Insights

One of the UK’s most established real estate companies, with a strong focus on residential property development and management, was looking to hire a Head Concierge and team of Concierges to cover their prestigious squares in London.

The Cobalt Group (featuring Cobalt Recruitment and our renewable energy recruitment specialist arm, Comanos), has once again featured in Recruiter’s prestigious Hot 100 list for our 2024 activity.

This report looks to understand the diversity of the real estate sector, and in particular, across those organisations that are part of Real Estate Balance and those that haven't yet joined. It also includes a guide for those on their diversity journey to improve inclusive hiring practices.

At this year’s UKREiiF, we saw a focus on the development of three key areas: housing, alternative assets, and ESG as a trait running through all areas of the built environment. Find out what this means for recruitment in these spaces.

See our facilities management case study recruiting for a General Manager for an A-grade trophy building on behalf of BNP Paribas Real Estate.

Today is Earth Day, an opportunity to consider the environment, the impact we have on it, and the steps we can take to reduce or repair this impact. See how Cobalt Recruitment is taking a stand.

The UK government has introduced a new Flexible Working Bill aimed at empowering employees with greater flexibility and autonomy in managing their work-life balance. See how the Bill has changed workers' rights, and the opportunities that this change presents for organisations to recruit and retain the best talent.

With bonus season in real estate generally coming at the end of March, is your organisation ready for what happens next? Our near quarter of a century as a specialist consultancy to the real estate sector has taught us that this is one of the busiest periods for employee resignations and moves in the space, with between 20-40% more jobs typically available in the sector during April and May.

In what has traditionally been a male-dominated sector, the tide is beginning to change for women in facilities management. See inspiration and insights from women in FM roles and their allies here.

Building upon our previous research into diversity in the Real Estate and Construction markets, this full-length 2023 edition features insight into the age, caring status, disability status, ethnicity, gender identity, marital status, religion, sexual orientation and socio-economic background of those who make up the sectors we recruit into.

At our latest Cobalt Conversations event, we explored the concept of ‘widening the gate’ to improve the recruitment part of a Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DE&I) strategy – not the idea of offering handouts of interviews or box-ticking based on characteristics, but of looking at recruitment and onboarding processes to make sure that the sector can develop, access and retain diverse talent within it. This will ultimately make our workplaces better, fuelled with greater creativity and productivity from a broader pool of talent. 

​We want to alert our candidates to a current scam that preys on job seekers. Primarily on WhatsApp, this scam involves individual or business accounts pretending to be one of Cobalt’s team of consultants contacting candidates with potential job opportunities or offers to extract personal information or ask for payment.