Recruitment Services
Finding and hiring competent staff to work in your enterprise is almost a job in itself sometimes. Regular recruiters in the built environment sector just don't understand what makes conservation as a discipline so special.
But we know that recruiting the right people can make an assignment, a project or even a whole scheme come to life.
ConservationWorks' consulting and other businesses inform and provide a unique insight into what's required, when and by whom. We understand the terminology and know how the industry is structured. We can interview with authority and conduct searches quickly, efficiently and most importantly, confidentially if required.
Professions: Crafts and Trades:
Conservation Architects Stonemasons
Historic Buildings Surveyors Lime crafts at all levels
Historic Buildings Structural Engineers Timber Framing joiners
Architectural Historians Object Conservators: Metal, Stone, Paper, Jewellery, Ivory
Period Specialists Paintings Conservation: Cleaning and Repair
Project Managers Site Maintenance Supervisors and Managers
Facilities Managers
Conservation Tutors, Trainers and Educators (see also ConservationWorks: Knowledge)
Contingency Recruitment
Tell us what you're looking for and we'll search our database of CVs for appropriate candidates. You select a shortlist then we arrange the interviews and manage the whole recruitment process from first briefing to the first day. We can even run an advertised recruitment campaign for teams of people or for specialist projects.
Retained Search
Sometimes the skills you need are so specialised and the person you need so rare that the only way to get them is to conduct a formal search process. If they're out there, we'll find them for you. We are skilled and experienced with overseas searches, relocation and immigration processes.
Working for conservationworks as a consultant
staff policy
Historic buildings do not exist in a vacuum. They represent more than just the sum total of their economic, historic, architectural and cultural values. Their historic fabric should be treated with respect, but to many clients they are simply an economic unit.
If you have the capability to understand the implications of this, the ability tactfully to manage the conflicts which inevitably arise and the articulacy to take on the role of buildings advocate, communicating clearly with all parties in any historic building project, we want to hear from you.
For that reason, the ConservationWorks policy on staff recruitment and rentention is a simple one: to welcome those who have already experienced one successful career in a commercial discipline and who have come to the historic environment as a change of direction.
Articulate, approachable, passionate individuals with a certain flair and at least
one built-environment academic qualification should call in the first instance,
as an ability to communicate verbally is a prerequisite.
Please do not send unsolicited CVs.
Flexible working practices are offered and expected.
Sponsorship for the distance-learning Diploma or MSc in Conservation through the College of Estate Management at Reading will be provided to suitable candidates. www.cem.ac.uk
For the right candidates, equity participation in the business would be expected within two years.