PO Box 739 Shortland St Auckland 1140p+64 9 479 4058einfo@alchemyconsulting.co.nz

"Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life." - Confucius

About Us

Alchemy Consulting Ltd is an Executive Recruitment Company that specialises in providing Sales, Marketing, Management and Technology staff to some of New Zealand and Australia’s most successful companies. Alchemy Consulting was launched in 2000 by Robert Hurst, a recruiter with many years’ experience in the Australasian market and aligns to international 'Best Practice' methodology.

We are proud to be members of the Australia and New Zealand Recruitment Industry governing body, the RCSA. We endorse and adhere to the RCSA code of ethics and constantly strive to exceed our candidates and clients expectations.

"Recruiting exceptional executives for extraordinary companies, everyday."
- Alchemy Consulting USP

Who We Are

Robert Hurst phone +64 9 479 4058 ddi | email robert@alchemyconsulting.co.nz | view my profile on LinkedIn

Bronwyn Hulme phone +64 9 480 8670 ddi | email bronwyn@alchemyconsulting.co.nz | view my profile on LinkedIn

"In the 28 years since I first began in executive recruitment, I have never yet had a client ask me to find them a 'B' or 'C' candidate."
- Robert Hurst

What We Believe

• Leopards don’t change their spots.
• Cream always rises to the top.
• What you sow is what you reap.
• The truth, whilst often stranger, is always preferable to fiction.
• If you think you can, you can!... If you think you can’t, you are right!

"Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace.
And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined."
- Johnny Carson

Candidates

Attracting great candidates and doing the best we can for them is the lifeblood of our business.

We will always offer two choices for receiving our feedback:

Option 1:
We will tell the truth about what we think of your career aspirations, capabilities and options (in our humble opinion).
We call this service 'Career Guidance'.

Option 2:
We will pay you 'lip service' as a 'soft option'.

We promise not to mention any 'home truths' that could assist your career growth. This will include all of the things that others could have told you, but didn’t.

We will ignore those things that a coach or mentor or kind parent would say to you if you were ready to be honest with yourself. We will definitely not explain to you, any of your unrealistic expectations or false hopes and we will not tell you how this has prevented you from getting the 'right' job.
We call this service "Creating a total fabrication to make you feel better."

"The biggest mistake that you can make is to believe that you are working for somebody else. Job security is gone.
The driving force of a career must come from the individual. Remember: Jobs are owned by the company, you own your career!"
- Earl Nightingale

Employers

We promise that we will not waste your time by introducing people who do not 'fit' your Job Description or who request option two above.

"Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited." - Napoleon Hill