My first 3 months at Contino....

My first 3 months at Contino....

My journey so far...

I have been working in recruitment/talent acquisition for just shy of 6 years. I started my first recruitment role when I left college at 18 and it’s been a great journey since. I decided after a number of years working within recruitment agencies that I wanted to make the move to join a internal talent acquisition team. Here is how my first 3 months has been at Contino.

What is the biggest differences?

Much more exposure within the business. I am not purely candidate sourcing all day every day and siloed away from the rest business. The Talent team here at Contino is heavily embedded into every aspect of the business which gives me a greater variety of things to do and get involved with. This could range from speaking to new devops/cloud talent, kicking off new engagements working with the PeopleOps team to ensure the right resources are deployed on engagements, helping out with new branding/marketing content or getting on client site with our engineers to make sure they are engaged and enjoying their projects.

What have I learnt?

The importance of really listening and engaging with our engineers. In a market that is very candidate driven it’s vital that we are not only attracting great talent but also doing everything we can to ensure the great talent in Contino is motivated, engaged and retained. It’s become clear to me that even if, as an organisation we feel that we are an attractive employer, we should always be looking at ways in which we can improve, evolve and drive the business forward in all aspects.

Biggest Challenges?

Surprisingly, getting used to the very flexible, grown up and open environment. There is a lot of flexibility offered and you are given lots of autonomy and responsibility around how you complete your work. This is not something I was used too that much so took me a few weeks to adjust. We also operate in a squad model here which was a totally new way of working for me. Now I am fully embedded in this way of working the benefits are clear to me that each team member has greater visibility and accountability for their role within engagements.

What do you enjoy?

Interacting and building relationships with the Cloud/Devops market. Heavily involved with the wider business supporting various squads that are delivering engagements for customers. I have also enjoyed getting involved with benefits/rewards discussion and looking at what else we can and should be offering our employee’s. I have also found the candidate onboarding experience very interesting as I have never had any exposure to this before. First impressions are everything so making sure we have a smooth, welcoming and efficient onboarding process for new starters is key!

Why Contino ?

I had heard of Contino before I interviewed. I had heard about the great culture, high calibre of staff, fantastic client base and the fact that Contino was growing very fast. Once I interviewed and realised the wider opportunities available, I wanted to join.

Why would should people come and join Contino?

Everything I thought and hoped about Contino so far has been true. A unique culture, extremely smart and high performing talent, lots of opportunities to self develop/progress. There is no signs of slowing down so 2020 is going to be a lot of fun!

What’s next?

I am looking forward to seeing what the future holds. Next year is going to be exciting. Contino is going to continue to grow and look at hiring the best talent in the market. Personally, I am looking forward to continue my own learning and development. I’ll be making use of my £5,000 annual training budget for sure, potentially looking at completing some basic technical certifications to further increase my technical knowledge or understand how we can be using social media to help us attract and engage new talent.

If you’re keen to find out more about life at Contino and what we could offer you, then please get in touch!

[email protected] / www.contino.io/join-us

James Clarke

Senior Vice President, Clients at Roxhill

4 年

Fantastic to see you progressing so well Charlie and glad to hear you're enjoying the new role at Contino! Will have to catch up for a beer soon. I'll drop you a Direct Message!

Greg Haines

DevOps | Cloud | IaC

4 年

Nice one dude!!

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