Internal Recruitment at Sphere. Join us today and become part of a hard working and successful team changing the digital landscape.

1. Join Sphere
Digital Recruitment All-Rounders
Media/Technology/Marketing & Analytics/Creative

2. A little bit about us
We have a proven track record of developing our people. And, in
a rapidly expanding business, promoting people from within and
empowering people to grow themselves and Sphere, is the key
factor to our success
Our business is all about our people. We'd love to let you know
a little more about us and what a career at Sphere has in store
for you
Founded in 2012 by Ed Steer, Niall Phelan and
Laurence Smith, Sphere have swiftly established
ourselves as the "go-to" recruiter for digital Media,
Marketing and Creative talent.
3We have won three
awards in 3 years! Most
recently voted APSCo’s
Recruitment Agency of
the Year!
"I am regularly asked how we have
grown so quickly whilst building
such a fantastic reputation with
clients and candidates. And my
answer is always the same, and it's
very simple. Our People and our
Culture. We have a brilliant team,
who love what they do and who are
very talented.“
Ed Steer

3. Our Track Record
1. Grown from 2 – 40 heads in under 4 years
2. Promoted 10 people into management roles since launching
3. Promoted 7 people into “senior consultant” roles in 2016
4. Over 75% of our business achieved promotions or payrises in 2016 via our
“Progress” career development plan
5. Spent over £40K on training and leadership development in 2015
6. Won APSCo Recruitment Agency of the Year in 2015, Best Client Service
(2014) at the MARA awards and Won Best Newcomer (2013)
7. Preferred supplier to businesses like Apple, Facebook and WPP as well as
high growth emerging technology companies
8. Have office space in Covent Garden for 80 heads, which we expect to fill in
the next 2-3 years
9. Significantly improved the billings of EVERY consultant we have hired from
another agency
10. Less than 10% attrition
11. Founded by Ed Steer, Niall Phelan and Laurence Smith (Non Exec). Laurence
built and sold one of the UK’s biggest recruitment companies before buying a
zoo park
GrowthWe grew our fee income
by over 100% in 2015
“We are set up to succeed!
Consultants have joined
from other companies and
have been far more
successful at Sphere. This is
because we work to a
simple method that
achieves excellent results.”
Niall Phelan

4. A little bit about our people
Our first employee, Ali Kennedy, joined us when we were two guys in a
basement. Ali consistently bills over £200K and leads and manages his own
team of 8, while playing a key role in helping shape and grow our business.
Our second hire, Joe Perry, more than doubled his previous best billing year in
recruitment (6 years’ experience). Joe made in excess of £12K in bonus on 3
separate months in 2014 and over £20K in one month in 2015. Joe now leads
a team of 3 people who recruit in his market in the UK and Europe.
Niomi Cowling, our first administrator now runs our marketing department.
Matt Demain joined Sphere from Gemini Search and has increased his billing
by over 75%. Matt is also now managing a team of 4.
Samantha Start joined Sphere from the Graduate Recruitment Bureau. Sam
launched Sphere Graduate Recruitment, was promoted twice in 2015 and
runs a team that will generate in excess of £500K in 2016.
Anton Greig joined Sphere from Eligo and more than doubled his billings in his
first year at Sphere. Getting promoted along the way….
Lara Sheldrake joined Sphere from Salt as our Senior Business Development
Manager and is now involved with our biggest spending accounts all around
the world.
What will you achieve at Sphere?
75%Over 75% of our team
achieved a payrise or
promotion in 2016
“The thing I enjoy most
about working at Sphere is
the transparency, we always
know what is happening
across the business, future
plans and company
aspirations, Niall and Ed are
very much part of the team
and always there”
Samantha Start

5. Training & people development
We invest a great deal in people.
The Sphereway to Recruitment
• Designed for consultants – 16 bespoke sessions
The Sphereway to 250K
• Designed for “senior and executive” consultants – 12 bespoke
sessions
The Sphereway to Team Building
• 8 bespoke sessions, delivered by our CEO, Ed Steer, on how
to build high performing teams
Sphere have 3 clear training schemes:
5%Rate of attrition since
launching. Retaining and
developing our team has
been our most important
(and proudest)
achievement to date!
“Individual bespoke training
allows you to grow and
develop in your own
personal way – not just in a
way that “ticks the boxes”.
Everyone is so supportive of
each other; it sounds cliché
but it is so true!”
Holly Simpson

6. Training & people development
Consultants
Our senior consultants and
managers host weekly
workshops on both
recruiting and our specialist
markets. Consultants are
free to attend as many of
these as they choose
“I joined Sphere with five years
sales experience in another
industry. The induction training
helped me learn how to recruit
and the market learning really
helped me feel confident
operating in my space with
candidates and clients”
James Everett
All of our consultants receive bespoke training,
through a few different channels
• Induction training: delivered by our leadership team
• Peer to peer learning: on-going “opt in training” delivered to
you and your peers by our leadership team
• Coaching:1-2-1 coaching with your line manager and on
going 1-2-1 coaching with one of our top performers

