Award-winning evaluation
Two decades of building teams and managing critical appointments in the global markets.
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2016
Financial Markets Award
Brilliant guarantee system and ethical approach to supporting the needs of their clients.
2017Financial Markets Award
Strong evidence demonstrating their value add to clients and candidates.
2017Search Agency of the Year
The judges admired how Kite measures itself and its staff purely on the quality of hire it delivers to its customers, rather than by financial, sales-orientated or other traditional metrics.
2018Best Client Service
Kite’s innovative examples of how it supports its clients have contributed to excellent financial results, all backed up with clear metrics to underpin performance.
2023Financial Markets Award
Kite does not rest on its successes in their specialism but have a constant effort to innovate the company’s offering.
2023Innovation Award
Top marks for this category goes to an initiative which brings together real-time information relating to candidate engagement.
2025Best Client Service
A unique offering which offers new value to the hiring process.
Industry mapping
An over-dependence on digital applications has created a broad but shallow talent pool in the financial markets. We operate below the surface, mapping your competitors and beyond to identify the most reputable individuals and approach them on your behalf.
Kite’s network is built on 20 years of relationships, giving us access to confidential introductions and recommendations that empower our shortlisting capabilities. However, as strong as our network is, our methodologies ensure the entire market is considered for every hire we manage.
We are proud of the way we hire, and believe passionately that patience, careful evaluation and a critical eye are at the heart of an effective service.
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Award-winning technical screening
Operating as sole agent affords us the time required to ensure the technical suitability of every candidate. Every role includes a bespoke written application in which the shortlist provides first-hand commentary on their knowledge, experience and market background.
We work with your hiring stakeholders to build assessments that quickly identify the winning profiles and ensure clarity of capabilities before any interview takes place. Our goal, always, is to ensure that you only ever meet with candidates who are thoroughly assessed and meet your hiring criteria.
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Meet your shortlist
Interviewing is expensive. Multiple hiring stakeholders and tens of hours invested for just one role, often on the assessment of three sheets of paper. In traditional hiring processes, most of this time is wasted in the search for the people who present and explain themselves in the right way for your company.
Not with Kite. We interview every candidate for you, recording the conversation and presenting it alongside their CV and technical screening. Watch the person behind the CV, read their technical screening and review their CV. Only meet the people you believe will add value to your business.
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Meet our Managing Director
Click below to request a meeting with our Managing Director, Nathan Fuller, to learn how you can engage with Kite.
Request a meetingA successful hire every time. Guaranteed.
Because of our methodologies and evaluation criteria, we are industry leading in our hire retention, with more than 97% of our appointments remaining in place in year 2. However, human capital is a complex landscape and sometimes despite all the efforts of the hiring panel, an appointment can be unsuccessful.
Our business model is designed to ensure that we share the risk in every hire. Should an appointment through Kite not succeed into their second year, we will manage a complimentary search process to replace the hire free of charge.
