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RECRUIT-TRAIN-DEPLOY: A SMARTER MODEL FOR MODERN TECH HIRING
Carys Williams is a Commercial Partnerships Manager at Code First Girls. She brings over five years of experience in the professional services industry, working with organisations across finance, retail, aerospace, pharmaceuticals, the public sector and FMCG. Carys focuses on deeply understanding client challenges and designing tailored talent strategies to support long-term technology transformation.
Hiring tech talent today can feel like the Wild West. The landscape is shifting faster than most organisations can keep up with – with AI redefining roles, skills requirements evolving in real time, and traditional hiring pipelines struggling to keep pace.
Yet your projects don’t slow down. You still need skilled, adaptable people – and you need them now – without always having the certainty or budget to commit to permanent hires upfront.
Maybe you’re delivering a major transformation programme and need to build capability. Maybe you’re responding to an RFP where demonstrating meaningful social value is critical to winning. Or perhaps you need consultants who can move fluidly across client environments, helping you both secure and deliver new business.
Whatever your challenge, the Code First Girls’ Recruit-Train-Deploy model allows you to hire high-quality talent with minimal hiring risk and maximum flexibility – all while smashing your diversity goals.
How we de-risk your tech hiring:
1. We deliver skilled consultants matched to your needs on flexible contracts
We tap into the world’s largest community of female technologists. With women across the globe – from London to Bangalore – we source and train the exact specialists you need, whether that’s in Software Engineering, Cybersecurity, or AI.
In a world where technology and your business is constantly changing, adaptability matters just as much as skill. That’s why when you share your requirements, we don’t just match you with candidates based on capability alone, but on the skills, values, and behaviors that align perfectly with your culture and business goals.
Plus, flexibility is baked into the contract: our technologists are available on 12–24 month placements so you can see them in action before making any commitments.
And if you love the talent you can convert them to permanent hires at the end of the placement at no extra cost.
2. We enable you to hit your diversity goals, leading to better tech outcomes
Code First Girls is the only Recruit-Train-Deploy supplier that can guarantee diverse tech hiring. Beyond gender diversity, 67% of our community come from underrepresented ethnicities, over a third are from lower socioeconomic backgrounds and nearly half are the first generation to attend university.
Diversity isn’t just about hitting social impact goals – it’s strategic. Teams with diverse perspectives solve problems faster, create products that reflect the real world and are 1.7x more likely to be innovation leaders in their respective markets. In other words, it is crucial for hitting transformation goals or meeting high client expectations.
3. We guarantee high-quality candidates
Every technologist deployed by Code First Girls has undergone at least four months of intensive, industry-aligned training and passed rigorous technical assessments. This means you don’t have to worry about underperformance or mismatched skills. Every technologist comes ready to contribute from day one.
But our support doesn’t stop there. Once our consultants join your team, we supercharge their performance with personalised learning plans, 1-1 technical coaching and KPI management and tracking.
4. We provide retention and performance you can count on
Unlike other staffing models, our candidates aren’t just sitting on a bench – they’re motivated, ambitious, and committed. Most have spent months dedicated to upskilling – often alongside full-time jobs and home responsibilities – to transition into tech.
That drive translates into results: Code First Girls boasts a 98% retention rate for talent once deployed in a role. For your company, this translates into reduced turnover, fewer hiring mistakes, and a stronger, stable team.
Our client, Deloitte, used Code First Girls to deploy women into their organisation on a 12-month contract. Here is what they had to say:
Ready to hire without the hiring risk?
So, what are you waiting for? With Recruit-Train-Deploy, you can build diverse, future-ready talent pipelines that adapt as your business evolves – all while keeping your hiring risk intact.
Whether you’re scaling AI capability, strengthening cyber resilience or delivering your next client win, you’ll have the right people in place to move faster and smarter.
Get in touch today to find out more!
