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
Recruiting ‘A’ Players Into Your Team
LEADERSHIP & SCALE UP RECRUITMENT SERVICES
STRUGGLING TO FIND GREAT PEOPLE?
Often clients approach us because they’ve experienced a failed search or disappointing levels of service from other recruitment agencies.
Occasionally, they struggle with their own internal recruitment people as they look to recruit new leaders into their business and scale up their teams.
Established in 2016, Cobalt was set up to provide ‘A’ Player Talent to clients across the UK, US, Canada and the Middle East. Like us, our clients are committed to getting the very best talent into their organisations. They insist on using a process that delivers candidates that will excel, add significant value and be the right cultural fit.
That’s why they keep coming back to us.
We go deeper, look harder, search smarter and deliver faster.
Let us find you the right A-players who perfectly
fit the role as well your company culture.
It’s not enough for us 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 provide the entire end-to-end recruitment process including sourcing, interviewing and shortlisting, delivered by senior level managers with at least 20 years of recruitment experience.
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.
OUR CLIENTS
The Cobalt team has spent many years building strong relationships with blue-chip businesses around the world. Built on mutual trust, these relationships thrive because we consistently deliver candidates with the right skills, personality and cultural fit.
We provide A-Players to companies in:
Across many different sectors, including:
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- Transportation
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- Engineering
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- Pharmaceutical Industry
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- Consulting
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- Technology
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- Education
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.
