CSC Recruitment | Shani Ford

Shani Ford

Shani began her career in recruitment after completing her studies in Psychology and Criminology at university, where she developed a strong interest in understanding people, what motivates them and what drives their decisions.

She began in the Technology market, working with a range of innovative businesses and professionals. During this time, Shani became particularly passionate about Women in Tech, leading her to organise industry events, support creative marketing initiatives and help build a more inclusive community by championing POC, LGBTQ+ and neurodivergent voices within the sector.

This experience sparked her love for bringing people together and creating genuine connections beyond the recruitment process. It also inspired her to begin developing her own community, designed to encourage honest conversations and help women feel informed, supported, and connected.

Having always worked within the permanent market, Shani has built her career around developing long-term relationships with both clients and candidates. She has since brought this approach to the CSC Permanent Fit Out team, where she works internally alongside clients to understand their businesses, cultures and hiring needs, helping them find the right people to grow their teams.

Mark Skinner

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 the management team. Mark is also responsible for innovation and ensuring CSC is at the forefront of industry developments.

Tom Compton

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.

David Rumbles

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.

Karen Lee-Jones

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. 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.

James Roberts

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.

Joanna Wilkinson

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.

Vickie Mulford

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.

Aaron Billett

Aaron is from a bespoke customer service/sales background and he has over 10 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.

Emma Brooks

Emma began working in the Recruitment industry in 2013, joining a business specialising in the rail and construction sectors as support to a team. She enjoys working in a busy office environment, working alongside consultants providing them full administration support and using the experience she has gained over the last 7 years. Emma is now looking after the Administration and Marketing for all our growing offices and is looking to progress and develop her career at CSC Recruitment.