“When I started at Icertis, Oakstone was an existing recruiter. We had an incredible amount of heads to fill. I quickly became aware of the depth of how much you knew about our business, and so it’s been a partnership ever since.

You’ve taken the time to get to know our business and our people. You know what our customers want, and you look after us by bringing us the standards we require.”

Icertis, SVP EMEA

“Oakstone tend to have a lot more knowledge about what we do as a business, they care about candidates and they’re able to support their career and our vision rather than just try to sell a role. It’s more about the people.”

Icertis, VP Sales

“Over the last 3 years I have worked closely with the team at Oakstone. I value their insight and their honest assessment of candidates that they put in front of us as well as their ability to deliver. They have really taken the time to understand Alfresco and this comes across in the quality of the candidates. Oakstone has placed strong senior sales and marketing talent within Alfresco and we often retain Oakstone on senior level searches throughout EMEA. Oakstone has successfully led retained campaigns for us in the UK, Germany, France, Italy, Benelux and Spain. I consider Oakstone to be a real partner to myself and Alfresco.”

Paul Hennessey, Global head of talent at Alfresco

“I’ve used Oakstone for over 10 years across 3 businesses. I use them because I trust them, and they’ve placed a lot of good people for me, and I get on really well with the team.

They cut to the chase. They’re very direct and know me well enough after all this time and know the types of profile I’m looking for, and they always source good candidates.”

Newstore, Anthony Gavin - VP of Sales.

‘I’ve actually known Oakstone for over 20 years and always utilise the relationship I’ve had with Paul and with Steve and Tristan – they understand the quality of people I like, with the particular experiences and skill sets that I look for within people that I can put in a sales environment.’

Martin Hucker, Sales Director at Concentra Analytics

‘How many phone calls do I get from recruiters who don’t know my business, who don’t know the roles, who don’t know the industry, that when I give them the brief, they don’t understand? With Oakstone, you understand me, you understand what I need, you understand my team culture, and those things are important, but also, what I see in Oakstone is a company that knows the marketplace and knows people rather than someone who just knows CVs and profiles.‘

Mike Ferguson, VP EMEA, Redpoint Global

“Oakstone are better than other recruitment companies because of the effort they go to to find the right candidates. The candidate profiles are always accurate and they pick more out than what is initially displayed in the CV. I trust when the CVs come through that they’re going to be good and there will be people worth interviewing.”

OSL, Head of Engineering UK

‘Oakstone is better than any of the other recruiters we have used because they simply listen to our feedback. We don’t have people who are presented to us, who, for example, are possibly going to move; they find candidates who are motivated, candidates who are motivated to join us, and Oakstone find those people in good time.’

Matt Smith, Vice President of BGC Partners

“Got to say again, you guys have provided a flawless service so far - incredibly impressive, and it's not gone unnoticed. I've been singing your praises throughout the business, so you can expect us to request your services in other areas”

Head of Talent, Railsbank, regarding his experience with Divisional Director Dan Hammond-Smith and Recruitment Consultant Luke Garman.

“Oakstone quickly grasp the culture and skills set required for a specific open position. I hope we will continue to have a successful working relationship in the future.”

Isabelle Garcin - General Counsel and SVP of Human Resources.

"Working with Oakstone over the past 7 years has been truly key to the growth of our business at Neolane.

Their knowledge of the software industry and their impressive ability to reach, not only to but beyond their world-class network, accessing our entire target candidate audience has resulted in superb hiring results and the money invested giving a great return.

Oakstone’s reach is International and their standards of Integrity and Professionalism and results have combined to make them the best recruiters we have worked with, by far.

They have always taken the long-term approach, been persistent, helped us with market trends, salaries levels, and real assistance selecting and securing the right candidates.

Oakstone has provided us with an excellent service and have always been worth our financial investment with them."

Benoit Gourdon – Neolane, EVP Europe & Asia Pacific, Co-Founder

‘We were very impressed with the quality of candidates that Oakstone managed to bring our way. I also received great feedback from candidates about the process they went through, so kudos to that as well!’

Global Strategic Alliances at Monday.com

"I have worked with Oakstone for nearly ten years to identify and deliver key individuals to drive our business forward across Europe. They have always succeeded in providing very high quality candidates in a very timely fashion where others have failed completely or have delivered candidates with a marginal fit. They are highly professional, ultra focussed and continue to provide me with an excellent service."

Graeme McLaren – EMM Channel Leader, Europe

‘I like the candidates that are put forward.  They are exactly what I’m looking for.  Oakstone understand the culture of the company, they understand the people that they’re dealing with, they deliver candidates who are more likely to succeed in that environment.

The life of any organisation is the people that it has. Getting a candidate that is right for the position and then fits in with the culture and stays with me for a long period of time – that’s the value that Oakstone brings. They say, they do and they deliver.’

Joe Jouhal, CEO, Avatu.