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About Us

KESS is a specialist recruitment partner built around great people, trusted relationships and the belief that recruitment should always feel personal.

“Our reputation has been built through personal relationships, specialist market knowledge and a commitment to providing a high level of service.”

“Our reputation has been built through personal relationships, specialist market knowledge and a commitment to providing a high level of service.”

Company overview

Your specialist
recruitment partner

We help businesses find the individuals, leaders and teams that make a meaningful difference. It’s our mission to make recruitment more personal, purposeful and effective, helping businesses find the right people.

Whether you are filling an important vacancy, strengthening your leadership team or recruiting for the next stage of growth, we provide a flexible and highly personal service shaped around your business or organisation.

KESS was founded in 2019 with a clear ambition: to create a specialist recruitment business serving the complex and highly relationship-led insurance market.

With senior involvement throughout, we combine experienced human judgement with AI-powered tools to make recruitment more focused, informed and effective.
Our reputation has been built through personal relationships, specialist market knowledge and a commitment to providing a high level of service.

Senior-led

Senior-led

Experience where it matters

Every assignment is led by senior recruitment specialists, giving you experienced judgement, direct access and consistent support from the first conversation through to a successful appointment.
Always available

Always available

A recruitment partner you can call on

From everyday questions to unexpected challenges, we’re here to provide straightforward advice, experienced perspective and practical support whenever you need it.
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Using AI where it adds value

We use AI-powered tools to help us search smarter, work more efficiently and make better-informed decisions, while keeping relationships, experience and human judgement at the heart of recruitment.
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“KESS took the time to really understand what we were looking for and, importantly, why.”

Alex Ridings

Managing Partner

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Company overview

Why are we different?

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We work in partnership

We work in partnership

We take time to understand your business, ambitions and challenges, building trusted relationships that go beyond individual vacancies and helping you make better recruitment decisions as your organisation evolves.
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We always bring fresh candidates

We always bring fresh candidates

We don’t rely on a historic database of candidates. Every search is live, identifying fresh, relevant people who are already open to the right opportunity, rather than needing to be persuaded to move.
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We embrace the potential of AI in recruitment

We embrace the potential of AI in recruitment

We combine experienced human judgement with intelligent AI-powered tools to search wider, work smarter and uncover stronger candidate matches, while keeping relationships and personal decision-making at the heart of recruitment.
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We are there for founders and directors when they need us

We are there for founders and directors when they need us

When an unexpected departure or people challenge puts pressure on your business, we provide founders and directors with responsive, experienced support to help navigate the situation and find the right solution.
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Building connections
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Building connections

More than loving to meet with clients, we love to help connect people. Join us at one of our networking events and make new exceptional contacts from all walks of business.

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Let’s connect

We’d love to regularly connect with you about industry updates, market changes and other news.

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Let’s work together

Whatever your recruitment needs, we’re always happy to talk, listen and explore how we can help.

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