Who we are
Quality driven recruitment experts
Shelli Gafan is the founder of Advance in IT. After a few years of working for numbers driven recruitment companies in the city of London, she took the bold move in 2011 to set up on her own and do it her way - focusing on people and relationships. For this reason, Advance in IT continues to thrive and prides itself on the highest level of customer service.
In her earlier career, Shelli worked in Operations roles for companies such as Microsoft, T-Mobile and Adecco. She likes pushing her own boundaries but also thrives on developing others, whether her own employees or her clients and candidates. Shelli's nature is to go above and beyond. This gives her great satisfaction and makes her stand out as a recruiter with a proven track record.
Headquartered in the UK and with employees working remotely, we together provide a tailored recruitment service using our combined 30 years' experience. We have customers mostly in the Netherlands and thousands of contacts globally.
Our team consists of Louisa van Vessem who is a Business Support Co-ordinator and Alex Golding who is the Operations Director. Louisa and Alex work part-time. Shelli, being a working mum, wanted to create a business environment which offers its working parents the flexibility they need to work but still look after their families.
What people are saying about us...
"One of the best, most conscientious recruiters I've had the pleasure to work with, Shelli is committed to delivering the very best service to her clients and wants to make sure each and every candidate with whom she works end up in a role that is going to work for their immediate and longer term plans. She is an excellent communicator, highly dedicated and, best of all, no-nonsense with her approach in a pleasant, positive way. If you're recruiting in Europe and not using Shelli, you're missing out!"
Ross Owen Williams, Recruiter Trainer and author
"Being approached by many over-eager headhunters in this field I was about to brush off Shelli thinking she was the same, but I'm glad that I didn't, because I was wrong. Shelli stands out as the first headhunter to ever approach me in such a friendly and professional manner, who took the time to actually listen to what I was looking for in a job and tried to help me find it. Shelli helped me get my current position, a job which surpasses my last position in many ways."
Aage ten Hengel, Full Stack Manager
CASE STUDIES
Don't just take our word for it. Here is how we've helped our customers to advance...
IoT Product company, The Randstad
The Problem: The company was losing employees and needed to hire new ones
Our solution: Together with the CEO, advised and re-wrote their secondary benefits offering, to be more attractive thus retaining employees and attracting great candidates. We also put a payment plan in place so they could effectively hire.
IoT solutions company, The Randstad
The problem: The company was 2 employees (technical) who had never experienced recruitment before. They were getting busier and were finding that they were losing revenue as they had to turn work away.
Our solution: We wrote a job spec from minimal information, checked budget for salary and recruitment fee
Guided them on salary and secondary benefits offerings
Hired someone directly from our network
Data and Analytics company, The Randstad
The problem: They were doing amazing things as a business but not being seen on Linkedin. They were also unsure of which strategy was best for growth so we went through the strategy document together and they took their own actions.
Our solution: Engaged on a couple of relevant Linkedin posts that resulted in 25 % more followers
Strategy coaching to help them advance their mindsets thus winning more business
DevOps consultancy – The Randstad
The problem: They were not able to attract any good candidates from the job profile they had.
Our solution: We analyzed the job spec, had a conversation with one of the developers to fully understand the impact the role makes, and completely re-wrote the job spec to attract the right candidates quicker.
We also advised on the salary and secondary benefits to align with the market.
The problem: One co-owner was overloaded and couldn't work out why.
Our solution: We held a strategy session with him. After 10 minutes, he worked out that he didn’t like the account management side, so he asked me to find an account manager.
He asked me to write the job spec, publish and hire the right person. After another 30 minute teams call, we had a full job spec and 3 candidates earmarked.
Cloud consultancy – The Randstad
The problem: The recruitment process wasn't resulting in hires
Our solution: Re-organised their recruitment process to maintain momentum and hire the right candidates fast and within budget.
Small mortgage advisory company, Hertfordshire
The problem: The two co-owners were both doing the same tasks and not communicating with each other enough. They were doing tasks they didn't enjoy.
Our solution: Introducing structure and synergy in order for the partners to define their roles and thus strengths and weaknesses.
This made a big impact as they felt empowered and stopped wasting time on the wrong tasks and more on the right ones, thus driving their business forward.
We also put goals in place and then they had things to aim for that made their minds clearer. I also helped them celebrate wins which helped with their motivation.
Transforming impactful emerging tech businesses with talented teams
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Email: impact@advanceinit.io
WhatsApp: +44 7508 745503
DDI NL: +31 20 2629965
UK Mobile: +44 7508 745503
Company registration number:
07810913
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