City Recruitment Associates

City Recruitment Associates is a recruitment firm based in the City of London. It provides contingent, project and retained search solutions to clients in Banking and Finance, Wealth Management and Insurance, and also recruits for HR and secretarial roles and for IT.

Its banking work covers the Investment, Private and International Banking sectors. In finance it fills roles from accounts payable to Chartered Accountants, in insurance it places staff from graduate to C-level, and in IT it recruits from software to database developers. It says its team has over 40 years of combined recruitment experience, and that its consultants traditionally come from the sectors they recruit in.

The firm describes a consultative approach in which it learns about a client's team structure and corporate culture as well as the role itself. It reviews its performance for each client through statistics on vacancies received, CVs sent, interviews and placements, and advises clients on market conditions, salary trends and candidate availability. Its consultants have skills in market analysis, market mapping and headhunting.