If you are hiring
Tell us the vacancy, the rota, and the one thing that must be true on day one. We return a shortlist with notes you can read between meetings.
St Albans · Hertfordshire · London fringe
A recruitment company that still knocks on the right door.
Red Door finds people for care homes, kitchens, classrooms and high-street offices. We work from Chequer Street because that is where the city actually lives.
Why employers stay
Most agencies treat Hertfordshire as a postcode on a spreadsheet. We treat it as a set of bus routes, shift patterns and school-run realities. A senior carer in Fleetville will not take a “nearby” role that adds forty minutes each way. A sous-chef will not last a month if the brigade is two down every Saturday and nobody said so at interview.
So we write the brief in plain English: hours, pay, who they report to, what went wrong last time. Then we introduce people we have spoken to, not a parsed pile of CVs. That is slower than a job-board scrape. It is also why the same care groups and independent restaurants come back.
If you are looking
Tell us the hours you can actually work. We will not send you to a night contract because it was the only open req on a Friday.
Sectors we cover every week
Care
Senior carers, team leaders, waking nights, and community support across St Albans, Harpenden, Hatfield and the villages.
Hospitality
Chefs, FOH supervisors, and kitchen porters for independents who still plate their own menus.
Education
Teaching assistants, SEND support and school office staff who understand a term-time contract.
Office
Coordinators, bookkeepers and office managers for SMEs that do not have an HR department.
Retail
Supervisors and multi-site ops for high-street and out-of-town brands that need cover that can smile at 8am.