First Career Centre has spent 22 years placing IT talent that fits — not just on paper, but in practice. One firm, one focused discipline, built on two decades of sector relationships.
Founded as a multi-sector staffing partner, placing professionals across pharmaceutical, banking, and FMCG businesses alongside our earliest technology clients.
We didn't start as an IT-only firm. Over 22 years, we've recruited for pharmaceutical companies validating clinical hires, banks building out operations teams, and FMCG businesses scaling distribution and sales forces. That range taught us how different industries actually evaluate talent — what a hiring manager means by "culture fit," and what a candidate means by "growth."
Today, we've turned that experience inward and built a firm that recruits exclusively for IT positions — every level, every specialism, from individual contributors to engineering leadership. The breadth came first. The focus is what we offer now.
Our current practice is 100% IT recruitment. The sectors below are the foundation that shaped how we vet, interview, and place — and they're still where many of our IT placements happen.
Every position we fill today — developers, infrastructure, product, data, security, and IT leadership.
Regulatory, R&D support, and commercial roles placed for pharma clients over our first decade.
Operations, back-office, and analyst placements for retail and corporate banking teams.
Sales, supply chain, and field-force hiring for fast-moving consumer goods businesses.
From a single critical hire to building out an entire delivery team, we run the search so your team doesn't have to pause its own work to do it.
Developers, QA, DevOps, data, product, and IT leadership roles — sourced, screened, and presented against your actual hiring bar, not a generic shortlist.
Skilled IT contractors for fixed-term projects, system migrations, and capacity gaps — onboarded fast, managed cleanly.
CTOs, Heads of Engineering, and IT Directors, found through direct, confidential outreach rather than job board listings.
Standing up a new team or scaling a department — we run parallel pipelines so you fill ten seats as fast as one.
Twenty-two years of placement data tells us what a role should pay and where candidates actually are — we share that before you write the JD.
For firms hiring continuously, a dedicated consultant who learns your stack, your team, and your standards once — and applies them every time.
Every step exists to confirm one thing: that the person and the position actually interlock.
We sit with the hiring team to learn the stack, the team dynamic, and what "good" really looks like for this seat.
Direct outreach into our IT network, built and maintained since 2005, not a keyword search on a job board.
Technical screening, reference checks, and a candid read on motivation before anyone reaches your desk.
We manage offer negotiation and stay engaged through the first weeks to make sure the placement holds.
"They understood our engineering bar within the first call and stopped sending us mismatched profiles entirely."
"We've used them for both our pharma operations team years ago and our current IT hiring. Same care, sharper focus now."
Whether it's one critical hire or a full team build, First Career Centre is ready to start the search.
