Awards

Financial Services Recruitment Awards

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Established in 2015, we are now one of the largest specialist Wealth Management recruitment companies in the UK. Our national team spans the country and has 10 seasoned Financial Industry Specialist Headhunters, with over 35 years’ experience, on average, in both Financial Services and Financial Services recruitment.

These awards underpin our quality of service, by recognising and validating the skill and expertise of our team and our commitment to excellence within the Financial Services Recruitment industry. Winning these awards only encourages us to further raise our already high standards and inspire us to continuous improvement. Our company is built on our ethics, effectiveness, and our commitment to informed choice.

Financial Services Recruitment Awards

Double Winner: Wealth Management Recruitment Company of the Year 2024 and Excellence Award for Ethical Practices 2024

We are delighted to win both Wealth Management Recruitment Company of the Year 2024 and Excellence Award for Ethical Practices 2024 in the Corporate Coaching and Recruitment Awards (Corporate Vision). Being named as a double award winner demonstrates Truestar Talent’s commitment to providing exceptional service and how we advocate for our clients and candidates. Winning these awards would not be possible without the ongoing dedicated work and passion of our team of Senior Talent Managers; it is our drive to do the right thing and genuinely advocate for others to inspires us to truly shine!

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Truestar Talent Awarded Corporate Membership to The Guild of Ethics, Culture & Leadership

Tony Beaven had a vision many years ago, for having a society or guild of likeminded people, passionate about doing the right thing and differentiating themselves in their industry. This Guild shows peers and wider society that they aspire to be the pinnacle in cultural excellence in ethical leadership. “As you know, I have known you for a number of years now and in all that time I’ve seen your business grow into an exceptional business based on exemplary values of ethical leadership, doing the right thing and creating a cultural environment of trust for employers and candidates.” – Tony Beaven, Managing Director. The Guild of Ethics Culture & Leadership highlights exceptional companies to customers, clients, third party providers and the industry, so that they can connect with people they can truly trust. Our team at Truestar Talent are delighted to be recognised for our ethical work, as our core principles Choice, Honour, and Deliver are at the heart of everything that we do.

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Winner: Financial Services Recruitment & Headhunting Enterprise of the Year 2024

We are delighted to win “Financial Services Recruitment & Headhunting Enterprise of the Year” in the Corporate Vision’s “HR and Employment Awards 2024”. This award illustrates how we value working transparently and effectively with HR and managers, ensuring consistent high-quality talent, championing diversity and cutting out the white noise in creating long term happy homes for people to thrive within. As we all know, Human Resources is a vital component in the success of all businesses and organisations and HR work tirelessly behind the scenes, showing persistent dedication as they strive to protect and enhance the working lives of business leaders and their employees. HR’s value is not always appreciated, nor HR recruitment processes always followed – but when they are, it can be spectacular! This award highlights our national team here at Truestar’s success in working closely with HR departments and internal talent acquisition teams across the country – we enjoy working in partnership and supporting a common goal. Thank you to the Corporate Vision’s judging panel for recognising our merit – it’s been honed for over 20+ years in Financial Services.

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Winner: Best Financial Services Recruitment / Headhunting Specialists UK 2023

We are thrilled to win Best Financial Services Recruitment / Headhunting Specialists UK in the SME News Finance Awards. This award serves as a validation of our commitment to quality, innovation and customer satisfaction. We believe in consistently giving our best to our clients, our candidates and our IFAs’ selling and buying client banks, as this means that success comes from helping others. It’s really great to see the national team being recognised for our achievements and excellence. Having our brand showcased as an organisation who is a leader in Financial Services Recruitment is great to see. We sing the praises of our clients and candidates, but we ourselves have been quite a well-kept secret. Its lovely to see us being recognised for what we do. This award has evaluated and benchmarked us against our peers and validates the hard work and dedication of our team, who have spent decades honing our skills in working in Financial Services roles and also in Financial Advisory recruitment and IFA Acquisition.

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Winner: Most Client-Focused Financial Recruitment Advocate 2023

Winning “Most Client-focused Financial Recruitment Advocate 2023” – this was quite an award to win in the SME Magazine Finance Awards! We believe that all business is personal, as at the end of the day it boils down to relationships and how these are nurtured and developed. Taking the time to listen, is truly key to understanding others. Most things in life fall down due to poor communication and to create great relationships we put ourselves in someone else’s shoes and see things from their perspective. Looking at things from someone else’s perspective is a common ethos within our team at Truestar Talent and Truestar Legacy. Being named nationally as true advocates is huge as it’s great to be seen that we are very aligned in our values and in how we work. We genuinely believe that to help you, we must first understand and then empower you.

