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Digital Recruitment All-RoundersMedia/Technology/Marketing & Analytics/Creative

A little bit about us

We have a proven track record of developing our people. And, in a rapidly expanding business, promoting people from within and empowering people to grow themselves and Sphere, is the key factor to our success

Our business is all about our people. We'd love to let you know a little more about us and what a career at Sphere has in store for you

Founded in 2012 by Ed Steer, Niall Phelan and Laurence Smith, Sphere have swiftly established ourselves as the "go-to" recruiter for digital Media, Marketing and Creative talent.

3We have one 3 awards in 3 years! Most recently voted APSCo’sRecruitment Agency of the Year!

"I am regularly asked how we have grown so quickly whilst building such a fantastic reputation with clients and candidates. And my answer is always the same, and it's very simple. Our People and our Culture. We have a brilliant team, who love what they do and who are very talented.“Ed Steer

Our Track Record

1. Grown from 2 – 35 heads in 3 years

2. Promoted 5 people into senior management roles since launching

3. Promoted 7 people into “senior consultant” roles in 2015

4. Over 90% of our business achieved promotions or payrises in 2015 via our “Progress” career development plan

5. Spent over £40K on training and leadership development in 2015

6. Won Best Newcomer (2013) and Best Client Service (2014) at the MARA awards. Voted APSCo Recruitment Agency of the Year in 2015

7. Preferred supplier to businesses like Apple, Facebook and WPP as well as high growth emerging technology companies

8. Have office space in Covent Garden for 80 heads, which we expect to fill in the next 3-5 years

9. Significantly improved the billings of EVERY consultant we have hired from another agency

10. Less than 10% attrition

11. Founded by Ed Steer, Niall Phelan and Laurence Smith (Non Exec). Laurence built and sold one of the UK’s biggest recruitment companies before buying a zoo park

GrowthWe grew our fee income by over 100% in 2015

“We are set up to succeed! Consultants have joined from other companies and have been far more successful at Sphere. This is because we work to a simple method that achieves excellent results.”Niall Phelan

A little bit about our peopleOur first employee, Ali Kennedy, joined us when we were two guys in a basement. Ali consistently bills over £200K and leads and manages his own team, while playing a key role in 2015 in helping shape and grow our business.

Our second hire, Joe Perry, more than doubled his previous best billing year in recruitment (6 years’ experience). Joe made in excess of £12K in bonus on 3 separate months in 2014 and over £20K in one month in 2015. Joe now leads a team of 4 people who recruit in his market in the UK and Europe.

Niomi Cowling, our first administrator now runs our marketing department!

Matt Demain joined Sphere from Gemini Search and, has increased his billing by over 75%. Matt has also been promoted into a management role.

Samantha Start joined Sphere from the Graduate Recruitment Bureau. Sam launched Sphere Graduate Recruitment, was promoted twice in 2015 and runs a team that will generate in excess of £500K in 2016.

Anton Greig joined Sphere from Eligo and more than doubled his billings in his first year at Sphere. Getting promoted along the way….

Lara Sheldrake joined Sphere from Salt as our Senior Business Development Manager and is now involved with our biggest spending accounts all around the world, as well as playing a leading role with both training and marketing at Sphere

What will you achieve at Sphere?

80%Over 80% of our team achieved a payrise in 2015 and over 50% were promoted

“The thing I enjoy most about working at Sphere is the transparency, we always know what is happening across the business, future plans and company aspirations, Niall and Ed are very much part of the team and always there”Samantha Start

Training & people development

We invest a great deal in people.

The Sphereway to Recruitment

• Designed for consultants – 16 bespoke sessions

The Sphereway to 250K

• Designed for “senior and executive” consultants – 12 bespoke sessions

The Sphereway to Team Building

• 8 bespoke sessions, delivered by our CEO, Ed Steer, on how to build high performing teams

Sphere have 3 clear training schemes: 4%Rate of attrition since launching. Retaining and developing our team has been our most important (and proudest) achievement to date!

