Creating the ADLIB dream team is no easy feat, especially being the rare recruitment beasts that we are. We hire people who share our ethics, ambition and commitment, as well as our values and behaviours from the get go. We empower everyone with trust, autonomy and flexibility to drive innovation and collaboration.
We embrace the individuality and personality that each employee brings, together it’s a winning formula that maintains a harmonious and collective environment that drives our brand and culture ever forward. We’ve put a lot into ensuring that our people are set up for success from the outset.
Working in recruitment isn’t easy, but it is brilliant. You’ll have days where you’re on top of the world and you’ll have days you’re pulling yourself back into the saddle. Ask any high performer, they wouldn’t change that for the world. Here at ADLIB we’ve done our darndest to give you everything you need to make a successful career in recruitment. You bring pride in your work, and a performance-based attitude, coupled with being a good human and together we’ll go far.
We’re the world’s only 100% employee-owned, B Corp recruitment company.
With this comes a transparency that serves all stakeholders not shareholders. Our unique, infinite business model opens up leadership, board and director opportunities for future generations. A trust board that ensures decisions align with our values. Right now the team are enjoying tax free bonuses, whilst in the not-too-distant future, 100% of our annual profits will be reinvested through increased salaries, benefits, innovation, personal development and charitable giving.
Our B Corp “worker” score puts us #1 globally for a business of our size. From personal development and infinite progression opportunity, to 100% of our team receiving bonuses, providing an ethical pension plan, employee ownership, DE&I training, internal promotion over external hiring, enhanced maternity and paternity leave, it all adds up. And that’s just for starters.
An inclusive flexible working policy that’s there to be personalized. We’re all built in different ways, what’s important is achieving what we’ve signed up for, not how and where we got there.
Seriously nice offices, dedicated marketing team, Bullhorn CRM, cloud-based phone system, LinkedIn Recruiter & paid jobs, Sourcebreaker, laptops, dedicated tech support and much, much more.
Weekly 1-2-1s, lunch and learns, peer to peer support and a team of highly experienced and respected niche sector experts on hand to support and mentor, equipping you to push beyond your comfort zone to individually and collectively progress as a team and business.
A highly effective brand and marketing strategy behind you, alongside established industry partnerships and referrals. Collectively we’ll build you a personal brand, an industry expert immersed into clients’ worlds and sectors, trend spotting, networking and truly accepted as an industry partner.
Everyone at ADLIB gets 3 days paid volunteering time per year. This is your time and it’s up to you how you use it. We’ve had people volunteer at a local dog shelter, support food banks, litter pick and even managed a kids grass roots football team.
Ping pong, socials, soft-drink and beer fridge, quarterly knees up, summer party, company lunches, and traditional Christmas do. We’re an inclusive bunch and guarantee something for everybody.
Great basics, commission, tax free bonuses, simply health, ethical pension, 27.5 days holiday (+ bank hols), 26 weeks full pay maternity, 2 weeks full pay paternity, 3 days voluntary work, cycle to work scheme and more!
We are always open to hearing from experienced recruiters who share our values and ambition, or you may be looking to break into the sector.
Those with a successful track record in recruitment, looking for a new environment.
Those with a solid track record in contract recruitment, looking for a new environment.
As the UK’s first B Corp of its kind and an employee owned business, we’ve hit the perfect balance of ambition and purpose.
We’re constantly evaluating our position in the market and we adapt to the changing world around us to ensure we’re current and effective.
We immerse ourselves in the worlds we operate in and are trusted partners to our clients plus the likes of TechSPARK, Bristol Creative Industries and Invest Bristol and Bath.
A great team is only as good as the sum of their parts. We are all “on it” and “in it”, driven to be the best versions of ourselves we can possibly be.
We don’t pull the wool over anybody’s eyes. A big reason why 70% of the vacancies we handle come from existing relationships.
Each quarter we make a donation to a charity for each person that we have placed into a new role and for each new starter within ADLIB. In addition we commit a % of profit to a lead organisation. Our chosen charities throughout 2023 include Grassroots Activation Project, Bristol Animal Rescue Centre, SARSAS, Shelter, Caring in Bristol, Feeding Bristol and AKT Bristol.
We’re honest. We know our stuff. We’re straightforward. We’re progressive. We strive for excellence. We do it as a team. We don’t like bells. We like it when great people get together and make great things happen.