Change Recruitment had a clear vision for where they wanted to take their contracts business. They knew the DevOps market was growing, they had the infrastructure in place, and the leadership team had the experience to back it. What they needed was one person, to walk in and build it with them.
The challenge wasn't finding someone who could bill. It was finding someone who would stay, grow, and eventually lead. That gap between a good hire and the right hire is everything.
We started by going deeper than the job spec. Through detailed conversations with the Change Recruitment leadership team, we mapped out not just the role requirements but the culture, team dynamics, and what long-term success genuinely looked like for this hire. The ideal candidate needed to be motivated enough to build from scratch, but collaborative enough to integrate naturally into an existing team.
Working on an exclusive candidate basis, we approached Change Recruitment with a candidate who wasn't circulating through other channels. Throughout the process we maintained close communication, consistent updates, honest feedback at every stage, and proactive conversations about hiring risks before they had the chance to derail the search.
The candidate placed has built Change Recruitment's DevOps contracts desk from the ground up and naturally grown into a team lead role, without being pushed into it. It's the kind of organic progression that only happens when a hire is genuinely the right fit from day one.
For Change Recruitment, the result wasn't just a filled vacancy. It was a hire that is actively shaping the future of their contracts function.