IT Ventures is a UK-based IT recruitment firm that specializes in placing IT professionals in roles across various industries. They recruit for positions including IT management, project management, software development, networking, and more. IT Ventures offers training and career development programs to help consultants progress from trainees to directors. They operate out of offices in London and Manchester and have ambitious growth plans to expand internationally in the coming years. The company culture emphasizes a fun, ambitious environment and offers incentives like team trips and individual competitions to reward performance.

1. Work for us

2. About IT Ventures
IT|ventures specialises in the recruitment of IT professionals across the
UK from Senior Appointments through to Software Development.
Their areas of specialism include:
 IT Director/ Head of IT/ IT Manager
 Programme & Project Management & Business Analysis
 Technical/Functional & Data Architects
 Software & Web Development
 Mobile Applications
 Networking & Virtualisation
 ERP & CRM
 Business Intelligence & Data Warehousing
 Infrastructure & Support
We work across a variety of markets, both in the UK and Internationally.
Including:
• Financial Services & Banking • Consultancy
• Retail • Digital Media
• Manufacturing • Local Govt, Public Sector and
• Software Houses NHS
• Medical & Health

3. Training & Development
IT Ventures offer all consultants detailed and in-depth training opportunities from
the moment they begin their career within the company. They place all consultants
on a cycle of development programme – this is a very clear 7-stage programme that
starts from Trainee through to Director which outlines clear competency, billing and
management tasks to complete to progress through to director.
We also have Monday morning
sales meetings, Wednesday group
training sessions, as well as
detailed on the job training for
trainees and Consultants. We are
in the process of hiring a
permanent trainer to help
support our growth plans and also
for Managers to have even more
help and support in building a
team.
Management Development Programme
We also have some excellent management training. We are partnered with both
Lander Associates and Elite Leaders where we put Managers through a structured
five stage programme complete with a recognised Management qualification
accredited by Henley Management School. We also put Senior Manager’s on the
Elite Foundation where you will meet with 10 other peers bi-monthly, discuss
relevant topics and issues.
This training cost us in excess of £5,000 per manager so as you can see we are keen
to invest in the leaders within our business to ensure that we meet our specific
growth strategy.

4. Career Path
Resourcer
Trainee
Recruitment
Consultant
Recruitment
Consultant
Senior
Consultant
Managing
Principal
Consultant/
Consultant
Team Leader
Associate Associate
Director Director
Sales Director

5. Culture & Environment
Our culture is a fun, lively but mature
sales environment. We have an equal
male / female split with a strong team
spirit which sees people often go for
drinks after work, meet up at the
weekend, play football, go for team
meals with each other etc. We also
have people from a variety of
backgrounds and ages but everyone is
very ambitious, driven and hard
working.
Our environment is very meritocratic
and we have a clear career structure
through 7 stages of a career
development scheme from someone’s
1st month through to becoming a
director which you automatically start
working towards from day 1. It is
geared around two things – results and
the individual ambition of the person.
The sky is the limit for Consultants and
Managers in our business. We are
looking for key people and will back and
support these people 100%. As well as
progression and earning potential there
is also the opportunity to earn equity
within the business.

6. Culture & Environment
IT Ventures are very incentive driven – We hold monthly lunch clubs at
this year alone we have had all expense locations such as:
paid team trips to:
Chester races
As well as these fantastic team
incentives we also operate individual
competitions with prizes such as spa
days, weekend breaks, helicopter flights
etc ...
We believe that everyone should have a
say and input into the business – we
have a very participative culture which
allows a consultants own personal input
Madrid to the business, in terms of driving
performance and results as well as
business improvement. Our consultants
opinion will always be highly valued and
as a business we run anonymous
feedback systems to make sure we are
always moving toward creating the best
working environment and culture to
ensure we retain the very best staff. In
2.5 years we have only lost 2 people
through handing their notice in (only 1
consultant the other was back office.)

7. Commission
Permanent & Contract Commission Structure
NO THRESHOLD
£0 - £7,499 = 7.5%
£7,500 - £14,999 = 20%
£15,000 - £29,999 = 25%
£30,000 + = 30%
Example earnings
Monthly GP Monthly commission Approx OTE
£12,500 £1,562.50 £45,000 - £50,000
£15,000 £2,062.50 £55,000
£20,000 £3,312.50 £70,000
£25,000 £4,562.50 £85,000
£30,000 £5,902.50 £100,000 - £110,000
£40,000 £8,902.50 £135,000 - £150,000
£50,000 £11,902.50 £175,000 - £200,000

8. Our People
IT Ventures have presently grown to just under 20 people in the space of 3 years
across two office locations: Manchester and London.
Our medium term plan is to double this over the next 12-18 months, to grow
internationally. We plan to be established in Sydney & Singapore in 2013 and so for
ambitious Consultants and Managers the opportunity is literally a global offering.
To help us achieve our goal we have acquired some of the UK’s top Board of
Director’s these include:
John O’Sullivan – Strategic Advisor / Non-Executive Chairman
John was formerly a Director of Computer People who set up Best International in
the late 90’s; which grew to over £130m turnover in 2.5 years and eventually sold to
Spring Group. He has subsequently established Rethink which now turnsover £85m
and floated on the London Stock Exchange two years ago.
Paul Cochrane – Non-Executive Financial Director
Paul has extensive financial experience and is an expert in merger & acquisition
being involved in almost 100 of these in his career – his most recent sale was to
B&Q for £65million.
Ben Gostelow – Company Secretary
Ben’s background was as founder of Stoves, which floated after 3 years of set-up
and at its peak turned over £200m and employed 1,500 people – this was
subsequently sold to Glen Dimplex.
Shaun O’Donnell – Executive Director
Shaun has in excess of 12 years within IT Recruitment – developing into a
Permanent Manager at Senitor Associates within 3 years and managing teams up to
15 Consultants.
Shaun moved to Connectlogic where he built a Permanent team to over 10 billing
Consultants from scratch and then moved to become overall Sales Director of both
Permanent and Contract
Shaun is a co-founder of IT Ventures and is still very much hands-on, billing in excess
of £3million in his illustrious recruitment career
Sales Team
Our sales team has a vast amount of experience from trainee recruiter’s with first-
class honours and strong business-to-business sales experience to Consultants and
Managers with up to 10 years experience from Progressive, Computer Futures’,
Hay’s IT to name a few.

9. Office Locations
Head Office
London:
Providian House  16-18
Monument St  London 
EC3R 8AG
Manchester:
Peter House  Oxford St
Manchester  M1 5AN
www.it-ventures.co.uk