IT Recruitment and Life Coaching services enabling HR Directors and CxO to plan, hire and guide employees to success
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We have experience of reducing client spend on IT Recruitment by 50% for Microsoft Consultancies and SME businesses
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Reducing Time To Hire by 40% by using our H-I-R-E-S Process
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Helping Candidates to generate more value in their probation period by using our After-Placement Coaching modules
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Our Three Main Services
Interim Talent Acquisition Manager
We have successfully operated as a Talent Acquisition Lead/Recruitment Manager for over 10 years. Successfully scaling Microsoft Consultancies such as:
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Hitachi Consulting a leading global System Integrator. We have worked for their rapidly expanding EMEA division.
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IMGROUP legendary Analytics and Data Consultancy and UK Microsoft Partner Of The Year and Sunday Times Top 100 SME.
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Coeo a leading Microsoft Analytics and Data and DBA as a service provider.
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Simpson Associates a Microsoft Analytics and Data Consultancy and Adaptivity an Integration Software House.
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We have a total of 20 years of Recruitment experience and are both CIPD HR Certified Professional and an Advanced Certified Life Coach. Extensive hiring of IT professionals and proven experience of working in synergy and partnership with HR Managers, CTO, CEO, C.O.O and C.C.O within technology firms.
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We are available on a flexible basis for 2-4 days a week to help clients with an interim need based on a surge or demand in work. Or clients that are unable to justify a senior permanent hire. Alternatively clients that need a partner with the attributes to seamlessly fill in for a sick member of staff or one that is away on maternity leave.
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Huge recent experience around IT Recruitment. Including Microsoft Analytics Data, Synapse, Data Bricks, Azure SQL, Data Factory, Power BI, C#, DBA's and ASP.NET Core professionals. PM, BA's, Sales, Marketing, Alliance and HR professionals. Permanent and Contract hires.
Contingency Recruitment
Focused Futures can also provide Contingency Recruitment services for Consultancies and Software Houses. Contract and Permanent hires.
Clients who don't need a dedicated Talent Acquisition Leader but have ad-hoc or a few specific requirement needs. We have experience of working with clients with a number of critical needs to helping clients build teams over a 12 to 18 month period and have needed multiple hires.
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This service has been provided to businesses such as Gamcom, hiring a team of 30 consultants for their main clients Nationwide Building Society and Unisys. C#, BA, MS SQL Developers, PM and Software Testers.
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Morse/Delphis Group providing (30 +) 2nd, 3rd Line, Unix, Linux and Storage Engineers for Tier One Investment Banking clients. Such as UBS, Barclays Capital and JP Morgan.
Multiple placements have been made into Strategic Thought, Euro-RSCG Skybridge and other Fintech and Seeders list businesses.
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Focused Futures also provide a unique After Placement Support Service incorporated within the fee to support the HR Team and Hire within the Onboarding Process. This features a handful of carefully chosen 1-2-1 pre and after placement coaching modules to help the hire to improve their performance and help them make an impact more quickly.
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Modules Include:
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First 100 Days module as a Leader or Employee
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Dealing With Procrastination
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Navigating Setbacks
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Effective Communication
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Creating Goals
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Personal Mission Statements
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Life Balance
Life Coaching, Mentoring Outplacement
Our business provides Life and Career Coaching and Mentoring services to Private and Corporate Clients.
Most notably for David Lloyd IT Department.
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We have created a series of 12 modules to help the employees to increase their awareness of their thoughts and processes. Providing these employees with tools to enable them to operate more effectively in their roles at work, at home and within their communities.
Employees have gone on to win employee of the quarter and year.
These modules have also helped employees deal with change, take on more responsibility within their roles and successfully gain promotions and pay rises.
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More information around our Life Coaching services is on our sister site EldonLifeCoach.com – Life Coaching, Career Coaching and Self-Help
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Outplacement Support
We also have experience of helping candidates that have been made redundant by providing a block of modules to help them on their journey into their new role.
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CV Review
Beat The ATS
S.T.A.R-L Interview Approach and Coaching
Overcoming Rejection
Hidden Jobs Market and Networking
Outwitting The Recruiter
Finding Your Purpose
Linkedin Profile Audit
Client Testimonials
Julie Phillipps
CPO/HR Director (Coeo)
Eldon is an outstanding recruiter and coach.
I have had the pleasure of partnering with Focused Futures Consultancy Eldon’s company and having them as an extension of my People
Team team for two successful contract engagements over a two year period. He has helped Coeo on some of the most critical roles in our growth journey.
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Eldon has an incredible work ethic, he gets the job done no matter what.
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He has shaped our hiring processes and been the driving force behind our direct hiring model for both permanent and contract hires. He acts as a great sounding board to our hiring managers and me, we are always grateful for his market knowledge and insights that helps us make informed decisions.
Eldon is one of the best out there and I know he will go on and do amazing things now.
Mark Hill
C.O.O (Coeo) and
V.P (Hitachi Consulting)
I have worked with Eldon twice. Both at Hitachi and then again at Coeo - he is driven and works hard to go that extra mile to find great candidates. Not only is he good at his job he is also one of the nicest people I have ever worked with. He has helped me find amazing Technical and Strategic hires over the years.
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I would have no hesitation in recommending Eldon!
Vaughan Powell
C.O.O (IMGROUP)
Eldon operated in strategic recruitment business partner role for IMGROUP.
Delivering tactical and strategic Information Technology hires that were critical to the business achieving its ambitious growth plans and targets. Eldon approached me directly in 2011 with the proposition for hiring him full-time to build an internal recruitment function, which focused not just on efficient and cost-effective hiring of new staff, but also on staff retention.
Hiring Eldon turned out to be one of the best business decisions I ever made and he was a pleasure to work with. Not only was he successful in directly recruiting many of our best people, he also contributed significantly to the wider people team effort, focusing on the pastoral aspects of employee morale and retention. IMGROUP became the Microsoft UK Countrywide Partner of The Year during the period he supported our business.
“Insanity is doing the same thing and expecting different results.
It is the courage to change and take the appropriate action that will bring results.”
Albert Einstein