“Individual bespoke training allows you to grow and develop in your own personal way – not just in a way that “ticks the boxes”. Everyone is so supportive of each other; it sounds cliché but it is so true!”Holly Simpson

Training & people development

Consultants

Our senior consultants and managers host weekly workshops on both recruiting and our specialist markets. Consultants are free to attend as many of these as they choose

“I joined Sphere with five yearssales experience in anotherindustry. The induction training helped me learn how to recruit and the market learning really helped me feel confident operating in my space with candidates and clients”James Everett

All of our consultants receive bespoke training, through a few different channels

• Induction training: delivered by our leadership team

• Peer to peer learning: on-going “opt in training” delivered to you and your peers by our leadership team

• Coaching:1-2-1 coaching with your line manager and on going 1-2-1 coaching with one of our top performers

Training & people development All of our senior consultants receive both internal and external training. Those who want to deliver training to consultants

“Joining Sphere from a veryestablished recruitmentbusiness the training here, both internally and externally has greatly improved my knowledge and performance. I also really enjoy being involved with training consultants”Kate Dickenson

Senior Consultants

All of our senior consultant receive bespoke training, through different channels

• Induction training: The Sphereway to £250K, delivered by our leadership team

• Peer to peer learning: Ongoing “opt in training” delivered to you and your peers by our leadership team

• Leadership development training: External training delivered by experienced and proven business leaders. Usually 4 – 6 sessions over a 3 – 6 month period

• Executive coaching: External executive coaching with a proven “high performance” coach

• Delivering training: All of our senior consultants are trained as trainers and are encouraged to lead training sessions with our consultants

Training & people development

Managers

All of our managers have the option to attend “Elite Future Leaders” and receive 1-2-1 executive coaching

All of our managers receive bespoke training, through different channels

• The Sphereway to team building: Delivered by our CEO, Ed Steer. 8 bespoke session on building high performance teams

• Leadership development training: External training delivered by experienced and proven business leaders. Usually 4 – 6 sessions over a 3 – 6 month period

• Elite Future Leaders: Attend one half day session, at Elite’s office, every six weeks. Each session is facilitated by a founder from the Elite team and an expert speaker

• Executive coaching: External executive coaching with a proven “high performance” coach

• Delivering training: Our management team are trained on how to train, and play a leading role in “Sphereway” training with our consultants it all levels within the business

“It’s tough to make the transition from biller to billing manager. The training I have received at Sphere has been brilliant. I now have somany more tools to lead myself and my team and I am even more influential with my clients than ever before”Matt Demain

Buddying, mentors and round tables

• All of our consultants in the business, who join as “graduates” or junior members of our team have a mentor – a senior consultant – who takes them out for breakfast or lunch once a month to offer guidance and support away from the desk

• If you join Sphere with more experience, you will be given a buddy. Your buddy will have a similar level of experience to you, be in another team, and will take you out for lunch, breakfast, coffee or a beer when you join the business. There main role is to help answer questions you may not want to ask your manager and to help you get to know the business and people outside of your team

• All of our senior consultants attend bi-monthly lunches with our CEO

• We hire a private dining room, pick an important part of the business, and give our senior consultants the chance to share their feedback and ideas with Ed, over a few glasses of wine and away from the office environment

Round tables

“In my first week, I was taken out for lunch by JJ, it’s a great way to get to know people from other teams and ask them questions you may feel stupid asking people you want to impress. It’s a great way to bond with people who you may not cross paths with very often” Ashley Fry

Progress

• At Sphere, you are guaranteed to have two progress reviews a year. One in July and one in December

• Everyone at Sphere always has a pay rise target in place and knows what they have to do to achieve a pay rise and a promotion

Progress is our bespoke career development plan. Here are the different routes and roles available to you

8We promoted 8 people into senior consultant roles in 2015

Five Year Strategy

We created 6 teams:

In 2015 every member of our business contributed to our Five Year Strategy (2016 – 2021) 300

Our team spent over 300 hours on our Five Year Strategy

Team leaders were appointed to each team and in December 2015 each team presented their finding to the board

In March 2016 the board will present our strategy from 2016 – 2021 back to the business

As a result of the teams feedback we have already: improved our employee benefits, created an enhanced mentor and buddying scheme, hired for an internal recruiter and training manager, started to build an intranet, created a new career path (key account directorship), started to research locations to launch new offices

Every new member of our business will join one of our FYS teams and have your say on our plans for the future

• Culture, Vision, Values and Community• Internal Recruitment, Training, Retention and HR• Growth• Customer Experience• Branding and marketing• Infrastructure

What we can add to your career

We know how to build teams and we know how to scale a business. Working closely with the owners, you will have a unique chance to help a business grow. Being part of a company in Sphere’s current position gives all of our people a chance to build a business and play a leading role in this

In London, launching an office Internationally and in the hottest market around, you can build a career with us and develop with us

We will develop you into a bigger biller, and if it’s right for you, a manager, director...

