SME Recruitment
The Gold Standard In
Recruitment for SMEs
Richard Wheeler Associates works with small and medium sized technology-led businesses, typically employing between 50 and 250 people, to recruit highly skilled, specialist people.
These are businesses with established products or services, hiring experienced professionals to fill skills gaps, backfill existing roles and drive growth.
We aim for an offer from just 2 shortlisted CVs. Further, our consultative Search & Selection approach offers hiring managers, HR directors and senior engineering team leaders advice on the size of the talent pool, salary benchmarking, recruitment strategy and hiring timescales.
We take time to understand your business, the job description, tech stack, team dynamics and long-term objectives before starting a search, following the nine steps in our recruitment process.
Benefit from a focus on quality. We will represent your brand professionally and deliver a shortlist of genuinely right-fit candidates. With zero risk.
SME Hiring
Rigorous screening, detailed interviewing and careful assessment enable us to produce highly targeted shortlists that save you time and improve retention. Candidates are carefully evaluated not only for technical capability but also for communication skills, motivation, cultural fit and long-term career aspirations.
Many SMEs choose to partner with RWA on an exclusive basis or as one of a small number of specialist recruiters on a PSL. This is our preferred way of working. This approach ensures clients benefit from the rigorous way we work – and how and why we make a difference; it improves candidate quality, reduces duplication and creates a more professional experience for candidates and hiring managers alike.
Indeed, SMEs who have partnered with RWA over the longer term see consistent high calibre candidates shortlisted for a wide range of technical roles at all levels.
Roles we recruit for include:
- software developers
- cloud engineers
- architects
- full stack engineers
- engineering managers
- AI specialists
- heads of engineering
- forward deployed engineers
RWA recruits for SME jobs based in London, Oxford, Birmingham, the high-tech M3, M4 corridor, as well as fully remote positions in the UK and across different countries and time zones.
Your focus on high technology search is clearly showing benefits and all the appointments have met or exceeded our expectations.
We filled a senior and niche role through Richard recently. I found his approach to be very quality-focused, each candidate felt hand-picked and was presented with an overview written specifically for our context. This was certainly a cut above the scatter-gun approach I'd seen from some other agents.
Thank you for representing me on this application. You were a big help and your politeness and courtesy has been exceptional from the start.
