ABOUT US
Recruitment as it should be.
We’re a specialist recruitment consultancy in the East of England and Home Counties, built around a single principle: consultants who specialise in your sector and stay in it long enough to know it properly. We’ve been doing it that way for more than twenty years.
From offices in Cambridge, Peterborough, Northampton, and Hertfordshire & Essex, we match Accountancy & Finance, Human Resources, and Commercial Office talent to businesses across Cambridgeshire, Lincolnshire, Suffolk, Norfolk, Essex, Hertfordshire, Northamptonshire, Bedfordshire, and Buckinghamshire. Most of our work is repeat business from clients and candidates we’ve known for years. That’s what “recruitment as it should be” means to us.
Our story
The ONE Group started in Peterborough in 2004 with a simple idea: that recruitment is a people business. The first office opened on Lynch Wood that year with a small team. By the end of the same year, a second office had launched in Cambridge. Two more followed over the next two decades: Northampton in 2015, and Hertfordshire & Essex in 2023.
Today, The One Group Talent Partners is home to specialist consultants across Accountancy & Finance, Human Resources, and Commercial Office, with more than 258 years of collective recruitment experience between the three divisions. We’ve stayed in this region because we know it, because the businesses here are some of the most interesting in the country, and because being in partnership with our region and our clients is what inspires and drives us.
Our approach
Recruitment is full of agencies that do everything for everyone. We’re not one of them. Every consultant on the talent partners side is a specialist in their division, and they stay in it. The result is the kind of depth you can’t get from a generalist: deeper networks, sharper market knowledge, and a quicker, more accurate read on every brief.
That depth is paired with the harder-to-measure things. We’ll tell you when a salary won’t stretch for the brief you’ve written, when the market’s tightening against you, and advise you when a candidate you’re considering doesn’t feel like the right hire. Your decisions, backed by our knowledge. Most of our work is repeat business from clients and candidates who’ve come back to us because we did right by them the first time.
We meet our people. We can’t promise to meet every single candidate, but we meet a lot of them, and we meet our clients too. That’s how we judge fit beyond what’s on a job description, and it’s why we’re confident of the people we put in front of you.
Our story
Four principles shape how we work. You’ll see them in the conversations we have with
clients and candidates every day.
For candidates
Job searching can be a minefield. Working with us makes the obstacles easier to navigate.
You’ll be guided through the process from your first application, by a
consultant who recruits in your field and knows the businesses that hire in it. We’ll be straight with you about where a role is likely to go, prepare you for interview, and stay in touch afterwards. A lot of the people we place come back to us years later for their next move.
For employers
We recruit across Accountancy & Finance, Human Resources, and Commercial Office, on permanent, contract, temporary and interim briefs, plus retained executive search for senior appointments.
Alongside the recruitment itself, we produce annual salary and market insight guides, run a confidential benchmarking service, and host events across the region. Our clients find value in those whether or not they’re hiring at the time.
Awards and recognition
In 2023 we were named Business of the Year in Northamptonshire, and Employer of the Year in both Cambridgeshire and Hertfordshire at the regional SME Business Awards. Three counties, three judging panels. Recognition across the region mattered more to us than the trophies themselves – it told us that what we’re doing on the ground is being noticed by people who know the local markets and the local employers. Those awards came on the back of twenty years of the same work, and we’d like to think the next twenty will earn us a few more.
Meet the team
The people behind the three divisions. Meet the consultants you’ll be working with across Accountancy & Finance, Human Resources, and Commercial Office
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Recent thinking
What our consultants are seeing in the market, and what we’d like our clients and candidates to know about it.