Candidate Testimonials
Thank you also for all your assistance over the last few months. Your care, attention, professionalism and friendly approach throughout the process was outstanding, and having your assistance allowed me to feel much more at ease. I can't thank you enough.
Have really enjoyed the first week. The people both locally and overseas have been great and very supportive as I try and learn about the business and my role.
National Accountant - Engineering Consultancy
I recommend CTC consulting for anyone interested in developing their career. Chris Tan was very helpful in discussing possible options which were specific to my area and career goals. I was consistently updated and kept in the loop with current and future opportunities for myself. Chris knew what I was looking for regarding job opportunities. I will definitely be using CTC Consulting in the future for further employment.
Project Engineer (Mining)
I couldn’t fault your effort in closing out this contract given the difficult circumstances with the timing and distance involved. I wish you and your team all the best in the future.
Senior Mechanical Project Manager
I would like to thank you again in helping me find work. Your knowledge of the profession and your comprehensive and sincere approach gave me the confidence I needed. I am more than happy to recommend your services to my colleagues in the future.
Architect
I arrived in Australia, from the UK, in August 2007 as part of the SA skilled immigration program. After an initial settling in period I trawled through the papers looking for employment. Ultimately I replied to an advert by CTC for a number of positions they had to fill. From the first call I was made to feel at ease and encouraged to talk about myself, my experience, my qualifications and my aspirations. I received guidance and coaching in presenting my UK resume/CV in a format more acceptable to the Australian market. From the first meeting with CTC I was kept informed of any developments/strategies regarding my circulation in the market place. Ultimately I received the call advising that an opportunity had arisen and an interview set up. Not even at this did CTC sit back. I received background information on the company I was to attend for an interview and even background on the individuals whom I would be meeting. This all led to a very successful interview and subsequent employment.
I had visited a number of recruitment agencies like CTC and found CTC to be, quite definitely, the most professional and personally minded.
For this I remain very grateful.
Project Manager - Mining & Industry
You have been so helpful to me and I truly appreciate the effort and service you provided. I will definitely see you as being a recruiter of choice and will mention you specifically and your company generally, to my peers and colleagues who are looking for work.
Environmental Scientist
I would like to thank you and your team for the professional and personal way in which CTC circulated my details around the market place, kept me informed of any developments and/or plans regarding possible avenues of employment, supported me through the various stages of introductions to companies, interview and job offers and last but not least have kept in touch following employment placement. I always feel that should things not work out with my present employer I can turn to CTC and will receive the same treatment.
Mechanical Engineer
Thank you for all of your help with the process, for someone in your position you have been extremely unbiased! I will be recommending you to anyone looking for work.
Environmental Scientist
As a final year Civil Engineering Student the time had come where I had to plan for my future employment as a professional engineer. I soon found that there are many engineering companies and as an Undergraduate it seemed as though they all did the same thing. Chris Tan Consulting through their strong assosciation and understanding of Adelaide's leading Design Consultancy's were able to assist in understanding the subtle differences between each, providing honest feedback as to which could potentially cater for my long term career aspirations.
Chris Tan Consultiung also provided me with assistance and advice for writing both my Resume and Cover Letter which I found to be invaluable. This has provided me with a strong sense of self confidence that I hope will lead me into my chosen career as a professional engineer.
Undergraduate Civil Engineer
As you know I spoke to other recruitment agencies before you. I was very impressed with how positively you helped me, how quickly you found a role, how smoothly the whole recruitment process went and how well informed you kept me during the process. I would happily recommend you to anyone else who is looking for work in Australia.
Water Process Engineer
Chris and his team put in great effort for me. Chris assessed my requirements, thoughts and considerations for a new position, then put in the energy to identify and help secure a new position. All is going well in the new position.
Project Engineer
I have been here now for 3 weeks and I love it!
It was a good move for me, the work is great and the people are great also.
Thank you for putting me forward for this position.
Senior Interior Designer
As you know I was dealing with a number of recruitment agencies at the time of being recruited for this position and I can honestly say that your phone calls were the ones that I answered every time! It was a very pleasant experience and the personal level of service was much appreciated and I believe that you worked very hard to get me a position, for which I am extremely grateful! Now if you could just get me a place to live......(joking!).
Senior Environmental Consultant
I can assure you that I was very happy with your service and will happily recommend you to my colleges.
I will keep in touch.
Senior Interior Designer
Thanks for your efforts in identifying and securing a role for me as a Senior Electrical Engineer/Project Manager.
Your level of service has been outstanding, and your effort enormous.
A pleasure dealing with you again.
Electrical Project Manager
By the way, thanks for your time on Friday. I appreciated your willingness to understand my particular situation and your wise counsel in general.
Senior Process Engineer
If it wasn’t for CTC’s initiative in firstly identifying the role and secondly, their persistence in following it up, I simply wouldn’t be where I am today. Where other recruitment agencies treat clients as a commodity, CTC made it a genuine and personal priority to understand me, what I could do, what I was looking for and to find the right job, not just a job in what is one of the toughest job markets in years. CTC maintained that commitment ruthlessly at the expense of their own time while on holidays and after hours.
