"I have worked with Oakstone over a number of years, with multiple companies, to help recruit the best talent into my respective organisations. What sets Oakstone apart from their competitors is the amount of upfront research and planning that it undertake to initially understand the role and profile of the individual that you are looking to recruit, then the methodical approach that they use to identify suitable candidates, manage the whole process on both sides and adding value at each step to both parties. Ultimately, this approach has delivered excellent candidates, resulting in the best talent joining my teams. Due to this, I exclusively use Oakstone for all of my recruitment requirements."

Head of Technical Services, EMEA, Splunk

‘Overall very responsive and professional with a demonstration of a wealth of negotiating experience which enables us to manage the recruitment process effectively.’

Nick Pegram, Head of EMEA Sales, LogMeIn

‘Companies work with Oakstone because they bring great value, integrity and honesty to the conversation. I’ve never found Oakstone to be afraid of saying it how it is – they give advice, guidance and insight to the market and have good quality candidates who are well coached and understand the opportunity - they are enthusiastic about coming to the initial sessions. I think it’s the full breadth and depth of professionalism across each aspect of the process that sets Oakstone apart.’

Will Lovatt, General Manager, Pros Europe

"I have worked with Oakstone for the past eight years now, and they consistently find great talent for us for each and every challenging role that we give them. What I like the most is they are a truly client-focused executive search agency. They will always get the right specifications before starting any search and take the heavy lifting of us by understanding our culture, requirements and timescales and producing a short list who are usually very hard to pick from. In an overcrowded market, it’s sometimes disheartening working with search firms who spray the market looking for candidates. Oakstone is a selective business that only gives us the best candidates in line with our requirements."

Lindsay McEwan – General Manager, EMEA, Tealium

‘I’ve been at Tealium for four years now, and very shortly after joining, I had a long session with Steve (Oakstone Divisional Director) where he dug into the details of our needs and requirements on a very granular level.  We see each other very regularly; we talk on the phone regularly; Steve always checks in on the phone to make sure he’s capturing all the things we are trying to achieve and figuring out whether our needs and requirements are changing. This is something that not everyone does, and very few recruiting organisations do that.

The track record speaks for itself – the candidates who have come through over the years from Oakstone have been really high quality, and we have hired a lot of people off the back of introductions that Oakstone has made.’

Phil Young, VP Sales, Tealium

“When I started at Icertis, Oakstone was an existing recruiter. We had an incredible amount of heads to fill. I quickly became aware of the depth of how much you knew about our business, and so it’s been a partnership ever since.

You’ve taken the time to get to know our business and our people. You know what our customers want, and you look after us by bringing us the standards we require.”

Icertis, SVP EMEA

“Oakstone tend to have a lot more knowledge about what we do as a business, they care about candidates and they’re able to support their career and our vision rather than just try to sell a role. It’s more about the people.”

Icertis, VP Sales

“Over the last 3 years, I have worked closely with Andy and his team at Oakstone. I value their insight and their honest assessment of candidates that they put in front of us as well as their ability to deliver. They have really taken the time to understand Alfresco, and this comes across in the quality of the candidates. Oakstone has placed strong senior sales and marketing talent within Alfresco, and we often retain Oakstone on senior level searches throughout EMEA. Andy has personally successfully led retained campaigns for us in the UK, Germany, France, Italy, Benelux and Spain. I consider Andy and Oakstone to be a real partner to myself and Alfresco.”

Paul Hennessey, Global head of talent at Alfresco

“Oakstone is highly professional, providing honest feedback and following-up with candidates daily. They were always here to help and have been a strong asset in my last recruitment processes. I recommend Oakstone.”

Selma Chauvin, Alfresco Marketing Director

“I’ve used Oakstone for over 10 years across 3 businesses. I use them because I trust them, and they’ve placed a lot of good people for me, and I get on really well with the team.

They cut to the chase. They’re very direct and know me well enough after all this time and know the types of profile I’m looking for, and they always source good candidates.”

Newstore, Anthony Gavin - VP of Sales.

‘I’ve actually known Oakstone for over 20 years and always utilise the relationship I’ve had with Paul and with Steve and Tristan – they understand the quality of people I like, with the particular experiences and skill sets that I look for within people that I can put in a sales environment.’

Martin Hucker, Sales Director at Concentra Analytics

‘How many phone calls do I get from recruiters who don’t know my business, who don’t know the roles, who don’t know the industry, that when I give them the brief, they don’t understand? With Oakstone, you understand me, you understand what I need, you understand my team culture, and those things are important, but also, what I see in Oakstone is a company that knows the marketplace and knows people rather than someone who just knows CVs and profiles.‘

Mike Ferguson, VP EMEA, Redpoint Global

“Oakstone are better than other recruitment companies because of the effort they go to to find the right candidates. The candidate profiles are always accurate and they pick more out than what is initially displayed in the CV. I trust when the CVs come through that they’re going to be good and there will be people worth interviewing.”

OSL, Head of Engineering UK

‘Oakstone is better than any of the other recruiters we have used because they simply listen to our feedback. We don’t have people who are presented to us, who, for example, are possibly going to move; they find candidates who are motivated, candidates who are motivated to join us, and Oakstone find those people in good time.’

Matt Smith, Vice President of BGC Partners