A graduate in Economics and Politics from the University of Kent, Mark Skinner founded CSC Recruitment as a consultancy-led construction business with his business partner Tom Compton in 2005, to work with clients looking for a recruitment partner rather than merely a supplier. As Managing Director, Mark is responsible for overseeing company strategy and ensuring all company objectives are met, with a focus on development of all staff, working closely with Jamie and the management team. Mark is also responsible for innovation and ensuring CSC is at the forefront of industry developments.

A Graduate in classics from the University of Exeter, Tom established CSC Recruitment with Mark Skinner in 2005, and has overseen the development of the business from scratch to what it is today. As Sales Director, Tom is based in the London office but responsible for day-to-day recruitment activity within the business, ensuring that consultants and managers are servicing the needs of their clients and candidates and that the CSC brand is prominent within the industry. He is also responsible for managing our Senior and Executive search business as well as developing new markets and sectors for the company.

An experienced recruiter within the construction sector, David has specialised in both the permanent and freelance market for over 20 years. David joined CSC Recruitment on day one and has played a major part in the business growth. He has recruited within new build, refurbishment and fit out. Passionate about self-development, David has a CMI management qualification and is an NLP practitioner.

Refurbishment and fit out

A Graduate in English, Karen started her Construction Recruitment career in 2001 specialising in permanent appointments with Contractors and Developers. She joined CSC when the business was founded in 2005 and now manages the Residential Developer Team in London. Karen’s client base is built on strong business relationships with key clients, which predominantly have been established over many years. These relationships are with Contractors as well as Developers.

Permanent - Residential and Main Contractors.

A graduate in Law, Martin started out as a paralegal at Taylor Walton before joining Hill McGlynn over 15 years ago as a construction recruiter. He progressed into a senior management role, before joining CSC Recruitment in 2006. Martin expanded our services in the Northern Home Counties region, setting up the Milton Keynes office in 2011 to service clients in the surrounding area.

Main Contractors and Residential Developers

Martin has been with CSC for 12 years, initially starting as a trainee consultant working on a newly formed, white collar construction freelance desk in the London office.  He helped grow the London freelance division at CSC for 7 years before moving to the New Forest and setting up the Southampton office in 2014. This services the Southern Homes Counties, Thames Valley and Western Region, and helps increase CSC’s geographical coverage in white collar main contracting and residential markets for both permanent and freelance roles.

Freelance and permanent white collar construction roles in Southern Home Counties, Thames Valley and Western regions.

Originally from Glasgow, Brian moved to London in 2007 to pursue a career in recruitment as a trainee and has worked his way up to Managing Consultant. Brian joined CSC Recruitment in February 2008 and is a well-respected member of the freelance team having built some excellent relationships working with both main and fit out contractors.

Main and fit out contractors

Chris joined CSC Recruitment in July 2009 as a Consultant. He progressed through the ranks, regularly being one of the top performers and after 4 or 5 years made a transition into Management. Chris has always led from the front as both a sales leader and a manager of people and has demonstrated an outstanding track record in developing consultants overseeing a record number of promotions and taking team members from trainee level through to Principal Consultant. Chris has also taken a lead in the ever changing world of freelance legislation and compliance ensuring CSC are up to date with the latest regulations. Now Head of Freelance, Chris Is responsible for all Freelance Business and is focused on the growth of that business throughout the South of England.

Developers and Main Contractors

James is from both a construction and sales background and joined CSC at the beginning of 2013, taking on the freelance fit out and refurbishment desk. Throughout this time, he has been tasked with maintaining existing and building new client relationships, which has proved a great success, supplying a range of freelance white collar management across a variety of roles within production, commercial, preconstruction and design.  He is honest, approachable and determined and is one of CSCs great office personalities, with an ever-upbeat manner. A trustworthy, professional and friendly character ready for any challenge.

Fit Out & Refurbishment 

A graduate in History, Politics and International Relations from Kings College London, Abi is part of CSC’s permanent team and specialises in placing senior level candidates in both build & M&E sectors across the UK and Internationally. Abi also conducts high level executive search for her clients.

Main Contracting / M&E / Executive Search

After graduating in English Literature from the University of the West of England, Jo decided to pursue a career in recruitment, initially working within the IT and Education sectors. Having moved to London, she then joined CSC where she heads up the Social Housing team for the London Region.

