Helping growing businesses hire the right people, solve recruitment challenges and plan for growth.

From finding and selecting candidates to improving recruitment processes and providing experienced fractional recruitment support, KDC offers practical expertise tailored to your business.

Recruitment support that works for your business

Whether you’re recruiting for an important role, struggling with an existing hiring process or need experienced recruitment support as your business grows, KDC provides practical solutions shaped around your needs.

Search and Selection: Find the right people for your business through considered permanent and fixed-term recruitment support, from understanding the requirement to sourcing, assessing and shortlisting suitable candidates.

Recruitment Consultancy: Improve the way you recruit with independent advice on recruitment challenges, hiring processes, candidate attraction and recruitment effectiveness.

Fractional Recruitment Support: Access experienced recruitment expertise when you need it, with flexible senior recruitment knowledge and practical delivery support without employing a full-time recruitment leader.

Recruitment Consultancy

Improve the way you recruit. Independent advice and practical support to identify recruitment challenges, strengthen hiring processes, improve candidate attraction and make recruitment more effective.

Search and Selection

Find the right people for your business. A considered, hands-on approach to permanent and fixed-term recruitment. From understanding your requirements to sourcing, assessing and shortlisting suitable candidates, KDC helps you make confident hiring decisions.

Fractional Recruitment Support

Experienced recruitment expertise when you need it. Flexible access to senior recruitment knowledge and practical delivery support, without the commitment of employing a full-time recruitment leader.

Recruitment Capability & Training

Helping hiring managers and internal teams become more confident and consistent at attracting, selecting and recruiting people. Support can include practical training, assessment design, hiring-manager guidance and improvements to internal recruitment capability.

Hiring Diagnostic

A focused review of your current hiring approach to identify delays, inconsistencies, unnecessary cost and missed opportunities. You receive clear findings, practical priorities and a realistic route forward.

Not Sure What Level of Support You Need?

Start with a conversation. We’ll look at the challenge, what is already working and whether a defined project, ongoing support or internal capability-building would make the biggest difference.

Career Support for Individuals

Whether you are moving beyond the NHS, struggling to translate your experience, applying without success or preparing for interview, support is tailored to where you are getting stuck.

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Experienced recruitment leadership. Practical, independent advice.

I’m Kayleigh Dobson, founder of Kayleigh Dobson Consulting. I’ve spent more than 15 years working across recruitment and workforce services, including senior leadership roles within the NHS and experience in the private sector. Throughout my career, I’ve led recruitment functions, supported complex workforce requirements, improved recruitment processes and governance, reduced reliance on costly recruitment arrangements and helped organisations make better hiring decisions. I established KDC to make that experience accessible to organisations that need knowledgeable, practical recruitment support, whether that’s finding the right candidate, resolving a recruitment challenge or providing ongoing expertise. My approach is straightforward: understand the problem, offer considered advice and focus on solutions that genuinely work for the organisation.

Individual Career Support: What Clients Say

Feedback from people I’ve supported with CVs, job searches, interviews and career transitions.

Working on my CV with Kayleigh was genuinely confidence boosting. It wasn’t just about rewriting a document, it helped me step back and recognise the breadth of my experience and the value I bring. For the first time in a long while, I felt able to articulate my skills clearly without downplaying them. I came away feeling clearer, more confident, and open minded about where my career could go next. It wasn’t just CV feedback, it genuinely helped me see my experience in a different light. The way Kayleigh delivered her feedback felt thoughtful and reassuring, and it’s changed how I present myself and how I see my own value.

Past Client CV Work

After working with Kayleigh on my CV, I received feedback from employers saying they were ‘impressed’ with it, which led to securing an interview. Having a professional review made a real difference. Your support was incredibly valuable in helping me reshape my CV into something much clearer, more focused, and achievement driven. You challenged me to think differently about how I present my experience, moving away from responsibilities and towards impact, which made a significant difference. As a result, my CV now tells a much stronger story, feels far more confident, and is much easier for recruiters and hiring managers to quickly understand the value I bring.

Past Client CV Work

I found Kayleigh's feedback very helpful. It gave me a structured way to improve my CV and make it more appealing. I now know where my CV needs more detail and where it can be reduced, and how to focus on the points that matter most. Rather than having someone rewrite my CV, Kayleigh helped me understand what I can do to improve it myself. It’s given me a much more sustainable approach going forward.

Past Client CV Work

Kayleigh completely changed how I think about job searching beyond the NHS. The practical guidance on where to look, how to stay informed, and how to position myself made opportunities outside the NHS feel far more visible and achievable. I really enjoyed the ‘Navigating the non-NHS jobs market’ session and found it extremely useful. It gave me more confidence about looking at opportunities outside the NHS, alongside practical tips on creating a clear, well-structured CV that fits what the current job market is looking for.

Past Client Job Search

I registered for a webinar on interview skills and CV building delivered by Kayleigh recently. The content, resources and handy tips provided were invaluable, and her delivery was excellent. It gave me the impetus to amend my CV, which resembled a small book, down to 3 pages. She also kindly offered to provide feedback on my re-drafted CV, which was incredibly helpful. So, I found the presentation about looking for a job outside the NHS very helpful, as was the example CV showing how concise and effective a CV should be when approaching non-NHS employers. It helped me rewrite my CV into something much clearer and more attractive to employers

Past Client Job Search

Let’s talk about your recruitment and workforce challenges

Whether you need to find suitable candidates, improve a hiring process or access experienced recruitment support as your business grows, practical advice starts with a conversation. No jargon. No pressure. Just clear support shaped around your organisation.

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Flexible Support Built Around Your Needs

Defined Projects or Ongoing Support

Clear, practical advice for today’s talent and workforce challenges. We work alongside you to bring structure, insight, and confidence to complex people decisions — whatever stage you’re at.