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This month’s edition of Accountancy features an article by Raphael Mokades, Rare’s Managing Director, on why so few black students are attracted to a career in accountancy. Accountancy acts as the official journal of the Institu ... read more

Rare has launched a groundbreaking new report entitled ‘High Achieving Black Students: A Portrait’.

This new research sets out, for the first time, the number of African-Caribbean students with AAA at A Level or equiv ... read more

Rare’s study seminars are designed to help Rare candidates with their academic work and specifically to ensure that they understand how to get a top degree. Our research suggests that this sort of ‘secret knowledge’ is oft ... read more

Due to an upswing in its business, L’Oréal needs additional people to join its prestigious sales graduate programme in January 2010. The L’Oréal graduate programmes are hugely competitive and ‘off-cycle&rsquo ... read more

We are delighted to announce J.P. Morgan as the latest addition to our client list. J.P. Morgan is currently the most profitable bank in the world. It serves one of the largest and most diverse range of clients including corporations, insti ... read more

We are delighted now to be working with Barclays Capital, Barclays Wealth, Deutsche Bank and Morgan Stanley and look forward to developing our relationship with the newly-merged Bank of America Merrill Lynch.

Like Rare, Barclay ... read more

At Rare, we’re proud to offer candidates an insight into the public sector as well as the private sector. In addition to good job security, outstanding training and highly competitive salaries, the public sector offers the chance to g ... read more

With five Rare boys making the first ever Rare Rising Stars list and another one revealed as the face of L’Oréal's new recruitment campaign, our male candidates have certainly had a good summer.

Not to be left out, s ... read more

Since 2007, Summix has given over 100 Rare candidates an insight into some of the leading marketing, communications and FMCG companies in the world. This September, just 30 of our best people were invited to L’Oréal&r ... read more

We are delighted to reveal the UK’s top black students of 2009 in the first annual Rare Rising Stars list. 

At Rare, we are privileged to meet extraordinary students on an almost day-to-day basis, and it was indeed o ... read more

We’re very proud to announce that L’Oréal summer intern Timi Dorgu has been chosen to front the cosmetics giant’s internship recruitment campaign for 2009.

Timi is relishing the large amount of responsibilit ... read more

We are excited to announce the addition of Communications Intern Esther Odida to our team for the summer. Esther has just completed her second year in Chemical Engineering at Cambridge University but joins us with a hunger for experience in ... read more

We are delighted to announce that we have been selected to run a bespoke coaching and development programme for the Civil Service Fast Stream graduate programme.

The aim of the ... read more

We are thrilled to announce that Anna Dawes has joined the team as our new Director of Financial Services Recruitment. She brings invaluable experience, having worked for three and a half years at Goldman Sachs. In her role at GS, Anna work ... read more

The first Rare Network event of 2009 proved to be yet another success. This year’s event was hosted by Baker and Mackenzie Associate Sophie Chandauka and Rare Recruitment Managing Direct ... read more

We are delighted to announce that Rachel Kerr has joined us as our new Marketing Executive. Rachel graduated from Warwick University last year with a 2.1 in Law. She joins Rare from a legal and sales background, having completed a number of ... read more

For the first time ever, Rare has teamed up with WPP to offer an exclusive summer internship programme. The WPP Micro-Fellowship is designed to help attract ethnic minority candidates to the marketing communications industry.
Successfu ... read more

In 2005 Raphael Mokades quit his excellent job at Pearson to start Rare. He had no staff, no clients and no candidates. He was working in the corner of someone else’s office, grafting hard and building something that would make a re ... read more

Rare Recruitment is pleased to announce the launch of Recruiting Arabic-Speaking Graduates, the first comprehensive examination of Arabic-speaking students in the UK for twenty years. The report will be launched at Prism, 147 Leadenhall ... read more

WPP is one of the world’s most comprehensive marketing communications groups. For the first time ever, they’re offering a summer internship programme to attract ethnic minority candidates to the marketing communications ... read more

