As a B Corp, we specialise in working with Sustainability Communications and Purpose-led marketing agencies. We work with start-ups, SME’s, and network agencies, placing candidates into Client Services, Strategy, Creative and UX, Digital Marketing, Data and Insight, Technology, Project and Studio Management, Operations and Senior Leadership roles.
Read our B Corp Impact Report and learn more about our B Corp journey here.
Niche Expertise
B Corp
As a B Corp recruitment agency ourselves, we work closely with our fellow B Corp agencies to support them in recruiting for a wide range of positions across client services, strategy, project management, tech, UX & design, operations, data & insight, and senior leadership roles. We understand their needs as a business, and we help them find values aligned candidates who are passionate about making a positive impact through the work they produce.
Charity Marketing
We recruit for specialist agencies who provide meaningful marketing activity for charities, not for profits, and cause-driven brands. The candidates we look for will have knowledge in the non-profit sector, and an understanding of fundraising principles, with excellent storytelling, creative communication, and relationship-building skills to align with each clients mission and goals.
Sustainability Communications
We work with Communications agencies and Consultancies of all sizes, focusing on sustainability-led strategic initiatives for their clients, to highlight their efforts in environmental, and social responsibility. Finding candidates that share the values of both the agency and the client they work with is key, but above all, being dedicated to promoting sustainability best practice.
Social Impact
We specialise in recruiting for agencies who focus on driving positive change, with social impact at the forefront of their initiatives. With their clients ranging from government bodies, non-profit organisations, charities, to NGOs, we aim to find talent that has social change and impact embedded in their workplace values, and candidates who are committed to creating lasting change.
Purpose-led Marketing
We recruit for marketing agencies that aim to create purpose-led output through storytelling, community engagement, and purpose-driven & brand strategy. We look to connect candidates who are aligned to each agency’s values, with a true passion for purpose-led marketing.
Branding & Creative
We connect brand and creative talent with agencies who work with their clients on brand narrative, visual identity brand strategy and tone of voice, with purpose-driven marketing at the core of the process.
Digital Sustainability
We recruit within the digital sustainability space for agencies who work with brands to help reduce their carbon footprint and environmental impact, through sustainable web design, consultancy, content creation, online carbon audits, digital marketing strategy, and sustainable reporting. We find talent with expertise across a range of digital channels, paired with a key focus on sustainability through digital marketing practices.
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Start-Up
We have extensive experience helping early-stage start-ups understand the talent markets they are operating in.
We act as Talent Consultants to help them write best-in-class job specs, salary benchmarking, employer branding, and support them to build a diverse team from the outset. We understand that candidates joining start-ups need to wear many hats and be committed to the journey ahead.
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Scale-Up
Once propositions have been proven and funding or growth are at a certain level, Agencies can then scale. This means high growth and building teams.
With our featured employer and branded campaign offerings and the resources we have available, we can be a recruitment partner that enables this growth. From high-volume campaigns to hiring across multiple niche skill sets, we have the experience to help you scale.
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Network agencies
We work with some of the leading network agencies, and we are always on hand to work with them to help them find the right balance of experience and skills that will enable them to add key talent, as well as build out new teams.
With UK-wide reach and the ability to source internationally, we are well-placed to support our clients in hiring the best talent out there.
Permanent Recruitment
Our permanent recruitment team are here to respond to the long-term changes within your business, from individual requirements through to volume recruitment drives.
Contract
Recruitment
Our contractor recruitment team is on hand to support you through the times where the need for a more flexible workforce is called for.
Outsourced Recruitment Partner
Our outsourced recruitment model covers the full breadth of your hiring needs and is often the perfect solution for businesses with multiple requirements.
Senior
Appointments
Our Senior Appointments recruitment service is built on deep technical and sector-specific background and expertise.
FOR OUR COMMUNITIES
- For ADLIB, ‘community’ covers a lot of ground. We support regional ecosystems, provide insight and advocate for international communities that are fighting for equality. The team has built their own communities from the ground up, we’ve supported community-based projects that improve people’s lives, and play an active role within the B Corp community.
- Sophie founded the MotherBoard Movement. 28 signatories, 960+ members, 12 events, 1 x Impact report. MotherBoard is an impact-based business model, designed to support career progression of females and mums and to support employers in retaining females and mums in the UK technology sector. Our profit will contribute towards the sponsorship and development of UK female refugees into long term employment within the tech industry.
- Mike, our SW Head of Tech, has co-founded and helped to grow the ‘GreenTech South West’ community. 2000+ members, 36 events.
- Alex, our Head of Data has co-founded the ‘Tech Ethics’ meetup group. 750+ members, 11 events. ‘Tech Ethics’ considers the benefits of AI and emerging technologies, but also the challenges and ethical concerns of the social implication and potential unintended consequences these technologies can have on our society.
- Charitable donations in 2023: £11,532.
- Volunteering. 3 fully paid days annually per employee.
- Grassroots Activation Programme. £6.8k donated, 1-1 young person mentorship, helping them secure their first work placement and setting them up for the long term.
- Nick, our CEO is a B Corp Ambassador, supporting fellow B2B service providers on all things B Corp. 20+ aspiring B Corps met with in 2022/ 2023.
- Gender balance. All company: 44% female, 2% non-binary, 54% male. Management: 45% female, 55% male.
- We are part of the Better Business Act, along with over 2000 UK businesses. The Better Business Act is fighting for a cleaner, greener, fairer future for all.
- Where do we go next? Employee ownership creates an infinite business model. We will strive to better our gender balance at all levels and build an inclusive board of directors as we enter ADLIB’s next chapter. Furthermore, our MotherBoard Charter will deliver its annual impact report, highlighting the achievements of its Charter members and increasingly use the data provided to support organisations fighting for legislative change at the government level.
FOR OUR PLANET 
- As a B2B service provider, we store an increasing amount of customer and candidate data. Given our learnings from within the Green Tech South West community, we are increasingly aware that the life cycle of storing, processing, and transmitting digital information is an area that we need to pay significant attention to.
- Beyond planting trees. We offset our annual emissions via a carefully selected range of projects within developing countries, that have strong additional benefits beyond reducing carbon emissions. These include health benefits, saving low-income families money and reducing deforestation in a village in Africa. All of the projects are certified to the Gold Standard and include efficient household cooking stoves and clean drinking water projects.
- 2022 Carbon Reporting. 16.2+ tonnes offset.
- E-waste. Our tech is recycled and disposed of responsibly.
- Where do we go next? The introduction of a data storage strategy across our CRM, website and internal documents, email management systems to significantly reduce our storage footprint.
When designing this website, keeping carbon emissions to a minimum has been a constant consideration along the way, for every page. We kept page weight to a minimum, opted for lean functional simplicity rather than fancy polluting features.
- 0117 926 9530
- hello@adlib-recruitment.co.uk
- Company registered in England and Wales
- No: 5138584.
- Member of APSCo.