Our Company values are built on commitment to our clients, effective communication and more importantly listening and understanding our client's needs to ensure our consultants deliver an excellent selection of candidates that will add value to their business.
With an extensive industry network at our fingertips, which includes a strong social presence, and the use of live feeds across all widely used social media platforms our business is at the cutting edge of recruitment practice to ensure we find the very best candidates for you.
Our London office, opened in 2015 is based in the heart of the city where we are best placed to cater for the hospitality market. Our specialist areas include management within F&B Operations, Sales & Marketing, Finance & Revenue Management, General Managers, HR and other senior management positions. We also have a dedicated Chef recruitment division covering roles from Chef de Partie through to Executive and Head Chef levels across all catering markets.
The future is bright for JWR, and we're always looking for talented people to join us, discover
We believe that getting to know our clients' business and their objectives as well as our candidates' attributes and future goals are crucial elements of securing a successful match.
Our level of service is planned to exceed any other and we are committed in looking for outstanding candidates which will enhance value to our clients businesses.
Based broadly on one of our two approaches to recruiting, outlined below, we provide solutions tailored to our client's needs.
James founded the company in 1999 after a management career in hotels and restaurants. His aim has always been to deliver a service that exceeds the clients' expectations as well as providing opportunities to the candidates. Putting his name to the business ensures a personal and professional relationship and an understanding of everyone's goals.
Our business is made up of many experienced consultants, all with extensive industry background enabling us to talk the same language and to create a smooth and effective recruitment process.
With a career developed through hotels under the Forte banners of Grand, Crest and Posthouse, John gained significant exposure to high street restaurants with the Pelican group in operations and Pierre Victoire as national restaurant inspector. His career in recruitment began with Roche in 1999. John's career was extensive with recruitment firms and in 2007 he joined JWR. His role as Associate Director enables him to be actively involved with recruitment of senior personnel throughout the industry. In addition to the general management of the Birmingham offices he works parallel to James on business development programmes.
After a successful career in the kitchen having worked as an Executive Head Chef in Hotels and contract catering, Anthony turned to recruitment in 2006. Joining a UK leading Recruitment Group as a Chef consultant and rising through the ranks to Account Manager for a London based company. Anthony has made a great name for himself by working with some of the leading Michelin star Chefs in the UK. Anthony joined JWR in January 2014 where he now heads up the chef recruitment team covering the whole of the UK and overseas.
After a successful operational management career within the Hospitality Industry, Andy moved into the Recruitment sector in 1999 as a Recruitment Manager tasked with building a Hospitality branch from ‘scratch' in the Birmingham area for Reed Global. Various internal promotions followed to Regional & National roles and then in 2003 a change of employer to Blue Arrow, part of Impellam Group, saw Andy take up a Senior Management role within the specialist Hospitality & Catering division. Late in 2011 he moved across to hospitality specialist recruiter CIP Hamilton Mayday in a National Accounts role prior to setting up his own hospitality recruitment company two years later. Having worked with various companies he then took a sojourn from ‘pure recruiting' and became a generalist HR Cluster Manager for The Hotel Collection at Walton Hall Hotel, Billesley Manor and The Lygon Arms. Andy joined JWR at the beginning of 2016.
Company Administrator
Linda began her administration career in California in 2004. She previously worked as an administrator for a construction company before moving to England in 2012 where she continued her career as a Restaurant Administrator. Before joining the recruitment sector in 2014, Linda gained experience in Accounts but enjoys utilising her skills in admin more. As the newest addition to the JWR family in Salisbury Linda is here to make sure JWR is organised and to assist the company's managers and consultants.
We have a dedicated consultant at James Webber Recruitment who doesn't let us down us down. He knows our business and the type of candidates we look for, so we only receive CVs that tick all our boxes. The recruitment process is efficient and we are allowed to make our decisions without pressure. The fees are fair and the payment timescales are reasonable. We always call James Webber Recruitment first, before considering other agencies.
