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Permanent IT recruitment workspace with role profiles, scorecards and cool blue light trails indicating quality and retention

Permanent IT Recruitment

Hire for fit, retain for impact. We scope roles against business outcomes, map the market and run rigorous technical and behavioural screening to deliver shortlists that reduce interview loops and improve first-year retention.

From engineers to tech leadership, we manage the journey end to end—employer branding, inclusive hiring, benchmarking, offer strategy and onboarding—backed by MI on time-to-hire, acceptance rates and ramp time.

Permanent IT recruitment blueprint showing success profiles, search, screening and onboarding stages on a clean desk
What we deliver

• Role definition & success profiles aligned to outcomes.

• Retained/contingent search, market mapping & pipelining.

• Technical screening, structured interviews & references.

• Executive & niche search (e.g., Head/Director, Staff Eng, Security, Data).

• Employer branding, inclusive hiring and targeted job ads.

• Salary benchmarking, offer strategy & negotiation.

• Onboarding coordination with 30/60/90-day plans.

• MI: time-to-shortlist, time-to-offer, acceptance & retention.

Why Crestwave

Depth in tech, discipline in process. Our calibrated scorecards and practical assessments raise signal quality—so you hire faster with confidence and keep people longer.

Retained & contingent

Choose the model that fits—priority delivery with transparent milestones either way.

Technical screening

Role-relevant tasks and structured rubrics to reduce bias and false positives.

Diversity & inclusion

Inclusive job ads, balanced shortlists and interviewer enablement.

Onboarding & retention

Pre-start comms, Day-1 readiness and early-tenure check-ins to secure ramp.

Offer and onboarding dashboards with hiring metrics and candidate progress

Packages to fit your hiring plan

Single Role (Contingent): targeted search, calibrated shortlist and offer support.

Retained Search: leadership or niche roles with staged deliverables and exclusivity.

Scale-Up Bundle: multi-hire sprint with weekly MI, interview design and onboarding playbook.