Company details

HEADCOUNT

100-499

ORG TYPE

Corporate

SECTOR

Professional Services

WEBSITE

http://www.lafosse.com/

About the company

La Fosse is a UK-founded talent business spanning technology recruitment, executive search, and a training arm called La Fosse Academy. The company markets itself as employee-owned and puts a lot of emphasis on learning, coaching, and performance-based progression. La Fosse Academy is positioned as a route into tech for people without traditional backgrounds, with a structured curriculum and employer placements. Across the group, early-career opportunity exists, but it sits in a few specific lanes rather than across most functions.

Locations and presence

La Fosse lists offices in London, Birmingham, and Amsterdam. Hiring is advertised through a central ATS, while Academy applications run through a dedicated Academy site.

Palpable Score

67.4

/ 100

La Fosse lands well because the company publicly explains learning support, progression roadmaps, and how earning and ownership work, which are the things early-career candidates usually struggle to get visibility on. The score is capped by uneven entry-level access across current vacancies, limited base-salary transparency for junior commercial roles, and mixed public sentiment around candidate communications and the Academy experience.

Pillar 1: Early-career access

Score

14.3

/ 20

The company runs La Fosse Academy as a structured “train then place” entry route, with an advertised nine-week curriculum designed to get associates job-ready.
La Fosse publishes early-career sales pathways such as the “AC Academy” referenced inside the benefits and development material, signalling a defined junior track inside the recruitment business.
The company’s live openings page is dominated by experienced roles, so entry-level access looks present but not consistently high-volume from public listings.

Pillar 2: Hiring fairness and transparency

Score

12.0

/ 20

The company centralises hiring through an ATS, which is a basic fairness signal compared with informal email-only recruitment.
La Fosse publicly documents parts of candidate handling through privacy and data-processing policies, which reduces surprises for applicants.
The company has public third-party feedback that includes complaints about ghosting or “vapour roles” in agency interactions, and the company does not publish a standardised interview process or feedback commitment to counterbalance that.

Pillar 3: Learning and support

Score

15.7

/ 20

The company says every employee has a development roadmap with clear KPIs and describes roadmaps being created in partnership with employees.
La Fosse states an unusually high reinvestment into learning, including a named Talent Development team, one-to-one and group training, lunch-and-learns, and access to qualified coaches.
The company’s Academy curriculum describes upfront training plus ongoing guidance aimed at accelerating people to mid-level after transition, which is a concrete learning design rather than vague “growth opportunities”.

Pillar 4: Pay fairness and stability

Score

13.7

/ 20

The company publishes meaningful compensation mechanics for recruiters, including commission percentages and a calculator that shows how earnings change by role and performance.
La Fosse describes majority employee ownership and explains that ownership is available “from day one” through an Employee Ownership Trust structure, which is a stability and alignment signal if applied broadly across staff.
The company does not consistently publish base salary ranges for early-career commercial roles on the main careers content, and some public Academy-related reviews raise concerns about financial practicality during training, which keeps this pillar short of top scores.

Pillar 5: Early-career outcomes

Score

11.7

/ 20

The company states a staff retention rate “far exceeds the industry average” but does not publish the actual retention figure or an early-career breakdown.
La Fosse has strong overall employer ratings on platforms like Glassdoor for some role groups, but this is not clean early-career outcome evidence such as promotion timelines or 12–24 month retention.
The company has mixed public feedback about the Academy and candidate experience (including claims about placement fit and communications), and the company does not publish placement rates, role-type outcomes, or conversion rates in a way that can be checked externally.

Useful links & resources

La Fosse Academy Apply (entry route)La Fosse benefits & development (L&D, coaching, AC Academy)La Fosse Current Openings (ATS)