Client testimonials
I just wanted to drop you a brief note to mention how happy Knight frank Australia have been with Cobalt's services over the years.
We have always found Emma to be diligent, enthusiastic, professional and with a great network.
Shane Bisset - Knight Frank
Holly, I am glad Jerome left such a positive feedback for his new employment. I must say he is a very good worker with the right knowledge about our sector and very pleasant young man to be around.
I would like to say BIG thank you for introducing him to us.
Kremena Iordanova - AIRPM
Martin, I just want to send my thanks to you and Cobalt for finding my new employer. The professionalism and dedication you showed when I was looking for a new employer was second to none and the way you kept me up to date was far better than I had expected. Not only did you work in a professional manner you also listened to what my requirements were (unlike other recruitment agencies who just want their fee) and actually gave me the option of a number of positions which was exactly what I was after. As you know, I will always recommend you and Cobalt to anyone who is looking for a position in the property industry as in my opinion they are the best property recruitment agency in the market today.
Rob Goodall - Robson Associates
Andrew, it has been a pleasure working with you. You have been very approachable, extremely efficient and have successfully identified two candidates that are suitable for our requirements and who will fit in well within our organisation.
Liz Chendlik - DSGi plc
Cobalt is a consultancy that listens to your brief, improves it and then works diligently and effectively to find the right match. It is a refreshing change to work with a team that takes a genuine interest in your business and can deliver without taking up too much of your time.
Marc Vlessing - Pocket
I would therefore like to offer my sincere thanks to you for finding the original assignment for me and for the very professional way in which you have managed our relationship since. I have thoroughly enjoyed working with you and I will not hesitate to contact you again if my circumstances change.
Bill Fox - Oxford West End Renaissance Partnership
I have always recommended Cobalt recruitment, and especially Christabel, and indeed they have helped placed colleagues and students in the past for me. Recently, however, I got to experience the Cobalt magic personally.
Christabel was efficient and professional in handling my move to a new position from the first enquiry through to completion of interviews and discussion of terms. She maintained an interest throughout the process right to when I would be starting. She had a good knowledge of the market, posts available and expressed in honest terms whether they were suitable for me. May I add that when she was out of the office on holiday colleagues covered efficiently and clearly work as a good team.
Having experienced the quality of her approach to recruitment first-hand, I will now doubly recommend the services of Cobalt for your career needs.
Tony McGough - DTZ
Genesis Housing Group have worked with Cobalt Recruitment recently and were pleased to have appointed successfully to a key role.
Elena Russell - Genesis Housing Group
Thank you to Katie for circulating my CV and chasing up possible opportunities. I feel the service I have received so far has been excellent and very professional.
Neil Goldberg - LB Barnet
Cobalt are a key supplier to Rider Levett Bucknall across the UK. I am impressed with both the personal and professional approach as the consultants take the time to gain a thorough understanding of our company culture and variable resourcing needs. The technical market continues to see a shortage of talent but Cobalt’s approach has enabled them to provide us with relevant candidates of a consistently high quality.
The overall level of service from Cobalt is excellent and they excel by facilitating continuous communication between RLB and our prospective employees throughout the recruitment process.
Stephen Reilly - Rider Levett Bucknall
I would like to personally thank Ed Lamdin for his professionalism and support in finding me a new position. Searching for a Director role in Property Management was a challenging task and always very time consuming, however, his dedication and hard work resulted in a number of excellent potential opportunities which concluded with two good offers on the table.
Chris Phillips - Touchstone
Having worked with a number of agencies, I found Cobalt to be proficient, professional and straightforward from receipt of my CV through to placement with a good company. They have a strong working knowledge of the industry, which isn't always the case with agents and were able to negotiate a competitive rate for me. I have placed another colleague of mine through them, who is thoroughly satisfied with his appointment.
Tony Hymers - Pathmeads Residential
Cobalt has provided an efficient executive search service, using their extensive database and network of contacts in the real estate market to provide recruitment solutions in a timely fashion. They showed good knowledge of the industry and an ability to recruit for us on continental Europe for both junior and higher level professionals.
