Why Choose Henderson Brown?

Our Recruiters are both dedicated and disciplined: dedicated exclusively to their specific markets and disciplined in not taking on any work outside of their core expertise. They have a strong technical understanding and intuitive grasp of your recruitment challenge and these strengths are reinforced by their sector longevity; each has years of relevant recruitment experience in it.

Unlike many of our competitors, we’ve a well-defined set of core Values and one of them is Fairness. Over the years, that’s helped us develop loyalty, low staff turnover and long service, meaning we’ve also developed exceptional market knowledge and candidate networks to help us help you.

Building upon this, each Recruiter at Henderson Brown takes responsibility for a specific sector, a specific job type and a specific region, becoming, in effect, a niche market specialist; it’s this narrow focus that develops wide and deep candidate connections. We know who to speak to.

As well as our strong personal networks, we also – unlike many of our competitors – benefit from the rigorous research of our in-house Resourcing Team. As they detail specific sectors continuously, identifying individual targets and gaining great recommendations, so they give us – and you – the most powerful access to the most powerful candidates.

We think good candidates are precious, giving them real respect and continuing guidance and support over the years. That’s why we know our candidates so well, why they trust us and why they give us so many referrals. And that’s why we so often find passive candidates, exclusive to Henderson Brown and exclusive to you.

Our Recruiters are very well supported to conduct the most thorough search of the market – benefitting, for example, from the most powerful version of LinkedIn and specialist job boards.

At Henderson Brown, we’re very serious about selecting the best candidates. Because we know your time’s precious and so we don’t waste it on mediocre people or wild cards. And that’s why our clients interview two out of three of the candidates we forward – and why our job fill ratio is so high.

The starting point is our thorough and meticulous approach. This pervades our daily operation and includes, for example, our desire to meet you to take a structured and detailed brief; our commitment to interview all candidates face-to-face, a major point of difference to many of our competitors and a distinct advantage for you; and if you so wish, our willingness to attend your interviews – which is nothing less than the hallmark of quality.

We don’t bluff and bluster, but listen to you carefully, asking the right questions, providing honest feedback and managing a transparent process. A positive experience also means keeping everyone well informed, structuring expectations, anticipating issues and overcoming challenges seamlessly. We stay very close to the process and are very good at closing it successfully.

We know our sectors. We know the companies. And we know the people. Which is why, at an early stage and discreetly, we can typically take informal candidate soundings to inform your first or second interviews. As well as this, we always offer to take out formal references on the successful candidate. We can often find out more and we want you to be as confident and comfortable as possible with the conclusion. These insights can helpful in identifying the strengths and development areas of the successful candidate, helping to integrate him or her effectively into your business.

At Henderson Brown, we are rigid in our expectations of personal integrity, sector dedication and positive results, at the same time, we are flexible in our contact and conversations with clients; we respond quickly and positively to their individual needs, knowing we are here to provide a Superior Service (one of our core values).

We don’t chase the quick wins, 50% of our clients have worked with us for over 10 years and nine out of ten come back to us repeatedly. That’s because we deliver. Some recruitment firms say one thing but do another, others fall at the first hurdle or fail to follow through; we are different in our determination to discharge our agreed commitments and achieve your desired result. Henderson Brown is a resolute partner.