You want a job in banking, but you don’t intend to apply for it. You want to be pursued. You want to be called up by a headhunter/executive search firm which appreciates your special talents. Whose attention should you be attracting? The 2015 Executive Grapevine Ranking for ‘retained executive search firms’ in London offers some pointers.
We’ve listed the top ten ’boutique search firms’ below, ranked in order. The list only includes the top banking and finance focused headhunting firms (and omits the financial services businesses of major global global search firms like Heidrick & Struggles or Russell Reynolds). It refers only to the activity of UK-based consultants working for these firms (although those consultants may be searching internationally).
With those caveats, here are the top financial services search firms in London now…
UK’s top banking and finance headhunters by market share, 2015
1. Sheffield Haworth 11.8%. Click here for UK consultant list.
2. The Omerta Group 8.7%. Click here for UK office contact details.
3. Hogarth Davies Lloyd 8.3%. Click here for global office contact details.
4. Execuzen 8.0%. Click here for contact details.
5. Principal Search 7.7%. Click here for UK consultant list.
6. Sainty Hird & Partners 5.1%. Click here for UK consultant list.
7. Hammond Partners 4.6%. Click here for UK consultant list.
8. J.D. Haspel 4.2%. Click here for UK consultant list.
9. Hutton Consulting 3.4%. Click here for UK consultant list.
10. Leathwaite 3.2%. Click here for UK consultant list.
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