When it comes to marketing recruitment, you may have heard that we’re positively different – but how? Well for a start, Claire Owen decided 16 years ago that she wanted to create an independent marketing recruitment company that cares about people rather than the financial bottom line. We’re matchmakers not brokers, guided by our hearts as much as our heads. With these values in mind, Stopgap was founded in 1993. Run by ex-marketers, it was the first specialist freelance recruitment agency in the UK.
It’s now 2009 and although those initial values haven’t changed, the name has (a little)! Due to our success branching into the permanent, executive search and interim side of marketing recruitment, the decision was made to create a company ‘umbrella’ under which all of these great services would sit – the Stopgap Group! We now consist of Stopgap, for freelance and permanent marketing recruitment, Fitzroy for senior marketing jobs and the well-established Courtenay HR, as well as Stopgap Australia.
Over 100 people work at the Stopgap Group across all of these services to provide you with a positively different experience of marketing and HR recruitment - below you’ll see each one in a little more detail.
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 Provides skilled marketing freelancers and permanent marketing candidates across every industry sector and discipline, at a junior to mid-management level. If you're a candidate looking for a marketing job, be it freelance or permanent, or a client with an urgent role to fill, this is the area for you. |
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 Specialising in executive search and interim, Fitzroy focuses purely on senior marketing roles. As former marketers, we really understand your industry. And we spend time getting to know our clients and candidates, because we believe in total fit. |
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 A true thirty-something, Courtenay knows the human resources territory inside-out! A byword for integrity, honesty and great service, we’ve been building the careers of the nation’s most talented HR people for the past 35 years – and counting. |
