Grant Baker
IT Account Manager

Phone number
0121 796 0201Email address
grant.baker@viqu.co.uk
If you’ve had a look at some other team profiles, you’ve probably seen a bit of a pattern evolving, just like some of our other colleagues, Grant has a law degree. However, unlike our other colleagues, Grant never had any intention of becoming a lawyer. He actually wanted to become a sports agent, however, halfway through his degree, a law was passed which meant you no longer needed a law degree to represent sports talent. Grant doesn’t really know why himself, but he decided to change direction and go straight into recruitment from university.
Grant was initially attracted to the industry because he liked the idea of working hard, putting 100% in and being directly rewarded for this via his earnings. Grant joined the VIQU accounts delivery team in September 2019 because he wanted a new challenge where he could purely focus on resourcing quality IT contractors.
As a teenager, Grant ran for Great Britain and won a bronze medal at the World Under 20s in Beijing. Grant recently became a father to a beautiful little girl, so he’s hoping she’ll take after him and become an athlete when she’s older!
Getting a little deeper…
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Advice for someone going into recruitment?
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Don’t take things personally. The job has lots of ups and downs, things go really well and other times they really don’t. Learn what you can from the ones that don’t and hopefully they’ll happen less often.
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Favourite place in the world?
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South Africa
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Excluding your own, if you had to have a new accent, which would you choose?
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Dutch - they always look so happy!
Latest jobs
from Grant
IT Service Transition Specialist - 6m - Remote/SW
Salisbury, United Kingdom
£400 - 500 per day + Inside IR35
IT Service Transition Consultant/Specialist – 6 month – Remote/South West*This role falls inside of IR35 and so will require you to work through an approved Umbrella Company* VIQU are working on behalf of a customer that...
Automation Engineer - 6-9 month - Remote
Nottingham, United Kingdom
£400 - 500 per day
Automation Engineer – 9 month – Remote (London/East Midlands) I’m working with a customer that has an open requirement for an experience Automation Engineer to join them on an initial contract basis. The role will be...
3rd Line/Infrastructure Support Eng - 6month - Remote
London, United Kingdom
£275 - 350 per day + Inside IR35
3rd Line/Infrastructure Support Engineer - 6 months – Remote - £275-£350 Inside of IR35*This role is inside of IR35 and so requires candidates that are willing to work through an approved umbrella company* I am currently...
3rd Line/Infrastructure Support Eng - 6month - Remote
Birmingham, United Kingdom
£275 - 350 per day + Inside IR35
3rd Line/Infrastructure Support Engineer - 6 months – Remote - £275-£350 Inside of IR35*This role is inside of IR35 and so requires candidates that are willing to work through an approved umbrella company* I am currently...
IT Build Engineer - Birmingham - 3-6 months
Birmingham, United Kingdom
£200 - 225 per day
Build Engineer - Birmingham - 3-6 months I am currently working with a Birmingham based customer that has engaged us to build them 2000+ new devices within very aggressive timescales. With that in mind I am looking...
