The Leading Independent Scientific Recruitment Agency

About Us Established in 1991, CK Science is the leading independent scientific and engineering recruitment agency. We provide all round recruitment consultancy services to the chemical, pharmaceutical, biotechnology, engineering, food, oil and waste industries. CK Science has three offices staffed with fully qualified specialist scientific recruiters, so you are assured an efficient, friendly and cost effective service. For all of our clients we demonstrate complete transparency of our recruitment process and how our rates are calculated. You can be sure that you are receiving a high quality service at a fair price.

Our Services… Permanent Scientific Recruitment: Our team of specialist scientific recruitment consultants will help you recruit staff on a permanent basis. Temporary Scientific Recruitment: Do you need help with a long term project or cover for sickness or maternity leave? Our team of Consultants are here to help you recruit scientific staff on an interim basis. Search and Selection: In order to locate more senior levels of staff or those with particular skills sets, CK Science have the capabilities to employ our Executive Search and Selection service. Recruitment Campaign Management: CK Science are able to effectively manage your recruitment campaign from writing the job description, to advertising and handling responses.

Our Services… Candidate Screening: CK Science will only present candidates that meet the highest standards to our clients. Applicants are requested to fill in an application form, data protection notice and equal opportunities form, they are then screened on a whole range of areas including the following: Confirmation of Identity Right to work in the UK Qualification Certificate check Employment history – 5 years including breaks in employment

Our Services… InTIME: Our InTIME software allows worker’s to submit their hours to our secure online site. The worker’s line manager is then alerted to authorise the hours worked. The information is then sent directly to our payroll and invoicing systems. This software is both accurate and flexible, and allows back-office to be streamlined, thus saving our clients time and money. Savings can be made in the following areas: - Administration - Greater loyalty - Stationery- Reduced debtor days - Postage and courier costs- Increased phone time for recruitment staff - Fewer invoice queries

What do our current clients think of us? Following a recent Customer Satisfaction Survey, we are very proud to report the following feedback from client companies CK Science assisted in 2009: 100% would use CK Science again More than 98% found our service very good or excellent 68% rated our fee structure as very good or excellent More than 55% scored our service as better or much better than our competitors

The results from our survey demonstrate that clients find the service provided by our specialist recruitment consultants to be outstanding, with clients across the scientific community providing comments such as: “I appreciate that I don’t get bombarded with calls and sent spec CVs every 5 minutes.” “CK have a personalised touch we appreciate.” “Overall service very good and better than competitors.” “I like doing business with CK.” “Good response, professional and friendly service and good contact maintained without being pushy.”

CK Science and Social Media CK Science are pioneers in our use of social media and digital communications as both a marketing and a recruitment tool. We currently employ the following tools within our social media strategy: Provides the human touch Promotes a professional brand image Good communication tool Useful branding tool Enables us to quickly push out information Targeted advertising Interactive

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