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Finalist: Great British Businesswoman Awards 2023 Finalists Revealed

Truestar are a Finalist! The most inspiring women in business have been shortlisted ahead of the Great British Businesswoman Awards Grand Final 2023. The third annual awards ceremony will continue to champion businesswomen leading across a multitude of sectors.

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What is the current state of the IFA job market? Truestar Talent’s Pam Sutherland evaluates the latest trends

In this, the third and final part of IFA Magazine’s discussion with Pam Sutherland, Truestar Talent’s Founder, Pam assesses the current state of the IFA recruitment market and how Truestar works to enable people and firms to find the right solutions for them. In parts one and two of our interview, we took a look at how Truestar Talent’s range of services can benefit advisers, as well as delving into exit strategies and planning retirement in article 2.

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Putting people first – how Truestar can help you retire from your IFA business

In this, part two of our three-part series of exclusive interviews with IFA Magazine, Pam Sutherland, Founder of Truestar Talent discusses how her team are well-placed to help financial advisers sell their IFA business and have the option to retire – just one of the core services offered by the group. In part one, Pam gave us the high-level detail of the Truestar range of services offered to IFAs and advice firms. This time, we’re delving into one of those services – the key theme of exit strategies.

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Putting people first – how Truestar Talent can help your IFA Business

In this first article of a three-part series of exclusive interviews with IFA Magazine, Pam Sutherland, Founder of Truestar Talent, discusses how she and her team can help IFAs find the right role in the industry, or help business owners hire new talent, or even IFAs sell their business and exit/retire from their advice firms seamlessly.

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Winner of the Woman Who Achieves Solopreneur Home Business Award: Truestar Talent Ltd

Each Friday we feature a Woman Who Achieves Finalist, Winner or Sponsor. Introducing Pam Sutherland, Founder of Truestar Talent Ltd and Winner of the Woman Who Achieves Solopreneur Home Business Award 2019. We asked Pam our Friday Feature questions and here are her responses.

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Our Vision and Values

Our commitment to ethical practices and unparalleled efficiency has set us apart in the industry, as these awards will show you.

We treat you how we would like to be treated ourselves; by really listening and working closely with you, we deliver.

“What makes us special is that we genuinely care. We love working in partnership with people to find happy homes, by matching culture and needs.

Whether you are hiring new talent, finding your new exciting career move, or selling your business, we are with you every step of the way.”

Pam Sutherland Founder

Pam Sutherland Financial Recruitment Services

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Our Senior Talent Managers have extensive industry experience with wide-ranging connections. We have people who trust us and are waiting for us to let them know where their next career move will be. Established in 2015, we are a national company of 10 seasoned Financial Industry Specialist Headhunters, with over 35 years, on average, in both Financial Services and Financial Services recruitment.

It is not the size of the company that impresses us, it is the quality of home for the people that we place. Our clients range from international Merchant Banks, to national Mutuals, to national and also interesting niche IFA companies.

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Pam was an extremely personable and efficient contact within the resourcing community. Throughout several years working together, Pam always offered useful advice and evidenced a drive to meet our shared goals

Chris: Sales Development Manager

Pam has been absolutely excellent from start to finish. Understanding my needs, she carefully selected the exact opportunity that enabled me to move onwards in my career and join a company that matched my values and ethos

Chris: Sales Development Manager

Pam has been a breath of fresh air to deal with when looking for Financial Services positions. Her professional approach in providing constant updates and information throughout the recruitment/interview process played a major part in me securing my latest position

Roger: Director

Having worked closely with Pam on a large-scale recruitment drive.., I can wholeheartedly recommend both her and the team at Truestar. Not only has Pam made a huge contribution to the success of our expansion plans, she has also been a joy to work with

Nick: HR Manager

Pam was the first recruiter to make me stop and reconsider my options. I’d stayed with the same company for nearly 20 years – I’d moved across departments, built up a strong CV and had a job I really liked but had never considered the world outside the company I was in. Pam took the time to understand me and my situation better; she didn’t assume anything about me and my motivations… Pam was honest, gave great advice and took the time to understand what I was looking for … Pam was a great support, advocate and showed empathy and integrity throughout the whole process

Tammy: Financial Adviser

Having worked with Pam… I know that she is passionate about building good working relationships and providing the best possible service to her clients. Her industry experience means that she has built a good network and she is able to find the right candidates for both the job and the company ‘fit’

Steph: HR Manager

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