‘I like the candidates that are put forward.  They are exactly what I’m looking for.  Oakstone understand the culture of the company, they understand the people that they’re dealing with, they deliver candidates who are more likely to succeed in that environment.

The life of any organisation is the people that it has. Getting a candidate that is right for the position and then fits in with the culture and stays with me for a long period of time – that’s the value that Oakstone brings. They say, they do and they deliver.’

Joe Jouhal, CEO, Avatu.

"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."

Mark Pidgeon – Head of Technical Services, EMEA, Splunk

"I have worked with Oakstone for nearly ten years to identify and deliver key individuals to drive our business forward across Europe. They have always succeeded in providing very high quality candidates in a very timely fashion where others have failed completely or have delivered candidates with a marginal fit. They are highly professional, ultra focussed and continue to provide me with an excellent service."

Graeme McLaren – EMM Channel Leader, Europe

"Working with Oakstone over the past 7 years has been truly key to the growth of our business at Neolane.

Their knowledge of the software industry and their impressive ability to reach, not only to but beyond their world-class network, accessing our entire target candidate audience has resulted in superb hiring results and the money invested giving a great return.

Oakstone’s reach is International and their standards of Integrity and Professionalism and results have combined to make them the best recruiters we have worked with, by far.

They have always taken the long-term approach, been persistent, helped us with market trends, salaries levels, and real assistance selecting and securing the right candidates.

Oakstone has provided us with an excellent service and have always been worth our financial investment with them."

Benoit Gourdon – Neolane, EVP Europe & Asia Pacific, Co-Founder

"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

“Over the past four years, Oakstone has sourced many key hires for us in EMEA across all departments – key managers, sales executives, pre-sales and professional services team members. Their focus on delivery, cultural fit, background checks, transparency and overall professionalism fits well with our own company ethos. This has reflected in the high retention of people we’ve hired through Oakstone”

Rob Bernshteyn - Coupa Software CEO

“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 

“Jodie is the top recruiter you enjoy to meet.  She’s highly professional, providing honest feedback and following-up with candidates on a daily basis. She was always here to help and has been a strong asset in my last recruitment processes. Even if I’ve chosen an other company at the end, I will keep an excellent memory of her work. I recommend Jodie as a head hunter you can work with trust.”

Selma Chauvin, Alfresco Marketing Director Candidate.

“Oakstone quickly grasp the culture and skills set required for a specific open position. I hope we will continue to have a successful working relationship in the future.”

Isabelle Garcin - General Counsel and SVP of Human Resources.

“Andy and his team at Oakstone began working with me at Eloqua in 2010.

At first I was sceptical as all recruiters say they can deliver great results and many ask to be retained and work exclusively – up to that point my view was this a risky strategy that I didn’t want to commit to.

Andy, was happy to prove their delivery capability on a contingency basis but soon we were keen to move to a sole supplier arrangement as this allowed Oakstone to focus more resources on my behalf and the results followed.

Over the following 3 years I worked exclusively with Andy and Oakstone to search out the best talent to join our Sales and PreSales teams in EMEA – the results were excellent with Oakstone recruiting 35 people for us which was about 75% of the EMEA team.

Partnering with Oakstone was a real win win – I recommend them highly.”

Bijan Bedroud - VP, EMEA at Eloqua

‘What differentiates Oakstone from its competitors? One would be their ability to consistently deliver very high levels of integrity and accountability, they also do everything will a good degree of fun, humour and humanity.

The significant value added in terms of the service that Oakstone delivers? – my organisation recently did a cost analysis of each day we go by without filling a headcount, particularly in sales – it’s a lot of money.  Oakstone help us deliver results by bringing in talent sooner rather than later – that is of considerable value.’

Robin Martin - Sales Director, LogMeIn

‘Oakstone make a real effort to find good quality candidates that fit into the profile of the people I’m looking for as opposed to blindly throwing CVs at me, which is what a lot of recruitment consultants do.

Their specialisations are really in a number of areas – technical skills, business skills and the third and most important thing for me is personality, is this personality really going to fit into my current team and really not upset the team ethic? That’s how I would differentiate Oakstone from other recruitment consultants.

Recruiting people is a very time consuming process, but a very important process.  The value Oakstone brings to me is, bringing me quality candidates in a short amount of time and help me to get that candidate through the process as quickly as possible.  Oakstone is absolutely a quality organisation.’

Neil Lewis - EMEA Solutions Consultant Director, Service Max/ GE Digital.