Our core business model is to find the right people for the right job. However, to achieve this, our success is driven from a deep understanding of what it will take to get there in the first place.
From benchmarking and salary surveys, providing market advice and guidance within candidate short sectors, creating effective engagement and onboarding models to interviewing techniques and process management we’re often in from the beginning, helping them to shape, plan and guide.
We’re immersed in the communities that surround us, often called on to share our knowledge, opinion and guidance. This has led to being embraced as industry partners by the likes of TechSPARK, Bristol Media, Business Marketing Club and Invest Bristol and Bath.
"Space 48 has ambitious growth targets and recognises the importance of working with a recruitment partner that understands the business' vision and culture. The team at ADLIB has worked with us over the last 2+ years and has been instrumental in helping us to grow across several key disciplines. ADLIB spent the time to get to know Space 48 which meant they only introduce us to people who have the talent, attitude, and passion to be part of our great team. To Space 48, a recruitment partner is a long-term investment, and ADLIB continues to demonstrate its sector expertise and talent for finding the right people."
Using a combination of contingency and search-based recruitment, combined with our niche experience within the microbiome and genome engineering space, we helped them secure highly skilled Scientists and Laboratory talent for their "Science Creates" site in Bristol, from a Senior Scientist, QC Scientist, Senior Research Scientist, to multiple Support Scientists and a Fermentation Scientist requirement.
It was a real pleasure to work with Charlotte, who recently placed a new BDM Manager with us. Charlotte took time to get to know us and who we were looking for, really understanding our needs and the unique position we hold as a B Corp, which she had lots of insight on. I'm really looking forward to working with Charlotte again.
They needed to build the team. We worked with them to truly understand their style of working and management. This resulted in the team’s first 2 hires, followed by another 5 hires across data engineering and machine learning over an 18-month period.
ADLIB collaborated closely with us, refining the process through an iterative approach, and helped us find six exceptional candidates for our growing tech team.
It is incredibly rare to find a recruiter who instantly understands the company-wide needs and culture, Biohm’s unique philosophy and approach, and the radical first-of-their-kind biotechnologies that we develop. We were very privileged to find Zoe, who has single-handedly, with her expansive network, had a transformational impact on our team and company by recruiting unique, perfectly aligned, highly sought after, and difficult to find niche talent. It is an absolute joy to have worked with Zoe on the big recruitment push we experienced this year and look forward to many more in the future.
"We look for a type of character above anything else when hiring for our business. We call it the vvast way and the team at ADLIB really get that and seem to be able to see through candidates that look good on paper but don’t match the criteria to fit our unique culture. We just need solid, straight-talking people that adore good brands and the innovative work needed to leverage that. Having a solid partner that gets us in this way alleviates one of the challenges as we grow."
Acting as an extension of the LabGenius team, we ensured that candidates met both the cultural and technical requirements to succeed. We successfully placed a range of talent, for niche Protein Characterisation, Protein Production, High-throughput screening, Cell Biologists to Assistant Laboratory Managers, Laboratory Technicians and People Managers, as well as IT and Software Engineers, Engineering Managers and Delivery Managers.
Once the data environment was configured, the 3 Engineers shared responsibility for CI/CD and deployment, gaining valuable MLOps skills that they had not used in production before.
By integrating CUPP’s brand and values with our extensive reach and strategic ad placements, we attracted over 100 applications through our co-branded adverts. Our comprehensive campaign yielded a long list of quality candidates who not only possessed the necessary skills and sector experience but were also familiar with and enthusiastic about CUPP.
In 2019, ADLIB joined a growing global community of B Corps. From the outset, this was our starting point to evolve, a framework that would sharpen our focus and hold us accountable to building a business that truly balanced profit and purpose. In 2020 ADLIB became the world’s first 100% employee-owned B Corp recruitment business globally. In 2023 we received a recertification score of 130.3. An immensely proud moment in ADLIB history.
We’re committed to creating working environments that are inclusive, empowering and respectful. We invest time and resources into civic engagement activities.
We believe in stakeholder capitalism.
We believe changes need to be made to the way businesses attract, recruit and retain diverse talent. Recruiting a diverse and inclusive team is proven to bring multiple benefits, from increasing candidate attraction and brand perception, bridging skill gaps, increasing staff retention and driving better business performance.
We have invested into HeyFlow. HeyFlow empowers businesses to build a truly inclusive company by understanding the impact of women’s reproductive health in the workplace. They equip, empower and educate leaders, managers and employees alike through insight-driven data surveying, understanding and confidence.
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Tech Ethics is organised by a team of volunteers who are passionate about building a fair and equal society, where technology is a catalyst for positive change.