Spring

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About Us

Spring has established five values which are relevant to its employees and characterise what Spring is today; as individuals, as teams and as a whole company. These values, which were developed in consultation with employees across the whole Group, are as follows:

• Excellence - we endeavour at all times in all our activities to achieve excellence
• Professionalism - we conduct ourselves in a professional, ethical and fair manner
• Ambition - we embrace challenges and support each other to achieve our full potential in a diverse and enjoyable workplace
• Innovation - we encourage and invest in innovation and creativity
• Passion - we are passionate about our business and share our self-belief with our candidates and clients

All employees are regularly encouraged to recognise and celebrate Spring’s values, reflecting them in the way we behave and interact with all our audiences: colleagues, clients, contractors and candidates, as well as suppliers, competitors and our investors.

Contract Staffing

Spring is an experienced, market-leading contract technology staffing partner with over 5,000 contractors working on client sites at any one time. The benefits to organisations in using contract IT professionals include flexibility of supply and access to a wide range of skills, some of which may only be required for a limited period. These benefits can be enjoyed whether the requirement is for a single contractor or many hundreds, and whether in one location or several.

Depending on the nature of the clients' requirements, there are a number of ready engagement models available. Furthermore, where appropriate, individual engagement models can be tailored to meet specific requirements.

Spring Technology provides client organisations with IT professionals at a local level and access to Spring's considerable contractor database serviced from a national network of offices providing local knowledge and local support. Spring's preferred supplier and vendor management service models provide additional benefits to those clients with ongoing, regular requirements for IT contractors.

The advantages available to clients from such service models can include:

• Hiring activity channelled through a supplier with whom the client has a formal service level agreement.
• Centralised visibility of the costs of hiring contractors and thereby allowing a greater degree of control.
• Management of contractors who may have been hired directly by the client organisation prior to Spring's appointment.
• Single point of contact and consolidated invoicing.

Contractors working with Spring enjoy a rich and varied range of challenging and rewarding assignments. These have recently included:

• Working on the development of the new 'chip and pin' card technology for a major bank.
• Developing counter terrorism systems for the City of London Police.
• PC support for life-critical hospital systems.
• Implementation of 3G mobile technology.
• A new web tool that allows parents to keep track of their children via their mobile 'phones.

Spring's permanent recruitment service provides clients with the benefit of our considerable technology industry experience, market knowledge and expertise. Whether for a single vacancy or a large-scale recruitment drive, we find the right candidate, with the right skills-set and experience to meet our clients’ permanent position requirements.

In addition to providing client organisations with access to our database of available IT professionals, Spring's proven screening processes ensure that only the highest calibre candidates are short-listed. Furthermore, our national network of offices provides local knowledge and support.

General comments that raters have made about Spring:

1. Comment left on 31/03/2009 20:10

My poor experience with Spring included a) undue pressure to sign away my data protection rights, b) unreasonable clauses in the client contract which were purely in Spring's interest and a marked reluctance to change to contract. c) frequent late payments needed escalation, changed payment terms (they cannily keep them outside the contract on their web site so they can be changed at will), changing time sheet processes etc mid contract (all pure chaos) and d) losing the copy of my passport! No I could not recommend Spring.

2. Comment left on 09/06/2008 11:06

They actually admitted to losing my personal details, including details of references, which is inexcusable. Despite having a contract with a start date, it was delayed three times - on one occasion after I got to the client's offices. I was never paid for this time or compensated for the 100+ pounds plus wasted travel.