Transport & Logistics · Industrial · Engineering
Stoa is a new agency. The people running it aren’t new to this. Twenty-five years of combined experience across Transport & Logistics, Industrial, and Engineering — rooted in Stoke-on-Trent, built for nationwide reach.
Fewer CVs. Better ones.
Calm beats chaos.
Sectors
Plenty of agencies list three sectors and staff one. Industrial and Engineering get the same desk time, the same consultants and the same standard as Transport & Logistics.
The Stoic standard
Not values — commitments. The difference is that these can be checked, on a date, against a name.
Where the name comes from
Stoa Poikile — the “painted porch” — was a public colonnade in the Athens marketplace, open to anyone walking through. Zeno taught there because it was open, not exclusive — and the people who stopped, listened, and stayed became the first Stoics.
That’s the idea behind our name: we’re not chasing anyone. We’re building somewhere worth stopping for.
For candidates
Register once. We put you forward for roles that actually fit — HGV, warehouse, welding, CNC — not everything on the board.
For clients
Tell us what you need and when. Temporary or permanent, across all three sectors.
Candidates
“They rang me back the same day, told me straight which jobs I wasn’t right for, and put me forward for one I was. I started the following Monday.”
No messing about. I knew the site, the shift and the rate before I agreed to anything.
First agency that actually read my CV before ringing me.
They checked in after my first week, not just on the day I started.
Straight answers when I asked about the contract. That was the difference.
News
28 Aug 2026
Milestone
Live job feed, candidate registration and the My Stoa portal on the way — the porch, now open online.
24 Aug 2026
Clients
The thinking behind the protection window, and what happens in practice when a placement doesn’t work out.
21 Aug 2026
Candidates
Licence, ID, safety boots — and the three things candidates most often turn up without.
25 years combined recruitment experience
REC member
Three sectors, one team
Stoke-on-Trent → nationwide
