Focus Cloud Group will combine the expertise of two recruitment companies, one specializing in Workday and the other in Microsoft.
With global demand for cloud skills continuing to grow rapidly, two recruitment companies have joined forces to tackle the challenge of finding talent to work across all major cloud platforms.
The newly formed Focus Cloud Group specializes in the global recruitment of people with cloud skills across platforms such as Microsoft, Salesforce, SAP, Workday and ServiceNow. The group will also serve industries that need people with cloud skills, such as life sciences and cybersecurity.
Cloud skills are in high demand worldwide, not just in the technology industry. Management consultancy firm Gartner said in 2019 that by 2022, 75pc of all databases will be deployed or migrated to a cloud platform. This is due to the SaaS model and databases used for analytics.
The new recruitment group, Focus Cloud Group, is derived from the acquisition of Microsoft recruitment company, Cognitive Group, by Focus Cloud.
Focus Cloud is a European company specializing in Workday recruitment. It was founded in 2015 by Lloyd Gordon.
“When I set up the business in 2015, I did it with one thought in mind, to build a global cloud recruitment powerhouse that everyone could be proud of,” said Gordon.
He added that the company’s success was not hindered by the pandemic. “Despite the global pandemic hitting a few years later, the company has gone from strength to strength. The services we’ve been able to offer have varied since the company’s inception and moving into the Microsoft recruitment space was a natural steps for business.”
He said the new partnership with Cognitive Group would help both deliver “more holistic” recruitment expertise in a “difficult skills market”.
Gordon will be CEO of the new Focus Cloud Group, while Cognitive Group CEO Jon Keen will be its chairperson.
Keen said the newly enlarged company will allow his staff to bring their expertise “across borders” and support Microsoft talent acquisition on a global scale.
The Cognitive Group was launched in 2007. Keen said it recently placed its 3,000th experienced hire in the Microsoft channel.
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