Who we are

Quality driven recruitment experts

Shelli Gafan is the founder of Advance in IT.  After a few years of working for numbers driven recruitment companies in the city of London, she took the bold move in 2011 to set up on her own and do it her way - focusing on people and relationships.  For this reason, Advance in IT continues to thrive and prides itself on the highest level of customer service.

In her earlier career, Shelli worked in Operations roles for companies such as Microsoft, T-Mobile and Adecco.  She likes pushing her own boundaries but also thrives on developing others, whether her own employees or her clients and candidates. Shelli's nature is to go above and beyond.  This gives her great satisfaction and makes her stand out as a recruiter with a proven track record.

Headquartered in the UK and with employees working remotely, we together provide a tailored recruitment service using our combined 30 years' experience. We have customers mostly in the Netherlands and thousands of contacts globally.

Our team consists of Louisa van Vessem who is a Business Support Co-ordinator and Alex Golding who is the Operations Director.  Louisa and Alex work part-time.  Shelli, being a working mum, wanted to create a business environment which offers its working parents the flexibility they need to work but still look after their families.