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About FT SELECT

Specialists in IT Recruitment

FT Select was established in 2007 to empower people and organisations to succeed.

At FT Select, we understand that navigating the workforce landscape can be challenging. 

What sets us apart is our knowledge through scale, deep understanding, and our ability to meaningfully innovate for both our candidates and customers. By providing advice, insights, and expertise on the issues you face today in the fast-paced world of work, we help you make the right decisions for tomorrow. 

Whether you’re seeking the next step in your career or looking to bridge skills gaps within your organization, we are committed to partnering with you every step of the way. 

We specialise in recruiting for Sales, Pre-sales, Technical in the areas of : 

  • Open Source – Redhat, Linux, Oracle 
  • Data Centre
  • Cloud Computing
  • Networks
  • Cyber Security
  • Unified communications
  • Mobility
  • Collaboration
  • Contact centres
  • IoT
  • Software Services & Development
  • AI
"FT Select have provided their recruitment services to me whilst in a number of leadership positions since 2007, when they were invaluable in helping us quickly build a team from start-up. Their experience and contacts in the market have ensured a selection of high-quality candidates across all open positions, particularly high-calibre commercial orientated overlay sales and solution architects."
Rob Stanley
Director, Workplace Business Line at Computacenter
'FT Select is highly focused in the technology sector, with strong experience and a wide network. In addition to understanding the job description, they always take time to understand the organisational and cultural dynamics, and work closely with the hiring manager to align, identify and close candidates.'
Glen Robinson
SVP Global Sales & Marketing
'FT Select has been a go-to partner for people acquisition for me for over ten years. Right from the off, their calm professionalism, married with a laser-like attention to detail, is in contrast with so many seemingly similar businesses.'
Adam Jarvis
Managing Director
'I have found FT Select to be very engaging, dependable and high in integrity. Their professionalism and consistently going the extra mile are but just a few reasons that I wouldn’t hesitate to recommend them when recruiting new staff or indeed to anyone looking for a new career change.'
Sameer Sakhare
Project Manager
'I have worked with Richard and his team for six years, and during this time they have helped get me into several opportunities, a couple of which have led to formal job offers and the enhancement of my career. I’m always impressed with how they equally understand my profile and the roles I am looking for and always do a great job of matching the two.'
Neil Camden
Solutions Architect
'As a customer, I was impressed with the high calibre of resources provided by FT Select. FT Select contractors were flexible and could be relied upon to always do the right thing. The account team always remained in constant contact, ready to resolve any issues quickly. My own move to contracting was sudden and unplanned. By coincidence FT Select was one of the key suppliers and made my transition very smooth and stress free with plenty of good advice and help. Their terms and processes remain the most contractor friendly I have come across.'
Muneer Alam
IT Programme Director (former Head of IT)

Taking a practical approach

We take the time to understand your specific needs and apply our specialized recruitment methodology, a proven scientific approach to candidate assessment. This allows us to swiftly and accurately evaluate candidates based on their skills and relevant commercial experience. Your time is valuable. 

 

We don’t waste time

Our knowledgeable Recruitment Consultants possess deep expertise in the IT industry, enabling us to connect you with the ideal candidates efficiently and effectively.

Meet the Management Team

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Richard Thomas

Founder and Managing Director

Richard is the founder of FT Select. Richard’s long-standing career started when he joined the then market-leading telecoms recruitment team at Computer Team Group PLC in 1995. A year later, he entered Netsource at their inception, and over eight years helped grow it into a multi-million-pound recruitment service. Now, with over 20 years’ experience in the sector, you’ll find him here, dedicating his knowledge to helping our clients and candidates with their recruitment needs – unless he’s riffing on his guitar.

Malcolm Nicholls

Malcolm Nicholls

Non-executive Director

Malcolm has a background in Electronic Engineering . He brings with him a wealth of experience and insight from his successful career spanning many years in the telecoms industry, which includes senior appointments at Nokia and Nortel. More recently working for Nokia Network's €21 billion organisation of 90,000 people he led over 25 critical internal business transformation projects worldwide. Working with boards and senior executives in Asia, Latin America, China, the US and Europe he solved strategic growth, organisational change and business profitability issues to deliver solutions that in one case represented a €100m in profitability improvement. Malcolm shares our values and vision at FTS and he will help us shape our strategy and propel our expert telecoms recruitment company to market leaders in modern communications recruitment over the next few years.

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Anne Rowan

Senior Recruiter

Anne’s career began in banking, working for trusted and respected names like Barclays, Rabobank and Chase Manhattan. But with a degree in psychology, understanding people and their needs is more her thing. After making her move into executive search some time ago with the prestigious Praxis Executive, creating her own successful executive search company, and a few aces on the tennis court, Anne joined the team here at FT Select, applying her knowledge of people to matching them with the right career ever since.

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