Who is ADLIB Recruitment?

• ADLIB Recruitment is a B Corp certified recruitment agency with purpose. Since 2001, we’ve been supporting growth, change, and success across various sectors including technology, data, engineering, science, sustainability, eCommerce, marketing, and design. We balance purpose and profit, ensuring our impact goes beyond recruitment.

What services does ADLIB offer?

• We offer a range of recruitment services:
  • Permanent Recruitment: Tailored solutions for long-term changes within your business, from individual roles to large-scale recruitment drives.
  • Contract Recruitment: Flexible workforce solutions to support your business during peak times or specific projects.
  • Integrated Recruitment Partner: Acting as an extension of your team, we handle everything from niche roles to building entire teams.
  • Senior Appointments: Leveraging deep technical and sector-specific expertise to fill senior roles effectively.

For Jobseekers

How can I apply for a job through ADLIB?

• You can browse and apply for jobs directly on our website. Simply register and upload your CV and apply to positions that match your skills and interests. Additionally, you can sign up for job alerts to stay updated on new opportunities that fit your profile.

What sectors does ADLIB specialise in?

We specialise in:
• Technology
• Agile
• Data
• Engineering
• Science
• Sustainability
• eCommerce
• Marketing
• Design

For Employers

How can ADLIB help my business with recruitment?

• We offer tailored recruitment solutions including permanent recruitment, contract recruitment, integrated recruitment partnerships and senior appointments. We act as an extension of your team, ensuring a smooth and efficient hiring process that meets your specific needs.

Looking for a recruitment partner? You can send us a brief using our short form or contact us for a chat.

How does ADLIB attract talent for start-ups and scale-ups?

We use a tailored, collaborative approach to connect high-growth businesses with the right people. Our methods include:

• Crafting recruitment strategies bespoke to your stage of growth, from first hires to team builds
• Offering advice on fee structures that fit early-stage budgets
• Shaping job descriptions that appeal to the talent you’re looking for
• Providing up-to-date salary benchmarking and benefits insights
• Advertising through targeted, relevant channels
• Tapping into our established candidate networks and databases
• Sharing recruitment process best practices to ensure a smooth, effective experience

For a more in-depth look into how we work with start-ups and scale-ups check out our dedicated page.

What is ADLIB’s experience within the start-up and scale-up ecosystem?

We’re deeply embedded in the innovation community and have:

• Over 20 years’ experience supporting high-growth businesses
• Long-standing partnerships with incubators and accelerators like SETsquared, Future Space, and TechSPARK
• Delivered workshops on hiring best practice, talent retention, employer branding and more
• A genuine passion for helping mission-led businesses thrive

How does ADLIB support your hiring journey from start to finish?

We act as a true extension of your team. Our end-to-end support includes:

• Taking the time to understand your business and talent needs
• Helping define job specs and expectations
• Reaching talent through proven sourcing methods across design, tech, data, marketing, and more
• Screening CVs, interviewing candidates, and presenting those best aligned with your vision
• Coordinating interviews and feedback loops
• Managing offers, rejections, and onboarding to set new hires up for success
• Services including: Permanent Recruitment | Contract Recruitment | Integrated Recruitment Partner | Senior Appointments

How does ADLIB support diversity and inclusion?

• At ADLIB, equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) are fundamental to our mission. We believe that building a diverse and inclusive team drives increased employee engagement, creativity, innovation, and profitability. Our approach to EDI is not a tick box exercise; it requires an engaged commitment to drive change and live and breathe an all-inclusive environment.
• Each member of the ADLIB team is trained in the fundamentals of diversity and inclusion, focusing on what we’re best at: the recruitment process. We write all job ads following a formula that makes them truly inclusive and all applications are reviewed ensuring to minimize unconscious bias.
• We partner with a number of organisations who deliver government funded Skills Bootcamps. We’ve put together guides on CV writing, Digital Profiles and Interview preparation and deliver Employability Workshops to the groups completing these bootcamps.
• We offer our clients to opt into “anonymised CVs”, which means that all CVs that we send across are ‘anonymised’, hiding information such as name, ethnicity, gender, educational institution and any contents that can reveal the candidate’s identity. In this way, we hope to support clients to keep the entire recruitment process inclusive, helping to eliminate factors that could result in unconscious bias during the initial stages. However, unconscious bias can creep in during later stages, once the full details of a candidate are shared. Running internal unconscious bias awareness training as a part of this approach is recommended, to mitigate the impact.
• We offer “extended long lists”, to practice positive action, we can include candidates from underrepresented backgrounds, that may not be an exact fit based on defined selection criteria, but that bring the potential to fulfil the objectives of the role a client is looking to fill.
• We collaborate with industry partners, signposting our clients to additional support to understand the current state and approach to D&I.
• We have a team of D&I Ambassadors at ADLIB, that connect with the community and build relationships with those that share our mission of building truly diverse teams. In this way, all jobs that we amplify through our networks will reach a truly diverse audience.
• We have invested in our own EDI initiatives such as MotherBoard and HeyFlow, we are aware that there are many protected characteristics and intersectionality to consider when it comes to building truly inclusive teams. It’s important to work with true experts in these areas.
• We’re compiling an EDI Directory to connect businesses with true experts in various areas if EDI, ensuring that all protected characteristics and intersectionality are considered when building inclusive teams.

What does ADLIB do beyond recruitment?

Green Tech South West

Sponsored by ADLIB. Insight and thought provoking discussion on how technology can improve our physical environment and battle the massive, urgent issue of climate change.

MotherBoard

Powered by ADLIB. A Business Charter, Community, and Event Series driving tangible change for mums working in the tech industry.

HeyFlow

ADLIB has invested into HeyFlow.  Unlocking the unspoken reality of the female workforce. Evolutionising the attraction, retention, and progression of women at work through diagnostics and transformation.

TrueDiversity

We’re identifying and engaging diverse talent, while compiling an EDI Directory and a series of features about EDI change makers that get that diversity matters.