7. Training & people development All of our senior
consultants receive both
internal and external
training. Those who
want to deliver training
to consultants
“Joining Sphere from a very
established recruitment
business the training here, both
internally and externally has
greatly improved my knowledge
and performance. I also really
enjoy being involved with
training consultants”
Kate Dickenson
Senior Consultants
All of our senior consultant receive bespoke training,
through different channels
• Induction training: The Sphereway to £250K, delivered by our
leadership team
• Peer to peer learning: Ongoing “opt in training” delivered to
you and your peers by our leadership team
• Leadership development training: External training delivered by
experienced and proven business leaders. Usually 4 – 6
sessions over a 3 – 6 month period
• Executive coaching: External executive coaching with a proven
“high performance” coach
• Delivering training: All of our senior consultants are trained as
trainers and are encouraged to lead training sessions with our
consultants

8. Training & people development
Managers
All of our managers
have the option to
attend “Elite Future
Leaders” and receive 1-
2-1 executive coaching
All of our managers receive bespoke training,
through different channels:
• The Sphereway to team building: Delivered by our CEO, Ed
Steer. 8 bespoke session on building high performance teams
• Leadership development training: External training delivered by
experienced and proven business leaders. Usually 4 – 6
sessions over a 3 – 6 month period
• Elite Future Leaders: Attend one half day session, at Elite’s
office, every six weeks. Each session is facilitated by a founder
from the Elite team and an expert speaker
• Executive coaching: External executive coaching with a proven
“high performance” coach
• Delivering training: Our management team are trained on how
to train, and play a leading role in “Sphereway” training with our
consultants it all levels within the business
“It’s tough to make the
transition from biller to billing
manager. The training I have
received at Sphere has been
brilliant. I now have so
many more tools to lead myself
and my team and I am even
more influential with my clients
than ever before”
Matt Demain

9. Buddying, mentors and round
tables
• All of our consultants in the business, who join as “graduates”
or junior members of our team have a mentor – a senior
consultant – who takes them out for breakfast or lunch once
a month to offer guidance and support away from the desk
• If you join Sphere with more experience, you will be given a
buddy. Your buddy will have a similar level of experience to
you, be in another team, and will take you out for lunch,
breakfast, coffee or a beer when you join the business. There
main role is to help answer questions you may not want to
ask your manager and to help you get to know the business
and people outside of your team
• All of our senior consultants attend bi-monthly lunches with
our CEO
• We hire a private dining room, pick an important part of the
business, and give our senior consultants the chance to
share their feedback and ideas with Ed, over a few glasses of
wine and away from the office environment
Round tables
“In my first week, I was taken
out for lunch by JJ, it’s a great
way to get to know people from
other teams and ask them
questions you may feel stupid
asking people you want to
impress. It’s a great way to
bond with people who you may
not cross paths with very often”
Ashley Fry

10. Progress
• At Sphere, you are guaranteed to have two progress reviews
a year. One in July and one in December
• Everyone at Sphere always has a pay rise target in place and
knows what they have to do to achieve a pay rise and a
promotion
Progress is our bespoke career development
plan. Here are the different routes and roles
available to you
7Promoted 7 people into
“senior consultant” roles
in 2016

11. Five Year Strategy
We created 6 teams:
In 2015 every member of our business contributed
to our Five Year Strategy (2016 – 2021)
300Our team spent over
300 hours on our Five
Year Strategy
Team leaders were appointed to each team and in December 2015 each team presented their finding to the
board
In March 2016 the board presented our strategy from 2016 – 2021 back to the business
As a result of the teams feedback we have already: improved our employee benefits, created an enhanced
mentor and buddying scheme, hired for an internal recruiter and training manager, started to build an intranet,
created a new career path (key account directorship), started to research locations to launch new offices
Every new member of our business will join one of our FYS teams and have your say on our plans for the
future
• SphereDNA
• Our People
• Growth
• Customer Experience
• Branding and marketing
• Investing in our Future

12. What we can add to your career
We know how to build teams and we know how to scale a
business. Working closely with the owners, you will have a unique
chance to help a business grow. Being part of a company in
Sphere’s current position gives all of our people a chance to build a
business and play a leading role in this
In London, launching an office Internationally and in the hottest
market around, you can build a career with us and develop with us
We will develop you into a bigger biller, and if
it’s right for you, a manager, director...
£10K30% of our team generated
over £10K in commission in
a single month in 2016
“If you are ambitious and you
want an opportunity to really
grow with a business and
take on responsibility, Sphere
will give you that platform”
Ben Steer

