Colin Barr
Confidant of Candidates – Trusted Advisor to Clients. Colin Barr takes the guesswork out of recruitment providing process, structure and rigour, recruiting complex and hard to resource roles.
Colin is known for providing honest, intelligent and highly commercial advice to clients and candidates. His 40+ years’ experience in the Recruitment Industry with particular emphasis on Senior Executive Search with depth in the Technology and Engineering Sectors. He strives to deliver the best possible Candidate, not just the best available.
He brings with him 30 years of senior level search and selection experience in IT, Telecommunications, Project Management and Engineering. An engineer by training, Colin is a natural problem solver and he can be counted on to consider all angles and outcomes when it comes to your career.
Colin is the person senior professionals talk to when they want career advice they can trust, and his extensive corporate network (The Barr McIntosh Black Book) is testament to Colin’s experience and influence.
As your trusted advisor, Colin offers completely impartial, insider, expert advice to help you reach your greatest career goals.
Specialties:
- Senior level I.T.&T. Professionals - Business Development Managers
- Consulting Staff across a range of industry specialty - Architects, Solution & Technical
- Technical across Application built & delivery - Project Managers, Business and Technical Analysts
- Telecommunications & Network Specialists - Financial & General Management
- Technical, Development & Application streams
Colin’s aim is to be your Trusted Advisor in your goal to augment, grow or change you career. Known for providing honest, intelligent and highly commercial advice to clients and candidates, he is the person senior professionals talk to when they want career advice they can trust, and Colin’s extensive corporate network is testament to his experience and influence.
Colin has written numerous papers and given many talks on the Search Process. His latest eBook on hiring quality talent, The Recruitment Process – a Step by Step Guide to Delivering Quality Talent, is available upon request.
Married with three children, his interests lie in family and sports. A keen Scuba Diver, he enjoys the outdoors, shares a love of horses with his daughter, and diving, football and cricket with his sons.