Rural Recruitment is a national & global recruitment agency, delivering an exclusive and personal service, selecting the very best candidates for every role. Family run, with an emphasis on communication and proactivity, Rural Recruitment specialises in sourcing staff for private country homes and estates, commercial and corporate businesses, farming & general agriculture, childcare and equestrian.
The founder, Jackie Frost, identified a need in 2010 for an agency specialising in all household & estate staff including butlers, grooms, PA’s, private chefs and gardeners. Rural Recruitment has since grown organically, building its profile to now recruit nationally and globally, with clients from all walks of life from HNW individuals to single parents, farmers to CEO’s. The broadening of the business has resulted in a diverse and extensive system that optimises service to both the employer, and the employee. After all, neither would exist successfully without the other.
Rebecca Rivett, Jackie’s daughter, joined the business in 2015 bringing a wealth of experience from the commercial recruitment sector, as well as equestrian and childcare.
Jackie & Rebecca pride themselves on providing a service that is available from 8am – 8pm, seven days a week. This is one of the key differentials that clients and employees feel elevates Rural Recruitment above the service of other agencies.
Alongside the bespoke service upon which Rural Recruitment was founded, there is now a job board where clients can advertise their vacancies for a one-off fee, managing their own recruitment.
Jackie Frost
Jackie has a thorough understanding of people and their needs, having previously worked for 17 years in her husband Simon’s Estate Agency business. Matching people to houses, and the pressure that went with these life defining moments, is a skill that has transferred seamlessly to Recruitment.
As a mother of two, many years were spent juggling a career, school runs, pony club, housework and cooking for the family. Jackie is therefore sympathetic towards many of her client’s requirements. Jackie loves life in the countryside, walking her Borderpoo Arthur, running, cycling and socialising alongside walking in Exmoor, visiting London for shows, and spending time with family and friends.
Rebecca Rivett
Rebecca graduated with a first-class degree in Equine Sports Science in 2011, going on to work as a senior nutritionist within a market leading horse supplements company. Moving to Norfolk ignited a change in career, as a commercial recruitment consultant for a large regional agency. This experience has proved invaluable.
Prior to university, Rebecca was a full-time nanny/mothers help for a family of 4 children and 6 ponies, alongside competing up to 1* British Eventing.
Alongside running the business, Rebecca now has two children of her own, India & Saffie, with a support team of two ponies, and a collection of chickens and ducks. Time is also made for running, cycling and anything fitness related and occasionally for her husband Ben and the family dog, Fergus the Irish Terrier/terror. Rebecca has a full-time nanny and part time housekeeper, and therefore understands employing staff you can rely upon and trust.
Sophie Parish
Sophie joined Rural Recruitment in July 2023 bringing with her nearly 7 years recruitment experience, both working for agencies and as an Internal Recruitment Advisor for a global music publishing company. Having had a stint in London, Sophie moved back to Suffolk with her now husband Alex, as being a country girl at heart she missed the green fields and open spaces.
Prior to her time in Recruitment and after graduating from university, Sophie has worked in many of the roles we now recruit for so has a good understanding of what is required. She has been a Nanny for 3 young children, completed 2 seasons as a chalet host running the housekeeping and cooking for 16 guests, worked as an assistant in an Equine Veterinary clinic mucking out 10 horses a day, and also worked in the hospitality industry as part of the front of house team.
Having grown up in the countryside around horses and dogs, Sophie feels most at home in a pair of wellies either walking her miniature Daschund Molly, or taking her children, Poppy 4 and Milo 2, for a ride on their little pony Pippa! Sophie went to Pony club from the age of 5 and has competed and been around horses ever since. She also enjoys Pilates and is a qualified Instructor, teaching classes in her spare time as well as socialising with friends and family.