Past, present and future
BetRecruit was established in 2006. The business was formed out of ILC; a recruitment company operating within language recruitment across Europe. Laura Zapala, who worked for ILC as a Recruitment Consultant, formalised and co-founded BetRecruit to develop and extend our services to ILC’s betting clients.
From 2006 to 2009, we invested in our knowledge and understanding of the gaming market and our clients. We developed our internal IT infrastructure whilst growing and training our team. In 2008, we relocated into central London offices in order to attract top tier talent from the whole of Greater London.
In February 2010, we recruited the gaming recruitment all-star Nick Davenport, to become Sales Manager of BetRecruit. Unfortunately at around the same time, Laura Zapala was headhunted to join Betfair. Now as Sales Director, Nick continues to build, manage and train the team and develop and improve our recruitment service to our clients.
As part of a larger group of recruitment businesses, BetRecruit benefits from shared internal resources such as IT, marketing and legal support. In particular, access to the unique 80,000+ language speakers across Europe (ILC) is a valuable tool in the war for talent within the European online betting and gaming sector. BetRecruit currently has a bespoke, proprietary database of 14,000+ gaming-specific candidates, used in addition to the ILC database.
Moving forward, we are planning for consolidation of our London-based business before developing new offices into other European gaming hubs. We continue to actively search for talented individuals; either at a graduate level where we can invest in a long-term career at BetRecruit, or top-tier experienced gaming consultants.
