HOT 100

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Recruiter's HOT 100 companies 2024

Tech & IT recruiters continue to forge ahead in the latest HOT 100 listings.

4 March 2025
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Sharing secrets to achieving top NFI

Net fee income (NFI) and recruiters’ salaries are key issues in this March-April issue of Recruiter.

Public sector, Executive search 4 March 2025
DeeDee Doke

Editor's leader March/April 2025

Welcome to the March-April 2025 issue of Recruiter!

4 March 2025

Recruiter’s HOT 100 firms unveiled at Investing in Talent Awards

Entrants in the HOT 100 list of the most efficient and profitable recruitment businesses were counted down at Recruiter’s Investing in Talent Awards last night.

31 January 2024

New HOT 100 partner as Agile analyst retires

The deadline for recruitment companies to get their financials in for this year's HOT 100 is close.

13 September 2022

Recruiter’s HOT 100: HOT 10 Engineering/Technical/Science Recruiters

There are 21 technical/engineering specialists included in the Recruiter 2021 HOT 100, including three public sector-categorised built environment/technical recruiters.

Public sector, Oil & gas/Energy 28 February 2022

Recruiter’s HOT 100: HOT 10 Professional Sector Recruiters

This group covers the main professional candidate segments – accounting, finance, legal, HR, sales & marketing, media etc. and now includes four professional recruiters previously categorised in the HOT 10 as public sector specialists.

Marketing & Sales, Public sector 14 February 2022

Recruiter’s HOT 100: HOT 10 Technology recruiters

Once again in the HOT 100 it has become even harder to separate between Technology (traditionally described as IT/Telecoms), STEM and Technical (mainly Engineering) skillsets and job roles.

Life sciences, Engineering 3 February 2022

Recruiter HOT 100: Herculean efforts, defying gravity

2021 has seen a sea change in recruitment fortunes.

18 January 2022

Astbury Marsden gets directors for professional services and insurance

Financial services recruiter Astbury Marsden has taken on two new directors.
17 May 2013

Eames brings in Seul for European hiring

Professional recruiter Eames Consulting Group has taken on Karl-Heinz Seul as principal consultant within Europe, focusing on quantitative finance, market and credit risk professionals.
10 May 2013

Eames Consulting has new head of risk, audit and compliance

Professional recruiter Eames Consulting Group has taken on Philippa Anderson, formerly of rival firm McGregor Boyall, as head of risk management, audit and compliance.
3 May 2013

Opus brings in Couceiro for oil & gas

Opus Recruitment Solutions, a Recruiter HOT 100-listed recruiter, has taken on Zeth Couceiro to form a new oil & gas division.
Engineering 26 April 2013

Eames takes on insurance consultant from Massenhove

Professional recruiter Eames Consulting Group has taken on Philip Knight as a consultant within the broking, claims and underwriting division.
19 April 2013

NRL refinances with Barclays, looks to acquisitions

Recruitment and technical services business NRL Group has agreed a £16m refinance deal with Barclays.
Construction & property, Engineering 17 April 2013

Major Players: MBO sees recruiter leave Randstad

Creative and marketing recruitment specialist Major Players has gone through a management buy-out as its founder Jack Gratton is joined by Helen Stokes, former group chief executive officer of recruiter Morgan Hunt, in purchasing the firm from parent company Randstad.
Creative/Digital/Media, Marketing 6 March 2013

Chart toppers…

The directors of the top-ranked staffing company in Recruiter’s 2013 FAST 50 — Oliver James Associates — told Recruiter the achievement is recognition for the efforts of staff in overcoming the challenges of operating in the UK’s hard hit-financial services sector.
22 January 2013

Lipton Fleming and Source Personnel merge

Media recruiter Lipton Fleming and creative communications recruitment consultancy Source Personnel are to merge with immediate effect.
Creative/Digital/Media, Marketing 17 January 2013

Green Park aims to up turnover with Lloyds TSB financing

Interim management and executive recruitment firm Green Park has secured a new invoice discounting facility with Lloyds TSB Commercial Finance, which will offer up to 85% of the company’s issued bills.
Executive search 19 December 2012

Training and development key to making the HOT 100

Around 70 recruiters from the UK’s most profitable staffing companies came together in London earlier this month to celebrate their success in achieving a place on Recruiter’s HOT 100 2012, sponsored by Microdec.
13 December 2012

Recruiter’s fastest and hottest recruiters in the UK

For the first time, Recruiter has created a hybrid league table showing those recruitment firms who have managed to mix fast turnover growth and high profitability, making it on to both the FAST 50 and HOT 100 lists for 2012.
12 December 2012

Green Park opens Manchester office

Interim and executive recruiter Green Park Interim & Executive Search has opened its first branch office in Manchester, to serve what founder and chief executive Raj Tulsiani calls the “increasing financial services” footprint in the city.
Executive search, Public sector 5 December 2012

Recruiter HOT 100 event celebrates those staying profitable in the toughest of times

Last night saw Recruiter’s inaugural celebration of the UK’s 100 most efficient recruitment firms – those making it onto the Recruiter HOT 100, compiled by Agile Intelligence and sponsored by Microdec.
Executive search 4 December 2012

VIDEO: Recruiter HOT 100 top ranking validates business model, says SSQ boss

Legal recruiter Shilton Sharpe Quarry’s position on top of the Recruiter HOT 100 list of the UK’s most profitable recruitment businesses, compiled by Agile Intelligence, “justifies what we’ve been achieving” and “supports the robustness of our business model”, according to the firm’s executive chairman Gareth Quarry in this video
Legal 19 November 2012

The Hot 10 professional recruiters (EXCLUSIVE)

This group covers the main professional candidate segments – accounting, finance, legal, HR, sales & marketing, media etc – and accounts for 34 or around one-third of the whole HOT 100.
Creative/Digital/Media, HR 16 November 2012
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