Initially, the company focused on providing a pro-active service to the investment banking IT market. In the last five years, Aston Carter has carefully and strategically expanded its portfolio of services and target industries. These have included Management Consultancies, Blue Chips, Software Houses, New Media & Telco companies and the Public Sector allowing the company to take its unique recruitment methodologies to the wider market and capitalise on the growth within these sectors.

The professional, pro-active and innovative working practices translated successfully to these new markets and Aston Carter has subsequently established strong relationships with a diverse range of global blue-chip companies and leading commercial organisations supplying both IT and non-IT professionals.

The company’s head office is based in the heart of the City of London, with further European offices in Dublin, Paris, Brussels and Stockholm with planned office openings in Hamburg and Zurich in 2008. As part of our expansion into Asia, Aston Carter has opened offices in Singapore and Tokyo and a presence in Hong Kong is planned later in 2008. The company has also successfully delivered to international clients in countries such as China, Finland, Morocco, Spain and the US for several years.

Aston Carter differs from its competitors because of its dynamic approach to recruitment. It employs pro-active search methods, offering all the benefits of a search service to its clients but on a contingency basis. By actively approaching passive potential applicants, who in many cases include the relatively content high performers, Aston Carter offers its clients a greater range and depth of candidates.

The company has teams of consultants with in-depth experience of specific technical and business verticals supported by dedicated teams of researchers responsible for locating and profiling suitable individuals. By specialising in this way, consultants will have an acute understanding of the dynamics facing particular markets and industry sectors.

Aston Carter is committed and confident in its ability to supply high-calibre permanent and contract staff across all levels of seniority covering the following areas:

• IT Directors/Senior Managers, Project & Programme Managers
• Business & Systems Analysis
• Application Development - all major programming languages C++/C#/Java
• Networking & Data Communications
• Systems/Database Administration
• ERP/CRM, inc. SAP, Oracle Applications, Peoplesoft, Siebel
• Management Consultants within Business Consulting, Business Systems Integration and Technical Consultancy