James Leighton
Recruitment done differently: putting people and communities first across mission critical, data centres, property, construction and housing.
James built Andersen James in Manchester and leads it as Group CEO. The firm was set up on a simple idea: a recruitment agency can care about the people it places and the communities they work in, and still be the sharpest partner a hiring manager has.
AJ recruits across property, construction and housing, and runs a US practice from Orlando and Austin supporting mission critical and data centre hiring. Every search is built on market intelligence rather than keyword matching, and on doing the right thing by the candidate as well as the client.
That commitment is written into how AJ operates: 5% of profits go to charity, every team member gets four paid hours a month to volunteer, and the team funds two challenges a year. James writes about the market, hiring practice and the communities AJ works in.
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