headhunting and recruitment partner that connects employers with hard to find professionals across the UK, the USA, and the Middle East. The firm is led by experienced recruiters who combine targeted search methods with practical market insight to deliver hires that make a measurable impact. Their work is rooted in the built environment and engineering domains, with case studies highlighting successful searches such as a Project Manager for infrastructure design, a Senior Director hired to drive new business in building services and civil and structural engineering, and a Principal Structural Engineer. For employers, Focus Point Consulting offers bespoke services that begin with role scoping and salary benchmarking, progress through market mapping and discreet outreach, and culminate in candidate assessment, shortlisting, and offer management. For candidates, the firm provides focused support, clear guidance on market expectations, and access to curated opportunities through its jobs portal, ensuring consistent representation and a coherent professional narrative. The team emphasizes quality over volume, prioritizing deep research, proactive networking, and transparent communication to secure specialists, senior leaders, and mission critical individual contributors. Their approach is consultative and outcome driven, aligning hiring plans with commercial goals, timelines, and competitiveness in the market. With dedicated pages and processes for clients and candidates in multiple regions, Focus Point Consulting adapts to local hiring norms while maintaining a consistent standard of search excellence. Whether the need is a confidential leadership hire or a specialist technical appointment, the firm applies rigorous search, precise screening, and hands on support to shorten time to hire and elevate the caliber of talent joining the business.

Exec Search & Interim MgmtPermanent RecruitmentContract StaffingAutomotiveAerospaceDefenseResidential DevelopmentCommercial Real EstateConstruction

HQBolton, United Kingdom

Dark Horse Recruitment

Dark Horse Recruitment is a specialist construction recruitment agency serving employers and workers across the South West of England from its base in Newton Abbot. With more than 30 years of collective industry experience, the team provides a proactive, honest and highly responsive service tailored to site needs and project timelines. The company focuses on four core sectors: Trades and Labour, Construction and Civils, Highways and Traffic Management, and Agricultural Works. Whether clients require additional tradespeople and laborers to scale a project, civil engineering support integral to complex builds, experienced traffic management technicians to keep roadworks safe and compliant, or reliable agricultural workers to assist with seasonal peaks, Dark Horse Recruitment sources and supplies vetted staff who are ready to deliver. The agency partners closely with site managers and operations leaders, offering rapid short notice cover, planned workforce ramp ups, and permanent hiring solutions. For workers, the registration process is efficient, easy and informative, and the agency is known for clear communication and dependable weekly pay, as reflected in testimonials that highlight attentive support and on time payroll. Employers value the straightforward brief to shortlist process, where consultants listen carefully to role requirements and present only suitable candidates. Dark Horse Recruitment supports assignments across the South West and maintains relevant construction standards and credentials, aligning with the expectations of contractors and infrastructure providers. In addition to day to day hiring, clients can submit vacancies online, and candidates can be referred through a simple scheme that rewards successful introductions. Bringing together local market knowledge, safety conscious sector understanding and a commitment to reliability, Dark Horse Recruitment acts as a trusted partner for building, highways and agricultural projects that depend on the right people at the right time.

Permanent RecruitmentTemporary StaffingContract StaffingResidential DevelopmentCommercial Real EstateConstructionAirlines & AviationMaritimeRailroad

HQNewton Abbot, United Kingdom

Focusmed24

Focusmed24 Ltd is a UK based recruitment agency with a dual sector focus on healthcare and construction, delivering vetted professionals to clients nationwide. Established in 2008 by professionals with clinical backgrounds, the company combines deep sector knowledge with a practical, service led approach to staffing. In healthcare, Focusmed24 supplies registered nurses across general and specialist wards, theatre staff including ODPs, anaesthetics, scrub and recovery, and a broad range of AHP and HSS roles such as physiotherapists, radiographers, paramedics, biomedical scientists and clinical support workers. In construction, the business partners with contractors, developers and project managers to provide reliable site operatives and general labour, skilled tradespeople, site technicians and engineers, supervisors and project support staff for projects ranging from residential builds to large scale civil engineering and infrastructure. The firm also supports niche requirements spanning geotechnical, laboratory testing, site testing, environmental testing, engineering, quality management and admin, enabling clients to cover short notice gaps as well as longer term needs. Focusmed24 emphasizes a seamless onboarding experience, from fast response to role scoping through to rigorous compliance checks, including right to work, DBS and reference verification for clinical roles, mandatory training and immunisations where required, and safety, certification and PPE standards for construction assignments. Candidates value flexible shifts, clear communication and dependable weekly pay, while clients benefit from a single point of contact, proactive updates and dependable cover delivered on demand, on time, every time. With headquarters in Chelmsford, Essex, Focusmed24 operates across the UK and partners with NHS trusts, private hospitals and clinics, and construction firms. Its commitment to good practice is reflected by recognition badges visible on its site, including NHS Workforce Alliance, HealthTrust Europe, REC, JobsAware, Cyber Essentials and Professional Passport, reinforcing a culture of compliance, governance and quality.

Temporary StaffingContract StaffingPermanent RecruitmentHospital & Health Care (Nursing)PhysiciansPharmaceuticalsResidential DevelopmentCommercial Real EstateConstruction

HQChelmsford, United Kingdom

Fusion People

Fusion People is a United Kingdom based recruitment partner focused on delivering skilled talent to the built environment and engineering economy, with particular strength across construction, infrastructure, rail, and associated technical disciplines. Serving main contractors, specialist subcontractors, engineering consultancies, and asset owners, the company supports complete project lifecycles from early design and planning through construction, commissioning, operations, and maintenance. Its consultants combine sector knowledge with disciplined search, screening, and compliance processes to place permanent employees, supply contingent contractors, and scale temporary site teams at pace. Core capability spans white collar technical and professional roles such as project management, planning, commercial and cost, design engineering, HSE, quality, and site management, as well as blue collar trades and field technicians covering civil, mechanical, electrical, and track related work. Clients benefit from market mapping, talent pooling, and proactive headhunting that reduce time to hire on hard to find skill sets, while candidates gain access to opportunities with leading firms and major programs across transportation, utilities, building, and industrial engineering. Fusion People emphasizes transparent communication, rigorous right to work and reference checks, and safety led onboarding suited to live, safety critical environments. The business is experienced in mobilizing multi discipline teams to demanding schedules, coordinating payroll and contractor care, and maintaining continuity of expertise across shutdowns, blockades, and phased works. Whether securing a single permanent specialist or assembling an integrated delivery crew, Fusion People aligns hiring strategies with budget, timeline, and governance requirements to deliver dependable outcomes. Its approach is collaborative, data informed, and quality driven, designed to build long term relationships and provide dependable workforce capacity where and when projects need it most.

Permanent RecruitmentContract StaffingTemporary StaffingResidential DevelopmentCommercial Real EstateConstructionSupply Chain ManagementFreight ForwardingAirlines & Aviation

HQWarrington, United Kingdom

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