Our Services

SJC Recruitment & Training is forward-thinking, professional and approachable. Our philosophy is that an organisation’s strength is dependent upon attracting and retaining the very best people. By adopting a solution driven approach, coupled with genuine commitment and expertise, we ensure that our clients get the right candidate every time. 

We strive get to know our candidates well and to understand their career aspirations. We build a professional relationship and our approach is highly focused.  All appointments and enquiries are treated as confidential and we can assist with various stages from the preparation of a CV, to interview techniques and constructive feedback.  We treat every potential candidate as an individual and our consultants will give you impartial and honest advice.

SJC’s core activity is the selection and recruitment of personnel across all industry sectors at all levels of appointment up to board level.  The company recruits both permanent and temporary personnel including:

Good administrative staff are key. We can help you to find the support staff you need from receptionists, secretaries and PAs to executive assistants. Specialist support staff within the Legal sector up to and including paralegal.

SJC Accountancy specialises in recruitment for commercial, public sector & accountancy practices. We provide staff at all levels, from ledger clerks to financial directors and tax specialists.

Excellent Human Resources staff are vital to the running of a business.  We work with our clients to recruit candidates across a range of positions, tailored to each client’s need.

We are always looking for excellent candidates across the board, from junior to marketing directors with both in-house and quality agency experience.

We look to place a range of designers from junior to senior positions, across all types of medium including print, web, exhibition and publishing.

We provide both permanent and contract ICT specialists at all levels from entry level graduates to Chief Information Offices, operating across specialist markets: infrastructure, application engineering /solutions, senior appointments and consulting.

 Our relationship with clients is based upon mutual trust, respect and commitment.  Before we enter into a recruitment partnership with you, we will agree a mutually acceptable Service Level Agreement (SLA).  This will outline what both sides need to do to ensure the relationships is a success, including recruitment timescales, provision of management information and schedules for performance review meetings.

Having agreed an SLA we will then assign an Account Team. This will consist of a dedicated consultant supported by a back-up consultant and administrative staff.  They will be responsible for managing your business on both an operational and strategic level, continually seeking to identify areas where improvements and cost efficiencies can be made.

Our Corporate Accounts Team is able to deliver a number of reports and processes to help you manage your business.  For example:

• response times
• number of staff per cost centre
• equal opportunity reporting
• number of offers accepted to total candidates

We also offer ongoing support to help keep you up to date with changes in employment legislation and trends in the recruitment market.  This support has included:

• employment law seminars
• free in-house CBI workshops
• secretarial and administrative salary reviews
• bespoke training programs

 Excellent induction, quality ongoing training and a clearly defined career path all help make SJC Recruitment and Training the consultancy of choice for consultants.

All our consultants are highly experienced and specialists in their chosen field.  When you become a SJC client, you will be assigned a dedicated consultant supported by an account team. Together, they will work in partnership with you to source & match candidates quickly and accurately.

Our back-up system ensures you always have a named contact who knows your business and can offer the most appropriate solution every time.

Long established team of consultants with a thorough knowledge of the recruitment market. Ongoing rigorous training ensures the highest standards of professionalism.

Candidate care lies at the heart of SJC Recruitment & Training’s brand, helping us to attract the highest calibre individuals.

More than 50% of our candidates come to us through recommendations - proof of how highly our service is regarded.

At any one time we have more than 1000 candidates seeking temporary and permanent positions with over 250 new candidates registering monthly.

While referrals remain our prime source of new introductions, we also attract candidates through a variety of other methods including:

• Advertising
• Websites
• Job boards
• College leaver talks
• Recruitment fairs
• Career evenings
• Open days

Our aim is to select candidates who not only have the right technical skills but also the right personality & cultural fit, ensuring a seamless match from day one.

Rigorous selection procedures ensure we offer only the very best candidates.

Our screening techniques are designed to guarantee the validity of a candidate’s skills and experience, giving you the peace of mind you need.

Step by step

• telephone screening
• competency-based interview
• skills assessment
• language test (when applicable)
• referencing (when appropriate)

After an initial telephone screening, our consultants interview all potential candidates using Competency Based Interviewing (CBI) techniques.  At the same time, we evaluate software, typing, selling & other skills using our bespoke testing system, Prove It!

Only when we are confident that candidates are of the highest calibre, comply with the necessary immigration/asylum requirements and in the case of temps, are fully references, do we register them on our database.

When you give us an assignment, we identify and select the candidates who most closely fit your requirements.