New Northern Quarter home for recruiter

Recruitment company Calibre Search has signed up to new offices as revenues hit £5.5m.

The firm is moving into newly refurbished Nine Stephenson Square with plans double its team this year.

Director Pete Gillick said the company has seen a recent boom in early stage construction projects describing the past few several months as ‘the busiest period in the company’s history.’

The company – specialists in the built environment, HVAC, IT and marketing – is on course to register revenues of £6.6m in 2022, a £2m increase on its 2020 turnover figure.

“Part of our vision is to be the ‘go-to partner’ in the industries we service and I think we are achieving that,” said Pete.

“The demand for talent that we are seeing from our large corporation and SME clients is similar to the economic boom of 2005 / 06,” said Pete.

“While 2020 was tough, we bounced back very quickly. Many of our clients are at the earlier stages of construction and can’t find the right people themselves which continues to drive opportunities.”

Commenting on the bounce back of the property sector, he added: “You can’t drive anywhere without seeing roadworks at the moment, housing is taking off and there’s a lot of work in flood defence.

“The challenge is finding the talent to fill the gaps. But we’ve never been this busy and we have a superb team and hope to recruit more of the same quality.”

Calibre Search, which also has an office in Leeds, is moving to Nine Stephenson Square from The Landmark building, also in the Northern Quarter.

The new base will offer flexible working options for its staff.

Pete said: “We are finding that after an initial drive of people wanting to work from home that some now want to leave the house more often.

“That has led us to investing in a much improved and newly refurbished office space which offers the highest quality environment when it comes to the experience of coming to work.

“We will be doubling headcount from seven to at least 14 in the next 12 months and have the capacity to grow to over 20 staff in Manchester.”