HOT 100

Recruiter's HOT 100 companies 2024

Tech & IT recruiters continue to forge ahead in the latest HOT 100 listings.

4 March 2025
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Sharing secrets to achieving top NFI

Net fee income (NFI) and recruiters’ salaries are key issues in this March-April issue of Recruiter.

DeeDee Doke

Editor's leader March/April 2025

Welcome to the March-April 2025 issue of Recruiter!

4 March 2025

Recruiter’s HOT 100 firms unveiled at Investing in Talent Awards

Entrants in the HOT 100 list of the most efficient and profitable recruitment businesses were counted down at Recruiter’s Investing in Talent Awards last night.

31 January 2024

New HOT 100 partner as Agile analyst retires

The deadline for recruitment companies to get their financials in for this year's HOT 100 is close.

13 September 2022

Recruiter’s HOT 100: HOT 10 Engineering/Technical/Science Recruiters

There are 21 technical/engineering specialists included in the Recruiter 2021 HOT 100, including three public sector-categorised built environment/technical recruiters.

Public sector, Oil & gas/Energy 28 February 2022

Recruiter’s HOT 100: HOT 10 Professional Sector Recruiters

This group covers the main professional candidate segments – accounting, finance, legal, HR, sales & marketing, media etc. and now includes four professional recruiters previously categorised in the HOT 10 as public sector specialists.

Marketing & Sales, Public sector 14 February 2022

Recruiter’s HOT 100: HOT 10 Technology recruiters

Once again in the HOT 100 it has become even harder to separate between Technology (traditionally described as IT/Telecoms), STEM and Technical (mainly Engineering) skillsets and job roles.

Life sciences, Engineering 3 February 2022

Recruiter HOT 100: Herculean efforts, defying gravity

2021 has seen a sea change in recruitment fortunes.

18 January 2022

Permanent market to lead growth in UK recruitment sector in 2015

Growth in the UK’s recruitment sector this year will be led by permanent placements, according to Sue Dodd, director at Agile Intelligence and compiler of Recruiter’s HOT 100 list.
16 February 2015

Focusing on both core and growth markets proves key to HOT 100-FAST 50 success

Keeping one eye on their core markets and another on growth opportunities has proven key to public sector staffing specialist GatenbySanderson’s appearances on both Recruiter’s HOT 100 and FAST 50 lists, according to joint managing partners Martin Tucker and Mark Turner.
Education, Public sector 13 February 2015

Editor's Comment November 2014

The end of 2014 may be near but the energy and dynamism of the year continue to build momentum!
13 November 2014

2014 Recruiter HOT 100: HOT 10 technical recruiters from mainly engineering and scientific sectors

Today we reveal the last in our series of HOT 10 breakouts, the HOT 10 technical recruiters from the 2014 Recruiter HOT 100 list.

2014 Recruiter HOT 100 - Plugged in: the IT & telecoms HOT 10

Today we reveal the third of our Recruiter HOT 10 breakouts, the HOT 10 IT & telecoms recruiters from this year’s HOT 100 list.
IT/Telecoms 10 November 2014

2014 Recruiter HOT 100: HOT 10 professional recruiters revealed

Today we reveal the second of our Recruiter HOT 10 breakouts, the HOT 10 Professional Recruiters from this year’s HOT 100 list.
Public sector 6 November 2014

2014 HOT 100: Hot 10 public sector recruiters go from strength to strength

A supplement with the November issue of Recruiter will feature the 2014 Recruiter HOT 100, the ninth edition of the benchmark league table of the UK recruitment sector’s most efficient companies, as measured by gross profit per head, or net fee income.
Public sector 4 November 2014

Release yourself from the trap of success

Success can easily fence us in and suppress our humanity, but it doesn’t have to be so
Legal 11 September 2014

Manchester and engineering underpins Premier Group results

Premier Group, which featured in the Recruiter HOT 100 list of UK recruiters with the greatest gross profit per employee, reported an 11% increase in first-half revenue to £21m compared to the same period last year.

How hot is your company?

Do you qualify for Recruiter’s HOT 100 2014, the definitive list of the UK’s most profitable recruiters? If your business’s gross profit is at least £1.5m, you have at least 20 employees and your gross profit (GP) per employee is at least £40k, you may qualify for a place on Recruiter’s HOT 100 2014.
12 June 2014

Recruiter Awards 2014 Special

The Agency and In-house Recruitment Leaders of the Year are always tough categories but the cream always comes to the top, as they say

Sheffield Haworth relocates Verma to the US

Sheffield Haworth, the global executive search, interim management and human capital research and advisory company, is relocating Deepak Verma, founder and executive chairman Sheffield Haworth India, to the US.
Executive search, HR 25 April 2014

Sheffield Haworth appoints Ó Curraoin in London

Global executive search and interim management consultancy Sheffield Haworth has taken on Noel Ó Curraoin to join its retail financial services practice at in London.
Executive search 24 January 2014

Recruitment industry poised for recovery in permanent market as unemployment falls again, says Dodd

The UK recruitment industry is poised for a recovery in the permanent jobs market following this morning’s announcement that unemployment fell to 7.1% between September and November 2013, according to economist and recruitment industry consultant, Sue Dodd.
22 January 2014

Flo Software Solutions is latest sponsor of Recruiter Awards

Recruiter is pleased to announce recruitment software firm Flo Software Solutions as its latest sponsor of the Recruiter Awards for Excellence 2014.
6 January 2014

That was 2013 in recruitment

Whether it’s the death of Mandela (or Thatcher), Andy Murray's long-awaited Wimbledon glory, the rise to prominence of 3D printing, Bitcoin and twerking that the wider world will remember this year for, 2013 has certainly been eventful for recruiters.

20 December 2013
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