Specialist people
businesses. One standard.

AWI is the collective of specialist people businesses. Each one is built for its own market and run by people who know it — and every one of them is held to the same standard of how clients and candidates are treated. We are centred in the UK and work internationally, following clients into the markets they operate in.

Three companies
Civitas, Taio and Ingenum — with more to come
One collective
Shared standards, infrastructure and governance
UK-centred, global reach
Headquartered in the UK, delivering wherever clients operate

The collective

Distinct brands, deliberately. A construction recruiter and a consultancy business shouldn't look, sound or operate the same — so ours don't.

Construction & the built environment

AWICivitas

Specialist recruitment for the construction industry — senior leaders, technical experts and skilled trades across every discipline of the built environment.

Skilled trades & labourProject & site managementQS & estimatingDesign, engineering & building servicesHealth, safety & complianceExecutive & leadership search
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Civitas places people who build: project and site leadership, commercial and estimating, design and engineering, building services, surveying, health and safety, and the skilled trades that deliver on site. Temporary, contract, permanent, interim and executive search across the UK.

Management consultancy & talent

AWITaio Launching soon

Embedded support for management consultancy and talent management — capability that sits inside the client's team rather than beside it.

Embedded consulting capabilityTalent & workforce strategyOperating model & capability buildInterim leadership
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Taio provides embedded consulting and talent capability: people who work inside a client organisation on the problems that don't fit a fixed statement of work — operating models, capability build, workforce planning and the talent function itself.

Technology & digital

AWIIngenum Launching soon

Specialist technology recruitment — engineering, data, infrastructure and product talent for businesses building software and the systems around it.

Software engineeringData & analyticsCloud, infrastructure & securityProduct & deliveryTechnology leadership
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Ingenum recruits across the technology function: software engineering, data and analytics, cloud and infrastructure, security, product and delivery. Contract, permanent and leadership hires for scale-ups and established teams alike.

Why a collective

Focus stays where it belongs

Each company keeps its own brand, market and leadership. Nothing is diluted into a single generic offering.

Weight behind each brand

Systems, compliance, finance and technology sit across the collective, so a young business operates with the backing of an established one.

One standard of conduct

How we treat clients, candidates and each other is set across the collective and is not negotiable business by business.

Built to add more

The structure is designed for new specialist businesses to join the collective, whether founded or acquired.

UK-centred, not UK-limited

Our base and our standards are British. The work isn't — we support clients on international projects and place people across borders where the mandate calls for it.

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Not sure which company you need? Tell us what you're trying to do and we'll point you at the right one.

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