Blade Recruitment

Blade Recruitment is a division of Blade Industries Limited - but we like to be known as just "Blade". Blade Industries is a commercial organisation which is registered as a private limited company in England and Wales. We have a number of business interests, which include the supply of ITC systems and property services, as well as personnel recruitment. In Great Britain, we have traditionally specialised in providing personel solutions for the facilities management, building services, maintenance and catering industries. More recently, the range of professions we have recruited for has been growing steadily, especially in South Africa, and we are willing to rise to the challenge of recruitment in almost any industry.

From our offices in London and Durban, we recruit permanent placements and temporary workers for clients all over the UK and South Africa. We offer an unrivalled professional service where highly trained consultants have the latest IT technology at their fingertips. Dedication to providing a consistently high quality service has been the key to our success.

Our ongoing success at Blade is due in large part to our industry knowledge. We pride ourselves on understanding the industries that we work in, and our aim is to provide an effective and customer friendly service, enabling clients and candidates to gain an advantage in the highly competitive UK and South African job markets. We operate an efficient and secure database that is able to match a client’s requirement to suitable candidates at high speed. Our advertising analysis and media planning ensure that we target the medium that attracts the best candidates.

Blade’s reputation amongst candidates is such that we are continually contacted by skilled and experienced professionals in all of the disciplines into which we recruit. We constantly strive to improve our service to our clients and candidates. Blade's consultants in the UK adhere to a strict code of conduct as members of the Recruitment and Employment Confederation and have ongoing training and a vast knowledge of the industries that we are supplying, offering an expert service at all times.

Our Core Values

Service Excellence
Everything that every person within Blade does in their day to day work is to reach the goal of providing an excellent service to both clients and candidates.

Integrity
We treat every person that we come across, our co workers, clients and candidates with dignity and respect.

Environmental Care
Everyone that works for Blade has a duty to be mindful of the environment and to be aware of doing what they can to protect the environment.

Passion
Everyone at Blade has a passion for our work and for what we do. We are driven to excel in every aspect of our business.

Innovation
We have the latest IT technology are constantly evaluating our systems to ensure we have the best systems and processes in place to achieve our goals.

Professionalism
We set ourselves high standards seeking quality and at all times maintain a professional manner.

Our Key Strengths

As well as our core values, Blade's ongoing success is also due to our environmental record, our industry knowledge, our targeted marketing, our system of performance assessments, and the quality of our IT systems.

Environmental Record
We strive for a paperless office. All documentation is electronically scanned and stored onto our computer network. Documents that are faxed to us are electronically saved in order to save paper. Click here to read more about the environmental issues we can relate to. To see Blade's official Environmental Policy Statement, Click here.

IT Integration
We create files in the format used by your accounts department. These files can be imported into your system to reduce data entry and administration costs. We also provide analysis of usage history and recruitment costs.

Effective Marketing
At Blade we constantly strive to attract the best applicants for vacancies. We use different forms of media to advertise for new candidates and invest significant resources in attracting good candidates as soon as they enter the labour market.

Performance Assessment
We closely monitor our candidates and ourselves, using service appraisals and highlighting any particular issues.

Speed
We recognize that today’s business environment is fast paced. We invest significant resources in ensuring that our comprehensive database is up-to-date.

Industry Knowledge
Our industry knowledge gives us an appreciation of the sector’s market conditions and an understanding of your business needs.