Amanda Chester
Amanda is CGS's specialist on dealing with headhunters.
After an early career ranging from public relations through corporate finance and publishing to estate agency, Amanda developed an interest in recruitment and management consultancy.
She now runs her own boutique business, Amanda Chester Consulting, advising and recruiting for most of the global executive search companies as well as several top level boutiques in specialist sectors. She also provides best advice and assistance to both recruitment consultants and researchers wishing to move to, or within, the top tier executive search firms.
Amanda uses this day-to-day awareness of the people and companies in the search industry to advise CGS's senior executive clients on their selection of and approaches to the executive search community.
A qualified and experienced coach and mentor in her own right, she is also an Honorary Associate of The Officers' Association, assisting officers from the three services at all levels transitioning to the commercial world: her late husband was a former Major General in the Royal Marines.