Recruitment services
The specialist recruitment service for permanent and contract technical authors...and more
With Cherryleaf, you'll get access to a great selection of candidates looking for permanent and contract technical writing opportunities. That's because you'll be working with a company that's at the heart of the technical communication community - doing much more than recruitment.
Our recruitment service can help find the right person for you - with less effort and time, a reduced risk of hiring the wrong person and less stress. If you're unfamilar with hiring a for this specialist position, we can guide you through the process of selecting the right person for the role.
You'll be using a company that focuses on job roles such as: Technical Authors, Technical Writers, Online Help Developers, Web content Developers, Training Courseware Developers, Content Curators, Content Strategists, Editors, Publications Managers and Copywriters.
We'd like to help you find the right person for you - someone who is great at the job, who will stay and, if it's a permanent position, someone who'll grow.
Get in touch with us (here are our contact details) to see how we can help you.
Filling contract and permanent technical writer and technical author positions throughout Europe
Need a technical author in Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland, Norway, Sweden, The Netherlands or the United Kingdom? Cherryleaf can help. We've contractors working across Europe, and we've helped organisations fill permanent positions in these countries as well.
Free writing test for you to use if you're recruiting a technical author
We offer a free writing test you can use to help you assess candidates. Contact us if you'd like a copy. Note: For prospective employers only - sorry, not available to candidates.
Tips on hiring a technical author
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Five reasons why organisations use Cherryleaf's recruitment services
1. You get access to great candidates, because we're at the heart of the technical communications community.
By offering a range of technical writing services (we do more than just recruitment), we're talking to technical communicators all the time. This means, through us, you're connecting with a much bigger audience of talented people.
"We used Cherryleaf to recruit a member of staff at my last company. I found them the best place to go to find fully professional, career technical authors." Simon Green November 2008
As a member of TechComm Alliance, an international consortium of technical communication companies, you can use us to spread the word overseas - to Australian, Canadian, New Zealand and American candidates, for example - and help you fill your international vacancies.
2. You can rely on us understanding the skills and experience you're looking for, as we're specialists doing the same work ourselves.
We also have a writing projects division and we hire staff ourselves, so we understand what the role entails. This means the candidates we put forward to you are capable and qualified to do the work.
You can ask us for advice on how to select the right candidate, writing the right job description and offering the appropriate rate for the job. For example:
We can provide you with:
- Generic job descriptions that describe the role of a technical communicator. This description is useful if you're planning to recruit or if you need to create a job description for existing staff.
- Writing tests for assessing candidates
Contact us to request these.
Our selection procedure is rigorous, and our position in the documentation services sector means we have a comprehensive list of high calibre candidates. We have the expertise to find you the right people, with the right skills, in the right place and at the right time.
3. You'll be working with a team that has a great track record in placing good candidates
You may have been placed in the situation in the past, where you've hired someone and it's not worked out. You've then had to ask the new recruit to leave, and ask the recruiting company for a "claw back" of the fees.
Since we started in 2002, no-one has ever asked us for a "claw back" - because all of the candidates we've placed in the permanent positions have stayed (or have decided to move on only after a long while in the job).
4. You have the option not to recruit at all
It may be that you only have a temporary need for someone or that your existing staff members simply need to acquire new skills. You may also be interested in our managed projects team, who write documentation for clients on a project or outsourced basis.
The latter is particularly useful for customers who require a large team of contractors to be based at their site. Because Cherryleaf is more than just a recruitment agency, we're able to look at situation, and (sometimes) recommend appropriate alternative options for you to consider.
5. You and your candidate still get support after the placement is made
It is important, more than ever, that the person you recruit is up to speed and productive as quickly as possible. To help you and the person you recruit, Cherryleaf provides post placement support:
- Our documentation experts will provide free telephone and email support and advice to the person recruited through us, for a period of 21 days.
The service begins from when they start working at your company. This should help new recruits really hit the ground running.
Contact us
Contact us if you have a resourcing requirement today, or one coming up in the near future.