The residential market, predominantly Social Housing and Residential Contracting.

Vickie joined CSC in April 2013 and has over 20 years’ experience within the construction recruitment industry, working alongside sales staff, management and within the Support team. She coordinates and manages all the services within the company as well as dealing with the compliance alongside the accounts department.
She enjoys looking after the people around her and helping in any way she can. 

Services and compliance

With a background in Sales and Marketing, Ryan started his recruitment career by working for one of the world’s leading recruitment groups, sourcing candidates for senior roles mainly based in Europe and Africa. Ryan then decided to move into a more specialist sector and joined CSC to run a permanent desk placing candidates with some of London’s premier residential developers.

Main contractors and residential developers

A graduate from the College of St.Scholastica in Minnesota with a degree in Business Management and Marketing, Sam returned  to the UK and set up his own sports consultancy along with moving to London to pursue a career in recruitment. Sam works in the permanent team of the London office, specialising in the recruitment of staff in the residential sector.

London Residential

Aaron is from a bespoke customer service/sales background and has over 7 years of construction recruitment experience. He specialises in the residential, Commercial and public sector markets. He has extensive experience supporting Start up construction businesses right through to delivering for tier 1 contractors throughout the nation. Additionally, he supports developers within the new build social housing and private markets. He supplies a range of white-collar staff crossing multiple disciplines such as; Commercial, Technical/Design and Production. He is described as passionate, hardworking and driven. His work ethic is second to none, he cares and that is what makes him an outstanding professional.

Commercial, Technical/Design, Production and Customer Care/Service

A graduate in Marketing from the University of Southampton, Emma found a passion for recruitment initially working in the Engineering sector specialising in robotics. With this experience she moved to London and joined CSC, and now specialises in the recruitment of permanent staff for main contractors in London within the building industry.

Social Housing new build and maintenance

With a desire to work in a fast paced, professional environment, Luke decided to pursue a career in sales. Initially he gained experience in a sales and marketing company and then decided to venture in to recruitment. He began his recruitment career in 2016, and after a short apprenticeship in another specialism, Luke moved into the construction sector where he has remained ever since. Luke initially specialised in Commercial and Technical roles for building contractors and residential developers, but now works all roles including Production. Luke joined CSC’s growing freelance team in 2018 working with a portfolio of build and residential clients.

Residential

After initially studying Psychology at University, and with 5 years retail sales experience behind her, Rachael decided to move to London from her hometown of Durham to pursue a career in recruitment.  A natural and confident communicator, Rachael recruits permanent staff for Blue Chip and privately owned construction businesses in London and the surrounding counties.

From an accountancy background which has helped Simon develop possibly the most extensive range of spreadsheets in the office, Simon joined the freelance team at CSC recruitment in 2020 having spent 5 years working for a competitor in the market, and has build up a broad spectrum of contacts in the construction market in the South of England. With a passion for new business and new markets, Simon is now working with a number of our established clients in the residential and contracting markets but also working with a number of new clients in both the modular and retail space.

residential

With an eagerness to work in a fast paced sales environment, Callan decided to pursue a career in recruitment. Initially Callan worked in medical recruitment and spent 3.5 years going through the ranks at a specialist agency. After this period, Callan switched to the construction industry and has remained In this space ever since. Callan initially specialised in production roles but now focuses predominantly on commercial and technical roles. Callan joined CSC in 2020 and is part of the London Permanent Team working with Residential Developers.

Residential

Daniella initially started working for the family business when she left school as a Sales administrator. The business happened to be construction. She loved the environment and the industry, but always wonted a career in the City. Daniella initially joined a large national recruitment agency where she subsequently spent the last few years specialising in Office Support & Document Control across a number of sectors within the Construction industry on a freelance and permanent basis. Having decided the time was right to move on, Daniella joined the team at CSC to bring her expertise in her specialist area to our business and currently handles all our requirements for both Office Support staff & Document Control.

Freelance

Harry studied Business & Management at University of Plymouth before starting a career in recruitment. Before starting with CSC Recruitment, Harry worked for a Real Estate Recruitment company for 3.5 years before moving to the construction industry. Harry now specialises is in Permanent Production vacancies, working with a variety of main contractors in and around London and the South East.