Helping ambitious recruiters and growth-focused search businesses find each other — across the UK and US.
Feeling Ambitious is a specialist recruitment-to-recruitment consultancy. We work with recruitment firms and executive search businesses whose focus is construction and manufacturing — connecting them with the billing consultants, search consultants and leaders they need to grow. We've been doing this for 16 years, across the UK and the US.
What We Do
We find the people who move specialist recruitment businesses forward
Our clients are recruitment firms and executive search businesses. Their consultants work construction and manufacturing desks — contingency, retained, contract, search. What they need from us are people who understand that world: who can hit the ground billing, build a desk from scratch, lead a team, or open a new market.
We work with start-ups making their first strategic hire, scale-ups accelerating through a growth phase, and established firms navigating expansion into the US or a leadership transition. Whatever the stage, the brief is the same: find the right person, properly.
Who We Work With
Founders, directors and investors in specialist recruitment businesses
We partner directly with the people making hiring decisions — founders building their firm, directors growing a division, investors backing a scale-up. Our clients run recruitment businesses and executive search firms that specialise in construction and manufacturing. They're not hiring for the sake of it. They're building something, and they need the right people to do it.
We've supported new office launches, leadership appointments and full team builds across the sector. We understand the pressures of growing a specialist recruitment business because we've been inside this industry for over two decades.
UK & US
Two markets. One standard.
We place across the UK and are actively working the US — with a particular focus on recruitment firms and search businesses operating in construction and manufacturing across the US. The demand for experienced, commercially proven recruitment professionals is significant and growing.
If you run a UK firm with US ambitions, a US search business looking to hire, or you're a consultant open to a transatlantic move — we know the landscape and we're already operating in it.
Social Proof
Trusted by founders, directors and investors in specialist recruitment firms and executive search businesses across the UK and US.
Linzi has been absolutely amazing throughout. From our initial conversation of her getting to know me and what I was looking for, to receiving the offer; she was in continuous contact to ensure I was happy. The time and effort Linzi put in was fantastic and she truly is a pleasure to work with, she truly cares about making sure the job (and everything that comes with it) is right for you.
I can't recommend Linzi enough to anyone looking for their next role, and should I ever need to I would absolutely use Linzi again without a second thought.
