Our Specialisms

Specialising in recruitment across the built environment since 2001, we are the market-leader in real estate, property and construction recruitment, executive search, and HR advisory services.

Real estate and construction
recruitment
with a difference.

We are specialist recruiters, operating across multiple geographies and specialisms across the built environment, built from decades of experience in international real estate and construction.​

Cobalt's Specialisms

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Wednesday Market Insights: The Talent Pipeline Is Under Pressure.  Is Your Strategy Keeping Up?

Wednesday Market Insights: The Talent Pipeline Is Under Pressure. Is Your Strategy Keeping Up?

From Real Estate Technology & Business Transformation to Building Surveying, talent pressures are taking different forms across the Built Environment. We look at what this means for employers, hiring strategies and the wider skills pipeline.
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Built Environment Skills Gap: Recruitment, Retention & AI

Built Environment Skills Gap: Recruitment, Retention & AI

Maria Sinclair, Managing Director UK at Cobalt Recruitment, explores why the built environment skills gap goes beyond recruitment, examining retention, career awareness, AI, apprenticeships and what the industry can do to build a stronger talent pipeline.
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Wednesday Market Insights: Confidence Returns, Expectations Rise

Wednesday Market Insights: Confidence Returns, Expectations Rise

This week's Wednesday Market Insights explores renewed hiring confidence across UK real estate finance, rising workload pressures in facilities management, and what these market signals mean for recruitment across the built environment
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