Two Recruiters.
Six Decades. One Big Idea.
Welcome to SearcHive. If you've found your way to this page, you're probably someone who takes hiring, or your career, seriously. So do we. In fact, it's all we've ever done.
Between us, we have spent six decades inside finance recruitment. We've worked with every kind of business — founder-led startups, FTSE-listed companies, PE and VC-backed organisations — and every kind of career story. From first moves to boardroom appointments. From businesses making their most critical hire to professionals navigating the most important decision of their working life.
We've seen what great hiring enables. And we've seen what bad hiring costs. Both leave a mark.
The frustration
What we knew could be better was the process. The platforms built for everyone except the people actually doing the hiring. The candidates sending CVs into silence. The hiring managers waiting weeks for shortlists that didn't quite fit. The agencies that disappeared after the placement.
Hiring had become harder, slower, and more expensive than it needed to be. And the people bearing the cost in time, money, and missed opportunity were exactly the people we'd spent our careers trying to help.
The vision
We also saw where the world was heading. AI wasn't coming for recruitment, it was already here. And we had a choice: watch it happen or shape it.
We chose to shape it. We wanted to build something that worked the way hiring should always have worked. Available around the clock. Built for busy leadership teams. Smart enough to surface the right candidates quickly and consistently. And human enough to know that data only ever tells part of the story.
So in 2023, drawing on everything we'd seen and learned, we built SearcHive.
Catherine Turner
CEO & Co-Founder
Three decades in finance recruitment. Warm, straight-talking, and genuinely invested in the people she works with. Built SearcHive to combine what great recruiters do best with the scale and consistency of technology. Founder of The CFO Series®.
Connect on LinkedIn →Ben Davies
COO & Co-Founder
Three decades in finance hiring. Sharp, commercial, and allergic to unnecessary complexity. Built SearcHive to make hiring faster, fairer, and 85% more cost-effective without sacrificing the quality that finance leaders deserve.
Connect on LinkedIn →The Numbers Behind the Story.
Average saving on traditional recruitment fees
Shortlists of interested, engaged candidates delivered
Average time-to-hire
Combined finance recruitment experience behind every search
We Know You Won't All Hire Through Us.
We're Fine With That.
Not every jobseeker who lands here will find their next role through SearcHive. Not every hiring manager will run their next search with us. And honestly, that's okay.
What we do believe is that everyone who arrives here should leave better equipped than when they came. Six decades of combined finance recruitment knowledge went into building this platform — the insight, the patterns, the hard-won lessons from being on both sides of the hiring desk thousands of times over.
That knowledge is here for you. In the resources. In the advisory sessions. In the way the platform thinks. Because great hiring and great careers shouldn't depend on who you happen to know.
Our Mission
To be the most loved and trusted talent platform in finance.
Our Vision — Faster, smarter, fairer hiring for every business and every career.
Quality of Hire
Our extensive network and industry reputation allows us to access and attract the very best talent.
Cost-Efficiency
Save up to 85% on traditional recruitment fees without sacrificing quality.
Speed
Shortlists of interested candidates delivered within 24 hours and an average time-to-hire of just 14 days.
We saw the future of hiring.
So we built it.
— Catherine & Ben
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