SPECIALIST RECRUITMENT AGENCY | GERRARD WHITE CONSULTING
SPECIALIST RECRUITMENT EXPERTISE IN INSURANCE, TECHNOLOGY & CHANGE AND LEGAL
Not every hire needs a recruitment function behind it.
For one senior, niche or urgent role, a specialist recruitment agency is often the fastest route. In insurance, technology and change, and legal, that's Gerrard White, our sister brand. If you're hiring steadily, or trying to fix hiring rather than fill a role, embedded talent or RPO will usually serve you better. As a company, we offer all three, so we'll tell you which fits, not which we'd rather sell.
How a search with Gerrard White runs
Gerrard White works a role from the outside, which is the point of a specialist recruitment agency. Their consultants already know the market you're hiring in, whether that's an insurance pricing team, a claims platform migration or a conveyancing desk, so the search starts with a network rather than an advert.
Every search follows the same shape: a proper briefing, a targeted search of the market, rigorous assessment of the shortlist against that brief, candidates kept informed whichever way it goes, and support through offer and onboarding. You keep the decision. Gerrard White does the legwork.
Gerrard White recruits permanent and contract roles at every level, from graduates and specialists to executive search. If what you actually need is a recruiter inside your business rather than a specialist you call in, that's embedded talent, and that's Vermelo.
Specialists by design
Gerrard White recruits across just three core areas: insurance and insurtech, technology and change, and legal, which is why they know who's good and who's moving.
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Uniquely positioned to recruit across all core insurance functions, we provide bespoke solutions ranging from search & select for senior, specialist and niche hires to graduate attraction and interviewing services.
Our consultants live and breathe the insurance market, building long-standing relationships with leading insurers, brokers and MGAs.
We recruit across- Broking
- Pricing, Actuarial & Data Science
- Underwriting
- Claims
- Technology & Digital
- Sales & Marketing
- Human Resources
- Legal & Compliance
- Accounts & Finance
- Customer Service & Operations
- C-Suite resource projects
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Our technology recruitment specialists build high-performing tech and digital teams, providing transformational talent solutions across the entire technology landscape.
We partner with organisations from start-ups in funding growth to global enterprises with complex change programmes.
We recruit across- Software Development & Engineering
- Cloud & Infrastructure
- DevOps & Site Reliability
- Data Science, Analytics & AI
- Cybersecurity & Information Security
- Product Management & Agile Delivery
- Business Analysis & Systems Design
- Project & Programme Management
- Digital Transformation & Change Management
- IT Service & Support
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With over 12 years of experience recruiting for law firms and in-house legal departments, we understand the market’s complexity and diversity. We proactively identify and secure the best legal talent across:
We recruit across- Employment Law
- Conveyancing
- Property – Residential & Commercial
- Personal Injury
- Criminal
- Family
- Private Client
- Corporate & Commercial
- Civil & Commercial Litigation
- Fee Earners
- Lawyers
- Paralegals
- Support Services
Why choose Gerrard White as your specialist recruitment agency partner
If you're going to pay per hire, this is what it should buy you.
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Specialist market knowledge
Decades of insight across insurance, technology & change, and legal.
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Quality-driven search
Rigorous screening and cultural fit assessment that cut attrition and improve retention.
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Scales when you need it to
One search today. If it turns into a hiring programme, Vermelo's embedded or RPO team takes over, within the same group.
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Faster, smarter hiring
Experienced consultants and smart sourcing tools shorten time-to-hire without cutting corners on quality.
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Candidate experience
Professional, consistent engagement that reflects well on your employer brand.
Got a role that needs a specialist?
Tell Gerrard White what you're hiring for and how quickly you need it filled.
+44 (0) 1892 553355 | info@GerrardWhite.com | www.gerrardwhite.com
Agency, embedded or RPO? Straight answers.
We offer all three, so we've no reason to steer you towards the wrong one.
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When the hire is one-off, senior, niche, urgent or confidential, and you don't need to build hiring capability behind it. An agency brings a ready network in a specific market and works on a per-hire basis, so it suits low-volume, high-stakes hiring. For insurance, technology and change, and legal roles, that's what Gerrard White does.
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When you're hiring steadily, in volume, or trying to fix hiring rather than fill one role. Paying per hire gets expensive fast, and nothing you learn stays in the business. That's when embedded talent (RaaS) or RPO makes more sense: a recruiter or team inside your business, on a monthly subscription, building your pipeline and your employer brand as they go.
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An agency works a role from outside and charges when it's filled. Embedded talent puts recruiters inside your team, on your systems and under your brand, for a fixed monthly cost. The more roles you have, the further the maths tilts towards embedded. For a single hard-to-fill role, an agency usually wins.
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Yes, and plenty of businesses do. A common set-up is an embedded team covering core volume with an agency brought in for the rare specialist role the team can't reach. It keeps per-hire spend for the roles that justify it.
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Because the right hiring model depends on what you're hiring and how often, and we'd rather give you the honest answer than the one we happen to sell. Vermelo's core offer is outsourced talent: embedded, RPO and MSP. Where a single specialist search is the better fit, Gerrard White, our sister brand, handles it.
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Permanent and contract roles across insurance and insurtech, and technology and change, in the UK, Europe and the US, and legal roles across the UK. Specialisms run from pricing, actuarial and underwriting through to software engineering, cloud, cyber and transformation, and from fee earners to paralegals.