Opus Recruitment Solutions is an IT recruitment agency based in Bristol that specializes in both contract and permanent recruitment. They aim to expertly service the needs of their clients in the IT industry. They pride themselves on professionalism and have a dynamic team of experienced recruitment consultants. Their diverse client base ranges from large corporations to small IT businesses. They are passionate about developing long-term relationships with clients and delivering high quality candidates.

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Opus Recruitment Solutions is an IT Recruitment agency based in Bristol with expertise in
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About Us 3
Our Clients 4
Our Structure 5
The Contract Team 6
The Permanent Team 7
Our Edge: 8
 Market Specialists 9
 One Point of Contact 10–
 Scalable Teams 11
 Risk Free Service 11
 Highly Screened Candidates 12
 Market Exposure and Candidate Pool 13
 Flexibility, Compliance, and the Law 14
 Experienced and Incentivised Consultants 14
 Local National and International Focus 15
 Client Loyalty Schemes 15
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About us
Opus Recruitment Solutions pride ourselves on being a young, vibrant, creative and
fast growing specialist IT recruitment solutions consultancy.
At Opus Recruitment Solutions professionalism is
core to everything we do. In order to achieve this
high level of performance we have a dynamic team
of friendly and specialist recruitment consultants
who are all highly experienced in the IT recruitment
market.
Capability
As a company we are both committed to and
focussed on delivering high quality IT candidates to
our range of clients. Our diverse client base is of
enormous pride to us and ranges from global blue
chip companies and FTSE 100 corporations to
specialist SME businesses.
We have a network of Regional Offices throughout
the UK with our head office based in the central
business district of Bristol, UK. From here we service
the needs of our clients and candidates - recruiting
for IT staff for vacancies and locations throughout
the UK, Europe and Globally.
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Our clients
At Opus Recruitment Solutions Ltd we are passionate about fostering long term
professional relationships with our clients and delivering high quality results in a timely and
cost effective way.
For all our clients, whether they are global brands or the smaller specialist
SME software houses and IT consultancies, we strive to provide the best
service possible.
We are very conscious as to the reason for our success with our clients...
and that is in the delivery of excellent people to your organisation. We have
been able to develop relationships with all our clients due to the simple fact
that we strive to provide the best people!
We believe this "focus on delivery" is key and ensures we never lose sight of
what our goal is - to find you the right candidates.
Therefore:
 We do everything within our grasp to make sure that you get the right
candidate, our capacity for this is unlimited. We go that extra mile and
beyond.
 Our pool of candidates is extensive and second to none. Our in house
database is a market leading database that contains the details of tens
of thousands of current IT professionals.
 Not only do we have a large number of candidates on our system, the
beauty of it is that they are all current IT professionals (unlike many
agencies who have candidate details that are out of date).
 Our advertising budget for vacancies is unlimited.
 Our far reaching, open ended policy ensures ALL positions are
advertised on all of THE market leading websites.
 We have previously conducted press advertising campaigns for
clients, we do what it takes to fulfil your needs.
What Does This Mean?
This means YOUR vacancy automatically gets the absolute maximum
exposure to the market, ensuring there is no chance you will miss out on the
best candidates.
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Our structure
We believe in specialization and therefore Opus is split into two key divisions
– Contract and Permanent Recruitment.
Opus Recruitment Solutions Board
Darren Ryemill—Managing Director
Sales Support
Client Relationship
Management
Contract Recruitment Permanent Recruitment
This ensures that our consultants are only dealing with the specific candidate type you are
after – meaning we have long and established, close relationships with the market leading
contractors and permanent candidates alike.
The Sales Support and Client Relationship management team works alongside both
contract and permanent recruitment to ensure that you are provided with administrational,
legal and financial advice and support. This guarantees the smooth running of the
recruitment process and our efficiently handled client enquiries enables our consultants to
concentrate fully on your recruitment needs.
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The contract team
The Contract team is headed by Ryan Speed, who oversees teams of contract
consultants and contract resourcers.
Ryan Speed – Head of Contract Recruitment
Team of Contract Consultants
Team of Contract Resourcers
Software Network- Senior Ap-
Engineer- ing & Infra- Databases / pointments
ing structure CRM/ERP
Each Recruitment Consultant and Resourcer in both Contract and Permanent Teams is
focused entirely within a “vertical market”; whether it be Software Engineering, Infrastructure,
Support and Networking, Senior Appointments, Databases, CRM’s or ERP’s etc. This
means that every time a candidate is presented to a client by Opus Recruitment, a market
specialist has technically screened and briefed the candidate on the role. This matrix
organisation has the ability to “scale up” our resources to provide fast market coverage for
urgent requirements.