Simon Nelson, ProLogis
En tant que DRH de GE Real Estate France, j'ai plusieurs fois fait appel à Cobalt Recruitment pour le recrutement de profils très pointus et très recherchés sur le marché de l'immobilier. Pour une structure matricielle mondiale comme la nôtre, il est critique de trouver des candidats ayant à la fois la connaissances des marchés locaux et une capacité à évoluer dans une culture internationale. J'apprécie l'expertise de Cobalt en immobilier, le professionnalisme de leur approche, leur réactivité sur les dossiers et leur capacité à capitaliser sur leurs différentes implantations européennes pour trouver les meilleurs candidats.
Adrien Desboudard - GE Real Estate France
Cobalt spent time understanding our business drivers and it's culture. This in turn has lead to a high level of candidate skills matching from both a technical and a behavioural perspective.
Ailsa at Cobalt has given us weekly written updates on the candidates in the pipe line and also the candidates they are tracking in the market. The high level of communication makes the life of a recruiting manger so much more pleasant and is certainly something that differentiates them against their peers.
Daimon Keith, Director, Turner & Townsend
Cobalt has helped to support the growth of ING Real Estate across the Investment Management, Development and Finance business lines both in the UK and abroad over the last few years. Their understanding of the respective business activities and access to all levels of good quality candidates in the market has resulted in Cobalt consistently meeting the needs of the business: the right person in the right role at the right time.
Oliver Bartrum - ING Real Estate Investment Management
We found Cobalt Recruitment to be professional and accurate. The candidates sourced met the brief required. Indeed we congratulate Cobalt on not deluging us with never ending quantities of meaningless CV's and limiting the introductions to recruits who fitted the role we were attempting to fill.
Much praise is due to Ailsa who is a credit to Cobalt. It is safe to say that we would not hesitate to re-use her services for future employee requirements.
Cliff Martin-Roberts (Partner) - Gleeds
We are most happy to provide Cobalt a reference for the services provided to Mansford.
In this respect, we are very pleased with the candidates placed by Cobalt and the efforts expended in achieving these placements.
Namely, personal visits not only with our recruitment consultant Anjali, but Cobalt directors; ongoing communications pre and post placement and most importantly, a full appreciation of the candidate qualities being sought for the respective roles.
Your efforts are much appreciated.
Graeme Stubbs - Mansford Holdings Plc
I was very impressed by the way in which Ailsa took time to understand our business as well as our vacancy requirements. The CVs submitted were of a consistently high quality and Ailsa was extremely helpful in arranging interviews. I shan’t hesitate to contact Cobalt regarding future vacancies.
Tracy Kearns, ChandlerKBS
In terms of Chris Kiernan’s work on Paul’s recruitment I have been very satisfied with Cobalt throughout the entire process from the initial critical stage of understanding our specific needs and providing the right sort of candidate through to agreeing the final deal. Chris has been responsive but not pushy, I feel that he has listened to what I have been saying and has acted as a very professional mediator between me and the candidate. Overall I have the sense of getting a very personalized bespoke service tuned in to what we need by someone who understands our business. I am sure that we will do more business together in the future.
Jonathan Steeds, Director, Golder Associates
We are highly satisfied with the excellent service we have received from Julian Robinson at Cobalt. Our needs for several specific high level posts have been clearly understood by Cobalt. Very good quality candidates, matching our stated requirements, have been selected for us to interview. We are pleased to have achieved a very short turnaround from definition of need to appointments these key members of our firm. Julian has provided us with regular updates through every step of process and timely advice at key points in the negotiations.
John Clemow - YRM Architects
Julian at Cobalt has been a pleasure to work with, he has been highly efficient at his job, personal, knowledgeable and of course very successful in placing two excellent and talented architects. Cobalt have a very professional approach, only ever sending over candidates that they knew would work well within our company; cutting out all the unnecessary hassle. We will continue to use Cobalt for our future recruitment needs. Thank you!
Rachel Holloway - Nilsson Architects
In a difficult market, we found that the service provided by Patrick Meehan of Cobalt was excellent - he was tenacious in seeking out good quality candidates and helped us to employ high calibre members of staff.
Roger J Duncombe, Director - KIER PROPERTY
The service at Cobalt is friendly and efficient and they continue to introduce high-quality candidates to us in France in a professional and timely manner.
