About Us

Joy Bruce

Founder and Managing Director

Originally from South Africa, Joy moved to the UK in early 2004 to be closer to family. Motivated to succeed, she was delighted when offered a position as an Administrator, within the Recruitment agency she registered for work with. Although she had no previous recruitment experience, Joy quickly developed a hunger for the industry and worked her way up to Branch Manager, within her first 5 years with the company.  She gained exposure to both temporary and permanent recruitment, continuously achieved set targets and won a number of internal awards for top performance.  Having focused specifically in the office and commercial sectors, Joy realised that she could apply the same principles of placing candidates based on their cultural fit, rather than just experience or skills and that this approach could be applied to recruitment across other sectors as well. 

After over 15 years of working in reputable, Independent Agencies, Joy decided to take the leap and set up her own business, with a focus on collaborating with clients and candidates across all sectors, offering a tailored service that can be adapted to the needs of market. Since then, Joy has continued to use this principle and believes that this has been the main contributing factor to her continued success, in a very competitive industry.

When it comes to growth and opportunity, Joy is open minded about the Collaborate Recruitment journey and looks forward to sharing our success as we grow. Please connect with Joy and Collaborate Recruitment via our website, Linkedin or Facebook. We would love to find out more about you, whether you are a client, candidate or a potential Collaborate partner!