How we work
We start with your business, not a database. What you do, what makes you better or different, what the team needs, what good looks like in a year, and what won’t work. Often the answer isn’t quite what the job spec says, and that’s where we earn our fee.
Then we go out and find the person, including the ones who aren’t looking, and present your opportunity the way you would, with real enthusiasm: why it’s worth the move, not just what the role involves. We only do that well because we take the time to believe in what you’re building. Every candidate you see has been properly vetted, knows who you are, and has agreed to be put forward.
Hiring is as much about people as about skills. We pay attention to the psychology of it: why someone would move, what would make them stay, and what will make them succeed with you. We recruit as if it were our own business and work as an extension of your team. We stand up for you and for the candidate, because a hire only works if it’s right for both.
Why clients come back
We don’t work to targets. We work to get the right person into your business, and we’ll tell you honestly if the market can’t give you what you want. Natalie has run teams and hired for them herself, across sales, admin, credit control and technical services, so she knows what a bad hire costs. She recruits for you the way she’d recruit for herself.
- No retainer and no upfront fee. You get a search that’s as thorough as a retained one, and in our view better informed, and you only pay when you hire.
- One point of contact who takes the time to understand your business.
- Any role in investment management, asset owners, wealth management or investment platforms, analyst to Director, contract or permanent.
- A short list of people who are right for the role and want it.
- Straight answers on rates, salaries and what the market will give you, and specialist knowledge of recruitment regulation such as IR35.
- Coaching for senior clients, at no extra fee: managing teams, managing upwards, handling the politics and handling exits. Every candidate gets coaching too.
- Free benchmarking of roles, salaries and rates for existing clients.
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The Bowers Partnership Limited