Leading European IT recruitment group, Focus Cloud, has acquired specialist Microsoft recruitment firm, Cognitive Group. Together, they formed a new global brand, Focus Cloud Group, which will provide global recruitment solutions on the major cloud platforms Microsoft, Workday, SAP, Salesforce and ServiceNow, as well as Life Science and Cyber Security industries.
The new group will be led by CEO Lloyd Gordon, the founder of Focus Cloud, and current CEO of Cognitive, Jonathan Wright, who becomes chairman for the newly enlarged group. This partnership combines the experience and success Cognitive has with Microsoft’s recruitment solutions with Focus Cloud’s repertoire of Workday, SAP, Salesforce, ServiceNow and Cyber Security services.
This partnership comes at a time when demand for Cloud skills is growing exponentially, with Gartner predicting that 75% of all databases worldwide will be deployed or migrated to a cloud platform by the end of the year this.
Commenting on the acquisition, Lloyd Gordon said:
“When I set up the business in 2015, I did so with one thought in mind, to build a global cloud recruitment powerhouse that everyone could be proud of. Despite being hit by the global pandemic a few years later, the company has gone from strength to strength. The services we are able to offer have varied since the company’s inception and moving into the Microsoft recruitment space was a natural step for the business. This new partnership enables us to deliver more holistic recruitment solutions in a difficult skills market.”
Jon Keen CEO of Cognitive Group added:
“This deal makes perfect sense for the future growth of both businesses. Since the launch of Cognitive Group in 2007, our focus has always been on providing the best possible experience for our colleagues, our clients and our candidates. Having recently placed our 3,000th hiring experience in the Microsoft channel – an achievement very hard to match – we’re confident we’re delivering on these goals, and this partnership with Lloyd and the development of the Focus Cloud Group enables us to further support our network by providing an enhanced offering that they can benefit from. It also provides an opportunity for us to take these solutions across borders and support the talent solutions of Microsoft on a global scale. We all look forward to building the new Focus Cloud Group in the coming years.”
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