North East London NHS Foundation Trust

"I have recently used The Oyster Partnership to supply the Trust with a Project Manager for our 2009/10 capital programme. The partnership and in particular with Sam Roche who took the time to meet with us personally and fully understand our requirements performed extremely well.

Sam matched suitable candidates tailored to our needs. His detailed and meticulous approach was refreshing and it was apparent that he took the time to meet all his candidates face to face, putting them through a rigorous pre-screening process before being put forward to myself.

Traditionally I have always used larger companies and found their services to be inconsistent. Sam showed passion, enthusiasm and despite a long recruitment process kept the successful candidate in the loop at all times.

It is important for a recruitment agency to ‘consult’ and not just push CV’s. Sam’s levels of urgency meant that we secured our candidate despite us seeing 25 candidates in total! The proof of this ‘consultation’ is that his candidate did not hold extensive experience of working with the NHS but held other qualities which made them right for our team; this was also an important part of our criteria.

The Oyster Partnership have advised me that they are in the Virgin Fasttrack 100 and as a business are growing rapidly they also  hold the 4^th position of the fastest growing recruitment business in the UK. This is not surprising given the service we received.

Before Sam made contact I had not dealt with The Oyster Partnership but I would not hesitate to use them again nor recommend them."

Dennis Emmings (Acting Head of Estates & Capital Planning)