This year, for the first time, Rare employed a full time Marketing Executive to manage and execute Milkround visits. Yewande Sokan had the challenging task of completing 20 visits, spanning 18 locations, throughout the months of Oct ... read more

"You can pack a lot into an hour with Raphael Mokades. It’s a good job – because today, like every other day, the fast-talking, basketball-playing, entrepreneurial powerhouse has an awful lot to say..." Read the rest of the a ... read more

Steve Mould, Rare’s part-time Operations Director, has landed a prestigious role as science presenter on the BBC TV programme Blue Peter. Steve appeared on October 8th, 14th and 21st, talking about science. Click read more

Rare is delighted to announce that we are now working to recruit interns and graduates with Rothschild. Arguably the most prestigious name in the City, Rothschild has been at the centre of the world's financial markets for over 2 ... read more

Our autumn event was held in conjunction with leadership development charity Common Purpose. Over food and drinks we discussed questions such as ‘was Hitler a great leader?’, ‘ does great leadership require innovation?&r ... read more

Our second annual Summix event took place at L’Oréal on September 18. 50 of Rare’s best people attended. The day was arranged around the theme of selling stories – about ourselves, about products and services, and a ... read more

Our summer event was hosted by Sir David Bell, Director for People at Pearson. David is also Chairman of the Financial Times and Chairman of Pearson Inc.  Sir David made a guest appearance and spoke on the topic, “My career in ... read more

We are delighted to announce that Rare has been appointed sole recruiter for The Economist Group’s CEMEA HR Director. The Economist Group is looking for a multilingual, commercial individual of exceptional talent for this role. ... read more

We are delighted to announce that Rare has been appointed as sole recruiter for the Arts & Business Intern Programme. Arts & Business have ambitious plans for the next three years and are launching their Internship Programme ... read more

We are delighted to announce that Rare has been appointed as sole recruiter for an Analyst role with private equity firm ManoCap, based in Freetown, Sierra Leone.

ManoCap is the biggest private equity investor in Sierra Leone. By ... read more

Rare was delighted to host a Pizza and Champagne event at Queens College, Cambridge last month. Organised in conjunction with the university’s African-Caribbean society, the event allowed Rare to catch up with old friends and make ... read more

The first Rare City Network event of 2008 was held at Parker McMillan, Moorgate.  Located in the heart of the capital, this underground venue played host to over 100 city professionals. We had our very own private vaults for the eve ... read more

In December, Rare and L’Oreal hosted Summix, their first ever careers event for the creative industries .  The event was held on the magnificent tenth floor of the Pearson building, with its breathtaking view of the capital.&nb ... read more

Rare is delighted to announce that we are now helping Eversheds and the BBC recruit experienced hires. Eversheds is a top ten UK law firm with 32 offices in major cities across the UK, Europe, Middle East and Asia. It has six main pr ... read more

In late August, Rare hosted its first ever Interns Event. Over 40 interns from 13 firms attended and the evening was great fun. Held at the brand new All Star Lanes, a stunning boutique bowling venue in Bayswater, we treated the interns ... read more

Rare is thrilled to announce that two interns have joined us for the summer. Our first intern is Yewande Sokan, a LSE economist and president of her University's African-Caribbean Society. And our second intern is Mica Lloyd, a post A le ... read more

Rare is delighted to announce that Amina Duke-Azore has joined the team as Director, Experienced Hires. Amina graduated from Warwick University where she studied English and Italian Literature. She joins Rare from a sales background. ... read more

Rare is delighted to announce that it is now working for international consumer goods firm L’Oreal and for London Olympics 2012. L’Oreal is a worldwide leader in the cosmetics industry and has some 3,000 staff in the UK. ... read more

Race for Opportunity is a national network of over 180 UK organisations working on race diversity in business. RfO’s annual dinner is attended by over five hundred business leaders. This year’s speakers included Allan Leighton, ... read more

Rare is delighted to announce we are now recruiting technologists for Merrill Lynch, one of the world’s leading financial management and advisory companies. Merrill Lynch's Technology division is at the forefront of technology in fina ... read more