Who we are:
Helen
Goddard
Helen
Goddard
Cobalt’s founder, Helen Goddard, brings experience and perspective to every assignment through her 24 years’ experience working in recruitment in agency, in outsourced services and fully in-house. She understands people, businesses and cultural fit; she is tenacious and hard-working; she is fair, unbiased and ethical; and she gets results.
Helen has an excellent track-record of delivery in a variety of client environments and business sectors including consulting, technology, engineering, media, banking and pharmaceutical. She is an expert at creative candidate sourcing using multiple tools and databases and networking (7500+ LinkedIn connections). Throughout her career she has maintained a hands-on approach to sourcing candidates, latterly taking responsibility for executive-level roles.
A graduate in Business Admin and HR, Debbie has worked within recruitment for 23 years. With experience both agency and client side, Debbie has a deep understanding of the whole recruitment lifecycle and a proven track record in delivery, effective client management, resourcing and talent acquisition.
Debbie knows the value of building relationships with clients, listening and asking the right questions. She has exceptional search skills across a wide range of tools and databases.
Debbie
Wyatt
A graduate in Business Admin and HR, Debbie has worked within recruitment for 23 years. With experience both agency and client side, Debbie has a deep understanding of the whole recruitment lifecycle and a proven track record in delivery, effective client management, resourcing and talent acquisition.
Debbie knows the value of building relationships with clients, listening and asking the right questions. She has exceptional search skills across a wide range of tools and databases.
Debbie
Wyatt
COBALT LEADERSHIP
We go deeper, look harder, search smarter and deliver faster.
In business, leaders stand at the core of transformative growth. At Cobalt, we’ve specialised in Leadership Recruitment since 2016, dedicated to identifying and onboarding these strategic front-runners for businesses worldwide. We refer to these individuals as ‘A’ Players.
Leadership isn’t just about experience; it’s about alignment, innovation and the power to inspire. Our bespoke recruitment process is designed to ensure we’re not only introducing seasoned professionals but individuals who fit with your brand’s essence and vision.
We go deeper, look harder, search smarter and deliver faster.
Because we are totally transparent in everything we do, keeping candidates and clients informed, up-to-date and engaged throughout the process we deliver a consistently exceptional experience for both parties. We think differently about search.
Every search starts from scratch and is totally tailored so we are never tempted to try and squeeze round pegs into square holes. There have been multiple times when our clients have hired more than one from a shortlist, it wasn’t their intention when they started the process but the candidates we shortlisted were so great they simply had to find a place for them in their business!
Here are the facts:
It’s not enough to find someone who can simply ‘do the job’, we ensure we gain an authentic insight into what makes the perfect cultural, operational and strategic fit for every client.
We guarantee our placements:
If our candidates don’t work out during their onboarding, we will find the perfect replacement free of charge.
The entire end-to-end recruitment process including sourcing, interviewing and shortlisting is delivered by senior level managers with at least 20 years of recruitment experience. This gives us the confidence to charge our clients differently to traditional search firms.
We have a 96% retention rate
We are experts at assessing. We make sure we understand our clients, their roles and culture and our candidates. This means we can match effectively, which results in candidates that stay, have impact and deliver significant value. 96% of our placed candidates have stayed for at least 12 months.
We charge the majority of our fee on placement.
We win when you win and believe in demonstrating our capability and delivering results before charging our full fee. We break our fees down so that they are aligned with each phase of an assignment.
Cobalt Search treats all candidates respectfully and everyone is given constructive feedback, even if they are declined. To us it feels wrong that this is unusual, but it is. We wanted to deliver a fabulous service to our clients, by really getting to know them, their business and their culture, and delivering A-player talent. Helen Goddard
OUR SERVICES
Leadership Search
Leadership Search
Why work with us
What makes us different from other agencies is that our Researchers actually research.
We are experts at spotting a match and have exceptional powers of persuasion. We use various tools on multiple channels to find the very best talent, wherever they are hiding, and we are adept at sparking a candidate’s interest. We are targeted to finding and enticing extremely high volumes of relevant candidates and it would not be unusual to review over 3,000 candidates before selecting around 500 that look right on paper.
