Linear Industrial & Engineering

17/07/2025

Meet Monika 👋

We’re really excited to have Monika back at Linear Recruitment, heading up our Industrial division! Monika has been a vital part of the team for years and brings passion, experience, and a no-nonsense approach to helping clients and candidates alike.

After some time away, she’s back in action – and we’re thrilled to have her driving things forward again. 🚀

A bit about Monika? She’s all about getting the job done but always finds time for a chat and a laugh. She’s a big dog lover and can usually be found sharing cute pet photos or talking about her favourite furry companions.

Fun fact: She once managed to lose her car in a supermarket car park and found it three hours later… parked perfectly where she left it. (We’ve all been there, right?)
Welcome back Monika!

09/06/2025

Linear has showcased its commitment to developing its people by joining The 5% Club, an industry led initiative focussed on driving momentum into the recruitment of apprentices, graduates, T-Level students and sponsored students.

The 5% Club is a movement of more than 1,000 employers providing ‘earn and learn’ opportunities to develop the skills and talents people need to become more employable and create meaningful careers. Companies joining The 5% Club commit to raising the number of apprentices, sponsored students and graduates on formal programmes to 5% of their total workforce within five years.

08/05/2025

As National Minimum Wage and National Insurance rises took effect in April, it's becoming more important than ever to ensure your recruitment strategy is right, to help save you time and money in the long run.

Working with a recruitment agency like Linear can help you do just that, and can help with both short term and long term hiring. Research from the REC from 2017 (figures would likely be much higher now) showed that a poor hire at mid manager level with a salary of £42,000 could cost a business more than £132,000.

We've put together a blog highlighting the benefits of working with a recruitment agency, and how to get the best out of your relationship with them, and you can read our full article here:

https://www.linearrecruitment.co.uk/news/working-with-a-recruitment-agency-how-it-can-save-your-business-time-and-money

We'd love to know your thoughts.

What is happening with the UK labour market? What trends are we seeing? We’ve seen several changes in the UK economy and labour marketplace over the last couple of years; the effects of Brexi...

02/05/2025

Wonderful feedback for Richard Ansell FREC from a Candidate he placed recently. Well done Rich and we're delighted for Andy's success.

02/05/2025

19 Years!!! This month we are celebrating the 19th Anniversary for our Managing Director, Gareth Tomkins!

Gareth is an inspirational leader and works tirelessly to manage, mentor and support all the various departments here at Linear Recruitment.

Linear Recruitment wouldn’t function without him and everyone in the business is appreciative of his leadership.

Thank you!

31/03/2025

This weekend saw our annual celebration of our "Captain's Club", recognising some of the 2024 achievements and Awards across Linear.

This year we went off to Dublin and what a blast it was. Unfortunately not everyone who won an award could make it, but Gareth Tomkins was joined by Saphia Akbani (Top Trades), Joe Poste (Top WC Contract), Jack James (Top Perm) Bethan Parr (Top Administrator), Gareth Arnold representing our Rail | Power | Infrastructure divisions (Top Office Productivity) and Matt Cassady (budget performance).

Well done to everyone who won a place on the trip, and we're already looking forward to next year!

12/03/2025

We've launched our 2025 Customer Satisfaction Survey.

Feedback is really important to us so we can learn where we're doing well and where we need to improve to make our service better for both our Clients and our Candidates.

If you've used Linear and could spare a few moments to complete our survey, we'd really appreciate your input.

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07/03/2025

Tomorrow marks International Women's Day, a global day celebrating the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women. This year's theme is , focusing on the importance of taking swift and decisive steps to achieve gender equality, and the urgency needed to address the barriers that women face in both their personal and professional lives.

So, together, let's Accelerate Action to speed up the rate of progress worldwide.

26/02/2025

Today we celebrate the anniversary of Lori Taylor working at Linear for 6 years.

As a company we believe that we are extremely lucky to have someone of Lori’s high calibre and experience to be running our marketing department.

Over the six years Lori has raised the Linear Recruitment brand awareness to new heights whilst continuously improving the CRM, the website, our social media coverage and of course the production of our quality newsletters and salary surveys.

We can’t thank Lori enough for all her hard work and she is an integral part of the Linear family and teams.

Congratulations Lori.

17/02/2025

Today marks and we're using it as the perfect opportunity to spread positivity and make someone's day a little brighter with even the small acts of kindness.

Every act, big or small can really make a difference.

We asked our teams to leave some kudos for any of their colleagues to show appreciation and share the positivity.

Here's just some of them....

14/02/2025

It's Valentine's Day (in case you hadn't noticed!) and what better way to mark it at Linear than with another work anniversary...!

It's 5 years since Nicola Wilson excitedly joined the credit control team in which she has played an integral role in making the credit team the success that it is.

From implementing a very organised invoicing process and leading the way with various portals Nicola has shown determination and persistence and her hard work has paid off. Nicola’s loyalty and great work ethic has shone through so congratulations and here’s to another 5 years!

05/02/2025

This week we celebrate Scott Morton’s 19 year anniversary of working at Linear.

Scott started at Linear on 6th February 2006 in the payroll department and after a couple of years he was promoted to Payroll Manager.

Over the years Scott has helped put many systems and processors in place and continues to do so. Scott’s role these days is that of Management Accountant and of course he still ensures we all get paid every month by processing the monthly salaries.

Over the years Scott has been extremely loyal, reliable and an integral part of the Accounts team and we thank you for all your hard work. I am sure every Linear employee will agree you are a pleasure to work with.

Congratulations Scott!