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Specialist recruitment for the roles that matter most to you.. Our Talent Partners consultants work across Accountancy & Finance, Human Resources, and Commercial Office, from four offices across the East of England and Home Counties.

Most of our work is repeat business from clients we’ve known for years. Some of it is one-off senior hires that needed to be discreet. Whichever applies to you,

We’d rather have a short conversation about the role than a long one about our process. Call us on 01733 234000 or email hello@theonegroup.co.uk and you’ll be talking to a consultant, not a switchboard.

If it’s easier to send the details over first, the form below does the same job.

How we'll work with you

Four routes, used singly or together depending on the brief:

Permanent
recruitment

For the hires you want long-term inside the team. Contingent or retained, depending on the seniority and the market for the role.

For project work, peaks in demand, parental cover, or senior capability you need quickly without committing to permanent headcount. Day rates set against the current market, with full IR35 compliance.

Retained search for senior appointments where confidentiality and rigour matter. Director, MD, C-suite, and NED hires across all three divisions.

Salary benchmarking, market mapping, EVP development, HR partnership work. The kind of advisory work that helps you make a better hire whether you use us for it or not.

What happens after you get in touch

A consultant from the relevant division will give you a call to discuss the brief. That conversation is about the role, the team, and what you’re trying to achieve, not a sales pitch. From there, ideally we will arrange to meet and talk through which of the routes above makes most sense for what you need, and what a realistic shortlist looks like.

Why specialist recruitment matters

Our consultants stay in their division rather than spreading themselves across numerous markets. That depth shows up in better-qualified shortlists, faster turnarounds, and candidates you wouldn’t otherwise reach. It’s why most of our work is repeat business, and why our placements stay placed.

Get in touch

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Accountancy & Finance
Human Resources
Commercial Office
Executive Search
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THE ONE GROUP

Where we're from,
and how we got here

Twenty years of specialist recruitment in the East – and a lot of small decisions that added up.

TOG started in Peterborough in 2004 with a small team and a simple idea: that recruitment is a people business, done best by specialists who stay in their sector long enough to know it properly.

More than two decades on, we've grown into four offices across the East of England and Home Counties. We recruit for finance leaders, HR directors, engineering managers, tech founders, scientists, and the commercial teams that keep businesses running day to day. Between us, we've built up over 258 years of collective recruitment experience across our specialist divisions, and a network of more than 150,000 candidates we've placed, coached, or come to know across two decades in the region.

The founding principle hasn't changed. Recruitment as it should be.

OUR STORY

Key events timeline

2004

Doors open in Peterborough.

Our first office launches with a team of six on Lynch Wood. Cambridge follows the same year, giving us two offices before our first anniversary.

2015

Northampton makes it three.

Our third office opens with a team of five, quickly growing to eleven consultants covering the wider Midlands region.

2017

Peterborough moves across the road.

The team has outgrown the founding office. We move into Arena House on Lynch Wood, big enough for a growing consultant base and the back-office team that supports the whole group.

2018

Cambridge moves too.

Our second office relocates to Cambourne Business Park, giving the growing Cambridge team the space it now needs.

2023

Four offices, three counties, one very good year.

The Hertfordshire & Essex office opens in Potters Bar, extending our footprint into the Home Counties.

In the same year, we're 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 panels.

TODAY

Still growing.

Four offices, more than 258 years of collective recruitment experience across our specialist divisions, and a network of over 150,000 candidates.

Same founding principle.

SPECIALISTS BY DESIGN

What we do

We're specialists, not generalists. Every consultant at TOG focuses on one sector and stays in it. Not because it's the only way to do recruitment, but because it's how you build the depth to spot the difference between a strong CV and a strong hire.

It's also why so many of our clients come back to us years, even decades, after a first placement.

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Accountancy & Finance
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Human Resources
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Commercial Office
Administration, customer service, project management and more
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Technology
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Engineering & Manufacturing
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Scientific
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Sales, Marketing & Creative
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Executive Search
Across all of the above
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Beyond the recruitment itself, we produce annual salary guides, regional market reports, and the practical resources our clients and candidates turn to when they want a clearer view of what's happening in their sector.

THE WAY WE WORK

How we work

Four principles show up in every conversation and every process.
01

Be curious.

We stay interested in the market we work in, and in the people who work in it.

02

Keep it human.

We remember your kids' names and know how you take your coffee. That's just how we work here.

03

Make a difference.

We're here to help people build careers they love and businesses they're proud of.

04

Enjoy the ride.

Recruitment is a career, but it should be fun too. If it isn't, we've done something wrong.

WHAT COMES NEXT?

Recruitment
as it should be.

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