MegaSack DRAW - This year's winner is user - rgwb
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As it says on the tin.
Any IT software development recruiter recommendations that have knowledge of York, Leeds, Edinburgh or Sheffield areas please.
Or someone looking for a nice fresh grad.
My lad is a fresh grad with a BSc 1st in Computer Science now looking in roughly these areas
If he isn't on LinkedIn, he needs to be.
Then spend some time advertising himself.
Lloyds Banking Group worth a look.
TCS (Tata Consultancy Services are global and looking. I have three more grads to interview this week.
I wouldn't bother with recruiters. I've been working in IT for a while, and I've had zero luck with them. Get on a few job sites and apply for a few things, would be my advice.
We're not quiet in those areas (Leicestershire) but looking for software devs. Happy to pass on his details
As a person who has had 2 new jobs in the sector this year I tend to chose a company and go with that, I've not used recruiters ever as far as I can remember.
CompSci is a wide term, does he have an area of interest, dev, networking, machine learning/data science. Anything that pays?
No need for recruiter if looking for startup / growth stage co…
1. Find company he wants to work for.
2. Send cover letter and CV / Linked in profile with link to GitHub / any projects he has done on the side.
He will get a job. Any decent / interesting co is finding it hard to recruit devs right now. Going direct will save them 20-30%.
If looking for Large co simply apply to Grad scheme and also avoid recruiters.
Can work remote + interested to play with REST / GraphQL API’s but needs training then DM me!
Has qualified with a comp sci degree but doesn’t know what GitHub or API is. Use a recruiter, they will still get him a job somewhere 😂
Highly recommend Ally at LEA Recruitment - https://www.leaconsultancy.co.uk/careers
Lovely lady who does a proper recruitment job and with lots of contacts in the North West and Sheffield areas.
Tech grad Scheme opened up at Aviva in York, applying now for start next Sept
https://aviva.apply.cappats.com/Jobs
Surely if it’s in IT the location is irrelevant? My daughter’s boyfriend started a graduate software development job or something along those lines with accentia ( ?sp) in Newcastle a few weeks back. He’s not been to the office yet…
My old company regularly take on graduates from NorthCoders - might be worth a look. (York)
https://rotacloud.com/careers/
If his compsci degree included any data science, get him to brush up on practical applications of data science (some of the AWS tools are a good place to start) and go and chase that. ££££££££££.
Find company he wants to work for.
Don't underestimate how hard that is for someone not currently in the industry. There's an argument to say that's exactly why you use a recruiter, as they do know the companies and who is looking for what.
What is it he's looking for? We have a few openings at our place that can be remote, office is based in Lincoln.
If you want drop me a pm and I'll send you the details.
The suggestion to have stuff on GitHub is a good one. Almost anything at all he’s done, or does in his own time - it will stand out.
Oh, and meaningful commit messages. I always go peek under that particular rug, can be informative about how a person will work in a team.
Thx all, Appreciated.
I will get hold of his latest CV & pass on to those that have offered & send him a link to here.
Surely if it’s in IT the location is irrelevant?
Not really, post-pandemic a lot of companies will require staff to be in the office a certain number of days per week (it will be one day per week for me but thankfully they keep postponing the return to office date).
Also there's certain security cleared roles you just can't do remotely (by the way, anyone that's starting out in IT now should keep security clearances in mind, the employer should fund going through clearance and it opens up a lot more roles and IME takes you out of redundancy pool selections when there's a down turn...)
IT recruitment agencies in Edinburgh:
Hydrogen group
Parity
Henderson Scott
McFall Recruitment
Head Resourcing
be.it
I'd recommend going into IT at a financial services company. The pay is significantly higher than other industries and financial services places only really take people with experience in financial services so hard to get into later. Good way to get started
For a slightly different perspective, have you heard of Grayce? They take on graduates as devs or change people and offer them on a placement basis to businesses with a view to permanent roles later. I nearly used one of their grads and was really impressed, but went a different way in the end.
It's a really good model and one I wish I had known about before!
Thanks again all.
I have responded direct to those that have kindly messaged me & sent him this link for him to trawl the help.
Grayce - no not heard about that but as I am too recruiting for a grad I will also take a look.