Principle

We are Principle, a privately held recruitment company operating in the staffing and human resources industry. We were founded in 2000 and are headquartered in Dublin, Ireland.

We are a people-first, performance-driven recruitment partner. For over two decades, we have helped businesses across the United Kingdom and Ireland build high-performing teams. We’re not here to flood inboxes with CVs—we’re here to understand, align, and deliver the kind of talent that shapes outcomes. We’re trusted by global enterprises and emerging scale-ups alike to deliver permanent and contingent talent across Technology, Engineering, HR, Legal, Media, Marketing, Finance, and Operations. We’re proud to be a certified Women-Owned business through WeConnect International. This means that working with us can enhance your ESG and supplier diversity goals—but it’s not the only reason to work with us. Our clients choose us because we consistently deliver: 95% of our work is repeat or referral. They stay because we partner, we solve, and we deliver talent that sticks.

We employ a true partnership approach that integrates insight, market data, and experience, and we work with sector specialists who speak your language and understand your challenges. We pursue a retention-first strategy that boosts long-term impact, blending technology-led sourcing with human intuition. We have proven expertise across both MSP and direct hire recruitment - 5 Global Awards for Service.

Our services span recruitment and executive search, temporary agency workers, contractors, and support for start-ups, MSPs, and RPOs. We cover technical and engineering recruitment, media and marketing recruitment, HR recruitment, legal recruitment, US recruitment, UK recruitment, and global recruitment. We support talent acquisition, RPO, contingent worker programs, and senior hires, as well as public sector hiring, and engagements such as statements of work (SOW). We are a women-owned business and certified diverse supplier with an inclusive supply chain through WeConnect, and we work across talent management, consultancy, and human capital management.

We operate in Ireland, the United Kingdom, and the United States.

If you're building your team, scaling for growth, or need a partner who can flex with your needs—we’re ready. Let’s build something exceptional together.