IT Jobs/Recruitment

bobblehat

Hi ,

My son is looking for a new job. 

He is currently working as a junior developer for a large international IT Consultancy firm.He graduated 2 years ago with a Masters in Computer Science and been working here for the last 18 months.

This is outside my field of expertise so really cant advise him on where to look next.

If you can recommend any good specialist recruiters or best places to look in this field it really would be appreciated.

I use recruitment agencies myself and appreciate how much of a minefield it can be.

Thanks 

 

LooseMoose

What's his specialism? Where's he based? What sort of roles is he after?

bobblehat

I'll find out some details.

 

His main interest is in programming , currently working from home in Cardiff and commuting back and forth to Reading and London for meetings when required. He's more than happy to relocate. 

joeyowen

What programming language?

Some are much more employable than others!

Phil_aka_Pip

JobServe used to be a good site, but you won't find many companies (if any) recruiting directly through it, it is mainly inhabited by parasitic agencies. However, if you know there's an employer in such-and-such a town, in a specific business, with a certain requirement then it usually doesn't take too long with google to find out who they are, then get at their web site, and place a direct application. There may be some that use agencies because they think agencies will filter out the less relevant applications, but for each of them I'm sure there are others that would prefer not to pay an agent's fee.

Phil_aka_Pip

LooseMoose said:

What's his specialism? Where's he based? What sort of roles is he after?

I thought he was into making software, not acting

Moe_Zambeek

IME going direct when there is already an agency (or more likely 2-3) contracted will get your CV directed straight in the bin.

Cwjobs is worth a go, in Scotland s1jobs is quite big but not sure if there is a Welsh equivalent. Also LinkedIn is increasingly popular for recruiting.

If your son wants to make life easy I'd say as well as LinkedIn he should contact *decent* agencies directly and work with them to get a CV up to scratch. Much as many dislike agencies, it's the way most people recruit these days and you need to make that work for you rather than against.

nick_s

The company I work for (Ticketmaster) are looking for web devs if that is the sort of thing he's looking for?  Let me know if so and I'll get some details (jobs are based in Stoke).

Neil

A friend of mine is the MD of a well respected recruitment firm that deals in the computer sector. He may be able to help.

Email him direct at:

mark.delacy@highams.com

Tell him Copsey sent you.

roundthebend

I'm in that industry and my employer has been recruiting continuously for several years as we grow. We have an office in Peterborough and one in London. If his skills and interests are roughly in the web/mobile development arena, then it might be worth him getting in touch with me. Feel free to PM.

eSully

bobblehat said:

I'll find out some details.

 

His main interest is in programming , currently working from home in Cardiff and commuting back and forth to Reading and London for meetings when required. He's more than happy to relocate. 

Well, NWIS are always looking for programmers, they have a very high turnover rate, make of that what you will but I believe they're trying to improve and it's a pretty flexible place to work.

Hays recruitment in Cardiff seem to do a lot around .Net/C# jobs in south wales.

May be worth directly contacting Box UK and Sequence who seem to be looking for developers a lot too. All Cardiff based

Good luck

eSully

If he hasn't done already tell him to put together a LinkedIn profile and add every bit of coding experience he has on there plus add a few groups (e.g. C# etc). The recruitment consultants will come to him.

bobblehat

Thanks for all the replies, I will forward this post on to him to digest.

Will keep you posted with any updates.

PC_Dave

reed.co.uk/IT - yes they are a large recruitment company but they have the biggest database in the UK of candidates and companies looking for people.

Also they let companies and other recruiters advertise on their website.

Phil_aka_Pip

CWjobs - banks & insurance companies
JobServe - Web & database

... from memory

Electronics Weekly for embedded/realtime (but it sounds like that's not so relevant here)

mellowsun

eSully said:

If he hasn't done already tell him to put together a LinkedIn profile and add every bit of coding experience he has on there plus add a few groups (e.g. C# etc). The recruitment consultants will come to him.

+1. LinkedIn makes this very easy. Also jobs are listed directly on the LinkedIn Jobs site, many are direct ads from companies, not just ads from recruitment consultants.

bobblehat

A belated thank you for all your help and advice and an update.

He now has a new job as a Java Developer in London. He also has just 3 weeks to find a flat and move to London!

joeyowen

bobblehat said:

A belated thank you for all your help and advice and an update.

He now has a new job as a Java Developer in London. He also has just 3 weeks to find a flat and move to London!

Fantastic news! Was that through linked in as suggested? or the old fashioned way 

digitalscream

bobblehat said:

A belated thank you for all your help and advice and an update.

He now has a new job as a Java Developer in London. He also has just 3 weeks to find a flat and move to London!

Good work

Incidentally, for the future...more and more employers are asking if developers have anything on GitHub these days, so they can see their code. It's worth him building up a library of code on there to grease the wheels next time.

bobblehat

joeyowen said:

bobblehat said:

A belated thank you for all your help and advice and an update.

He now has a new job as a Java Developer in London. He also has just 3 weeks to find a flat and move to London!

Fantastic news! Was that through linked in as suggested? or the old fashioned way 

YES it was via a recruiter who got his details from linked in. He also got five interviews and 3 confirmed job offers within a week via recruiters that he contacted through some of the other sites mentioned here. 

joneve

Fuck. Literally 2 months too late. We were looking for a developer to take on the role of developing our software so we can get rid of the outsourcing we currently use (which is ok, but limits us a bit).