Core-Asset Consulting

Specialties

Core-​Asset Consulting is a leading recruitment company dedicated to the investment management, financial services and accounting & finance sectors in Scotland.

History

Established in 2005.

Core-​Asset Consulting was established in 2005 by Betsy Williamson, the Managing Director, to support the recruitment requirements of the investment management, financial services and accounting & finance sectors in Scotland.

Our objective is to identify the best possible candidates to meet our client’s recruitment requirements, rather than the most actively available — a subtle, but notable difference to our competitors.

Core-​Asset Consulting is independent and privately-​owned. Our focus is not on the short-​term demands of shareholders but on the long-​term interests of our candidates and clients. Our focus is on quality, not quantity.

We consider important client factors such as business culture, values and teamwork, and link these with a traditional ‘skills-​based’ approach to recruitment.

This is the philosophy behind our ‘service not sales’ approach to recruitment: no sales targets, no key performance indicators — just satisfied clients and candidates. This is our goal.

Meet the Business Owner

Betsy W.

Business Owner

I’ve always been quite an independent and driven person. And I believe that you should be a shepherd rather than a sheep. Although it was quite early in my career, I took the view that if you’re good enough you’re old enough and any risks involved in setting up my own business would be far outweighed by the benefits.

My aim for Core-​Asset Consulting was to take the best bits of contingency recruiting and executive search and fuse them together, to bring together the advantages of a large corporate and the plus points of a smaller company.

Contingency recruiting benefits from the development of a strong, long term relationship with the client, whereas executive search firms usually excel on an assignment basis and finding the best candidates in the marketplace not just the most active and available — a subtle but important difference.