Business Details
Your Trusted Recruitment Partner in Birmingham
Established in Birmingham, Katie Bard is a specialist recruitment consultancy delivering excellence in permanent and temporary staffing solutions. Our expertise spans business support and graduate-level roles across diverse sectors including legal, property, finance, and technology. We prioritise understanding both client organisational culture and candidate career aspirations to achieve optimal matches.With a success rate of 1 in 2 placements - significantly above industry averages - we combine in-depth candidate interviews, targeted recruitment campaigns, and dedicated account management to deliver tailored services. Our consultants provide market insights, salary benchmarking, and role re-scoping advice, supported by a comprehensive service portfolio encompassing payroll, outplacement, and training solutions.
Services
Permanent Recruitment
Temporary Staffing
Executive Support Placement
Graduate Roles
Legal Recruitment
Office Management Recruitment
Payroll Services
Market Insights
Highlights and features
- We achieve a 1 in 2 placement success rate compared to industry average of 1 in 8
- Our consultants conduct detailed candidate interviews covering experience and career trajectory
- We provide market trend insights and salary benchmarking expertise
- Dedicated account managers offer ongoing support for both clients and candidates
- Specialist recruitment across legal, property, finance, and technology sectors
What people say
Amazing team
Secured my last two roles
Felt supported from day 1
Quick employment
Supportive and communicative
Services
Permanent Recruitment
We specialise in permanent recruitment solutions for office support and executive roles across multiple sectors. Our process combines in-depth candidate interviews with organisational culture analysis to ensure lasting matches. Clients benefit from our 50% placement success rate and market-leading consultative approach.
Temporary Staffing
Providing flexible temporary staffing solutions for businesses requiring short-term support. Our services cover legal, property, and finance sectors with candidates available for fixed-term contracts and project-based assignments across the UK.
Graduate Recruitment
Connecting graduates with career-starting opportunities through our specialist recruitment programmes. We offer tailored CV advice, interview preparation, and access to graduate schemes with leading businesses in technology and professional services sectors.
Legal Recruitment
Specialist legal recruitment services placing qualified professionals in law firms and corporate legal departments. Our expertise covers roles from legal secretaries to partner-level assistants across Birmingham and the West Midlands region.
Market Insights
Providing comprehensive market intelligence including salary benchmarking and competitor analysis. Our consultants deliver actionable insights to help clients optimise their employer branding and hiring strategies based on current market trends.
Questions
What recruitment services do you specialise in?
We specialise in permanent and temporary recruitment for office support, executive roles, legal positions, and graduate schemes across multiple sectors including finance, technology, and property.
What areas do you cover?
We operate across the West Midlands, Birmingham, wider UK regions, and have international capabilities through our Angela Mortimer Group network in Europe.
How do you ensure successful candidate matches?
Our consultants conduct detailed interviews to understand career trajectories and organisational culture, using this insight to match candidates' skills with client requirements for a 50% success rate.
What support do you offer candidates?
We provide CV tailoring advice, interview preparation, and career guidance while connecting candidates with opportunities that align with their professional development goals.
How quickly can you fill positions?
Our 1 in 2 success rate means we typically fill roles faster than industry averages, with many candidates securing positions within weeks of registration.
Reviews (6)
Hannah Frances
Jun 15, 2022
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Highly recommend working with a member of the Katie Bard team! Super supportive throughout the entire process of onboarding you as a client, to arranging interviews tailored perfectly to you. Matthew D'Silva, particularly, dealt with the process in an incredibly friendly manner, helped with interview preparation, and ultimately made what is notoriously a daunting process into a very enjoyable one. I couldn't have done it without him or the Katie Bard team - five stars.
Claire Brown
Apr 30, 2022
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Katie Bard is the best recruitment agency I've ever come across. They are person-centred, finding jobs that match your skills, personality and job wishes not just putting you in for any random interview. Thanks especially to Sharan who has been so supportive, informative and genuinely kind. She made this process go seamlessly for me as well as quickly!
Hannah Farmer
Apr 01, 2022
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I had a great experience with Katie Bard. Sharan helped me every step of the way in securing an amazing job and next step in my career. I could not recommend enough. Professional, thorough and attentive and I am very grateful for their help!
Kelly Lou
Mar 24, 2022
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I had my first meeting with Kam and Georgina at the start of February, over zoom; they were easy to talk to and made the interview a very enjoyable one. A month later, they have helped me secure my first position in a law firm, since graduating. Despite being overseas this entire month - with an 8 hour time difference - the responsiveness from Kam and Matthew made this entire process very easy. I cannot recommend them enough!
Liz P.
Feb 28, 2022
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Great experience, Sharan was amazing and went over and above to find me a great job that was perfect for what I needed (location, job type, salary etc). Would highly recommend Katie Bard as they were helpful, friendly and kept in contact regularly to support me before the interview and once I'd started my new job.
Emily Collins
Feb 19, 2022
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I have had such an amazing experience with the Katie Bard team, they have been with me ever step of the way in my latest job search, and boy do they get results! I managed to register with them, have an interview and get a job in no less than 10 days, that must be a record! Massive thank you to Sharan who made this process so stress free and really enjoyable! If you're thinking of signup, stop thinking, just do it! Thank you again for all of your hard work!
