About Kate John Associates

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With over two decades combined recruitment experience in the South West, Kate John Associates is a specialist finance recruitment firm offering mid-management to senior level recruitment solutions within finance and accountancy.

A History of Exceptional Service

We aim to continue to successfully align ourselves with existing and new businesses- to not only advise and recruit when you have a need but also to add value when you’re not.

Through an ongoing relationship we recommend strategies around staff retention, including salary surveys/team structure benchmarking, and keep you up to date with market intelligence. We aim to entirely remove the transactional element all too frequently associated with recruitment- and build lasting relationships based on trust honesty and respect.

We treat each assignment individually, taking time to understand the environment and cultural fit needed as well as the skill set. We aim to partner with you through a recruitment process, listening to your needs and feeding back on the alternative strategies and approaches to market that we can offer. If we do not think we are the best solution for you, we will tell you rather than waste your time.

Meet the Founder

Kate John

Kate has almost two decade’s recruitment experience. After a successful 8 years within a large corporate recruiter she founded Kate John Associates seeing a gap in the market for a truly qualitative approach to recruitment- where ethics are at the forefront. She has successfully helped hundreds of candidates, with 80% of clients returning as repeat customers.

She has an exceptionally strong reputation in the market place, built on an authentic, consultative style and high delivery rate. Kate’s expertise lies within senior finance recruitment, offering both permanent and interim solutions. She has extensive experience working alongside both large corporates and SMEs, spending time to understand the company culture even when not recruiting in order to be best placed when a vacancy arises.

When not working, Kate is out and about in wellies or flip flops depending on the time of year, with her 8 year old daughter Lily and the bonkers family and office dog, Albie. We apologise in advance for any barking you may hear when you call!

In the often sharp shooting and murky world of recruitment Kate shines brightly to me as someone who I completely trust to be honest about not just candidates credentials but also my own expectations as an employer.
Rhiannon Phillips - Finance Director, South West
Kate is by far the best and most human recruiter I have ever encountered. Many many years later she still stands out. She will probably never know how much of a positive impact the roles she helped me to secure have had on me.
Chira Mudzamiri - Group Financial Controller at graze.com

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to discuss your hiring challenges

Contact the Kate John Associates team to discuss your hiring challenge or career ambitions, our expert team will provide advice and guidance on how best to proceed.

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