£10K30% of our team generated over £10K in commission in a single month in 2015

“If you are ambitious and you want an opportunity to really grow with a business and take on responsibility, Sphere will give you that platform”Gregory Mark

Clients

Sphere work with the UK’s leading brands, agencies, media owners and publishers and emerging technology businesses who pioneer in all things digital advertising

Here are some of our key clients:Brands: Apple, Urban Outfitters, Tesco, Sainsbury’s, Expedia, Tui, Bookings. com, Ebay

Media Owners: Facebook, The Mail Online, The Guardian, Hearst, Conde Nast, The Telegraph

Agencies: WPP (Mindshare, Mediacom, Maxux, MEC, Unique Digital…), Omnicom, Vivaki, Starcom, Zenith, HAVAS

Ad Technology: Ebay Enterprise, Qubit, Videoology, Appnexus, The Rubicon Project, Criteo, Integral Ad Science, Quantcast

Everyone knows how hot the digital recruitment market is. And we are the best in the business. 7

We work across seven specialist divisions. And they are all expanding due to client led demand

“I joined Sphere as the third hire nearly three years ago. So much fun had, loads learned, brilliant clients and great people to workwith make it the best choice I’ve made. I have more than doubled my earnings and am now building out my team in the UK and Europe”Gregory Mark

Five Year Plan

• Grow our business from 35 – 80 people in London

• Significantly grow our “tech” and contract business

• Have a presence in Asia and North America

• Have a board of Directors, Senior Managers and Managers in the UK and abroad who were promoted internally

• Establish at least one new brand under the Sphere "umbrella“

• Win multiple awards and accreditation

• Be a Sunday Times top 100 employer

In the next 3 – 5 years we will WinnerWe were voted APSCorecruitment consultancy of the year in 2015

“Sphere is helping to change the digital landscape and I’m extremely proud of how far we’ve come in 3 years, its been a great journey with many more years to come” Niomi Cowling

Fun Squad

• Quarterly parties, Sphere Summer Olympics & Christmas Parties

• Team lunches & fine diners lunches

• Additional holiday as you are promoted

• Monthly movie night in the office with pizza and drink provided

• 3 peaks challenge

• Birthday cake & celebrations

• “Sweetie day” every Friday

• Giving something back – involved in various charities across London and the UK

and much more… if you want to add something, just ask!

We have built our business around our people. Creating an environment that harbours fun and friendship is an important part of how we work.Here are some of the events the fun squad arranged last year

£45KWe spend over £45K on staff incentives and days out in 2015

Commission Structure

Commission is paid monthly

We are a meritocracy and we believe the more money you make the more you should receive

Big RewardsWe have a simple monthly bonus structure that pays up to 40% bonus on your billings

“We love to reward people and we will put the effort in to train you and help you become the best in class.”

Revenue Generated

Commission %Total Commission Paid

0 – 10K 10% £1,000

10- 20K 20% £3,000

20-30K 25% £5,500

30-35K 30% £7,000

35-40K 35% £8,750

40K + 40% Uncapped

Vision and values

Vision:

To be an exceptional and preferred digital recruitment consultancy defined by our customers as consistently delivering a quality service that gets results

Values:

Purpose - Start projects with an end in mind. Have reason behind your actions. Focus on results. Be purposeful

Simplicity – Create a simple and clear plan on how to achieve this goal

Responsibility – Take responsibility for this end goal and plan. Regularly ask yourself, are you still working to your plan to achieve this goal

9Placements in 9 countries in 2015 with a clear plan to increase this in 2016

“A lot of it comes down to the people who are in the company and the drive from everyone to make Sphere special and what we do, the absolute best in the market”Ali Kennedy

Digital Recruitment All-RoundersMedia/Technology/Marketing & Analytics/Creativewww.spherelondon.co.uk

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You’ve heard about us, now we’d like to hear about you!

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