A London practice
Security recruitment run as a practice rather than a desk, with the brief taken properly before the search begins.
Hornsman Group is a security recruitment practice based in London. We are an employment agency: instructed on a role, we identify and screen the candidates, and the client engages the one they choose directly.
Assignments are taken selectively rather than gathered. The consultant who takes a brief is the one who works the market against it and presents the shortlist, and the client deals with that person rather than with a resourcing desk or an account manager placed between them and the work.
The practice was built on a plain view of the market: that security is poorly served by volume recruitment. A licence is quick to verify and settles very little. What decides an appointment is whether a history withstands checking, how somebody conducts themselves when holding a line is inconvenient, and whether they are still in post a year later. None of that is reached by working at scale, which is why we do not try to.
How the work is run
This is how an assignment is handled, and why an instruction is sometimes declined rather than taken on the wrong basis.
- Engaged and exclusive assignments, so the search is actually worked rather than queued
- One named contact throughout an assignment
- Screening to BS 7858:2019 completed before a candidate is submitted, not after
- An early answer where an assignment cannot be completed to the standard required
The boundaries
We do not advertise a position we have not been instructed to fill. A vacancy on our site or in a message from us is a real one.
We do not supply workers under our own direction. Every candidate we introduce is engaged by the client, on the client’s contract and payroll, whether the appointment is permanent or for a fixed term. We are an employment agency, not an employment business, and the distinction carries real consequences for who carries which obligation.
We do not charge work seekers. Not for registration, not for introduction, not for placement, and not for training made a condition of any of them. The prohibition is statutory and we would regard it as disgraceful even if it were not.
We do not circulate candidate information to other agencies or to job boards. It is held on our own systems in the United Kingdom.
Where we
stand
Hornsman Group Limited operates as an employment agency on an introductory basis within the meaning of the Employment Agencies Act 1973 and the Conduct of Employment Agencies and Employment Businesses Regulations 2003.
Company number 17249812, registered in England and Wales. Registered office: Suite RA01, 195–197 Wood Street, London E17 3NU. Registered with the Information Commissioner’s Office under reference ZC211316.
Terms of business are agreed in writing with a client before any candidate is introduced. The screening standard, the regulatory basis and the way candidate information is handled are set out in full on the standards and screening page.
Speak to us
Whether you are hiring or looking, the same address reaches us and the same person answers it.