Barden

Barden is a partner-led talent advisory, recruitment and executive search firm with offices in Dublin, Cork and Waterford in Ireland, and an international office in Menlo Park, USA.

It recruits in accounting and finance, including senior qualified and recently qualified accountants, and in tax, legal, supply chain and procurement, life sciences, HR and business support, and projects, transformation and change. Its technology practice covers software development, AI engineering, QA, DevOps, analytics, cybersecurity and infrastructure.

Most of its people are qualified in the areas they recruit for, for example as accountants or solicitors. Barden says it invests over €250k every year in data sources and analytics, and over €300k every year in the professional communities it works with. It names Chartered Accountants Ireland, Analytics Institute, Tax Institute and Tech Industry Alliance among its professional body partners. The firm is B Corp certified.