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In December, many businesses pause their hiring efforts, choosing to resume recruitment in January. While this approach might seem practical, it could result in missed opportunities to strengthen your team. December is an underrated yet highly strategic time to hire. Studies indicate that hiring activity surges in January, leading to more competition for top talent. By initiating your recruitment process in December, you can stay ahead of the curve and secure the best candidates before the January hiring rush. This blog explores the advantages of hiring during December.

Jasmine, part of our Energy team, has recently published her first newsletter 'Current Affairs!' - a biweekly deep dive into the world of clean energy—exploring everything from energy storage systems to electric vehicles, battery tech, and future mobility. In this edition, Jasmine focuses on November’s biggest investments and the companies leading the way.

Our Industry Innovators series interviews senior leaders across industrial technology industries, exploring the latest trends, upcoming technologies and pressing hot topics that are shaping the future. Warehouse Automation Consultant James Disney recently had the privilege of speaking to CEO and Co-Founder of cellumation, Hendrik Thamer.

As the data center demand grows, so do all of the challenges that companies face in maintaining, scaling, and securing these facilities. As a recruiter in the data center market, understanding these challenges is crucial—not just for sourcing great talent, but for providing value to our clients. Here’s a look at some of the biggest hurdles data centers face today.

ANDRITZ Separation needed to hire a Head of Automation for their Selb location. CrimsonXT’s Christina, leveraging her recruitment expertise and long-standing partnership with ANDRITZ, adapted to evolving hiring requirements by shifting the focus from leadership to technical skills. Within weeks, she successfully placed a candidate with 13 years of industry experience.

In this Innovators episode, Automation Consultant James Disney interviews Senior Manager at KION Group, Kenny Watson to find out more about the specific industry, his career journey and advice to anyone looking to be a part of the industry.

The Automated Advantage: Meeting Warehouse Demands. Automation Consultant James Disney walks you through common challenges warehouses face due to the increased demand, and automated solutions to guide you through them.

Emissions from the in-house data centers of Google, Microsoft, Meta, and Apple may be 662% higher than what’s reported, largely due to the use of Renewable Energy Certificates. These allow companies to claim carbon reductions without using actual green energy at their sites. With AI’s energy demand skyrocketing, this hidden pollution poses a major climate challenge.

The news this week highlights major global expansions, innovative approaches to sustainability, and the demand for AI-optimized infrastructure. Construction companies, colocation operators, and cloud giants are making moves to address demands.

As AI reshapes industries across the globe, its increasing hunger for data processing power is driving an expansion of data centers. The central question is: How can data centers keep up with AI’s rapid growth while minimizing their environmental impact? Chris Pickles walks us through solutions for sustainable growth.

The data center industry is at a pivotal juncture, driven by a convergence of technological innovation, regulatory changes, and shifting consumer expectations. As we look into 2024 and beyond, one of the most profound transformations is the increasing focus on sustainability and energy efficiency.

An international chemical manufacturer reached out to us for their next strategic hire - a Head of Engineering in West Germany. This was a critical role with overall responsibility for the engineering function, including people and budget management for a team of up to 30 engineers.

An AutoStore distributor specializing in optimizing warehouse performance has a combined team of over 1,000 employees, with expansion plans for over the next couple of years. Facing the imminent retirement of their VP of Customer Success, the company needed to fill this critical role.

eVTOL vehicles are revolutionizing the aviation industry. As we step into Q3 2024, the market is witnessing significant developments that could reshape urban air mobility. This article delves into the current state of the eVTOL market, examining key trends, major players, and future projections.

Strengthening HVAC leaders’ operational efficiency and global presence within the Data Centre vertical. We have been partnered with a pioneer in manufacturing efficiency for several years, helping them to build out numerous functions within the business with 15 hires over 3 years.

We partnered with Nomagic to help them hire their next Sales Executive role. Through our thorough screening process and shortlisting 16 candidates, we identified a candidate whose expertise in partner channel sales aligned perfectly with Nomagic’s growth strategy.