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The permanent team
The Permanent team is headed by Nigel Ramana, who oversees teams of Permanent
consultants and Permanent resourcers.
Nigel Ramana – Head of Permanent Recruitment
Team of Permanent Consultants
Team of Permanent Resourcers
Software Network- Senior Ap-
Engineer- ing & Infra- Databases / pointments
ing structure CRM/ERP
Each Client has its own dedicated account manager so that you have a single point of
contact. Our specialist consultants from both Permanent and Contract teams will feed into
your account manager so that we can ensure that there will be “specialist” consultants
screening candidates. Therefore, Opus can ensure that candidates are screened on both a
technical basis from a specialist consultant and a compatibility basis from your account
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Our edge
OPUS RECRUITMENT SOLUTIONS follows three basic principles that support our outlook by
providing the right staff, in the right time, in a cost effective way.
WE DO THIS BY…
1. IT MARKET SPECIALISTS: TECHNOLOGY FOCUSED SPECIALIST CONSULTANTS
2. ONE POINT OF CONTACT – ACCOUNT MANAGEMENT
3. MATRIX ORGANISATION – SCALABLE TEAMS
4. DELIVERY FOCUSED – RISK FREE SERVICE
5. HIGHLY SCREENED CANDIDATES
6. UNLIMITED AND UNPARALLELED MARKET EXPOSURE AND CANDIDATE POOL
7. FLEXIBILITY FOR YOU, COMPLIANCE WITH YOU AND THE LAW!
8. EXPERIENCED AND INCENTIVISED “CAREER” RECRUITMENT CONSULTANTS
9. LOCAL NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL; FOCUS
10. FRESH APPROACH, STABLE BUSINESS MODEL
11. CLIENT LOYALTY SCHEMES
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specialist
OPUS RECRUITMENT SOLUTIONS are an IT focused company; we spend 100% of our time
sourcing candidates for clients operating within the IT market.
IT SPECIALIST This specialization enables us to be at the cutting
edge of the information technology recruitment
market.
We believe in specialization and therefore Opus is
PERM/CONTRACT split into two key divisions – Contract and
SPECIALIST Permanent Recruitment. This ensures that our
consultants are only dealing with the specific
candidate type you are after – meaning we have
long and established, close relationships with the
ACCOUNT market leading contractors, yet also have
MANAGER consultants who are able to identify excellent
VERTICAL MARKET
CONSULTANT candidates searching for Permanent work.
However the specialisation does not end there.
Each consultant is focused entirely within a
“vertical market”, whether it be Microsoft
SPECIALIST MARKET
Development Technologies, OpenSource
CANDIDATE BASED TEAM
Development, Support and Networking, Senior
Appointments, Databases, ERP’s, Website design
and development, the Public Sector, etc, etc.
This means that every time a candidate is
NICHE/SPECIFIC/REVELANT presented to a client by Opus a market specialist
CANDIDATE has technically screened and briefed the
candidate on the role.
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One point of contact
We also believe that understanding the needs of a client, their core values, the type of
“team fit”, etc is of paramount importance when it comes to finding “the right” candidate
for an organization.
In fact, it is the biggest single frustration our clients have reported back to us regarding their
experience of recruitment agencies is that they often end up dealing with numerous people
at an agency, ultimately resulting in a “dilution” of the understanding of the company values,
recruitment methods, policies, etc. We have negated this by ensuring that each every
client is assigned a single point of contact. This “Account Manager” is responsible for all
communications and dealings with the client – meaning that our understanding of your
needs is improved with every vacancy we recruit for – but more importantly that valuable
information is not then lost.
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Scalable teams
Risk free
The unique way we are structured enables us to have a dynamic and flexible “scaling” of
resource to help work with our clients to maximize market coverage quickly when an urgent
requirement needs filling, or during larger scale recruitment campaigns. From Senior
Consultants to Resourcers alike we have the flexibility to respond quickly and focus on
delivering the candidates you want in the volume and timescales you require.
Opus Recruitment Solutions were born out of the theory that recruitment services should be
a risk free process. If you choose not to employ any of the candidates we present to you
then should not pay. This means that we place “delivery” at the very top of our agenda and
we realize that it is only in finding you the BEST people for your vacancy that we get any
financial recompense. This means you have a risk free service where you only pay if our
“delivery” is second to none and ultimately we fill your requirement with the most suitable
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Highly screened candidates
We believe that this is where we add the most value to our clients!
