About us

Multi-brand. Multi-niche. High-quality. We’re a recruitment group of incredible brands harnessing the power of human aspiration, human inspiration, and human application.

It’s time to disrupt the
recruitment industry.

We combine commerciality, ambition, and the ability to bring change-making brands to the recruitment world.

Joining Kernel isn’t just about expanding. It’s about combining expertise, infrastructure, and innovation to create the ideal environment for your business to grow.

What sets us apart?

Three fundamental things. Our people - Kernel is home to passionate and successful individuals with the knowledge, insight, and mindset to provide entrepreneurial solutions to some of the world’s leading businesses. Our process - each brand looks at recruitment differently, embedding equity into every part of their approach, expanding possibilities and discovering and inspiring tomorrow’s leaders. Our focus - we are committed to building a global network of recruitment excellence. Changing recruitment as we know it.

Each business joining the Group benefits from the shared expertise and experience across all of our brands. Working together to deliver tangible results for our clients, our candidates and our people.

Catalyst Partners is revolutionising the HR recruitment experience.

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Dartmouth Partners is recruiting excellence from Classroom to Boardroom.

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Pure Search is the industry expert in governance and corporate markets.

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Our purpose

To reset the standard for service excellence.

We believe the recruitment industry needs to be disrupted. With our expertise, the ambitions of our people, and the courage to challenge traditional processes, we are doing exactly that.

The spark that built a
multi-brand,
multi-niche,
award-winning
collective of recruitment firms.

From partners to a recruitment powerhouse

Three fundamental things. Our people - Kernel is home to passionate and successful individuals with the knowledge, insight, and mindset to provide entrepreneurial solutions to some of the world’s leading businesses. Our process - each brand looks at recruitment differently, embedding equity into every part of their approach, expanding possibilities and discovering and inspiring tomorrow’s leaders. Our focus - we are committed to building a global network of recruitment excellence. Changing recruitment as we know it.

Each business joining the Group benefits from the shared expertise and experience across all of our brands. Working together to deliver tangible results for our clients, our candidates and our people.

Our values

At every interaction, investment, and opportunity, we deliver excellence. Clients receive exceptional talent. Businesses become exceptional leaders. Investors obtain excellent returns.

We begin everything with compassion and empathy. Our ecosystem was built by people, for people. We always guide and support our teams with kindness to help ensure the decisions made are for the benefit of everyone.

We’re not a collection of local firms. To make real movements, you need to champion change. We’re a globally operating, fully connected group partnership.

We’re here to further every individual person, client, and investor, helping them fulfil their potential. Always looking forward, we know that to advance you need collaboration. We invest back into the people who’ve helped create who we are.

Inclusive recruitment

At Kernel, we are our people and we know that high achievers come from any background. We are committed to supporting diverse talent with equal access and opportunities to a successful professional future. This allows us to build powerful teams with diverse talent that bring individual experiences, understanding and expertise to their specialisms.

Our Classroom to Boardroom Foundation is our ongoing commitment to delivering this cause.

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FAQs

If your business is looking to join a recruitment Group like no other, get in touch with our Founder-CEO, Logan Naidu, and share with us how you are an industry changemaker.Want to become a part of our team? Find the right opportunity for you within one of our brands. Visit our careers site for all the information.

Work at Kernel Global

Our global brands cover all areas of recruitment across a multitude of industries.

Catalyst Partners is revolutionising Human Resources and People recruitment, specialising in Reward and Analytics, HR Infrastructure, People and Talent.

Dartmouth Partners recruits excellence from Classroom to Boardroom with a focus on financial and professional service recruiters. They specialise in many dynamic sectors including Private Equity, Corporate Finance and M&A, Early Careers, Strategy and CFO and Senior Finance.

Pure Search is the industry expert in governance and corporate markets. The team has a well established global reputation as the experts in Legal, Tax, Risk and Compliance, and Treasury search and recruitment.

Kernel is a globally located group of recruitment agencies. Our headquarters are in the City of London, a short walk from Liverpool Street and Moorgate train stations.

Our brands have offices across the world, in the vibrant cities of New York , Charlotte, and Hong Kong.

Let's talk. Exceptional things start with a conversation.

Looking for more information on the Group? Does Kernel sound like the right place for you or your business to be a part of? Contact us and one of our team members will be in touch.