A startup battery material company based in the US was embarking on an ambitious project – setting up their first manufacturing plant. We approached the company with a tailored recruitment strategy, and tapped into our extensive network of VP-level candidates.

We help business leaders in the warehouse automation and intralogistics markets grow their teams and I recently had the privilege of speaking to VP of Sales Automation Matthew Walker. Matthew discusses various aspects of the industry and shares his insights and experience.

We help business leaders in the warehouse automation and intralogistics markets grow their teams and I recently had the privilege of speaking to Director, Industrial Engineering and Robotics at Cart.com. Parth discusses various aspects of the industry and shares his insights and experience.

We help business leaders in the warehouse automation and intralogistics markets grow their teams and recently had the privilege of speaking to CEO, President Vincent Halma. Vincent discusses various aspects of the industry and shares his experience.

CEO and expert Meg O'Connel shares insights about how we can build disability employment programmes in our own companies. Find out how we can roll out disability employment programmes to every US DC and what employers need to know about setting up disability programmes.

Raising money to support cancer charities is a cause very close to our hearts. In October, Consultant Dom Robinson ran the Yorkshire Marathon, raising money for Macmillan Cancer Support.

With a comprehensive solution, we helped a returning client of ours - a global autonomous mobile robot company enhance its pre-sales division across the US, streamlining sales and increasing revenue.

​We are absolutely delighted to announce we have been awarded the 2023 People's Platform Award, an accolade which recognises 50 UK recruitment agencies for outstanding company culture!

We help business leaders in the warehouse automation and intralogistics markets grow and we had the privilege of speaking to Heather Caroll, who shares insights into the challenges of overseas operations, the importance of communication, and thriving in logistics.

We help business leaders in the warehouse automation and intralogistics markets grow and had the privilege of speaking to Jerome Vaughan, who shares insights into the challenges of overseas operations, the importance of communication, and thriving in logistics.

In August, we held our annual summer fundraising party and sports day, raising money for The Eve Appeal through our Simone Taylor Fund. Thanks to the generosity of our team and everyone who donated, we managed to raise an incredible £1,006!

Our assistance enabled an eVTOL startup to address the challenge of establishing a new manufacturing and engineering function while hiring a VP of Manufacturing, all while keeping costs to a minimum, as per their goals.

Our client is a long-established construction firm based in California. We introduced an experienced senior leader in under a week to supercharge this construction firm's overstretched estimating team.

Our client is a leading international manufacturer of HVAC solutions, specialising in warm air heaters. We were able to alleviate candidate concerns and identify red flags to hire the best account managers for this HVAC manufacturer.

Whilst developments in intralogistics never seem to cease, one aspect of the industry that continues to lag behind is the representation of women. We spoke to Business Development Manager Laura Carter about career development and advice for women in intralogistics.

Our client is a leading international manufacturer of HVAC, air and data centre cooling solutions. Helping a firm transform their interview processes and hiring strategy to finally close a long-standing vacancy in less than a month.

Our client is a leading international manufacturer of energy-efficient HVAC products and systems. We found the perfect leader to pioneer a new subsidiary in France for this international manufacturer of HVAC products and systems.

Our client is an international 3PL provider that offers storage, transportation, and distribution services. We filled a range of critical hires spanning the breadth of our client's operations, in project management, design engineering, project controls & scheduling.

A difficult hiring process turned on its head as we sourced five exceptional project managers for a global integrator firm. They were in immediate need of a team leaders to facilitate the delivery of a critical project.

Working with a mobile robotics start-up to pioneer their entry into the European warehouse automation market. We helped them build a sales team to spearhead their expansion into the region.

Whilst developments in ai robotics never seem to cease, one aspect of the industry that continues to lag behind is the representation of women, particularly in positions of leadership. We spoke to Sales Manager Beth Marshall about being overlooked at work and the power of an early start.