Recruitment Solutions
The Foundation of our work is Collaboration, understanding your business, working together with mutual confidence and clarity.
The global composites industry thrives on innovation, yet faces an ongoing talent shortage across all disciplines, from executive leadership to skilled technicians and new graduates. We are NOT a silo in a broadly based engineering / Industrial recruitment agency, we ARE dedicated specialists, working with exceptional talent from within the industry as well as identifying and attracting new talent into the industry.
We serve material designers and developers, manufacturers, distributors, R&D consultancies, academia and the broader composites industry with deep expertise and proven results. Our approach prioritises targeted, discreet engagement over volume driven recruitment practices, ensuring both client confidentiality and candidate respect throughout the process.
At Composites People, we recognise that every recruitment challenge is unique. Our adaptable service options are designed to align with your organisation's objectives, financial parameters, and existing resources. From simple performance-driven searches to comprehensive strategic collaborations, our scalable approaches allow you to select the precise level of assistance required—while maintaining exceptional standards throughout.
Permanent Recruitment
Our retained, collaborative approach to recruitment ensures dedicated attention to each assignment, allowing you to attract senior and skilled candidates for roles where professionalism, knowledge and experience will deliver long-term success to your business
Executive Search
Discreet executive searches powered by deep market knowledge and professional confidentiality. We source and connect with senior professionals and industry experts tailored to your sector-specific demands. Whether C-level appointments, senior management positions, or technical leadership roles across SMEs and multinational corporations, our searches identify the strategic leaders who will drive your business success.
Interim Appointments
We support companies requiring interim managers with specialist technical skills by drawing on our extensive industry network to match the right expertise to your specific project needs whether you need technical leadership for manufacturing scale up, specialized product development initiatives, or short term technical sales support when entering new markets, We identify professionals who possess the precise specialist knowledge required to deliver your project objectives effectively.
Non-Executive Directors
The composites industries rapid evolution requires board level expertise that can guide strategic direction while understanding technological possibilities. Non-executive director appointments connect companies with industry veterans who bring both governance experience and sector specific insights.
Our Recruitment Process
Our recruitment process is customised to each client. By benchmarking against critical requirements, competencies and behaviours judged to be essential to the role, our assessment methods, and candidate profiling are specifically designed to align with the unique values and requirements of the role and your organisation.
Partnership That Evolves
As your business grows, so do your talent needs. Our partnership adapts to your evolving business requirements and as your needs change, we adjust our recruitment strategies to deliver exceptional talent that aligns with your expanding organisational demands and strategic objectives.
Accountability & Communication
Throughout the talent search process, we maintain open and transparent communication with our clients, providing regular updates and seeking feedback to ensure that the candidates we present resonate with your organisation's values.
Market Intelligence
Stay competitive with real-time insights into compensation trends, skill shortages, and emerging talent pools across key composites markets worldwide.
4 key advantages of behavioral assessments in candidate selection
Objective Evaluation: Standardized assessments reduce bias and subjective judgment, ensuring fair, consistent candidate evaluation based on actual competencies
Predictive Validity: These assessments reliably predict future job performance by identifying how candidates will likely behave in specific situations.
Enhanced Job-person Fit: By matching candidate behaviours to rule requirements, organizations achieve higher job satisfaction, productivity and lower turnover.
Time and Cost Efficiency: Early screening through behavioral assessments saves resources by focusing on well matched candidates and preventing costly hiring mistakes.
Candidate Assessment & Evaluation
Talent Alert
Use our form here to alert us to the kind of candidates you want to be matched with, and when we have suitable candidates added to our Talent Search feature, you will be alerted to their availability. Complete the form or speak to Charles Cotton to discuss your specific interest.
Partner with Composites People
Whether you are looking to hire top talent or seeking your next opportunity in composites, we are here to support you.
