Professional Service Provider for Technology Companies
The 1st Connection is a recruitment agency dedicated to sourcing top technology talent for UK software startups, scaleups, and SMEs.
We specialise in hiring software coders, electronics experts, and tech leaders.
To back our commitment, we provide a 9-point promise of service, and if we fall short, we will make a donation to your charity of choice.
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Looking for a new job?
As a candidate seeking new opportunities in the technology sector, you'll find The 1st Connection to be your ideal partner.
Proven track record in delivering top talent across various coders, electronics including C, C++, C#, Embedded, Python, Java, JavaScript, Full-stack, UI/UX, AI.
Electronics, Scientific Engineering, Machine Learning, and Technology Leadership, we ensure you find the role that best matches your skills and ambitions.
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Respond
We recommend this plan if you employ many people with the same job title and can normally find the candidates you want. Typically, there will be more of them on the market; they will be active on the job boards and are more likely to respond to adverts.
We would be one of a few agencies searching the market for the candidates you want.
Focus
We recommend this plan if you only employ a small number of people with this job title or find it harder to identify just the right candidate. There will be fewer of them on the market, and many will not even be looking for a new job, so they won’t be active on the job boards and are very unlikely likely to respond to adverts.
We will have to make more approaches and use more creativity to find them. For this reason, we will only accept these assignments if we have a period of exclusivity to enable us to dig deeper and go wider to deliver a qualified shortlist for you.
Deep Dive
You retain us to identify the right candidates for you no matter how long it takes, which means we need to assign our best people to search much wider and much deeper to find them.
We recommend this plan if you only employ one or perhaps two people with this job title and typically find it very hard to find the right candidate, or maybe you have never even tried before.
The pool of suitable candidates will be very small, and few will be actively looking for a new role. They don’t use the job boards and won’t respond to adverts, so we will need to use all our creativity and experience to map the market and approach each candidate as a head hunter.
Respond Details
7 hours to produce 3 candidates in three days. Presented by email.
Focus Details
15 hours to produce 5 candidates within 20 days. Presented by email and video call.
40+ hours to produce your preferred number of candidates within 20 days.
Presented in person or via video call.
Deep Dive Details
Weekly candidate email list. Advertise on our job boards + LinkedIn, 50+ LinkedIn InMails sent
Search our database and hundreds candidates LinkedIn and job boards
Unlimited calls to LinkedIn members not seeking a new job.
Market map your top 10 competitors and target their people.
Draw on our extended network
Weekly candidate email list. Advertise on our job boards + LinkedIn, 100+ LinkedIn InMails sent
Search our database and thousands candidates on LinkedIn and job boards
100 calls LinkedIn members not job seeking
Draw on our extended network
Unlimited LinkedIn InMails
Our 7-point qualification system
Our 7-point qualification system Second interview by senior team member
Our 7-point qualification system + any further checks required by the client.
Second interview by senior team member
Leave within 1 month – 80% fee refund
Leave between 1 & 3 months – 50% refund
Leave within 1 month – free replacement
Leave between 1 & 3 months – replacement for 50% of normal fee
Leave within 3 months – free replacement
Leave between 3 & 6 months – replacement for 50% or normal fee
Leave between 6 & 12 months – replacement for 80% or normal fee
15% of starting salary paid when candidate starts
20% of starting salary - £1,000 refundable deposit
A third paid upon commencement, a third on shortlist presentation and final third when candidate starts
We work alongside other agencies to identify the most obvious candidates for your vacancy in the time we can invest.
We have the vacancy exclusively for four weeks so we can dedicate more time and resources to your search and therefore are more likely to identify a wider selection of suitable candidates.
You retain us to identify the right candidates for you no matter how long it takes, which means we need to assign our best people to search much wider and much deeper to find them.
30% of starting salary
Our Promise of Service and forfeit
We will always make clear what we'll do and then we'll always do it
We've gone out and distilled “A Promise of Service”, from employers and candidate feedback.
How we'll treat you, the things we'll do, and the things that we won't do!
Now, if we break any of those promises willfully, negligently, or in a way you just don't think we care
Every time you work with us, you should know exactly what you’ll get and be confident you’ll get it.
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The go-to Tech recruitment agency for Start-ups, Scales-ups and SME's
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