Southern Enterprise Awards 2021

119 | Southern Enterprise Awards 2021 ProTalent Ltd prides itself on providing an upfront, honest and transparent recruitment service, keeping both clients and candidates fully informed throughout the process. We speak to Lydia Sinclair about the hard work that the team puts in to ensure long term successful partnerships for all parties. ProTalent Ltd is a specialist practice recruiter working with accountancy firms of all sizes to help them identify, attract and retain the best talent in the marketplace, thus allowing them to achieve their business and personal goals. Lydia Sinclair is the Founder and Managing Director of ProTalent. She tells us more about the firm’s ethos and what it is that truly differentiates it from competitors. “Our mission is to contribute to success through our core values of honesty, integrity, hard work, authenticity and excellence,” she explains. “If we contribute to our clients’ success and our candidates’ success, then we achieve our own success too.” ProTalent truly cares about its clients and offers impressive guarantees to back up its promises of high service and understanding. “We are true specialists,” Lydia elaborates. “We are very clear about our niche, and we have a specialism that is an inch wide and mile deep. We put our candidates first and work with them to get to know them, their pains and their plans - we make a point of being their friends before their recruiters.” The firm is very much guided by its values and operates a supportive and inclusive environment, with each team member working hard, having fun, leaning on each and, ultimately, learning from each other too. “I actively encourage an environment where mistakes are allowed - that’s how we learn, and that’s how we grow.” Across the practice recruitment market, the Covid-19 pandemic has seen many firms run as lean as possible. This has been for various reasons and has resulted in a lot of concern and uncertainty within the candidate market. “As we come out of the pandemic, those firms are bouncing back and need to build their teams again. However, there is very little fluidity in the candidate market as candidates are often not feeling confident or safe enough to change jobs. This has led to clients finding it extremely hard to Recruitment Consultancy of the Year 2021 - Sussex Aug21354 find, attract and win that talent. It’s the toughest market I have ever known in that sense.” Having recently been bestowed with the prestigious title of Recruitment Company of the Year 2021 for the Sussex area in the Southern Enterprise Awards, Lydia and the team are now looking forward to expanding the business and branching out further. “We now operate in the northern Home Counties too and, this year alone we have gone from two staff members to seven – we’ve achieved that growth ahead of schedule, which has been incredibly exciting.” “We’re also just launched a sister company- ProTalent Payroll - which will purely specialise in Payroll recruitment. We love being specialists hence two separate specialist businesses - and we will continue to learn from each other and grow together.” Contact: Lydia Sinclair Web Address: www.protalent.eu / www.protalentpayroll.com