At Opus we know that recruitment is not just
about “finding a good CV”. That is why before
any application is made through Opus a
candidate will have had at least 2 screening
interviews, both technical – where a technical
market specialist will discuss his skills in relation
to the job, but also and arguably even more
importantly – your “account manager” will ensure
that they are a fit to what the company is looking
for in terms of soft skills, career aspirations, core
values, etc….
We value this highly because we listen when our
clients tell us that skills can be learnt but attitude
and core values are fundamental requirements of WHAT WE DO:
the right employees. We also believe in making
 At least 2 screening interviews
sure the candidate completely understands the
 A technical fit interview
role and the company ethos – meaning the  A “company fit” interview
“right” candidates are excited and the “wrong”  Technical tests (online or in
candidates do not pursue the opportunity further. classroom)*
 Face to Face interviews*
It doesn’t end there however – as we ALWAYS
 References*
request professional references from candidates
 Accreditation check*
during the screening process.  Right to work check*
 Candidate briefing
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market exposure
candidate pool
We have many unique and exclusive relationships with
market leading candidates of all skill types. Often these
candidates would have worked with us previously or
have been “referred” to us directly. Our position as a
“exclusive” agent for them means that they are only
looking for work through ourselves.
Linked to this fact, an amazing 70+% of our placements
are made from candidates held on our in house, market
leading database. Some 50,000 live IT candidates (all
added and or updated in the last year) are held on this
database which is unique to Opus Recruitment
Solutions and as we are independent this not
accessible to any other agency.
In addition to this, we operate a “unlimited” attitude to both advertising and subscribing to online
databases. This see’s us utilize all of the market leading job boards and websites such as
Monster, Jobsite, Jobserve, CWJobs, The ITJobBoard, PurelyIT and many, many more.
And then there is the “networking” aspect that comes from having consultants specializing in
vertical markets – referrals, headhunting and our reputation mean that we are able to access
candidates that aren’t even necessarily “on the market” or looking for work.
Altogether we have a candidate pool that we believe is second to none in the IT Recruitment field.
We have both a local focus in order to provide the best local candidates but where necessary we
have access to the leading candidates both nationally and internationally.
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Flexibility and the law
experienced consultants
As an independent dynamic agency we pride ourselves on our
ability to be flexible to work with our clients in the way that they
want. This flexibility ensures that we can embrace your working
practices – rather than dictate ours like some agencies. We have
a 100% compliance rate with our clients, always hitting our SLA’s
and more importantly working in the way the way!
In addition we also have legally approved, IR35 friendly, contracts
and client terms and conditions – ensuring you can be confident
with our service.
We view recruitment as a delivery based industry – not a sales
based industry like many of our competitors. Therefore we look
to employ career recruitment professionals, not “wide” sales
consultants. As a result our Recruitment Consultants are put
through our award winning “Academy” where they receive
industry leading training. The average amount of experience our
Account Managers have is over 5 years of IT Recruitment
Experience – meaning they are committed to the profession and
committed to meeting client and candidate expectations. In
addition, we believe that “going the extra mile” is what sets us
apart. Therefore, our consultants are highly incentivized to “fill”
vacancies meaning they are often seen working late into the
evening and weekends to leave no stone unturned.
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Local, national, international
loyalty schemes
Our Head Office is based in Bristol but from here we support clients located throughout the
UK, Europe and Worldwide. We have a network of satellite offices throughout the UK
meaning that whatever the location we have a “local” office to provide interview rooms,
recruitment days, assessment centres, meetings, debriefs, etc.
With our beginnings dating back to 2004 Opus are an established and stable player in the
very competitive IT Recruitment Sector. However, we have retained a “freshness” and a
desire to grow organically through our delivery to clients, culminating in a restructure and
rebranding at the start of 2008… meaning that Opus brings you the best of both worlds.
We run a number of client loyalty schemes – rewarding and thanking our clients for their
excellent business. Such reward have included gifts, Spa days, Sporting events, etc.
Please ask for more details.
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Contact us
If you would like any further information about Opus or
would like to discuss working with us, then please feel free
to contact us.
Opus Recruitment
Solutions Ltd
Castlemead
Lower Castle St
Bristol
BS1 3AG
Tel: 0117 917 5100
Fax: 0117 917 5299
Email: contactus@opusrs.com
Web: www.opusrs.com
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