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An Interview with Geoff Taylor
21/12/2022Geoff Taylor is Linear Recruitment's longest-serving employee, having been with the company for twenty years. In that time his role has continued to develop, and he now holds the fort as Operations Director for the North, along with Director for Lin…

Linear's Architecture Salary Survey Results and Report
30/11/2022Architecture Salary Survey Results
Welcome to our first Architecture & Design salary survey. We're really excited to be able to present this data, and will be using it each year, building on it, to provide invaluable insight into the Architectural …
Architecture Salary Survey
18/10/20222022 Architecture Salary Survey - help needed
We're conducting our first Architecture Salary survey and would love to hear your feedback. At Linear we work with you. We offer a truly consultative approach and want to work with the best clients, to …

Linear Recruitment Ownership Update
28/09/2022Linear Recruitment Ltd is now Employee owned
We are delighted to announce that the current owners have just completed a deal to move the ownership of Linear Recruitment into an Employee Ownership Trust.
This is fantastic news for all our staff who…

What's happening to Energy prices?
08/08/2022It's impossible to escape talk of gas and electricity prices in the UK and projections for the prices in October 2022 and January 2023 when the price caps are reviewed are frightening. Our Rail|Power|Infrastructure Director Gareth Arnold looks int…

Architecture Sector Growth
11/01/2022We are delighted to welcome on board Elliot Birtwistle to the Linear Team.
Elliot has joined our Newcastle office and will be working within our in our Architecture & Design recruitment team. Elliot is originally from Oldham, but is relocating to…

Highest Paying Railway & Transport Jobs in the UK
24/09/2021The data used to inform this article has been taken from Linear Recruitment’s internal salary data covering April 2020 to March 2021, analysing 40,000 salary data points on candidates we have placed in permanent and temporary roles, and is not indic…

Highest Paying Construction Jobs in the UK
16/09/2021The data used to inform this article has been taken from Linear Recruitment’s internal salary data covering April 2020 to March 2021, analysing over 40,000 salary data points on candidates we have placed in permanent and temporary roles, and is not …

How to Prepare for a Job Interview
20/07/2021Gareth TomkinsJuly 2021
As the Covid19 restrictions are starting to ease in the UK, here at Linear we are now seeing a huge increase in interviews including face to face job interviews, which is so pleasing to see. As a result we thought we would p…

What does a Recruitment Consultant do?
26/05/2021Geoff Taylor, our Operations Director, has a successful career as a Recruitment Consultant, having started out with Linear Recruitment over 18 years ago. Here he discusses the role in more detail, and what life as a Recruitment Consultant looks …

Meet Linear's Senior Management Team
23/04/2021We have the strongest and most professional management team we have ever had – of which two are “home grown”. Here we take a closer look at who they are, what they have achieved and what we have to look forward to at Linear.
Geoff Taylor – Operatio…

Q& A with Gareth Tomkins, Linear Recruitment's Managing Director
23/04/2021As Linear Recruitment celebrates being in business for 20 years, we take the time to learn more about Gareth Tomkins, Linear Recruitment's Managing Director, and how he is driving the business forward.
It has been almost 15 years since Gareth Tomki…