Patrice GENRE - Managing Director, DTZ Asset Management, France
Economics Research Associates (ERA) has been growing the team in London at some momentum. We could not have achieved this growth in skilled personnel without the support and help of Cobalt. They have been attentive to our needs and efficient in streamlining candidates down to those who are good fit with ERA in terms of skill set and, indeed, in terms of personality. I highly recommend Cobalt Recruitment.
Muriel Muirden, Managing Director and Vice president, Economics Research Associates
Using agencies was very restricted when I joined Solitaire late in 2006 and we were only allowed to use a High St. company. Eventually, I was allowed to venture further and thought I would try those agencies which specialized in the Property Management sector.
Once I discovered Cobalt Recruitment, I have to say they stood out from the crowd. The service has been professional and prompt yet very friendly and personal. The quality and suitability of candidates put forward, for both temporary and permanent positions, is amazingly good. We now have both contract and permanent staff within Client Accounting recruited via Cobalt, whom I consider to be my best staff.
I have been recruiting staff for Finance departments for years and cannot believe how a property specialist company can find the best accounting staff so consistently. My approach these days, when a vacancy is authorized, is to speak to Cobalt first and hope I don’t need to contact anyone else, as Cobalt are so good at understanding our needs and finding the right candidates. It is a philosophy which often works and saves me valuable time and effort, whilst also maximizing the chance of recruiting an above-average candidate.
John Wrentmore, Financial Controller, Solitaire Group Ltd.
Derwent London following the merger between Derwent Valley Holdings and London Merchant Securities and now the leading London focused REIT are pleased to work with Cobalt to source high calibre individuals in their growing business. We continue to be impressed with their market knowledge, dedication and hard work.
Paul Williams, Derwent London
We have found cobalt to be knowledgeable, efficient and hardworking consultants. They have taken the time to get to know and understand our requirements.
Camilla Rich Drivers Jonas
We are very pleased with the candidates placed by Cobalt and the efforts expended in achieving these placements. Namely, personal visits not only with our recruitment consultant, but Cobalt Directors; ongoing communications pre and post placement and most importantly, a full appreciation of the quality of candidates being sought for the respective roles.
Graeme Stubbs, Mansford Holdings
It has been a pleasure working with Cobalt. They have been very approachable, extremely efficient and have successfully recruited an individual that is very suitable for our requirements and who fits well within the structure of our firm. I would strongly recommend Cobalt as a bespoke recruitment service for the real estate industry.
Peter Boros, Managing Director, CPM Consulting
I have found the service provided by Cobalt Recruitment to be professional and accurate and the candidates they have sourced for me are exactly what our brief required. Cobalt are one of the few agencies to recruit in an intelligent way: their searches are focused and diligent and you are introduced to potential recruits who fit the bill. In the last 6 months I have recruited five new members of staff –four via Cobalt. Cobalt is my first port of call whenever I have any resourcing vacancies. It also helps that their recruitment agents are incredibly nice.
Katie Jay, Jackson Coles
Over the last few years Cobalt Recruitment have provided Schroder Property Investment Management with a range of excellent individuals, for a number of different positions. They provide an efficient and effective solution to our recruitment needs and we will certainly continue to employ their services in the future, as well as recommend them to others.
Tony Brown, Fund Manager- Schroder Property Investment Management Ltd.
I see Cobalt Recruitment as a valuable partner for our European recruitment strategy. They are one of the very few recruitment agencies at this level who have a truly international network of capable candidates within the Real Estate sector.
Mark van Leeuwen, HR Manager ING Real Estate Investment Management
Over the past few years Cobalt has provided us with a very good standard of service. Cobalt has taken the time to understand the needs of our company and have produced candidates of a high calibre. We have found the staff to be both friendly and professional and will continue to use Cobalt for our future recruitment needs.
Alex Mapley, NB Real Estate
Just wanted to drop you a line to say how happy I have been with both the service and quality of candidates that Patrick has provided.
Although ultimately unsuccessful, due to a secondee being identified at the last minute, I feel as though Patrick identified some of the best candidates on the market and seemed to thoroughly understand our requirement.
Without hesitation we will use Cobalt again, as through Patrick you have demonstrated both professionalism and market knowledge.
Thanks again for everything.
Crispin