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Three Highest Peaks, Fundraising and OPERA Global Youth Foundation
I was recently invited to an evening event where a man in his early twenties bravely explained to a small room of people the physical, mental and sexual abuse he’d suffered at the hands of his own parents. As a child, he wasn’t allowed to go to school, and was kept a prisoner in his own home so that his abuse would not be exposed. He escaped in...
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Winners Best Banking / Financial Services Recruitment Agency 2017 at the Recruiter Awards
Kite Consulting Group are delighted to announce that we are the winners of the Best Banking/Financial Services Recruitment Agency award at the 2017 Recruiter Awards! After winning Best Financial Services and Banking Agency 2016, we couldn’t be happier to have won the award for a second consecutive year. It would be an understatement to say we...
Read the insight Winners Best Recruitment Agency 2017 at the Recruiter Awards
We are so proud to announce that Kite Consulting Group are the winners of the Best Recruitment Agency 2017 award at the Recruiter Awards! In a fiercely competitive category with a total of 12 companies shortlisted, we couldn’t be more delighted to have won this prestigious award. Entries were accepted from recruitment businesses in all...
Read the insight Double Winners - Recruiter Awards 2017
As previous winners of the 2016 Best Banking/Financial Services Recruitment Agency, Kite nervously attended the annual Recruiter Awards ceremony last night. No recruitment business has ever won twice and we were aware that winning it consecutively was a very tough challenge. You can probably see where this is going, and that I’m delighted...
Read the insight www.blocktribe.com – Europe’s first dedicated blockchain hiring site
Recently customers of Kite have been experimenting and innovating with the use of blockchain in Clearing, Exchanges, Broking, Payments and Settlements. Today we are delighted to say that Kite Consulting Group has been working on an innovation of its own, it is with immense pride that we introduce blocktribe.com. Europe’s first dedicated...
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Brexit - Where will all the A-Players go?
As published in Tabb Forum Most birds migrate for winter. Whether they migrate north or south depends on where you are - but you can bet that when the winds change, they’re off. Fish migrate too. The timescales vary from annual to weekly, but when the food moves – so do the fish. The migration patterns of...
Read the insight Kite Awarded "Best Banking / Financial Services Recruitment Agency in the UK"
I’m delighted to tell you that this week Kite Consulting Group won the prized Best Banking/Financial Services Recruitment Agency award at the 2016 Recruiter Awards! On behalf of the whole team, I would like to say thank you for working with us. We are so proud to have beaten a field of large, traditional and established firms to win this...
Read the insight Why Compliance is now an A-Player game | FOW, May 2016
http://www.fow.com/3548316/Why-Compliance-is-now-an-A-Player-hiring-game.html You can be brilliant at anything. From the seemingly mundane to the obviously complex, the right person in the right role makes all the difference. Did you pick up your coffee this morning from your usual place? Hopefully you were served by your favourite barista - the one...
Read the insight Why Financial Market’s Businesses Need A-Players more than ever before
Shifts in Financial Market Infrastructure (FMI) over the last 10 years have changed the profile of person that FMI businesses want to hire. There used to be little competition for key hires between CCPs and Exchanges, mainly because there was little competition between these businesses. Exchanges and CCPs were mostly interconnected and naturally no...
Read the insight How to build a repeatable process for spotting A-Players in an Interview
Spotting an A-Player is not a particularly intuitive process. Sometimes the best interviewees make the worst hires and visa versa. However, a thorough and intelligent evaluation process takes place, hiring unknown people can still be a reliable source of A-Players. A-Players look and sound a lot like everyone else, though if you look carefully...
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