The best PA, EA and senior support relationships have their own chemistry. There is capability of course but there is also pace, judgment, communication, temperament and trust. It is the ability to anticipate, to understand how a leader works and to know when to step forward or quietly make something happen in the background.
Those things are difficult to capture on paper.
They are also the things I have spent my career understanding.
I haven't just recruited these roles. I've lived them.
I've been the PA. I've been the EA. I've supported C-suite leaders and entrepreneurs. I've been a Director of Operations within an investment house. I've managed recruitment in the City of London.
That gives me an unusually rounded understanding of what makes these appointments work.
I understand the candidate's perspective because I have sat in that chair. I understand the client's requirements because I have spent years working alongside senior leaders. I understand the operational demands because I have been responsible for operations myself. I understand recruitment because I have managed it.
Most importantly I understand that the person who looks right on paper is not necessarily the person who will work brilliantly alongside you.
That experience changes the questions I ask.
I'm interested not only in whether someone can do the job but whether the relationship will work.
What will make you trust someone enough to genuinely hand things over?
What kind of person will understand how you work and make your working life better?
The Right Hand Matters
That is the search.
Agile by design
Hand of Awen has been built differently. A lean, agile model means fewer overheads and greater flexibility, allowing me to offer a highly personalised search on genuinely preferential terms.
7.5% - new client's first placement subject to a £250 client opening fee*.
12% thereafter.
Plus a 90-day replacement guarantee.
It isn't about offering less. It's about running a smarter, more efficient business and passing that advantage directly to my clients.
Personal service. Experienced search. Preferential terms.
*non refundable.
A little about me
Katie Cluer, MD & Founder
Hand of Awen grew from more than 25 years spent at the heart of business — supporting entrepreneurs and senior executives across Big Four, FTSE 250, investment, legal and entrepreneurial environments as well as working directly in recruitment and operations. My career has given me experience on both sides of the hiring relationship: finding the talent and being the person trusted to work alongside senior leaders.
That gives me an intimate understanding of what leaders actually need from the person beside them. I understand the pace, pressure and discretion these roles demand and why personality, judgement and chemistry can be every bit as important as experience on a CV.
Hand of Awen is a play on “right hand”. It is about finding leaders their true right hand — exceptional talent who gives them back time, headspace and the freedom to focus on what they do best.
And Awen speaks to inspiration, flow and creative energy — what can happen when the right person finds the right place. It’s that alchemical common surface where the magic happens.
The Hand and Star is the talent.
Awen is what becomes possible when you find the right one.
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