Durlston Partners reviews

To give whoever reading this some context, I joined as a senior hire, 5 years of experience including team management, recruitment is a very process-driven job so you naturally begin to think you're doing everything right and you don't have much more to learn once you reach a certain level and it's just about repeating the same tasks to make deals happen, boy was I wrong. You'll learn a lot at Durlston Partners, no matter what your experience level, the recruitment process the founder has built and taught is second to none. You will learn how to get better candidates and manage them better as well. Transparency, all communication is open, we use Slack mainly instead of email for quick feedback, no one has ownership of clients, we have account managers but anyone is allowed to work any role, meaning, if you're someone who enjoys the candidate side of recruitment as opposed to constantly be doing BD, you'd probably enjoy it. Speaking of clients, sometimes it feels like we have too many, there's always a constant flow of new clients coming due to Durlston Partners excellent reputation and network, some of our clients have worked with us for 10+ years and are still using it to this day, often as their exclusive supplier, you just don't get that in 99% of recruitment firms out there. So you can focus on doing placements rather than spending half of your time cold calling or chasing new business. Finally, the culture is not like your typical recruitment firm, Durlston Partners hires very humble and talented individuals but we don't have the typical sales boiler room culture you tend to find in recruitment, and those types of individuals probably wouldn't fit in here, we share resources and everyone is working towards the same goal, building out a vast network, making placements and maintaining a high level of integrity and reputation in the market with candidates and clients alike. Beautiful modern offices in Mayfair, close to Oxford Street and Green Park tube stations, it's a very cool place to work and beats the city hustle, I worked in Bank for 5 years and am very glad to be out of there as it can feel a bit soulless sometimes. Free breakfast, most of the time free lunches + afternoon/early dinners as well, snacks, beer fridge, whiskey cabinet, Dart board, N64, 70” TVs to watch Rugby when the games are on, paid for company holidays to Europe including Ibiza, Barcelona, Croatia, etc and not just for the top billers, also bi-annual company events in top bars/hotels in Mayfair all paid for by the founder.

Having been at the firm for a few years it's categorically been the best decision of my life to join. It's an awesome group of people to see day in day out. We stuck together through the pandemic and even grew quite a bit as well. It's a great collaborative and supporting team that keeps adding awesome people to it! On top of that the commission is fantastic and the list of benefits is endless, from holidays abroad, money towards gym, full stocked fridge (fruit and beer), day trips, and endless reason to celebrate together! All in all a truly exceptional place to be