Empowering with Expertise & Experience
The Housing Executive is an entirely independent organisation. We have a background in housing recruitment at director level and have worked with the sector for more than 30 years. We have expanded gradually, ensuring we maintain standards and priding ourselves on generating repeat business through good service – clients and candidates often recommend us to others.
We prefer to build relations with candidates and clients for the long term and are often recommended because we take the time to listen to your requirements.
Carol Drummond, Director
Carol has more than 25 years of management and recruitment experience in both the public and private sectors. Her early career included: residential conveyancing and recruiting in the legal/social care arenas, leading to a director of recruitment role with HERA. Her roles have always been customer focused and service driven – from her early days in management with KLM and the Forte Group, to more recently being a Champion of Diversity, sitting on the REC’s Diversity Forum and Race for Opportunity committee. Carol has a genuine commitment to empowering, supporting and developing the talents of individuals, particularly those facing organisational challenges and formed The Housing Executive, in 2002, to develop this aspect of the recruitment relationship.
Julie Kellaway, Director
Julie Kellaway has worked in social housing recruitment for more than 20 years and as a recruiter for 10 of these. She has a BSc in Psychology and Sociology and her early roles were with a property developer and in internal audit. She was director of finance and systems with HERA Recruitment, and having always had a strong focus on customer care she naturally moved to a more client facing role at The Housing Executive. Julie uses her sector knowledge to provide career advice and guidance to candidates and discuss specific requirements with clients. She enjoys interviewing people from all areas of the sector, enabling them to promote their achievements on their CV and helping them to be themselves at interview.
Tracy Nicholson, Recruitment Consultant
Tracy is an experienced recruitment professional with a strong background in employability skills and, more recently obtained a First-Class Honours degree in Person-Centred Counselling and Psychotherapy. This blend of experience and study shapes her thoughtful, people-centred approach to recruitment, particularly at senior level. Tracy developed her recruitment career at HERA, where she coordinated the senior management recruitment desk and supported executive-level appointments. She has worked with Carol and Julie for more than 30 years staying closely connected to the market, tracking roles across the sector, and keeping clients information accurate and up to date.