I cannot speak highly enough of CTC, their professionalism, enthusiasm and commitment. My family and I will be forever indebted to CTC for providing me with an opportunity to redefine my career and turn the corner from a traumatic long term redundancy to one of prosperity and success.
Senior Attorney - International Consultancy
Chris Tan Consulting provided me with the personal service, guidance and information that I needed when transitioning from government into the private sector; much more than just finding me positions to apply for, Chris and his team through their extensive local market knowledge deliberately chose the best opportunities for me in the recruitment process and helped me make my best career choice.
Senior Environmental Scientist
Appreciate the time you took to get to know what I was looking for and then discuss various firms that might have aligned. I wouldnt have really considered .... if I hadnt been pointed in their direction by you.
Senior Architect
I have been very pleased with CTC's service, and found them to be responsive and professional. I will certainly recommend you to any friends or colleagues looking to enhance a career move.
Architect
Businesses need to adapt and to do that they will need to attract the right people, people who not only have the right experience, knowledge and leadership but the right attitude to accept change as a way of life.
Having employed Chris on a number of occasions to find the right resource, I know from experience that he and his colleagues understand what is required in today's industry and would recommend his company to anybody who is looking for the right quality staff to embrace change and move their business forward.
BIM Director
I can wholeheartedly state that CTC is the most pre-active and hard-working recruitment consultancy I have ever had the pleasure of working with. They are extremely well networked and achieved more in terms of leads into suitable posts than any other consultancy I contacted. What I found refreshing is that they do not pressure you into making a choice - preferring you to take the right position, not the first. I fully recommend their services to any other engineers migrating from the UK.
Project Manager - Power Industry
I want to thank you for all your hard work in finding me the position, it's a fantastic opportunity and I can't wait to get started. Your knowledge of the environmental and ecological field made the process so much smoother. You clearly stand out as a leader in the recruitment sector. Your practical approach also allowed any potential apprehensions that prospective employers may have to be addressed and resolved, enabling me to have the best possible chance to impress. I also valued your personal touch and understanding of the stressful nature of finding employment.
Ecologist
He said that he has been extremely impressed with your service so far and that he has 'worked with a lot of HR consultants in his time and that Chris has definitely been the most proactive and responsive' and that he is 'really looking forward to meeting you'. He was also impressed by how well you spoke about 'your Client' and that you have obviously gone to great lengths to understand our needs. I second his comments...Well Done!!
HR Manager with feedback from a Principal Hydrologist
I know I’ve said it before, but I’m extremely appreciative of the ongoing support your company has given me, and you personally for all the hard work you have put in.
Environmental Scientist
Thank you very much for those contacts and all your help. I sincerely appreciate the time you are taking to explain different matters and also providing me with advice useful for my potential long term career in the consulting arena. In particular your honesty and willingness to consider my long term interests is refreshing. With most recruitment consultants you hear nothing back, with some you get frank advice if you ask for it, but your follow-up and attempts to understand my needs is truly unique. So well done!
Environmental Scientist
I would just like to thank you and CTC for the support and professionalism in helping me secure a position here.
I especially appreciate you getting back to me after our initial discussion over the phone early this year and setting up some interviews for me. I was quite frankly surprised at the call back as my experiences with other agencies have proven otherwise. The whole process was seamless and really appreciated your genuine desire to help me secure employment in a field that I have been seeking to get into for some time.
I cannot speak highly enough of CTC and have directed friends and colleagues to consider seeking your services should they be seeking employment.
Thanks and Regards
Project Engineer
I’m very satisfied with the services provided by CTC and your help. It still feels a little surreal that during August/September last year I did not now where I was going or how I was going to get there. It is great that CTC have shown me some doors I did not know existed and helped me walk through them to get to where I’ am at now.
I will certainly refer colleagues to CTC to help them find something fitting for their skills and interests.
Structural Engineer
Enjoyed the chat this morning. I was quiet impressed with your grasp of the SA Water Industry and my own position. As you would have gathered I have an expectation of executive recruitment service providers which I was pleased to see you didn't meet. I'll have to modify my view.
Water Director
In regards to your work I couldn’t be happier. You have been in touch with me throughout the process and have made it all pretty easy really. I appreciate that at times it is hard to get a time to talk and discuss job issues whilst people are still working, but your approach made the process easier. I have already recommended your services to a colleague who is considering a career move.
Planning Officer
Also, can I just say how impressed I have been with your work over the last couple of months, I believe it goes downs as my most pleasurable professional experience with HR!!
OH&S Scientist
CTC understands the needs of our business both technically and culturally. They provide us with up to date industry knowledge, the best candidates in the local and international market, and genuinely have the candidate's best interests at heart.
Human Resources Recruiter - Global Multi-Disciplined Consultancy
It was a pleasure dealing with Chris at every stage. From our first meeting he understood what I was trying to achieve and set out to achieve it. He managed my expectations through the process and at every stage was calm and professional, communicating good and bad news swiftly, clearly and openly, until ultimately reaching a very successful outcome. I have no hesitation in recommending Chris to candidates and recruiters alike.
