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RECRUITMENT SPECIALISTS
Employ the future to create it.

For nearly 30 years, GCS has been at
the forefront of digital transformation,
building vast global communities
of innovators and placing them in
businesses shaping tomorrow’s world.
When spearheading transformation within the digital
world, you need a recruitment partner that understands
speed of delivery and candidate quality are not mutually
exclusive. With our agile network of global talent, GCS
is that partner; connecting you to both contract and
permanent staff with the niche skills needed to bring your
projects to life and scale. If you are looking for your next
industry luminary, we are your partner of choice.
RECRUITMENT SPECIALISTS
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Employ the future
to create it .
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Vision and values
The quality of our delivery is shaped
by five promises.
Working in collaboration:
At GCS we have a genuine passion for the
digital world, which is matched only by
our desire to find you world class talent.
Throughout your journey with us you’ll have
one point of contact, who will remain by your
side before, during, and after we’ve delivered
the skills you need. And, while technology
moves fast, we move faster, offering agile
sourcing and headhunting, international
mobilization, and on-boarding.
Led by innovation:
We use leading technology to power a smarter
recruitment experience. Collecting real time
insights across local and global markets, we
build a recruitment strategy that keeps you
competitive and delivers valuable insights into
what candidates are looking for and where.
Meanwhile, our GCS Career Passport App puts
your jobs directly in the pockets of thousands
of eligible candidates.
Globally connected:
Since 1991 we have been building a
multinational talent network and strengthening
our connections with the best innovators
on the digital market, many of which we are
exclusively partnered with. These connections,
paired with our capacity to engage with
candidates across multiple time zones means
that there are no limitations to our supply. We
now want to support our partners in forging
greater connections across the tech world and
have been investing in new ways of bringing
our partners together with leading talent via
GCS Connect; a collaboration space to spark
discussions and build long term value through
monthly meet ups, networking and graduate
events.
Passionate about your world:
Every tech specialist at GCS is passionate
about tech and the people who create it,
keeping us on the leading edge of technology
recruitment. Our passion for all things digital is
united with our commitment to deliver the best
service possible to our partners, making GCS a
powerful force to have on your side.
Recruiting with integrity:
Champions of transparency and diversity, we
have been recruiting with integrity since 1991.
Our standing in the tech world has been built
on years of professionalism, honesty and
reliability, however success has never made
us complacent. We understand the trust our
partners place in us, and make sure this is
reflected in every step of your journey.
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Employ the future
to shape it.
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Intelligent insight
Connect to a smarter approach to
recruitment, delivered by specialist
recruiters fully embedded in your world.
Our 3 step sourcing process accumulates real time market data
on a local and global scale, delivering concrete insights to help
you mould your proposition and reach the right talent.
Step 1:
Competitor analysis: We’ll review:
• Which competitors are hiring
• Where the jobs are
• The most popular roles
• Average salary offering
Step 2:
Candidate Insights: We’ll collect real time data on:
• The number of active and passive candidates in your target locations
• Their salary expectations
• The most in demand roles
• Their role requirements
Step 3:
Bespoke Campaigns:
We’ll use our exclusive view of the competitor and candidate landscape to ensure you
deliver the greatest value on the market and form a scalable campaign, using targeted
methodologies to engage both active and passive candidates.
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Specialisms
Supplying cutting-edge skills to the world’s
biggest projects.
As a leading global authority in technology recruitment for nearly 30 years, we can
connect you to expert talent across multiple, highly technical fields.
Digital Technology:
• Web and application development
• Digital transformation
• BI & data analytics
• DevOps
• Support & infrastructure
• Business change
• Testing & QA
Engineering Technology:
• Embedded software
• Hardware
• Firmware
• Platform & operating systems
• Middleware
• Technical Sales & marketing
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Case Study
Partnership with
Discover Financial Services
Discover Financial Services provide banking and credit products, and operate
the Discover and Pulse networks across the UK and USA. With nearly 50 million
cardholders, their ‘Discover Card’ is the third largest credit card brand in the US.
Our partnership began in 2009 when we made our first placement; a Java
developer in their Farnborough, UK office. Over the next decade we have grown to
be the largest and most successful supplier of talent to DFS.
Challenge
DFS needed a highly experienced team of JSF Developers to complete a highly
niche payment processing project on time, and in a location prone to recruitment
challenges. This was alongside their continuing need for pre-qualified, highly skilled
talent across multiple areas of their global operations.
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“GCS are always engaged and extremely professional. I will
most definitely use GCS as my recruitment agent and will highly
recommend them to my contacts.”
DevOps Engineer placed at DFS
Solution
• Created an expert account team to work alongside DFS’s internal hiring
managers
• Defined specific SLAs to ensure consistency of service and establish
consultancy and management plan
• Deployed GitHub, StackOverflow, Meetups, and our database of 500,000+
candidates, and provided extensive technical and cultural candidate prescreening
Results
• 252 placements to date: 64 perm, 188 contract
• 15 JSF Developers successfully placed on the payment processing project
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Testimonials
What our current partners say
“GCS worked hard but avoided the agency equivalent of spamming,
meaning I could rely on their efforts to be focused and indeed,
genuinely friendlier than any other agency I have dealt with. They kept a
careful eye on the sort of people we needed and who worked best, and
several times moved Heaven and Earth to get such people in place.”
DIGITASLBI
“Key criteria we look for in our recruitment partners are that they are
flexible and adaptable to change. GCS definitely fulfil these criteria.
Our experience with GCS would be that they understand the market
to an extremely high technical level and therefore deliver well when
called upon. Most recently GCS delivered numerous highly skilled
consultants to aid with the migration of Dell and EMC’s network and
telephone systems across the EU under demanding time restraints.”
Dell
“GCS completely understood our requirements from the start
and delivered high quality profiles that significantly reduced
the time to close each position. GCS is an absolute pleasure to
work with because of personalised and professionally organised
communication.”
Auto-Teile-Ungers (A.T.U.)
“We used GCS to help us fulfil a SQL reporting role and they
were very professional in helping us make this happen. Through
each stage of the process, GCS made sure that suitable
candidates were presented to us, and were invaluable in
communication between us and the candidates. I would
definitely recommend GCS as they made the whole
recruitment process painless and hassle free.”
BI & Analytics Client
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Employ the future
to see it.

RECRUITMENT SPECIALISTS
GCS RECRUITMENT SPECIALISTS
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