As well as the conventional claims of exceptional candidate and client care (which most consultancies offer, but few deliver), we also offer the benefits of many years of business experience, accumulated before beginning our successful careers as recruitment consultants. Our slogan - When Experience Counts - is a valid and powerful statement of what sets us apart from other consultancies and provides the extra dimension that we bring to the recruitment process.

As a boutique consultancy, we are small enough to be flexible to our clients needs on an individual basis. We treat candidates with the same respect that we do our clients. Yet, we bring a wealth of business and recruitment experience to each assignment, providing the value that can only be achieved by working with an individual consultant throughout the entire recruitment process.

Our services are tailor-made to suit our clients' needs and may be varied to each assignment, where appropriate. We cover the full spectrum of recruitment - executive, staff, permanent, contract and temporary.

We operate across a wide spectrum of industry, choosing not to specialise by sector. Rather we focus on building relationships, developing an understanding of each client's business practices, so that we are better placed to respond to their recruitment requirements.

Our methodology for permanent recruitment comes directly from our values - to provide motivated and qualified candidates, who understand the role and the employer's objectives in hiring them.

This always involves:

  • Taking the brief face to face - no matter how well we think we understand it via the telephone
  • Challenging and negotiating parameters within the brief where appropriate - we will never take on the impossible simply to get the order
  • Accessing the market for candidates, using a variety of techniques, including our confidential database
  • Interviewing, cross-referencing and reference checking to ensure accuracy and relevance
  • Presenting only those candidates who meet the agreed criteria

In addition to providing permanent recruitment and search services to our clients, Clayton & Shuttleworth also apply their proven recruitment methodologies to finding high quality candidates to meet the short to medium term requirements of these businesses.
As with permanent roles, finding the best candidate - the one that matches your requirements, with skills and experience that will add value to the role - is our primary focus.

Clayton & Shuttleworth offers an IT recruitment service to its clients, providing placement of both permanent and contract staff, for roles such as Business and Systems Analysts, Software Developers and Testers, Architects and Designers, and Project Managers.
Our approach is to proactively invest time in understanding the client’s business, technology platforms, IT strategies and future plans. This ensures our service has a solutions focus and delivers skilled resources within business critical timeframes.

In addition to sourcing local IT talent, Clayton & Shuttleworth is approved by the Department of Immigration as a Business Sponsor for the purpose of engaging IT specialists from overseas, to provide expertise that cannot be readily found in Australia. These skills include scarce or in-demand technologies as well as technical support for legacy products and programming languages.

Most large organisations now utilise a variable workforce model to resource their IT projects and to maintain staffing flexibility through operational peaks and troughs. The key to achieving the benefits of this approach is to ensure access to the right skills, at the right time, at the right price.

Clayton & Shuttleworth’s IT contracting service is designed to meet our clients’ variable workforce objectives:

  • Right Skills

    Matching the accountabilities and responsibilities of a position with the specialist skill set of the candidate requires a sound understanding of current IT industry products, processes, technologies and directions. C&S consultants have worked across the industry, with extensive experience and knowledge of server and network infrastructure, software development and ERP systems implementation, and regularly win clients’ plaudits for accurately matching skills to requirements.
  • Right Time

    Speed to market is the key to successful contractor placement, and C&S achieves this through the combination of a search methodology based on a network of IT professional contacts developed over more than twenty years, and an extensive, current candidate database.
  • Right Price 

    Clayton & Shuttleworth     offers competitive rates based on tight margins, as a result of low business overheads and our consultants’ ability to provide an ‘end to end’ service, keeping selling overheads to a minimum.

Clayton & Shuttleworth’s IT contracting service sources specialists to meet project based requirements across the systems development lifecycle, and for operations roles to meet peak workloads or backfill staff (e.g. on parental or long service leave).
Our primary focus is on providing the right technology resources to satisfy a business solution. Thus we excel in sourcing Business Analysts, Architects and Designers, ERP and Business Intelligence Consultants, Test Analysts and Implementation Specialists.
The following is an example of the types of roles for which C&S has the capability to resource:

  • Management and Leadership Roles

Project and Program Managers
Enterprise and Solution Architects
Project Governance and Methodology Consultants (ITIL, CMM, Six Sigma, Prince2, PMBOK)

  • Infrastructure and Technology Roles

Networking and Data Communications Specialists
Data Warehouse and Business Intelligence Consultants (Oracle, Cognos)
Middleware and EAI Consultants (Websphere, Weblogic, Tibco)

  • Systems Development Roles

Business Process, Systems and Data Analysts
Programmers and Configuration Specialists (.Net, J2EE, SAP, Siebel)
Testers (Functional, Integration, Regression, UAT)
Training and Documentation Consultants

When an organisation experiences change which requires the transition of people, it is very important for the business to continue to communicate essential messages to remaining employees.

  • The messages need to provide Clarity
  • Understand and meet the Needs of the employees
  • Inspire Motivation to move forward in a positive manner
  • Clearly recognise the Capability of employees
  • Working together on the above will ensure Success

Career Transition Services provided by an organisation will:

  • Enhance corporate reputation
  • Reduce risk of litigation
  • Minimise organisational risk &  manage people risk

These services provide:

  • On-site Transition Debrief including immediate counseling of participants
  • Provide access to other specialists and services
  • Maintain productivity and staff morale
  • Facilitate life and family goal setting
  • Facilitate career assessment and planning
  • Maintain on-site support
  • Provide relocation and adjustment support and advice
  • Facilitate skills gap analysis
  • Assess skills and provide coaching and training programs

Our services are based on a personal level and partnership.  We work ‘with people’ to provide a tailored solution that meets their needs.

People are supported on an individual basis, not placed in a group situation.  Family support is also provided; partners are encouraged to attend sessions to assist them cope with the change.  The Programs are flexible and customised to meet an individual’s needs.  Our services are continually monitored to ensure only the highest quality programs and delivery standards are met.

Our Career Transition Services include:

  • Skills/career assessment & retention strategies
  • Talent identification & succession planning
  • Communication strategy
  • Project management & implementation
  • Redundancy & career counselling workshops
  • On-site debriefs
  • Outplacement programs
  • Self employment coaching
  • Mentoring and personal coaching programs

The following programs are available:

  • On Site Debrief
  • Job Search Skills Program (4-6 weeks)
  • Career Transition Program (6-8 weeks)
  • Career Plan Review and Transition Program (6-10 weeks)
  • Transition Support Program - The Next Step (4 weeks)
  • Individual Coaching and Mentoring Programs