Project Manager
Staff at CTC have vast 'up to date' information and knowledge in the Engineering field. This significantly impacts in helping candidates choose the right career paths and developments. Co-ordinations and follow ups are also incredibly well timed and organised!
Structural Engineer
CTC provided professional insight and advice into opportunities and career paths that were not immediately obvious without extensive and time consuming research. The advice and connections provided through CTC facilitated my transition into a challenging new role and career path with a range of long term rewarding opportunities now in sight.
Project Manager
Are you an exceptional Engineer Do you have the very best managing your career? Do you want a true assessment of your employability?
Are you looking for the very best specialists of every Engineering flavour? If you are, talk to Chris about finding you professional Engineers that are fully vetted and available?
This business mined, incredibly skilled professional Recruitment Agent is the best person you can know.
Chris and his team will sort you right out, help you polish your skills, your presentation and build you into a team of operators that suit you and your ambitions.
His placements stick and companies thrive on the skilled staff that he provides. Chris is all business and will call a spade a spade - but let face it that's why he is the best!
Chris has placed me and has placed many many highly skilled people in the organisations for whom I have been Recruitment Manager in the last 6 years.
Frankly I would not move jobs without consulting with him, nor hire an engineer without contacting him first.
HR Manager
Genuine understanding, sincere approach, quality advice and full dedication in a most friendly, impartial and professional fashion. CTC has fulfilled what I aspired and they certainly served my best long term interests. What was eventually achieved was more than just having the right career path, a caring friendship was also formed.
Civil Engineer
I just wanted to email and say thank you for your assistance during my move to … Your insight into the industry and advice were very helpful to me in making my decision.
Natural Resource Scientist
I have no hesitation in recommending you to any of my colleagues – you have been great...
Commercial Manager - Construction Company
I am into the first week of my new career!
I have been made to feel very welcome, supported and required by my new employer and I want to thankyou for making the first interview happen.
Your understanding of the industry’s needs and your ability to align me with an organisation that has similar aspirations and beliefs has resulted in an excellent outcome. I was impressed with your enthusiasm, professionalism and passion for both myself and your clients. Throughout the whole process I felt supported and the result has been well worth the effort. Once again, thankyou very much.
Commercial Manager - Construction Company
I do want to compliment you on the professional manner in which you handled my application: considerate, responsive, thorough, supportive and transparent are some of the adjectives which come to mind. My experience of recruitment agencies is somewhat limited, but you are so far ahead of the field. And I have expressed that opinion to a number of folks who may have an interest in your services in the future. CTC can be well pleased and, I am sure, consider themselves very fortunate, to have Rachael Nicholas on board.
Principal Environmental Engineer
In all my dealings with CT Consulting I have always found them to be attentive to my needs and wishes, and professional in all their actions. The key to the quality service they offer is their willingness to listen to the needs of their client, and to ascertain exactly what the client requires before they are introduced to a potential employer. CT Consulting have consistently delivered well above my expectations, and I would highly recommend the service offered by CT Consulting.
Project Manager
Your service is great. You got me a job! Well that being the situation I would have to say that in my case it was very professional. Not only were you interested in obtaining the right people with the right skills for right positions but there was post-position placement interest as well to ensure everything was operating smoothly. I wouldn't have any issues in recommending your services to those currently in the market for a rewarding position whatever the field may be.
Environmental Scientist
I am writing to sincerely thank you for all your help and support in my search for a new Senior Architect role in Adelaide.
Your efforts in conjunction with your personal, mentoring approach to job placements, has been greatly appreciated.
Genuine advice and guidance when looking for employment is hard to come by, and I honestly believe that the services CTC offer is unique and desperately needed in this industry.
I will certainly recommend your services to anyone I know looking for work in the future.
Senior Architect
Being a recent graduate, facing the famous catch 22 situation everywhere, of providing experience without getting a job, Chris Tan Consultancy (CTC) helped me get my foot in the door, and placed me on the ladder to move up ahead successfully.
Chris Tan Consultancy definitely provides high standards of service and delivers their job with high level of professionalism and integrity. I take this opportunity to thank CTC for all their assistance, and definitely recommend all graduates with or without experience to start their career with CTC. Keep up the good work, all the best.
Environmental Scientist
I was impressed with the quality of service that you provided me in finding employment at a difficult stage. The personal attention which was provided was excellent and the extent that you went to assist me was far above what I expected.
Senior Civil Engineer
It was a pleasure dealing with Chris at every stage. From our first meeting he understood what I was trying to do, ensured that I was realistic about what I could expect, and set out to achieve it. He managed every step of the way calmly and professionally, communicating good and bad news swiftly, clearly and openly, until reaching an ultimately very successful outcome. I am absolutely delighted with the company I have just joined and have no hesitation in recommending Chris to candidates and recruiters alike.
Defence Project Manager
Just thanking you for your professional conduct in securing me this position. I really appreciate your efforts. As far as recruiting agencies go, you stand out by a long shot!
Principal Electrical Engineer
CTC's professionalism and understanding of the industry allowed me to make a considered decision that has greatly benefitted my career.
Principal Structural Engineer