13. Clients
Sphere work with the UK’s leading brands, agencies, media
owners and publishers and emerging technology businesses who
pioneer in all things digital advertising
Here are some of our key clients:
Brands:
Apple, Urban Outfitters, Tesco, Sainsbury’s, Expedia, Tui,
Bookings. com, Ebay
Media Owners:
Facebook, The Mail Online, The Guardian, Hearst, Conde Nast,
The Telegraph
Agencies:
WPP (Mindshare, Mediacom, Maxux, MEC, Unique Digital…),
Omnicom, Vivaki, Starcom, Zenith, HAVAS
AdTechnology:
Ebay Enterprise, Qubit, Videoology, Appnexus, The Rubicon
Project, Criteo, Integral Ad Science, Quantcast
Everyone knows how hot the digital recruitment
market is. And we are the best in the business.
7We work across seven
specialist divisions. And
they are all expanding due
to client led demand
“I joined Sphere as the third
hire over three years ago. So
much fun had, loads learned,
brilliant clients and great
people to work
with make it the best choice
I’ve made. I have more than
doubled my earnings and am
now building out my team in
the UK and Europe”
Joe Conlon Perry

14. Five Year Plan
• Grow our business from 35 – 80 people in London
• Significantly grow our “tech” and contract business
• Have a presence in Asia and North America
• Have a board of Directors, Senior Managers and Managers
in the UK and abroad who were promoted internally
• Establish at least one new brand under the Sphere
"umbrella“
• Win multiple awards and accreditation
• Be a Sunday Times top 100 employer
In the next 3 – 5 years we will Winner
We were voted APSCo
recruitment consultancy of
the year in 2015
“Sphere is helping to change
the digital landscape and I’m
extremely proud of how far
we’ve come in 3 years, its
been a great journey with
many more years to come”
Niomi Cowling

15. Fun Squad
• Quarterly parties, Sphere Summer Olympics & Christmas Parties
• Team lunches & fine diners lunches
• Additional holiday as you are promoted
• Monthly movie night in the office with pizza and drink provided
• 3 peaks challenge
• Birthday cake & celebrations
• “Sweetie day” every Friday
• Giving something back – involved in various charities across London and the UK
and much more… if you want to add something, just ask!
We have built our business around our people.
Creating an environment that harbours fun and
friendship is an important part of how we work.
Here are some of the events the fun squad
arranged last year
£45KWe spend over £45K on
staff incentives and days
out in 2015 and with 30
consultants

16. Commission Structure
Commission is paid monthly
We are a meritocracy and we believe the
more money you make the more you should
receive
Big Rewards
We have a simple monthly
bonus structure that pays
up to 40% bonus on your
billings
“We love to reward people and
we will put the effort in to train
you and help you become the
best in class.”
Revenue
Generated
Commission %
Total Commission
Paid
0 – 10K 10% £1,000
10- 20K 20% £3,000
20-30K 25% £5,500
30-35K 30% £7,000
35-40K 35% £8,750
40K + 40% Uncapped

17. Vision and values
Vision:
A specialist digital media, marketing and technology recruitment business
that will achieve great results for our people and our customers by having
meaningful and engaging experiences with them that enable growth and get
results.
Values:
EXPERTISE – Know our markets and know our customers. Be specialist, be an expert.
PARTNERSHIP – Work together, listen, add value. Build long lasting relationships with
customer and peers. Be a partner.
PURPOSE – Start projects with an end in mind. Have reason behind our action. Focus
on a result. Be solutions driven. Be purposeful.
RESPONSIBILITY – Work with integrity. Understand our responsibility in everything that
we do. Look first at ourselves. Be an example to others. Be responsible.
SIMPLICITY – Do small and basic things brilliantly all the time. Be clear and concise.
Keep things simple.
AMBITION – Go above and beyond. Never settle for mediocrity. Expect and strive for
excellence in everything we do. Be ambitious.
ADAPTABILITY – Be prepared. Embrace and drive change. Be opportunistic. Be
adaptable.
9Placements in 9 countries
in 2016 with a clear plan to
increase this
“A lot of it comes down to
the people who are in the
company and the drive from
everyone to make Sphere
special and what we do, the
absolute best in the market”
Ali Kennedy

18. Digital Recruitment All-Rounders
Media/Technology/Marketing & Analytics/Creative
www.spherelondon.co.uk
Floor 5, Imperial House, 15–19 Kingsway,
London WC2B 6UN
You’ve heard about us,
now we’d like to hear
about you!
If you think you would be
interested in a career with Sphere
there are 2 ways to do this;
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020 3728 2973
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hiring@spherelondon.co.uk