AllNeeds Recruitment is marking a special milestone for colleague Evelyn Costello, who this year celebrates both her 61st birthday and 35 years working in recruitment.
Evelyn’s career reflects a career-long commitment to dedication, resilience, and a genuine love of working with people.
Asked recently what has kept her in recruitment for so long, Evelyn’s answer captured not just her personal journey, but the qualities she believes define great recruitment.
Relationship-building sits at the core of how Evelyn works. Over the course of her career, she has repeatedly shown the value of trust, clear communication, and genuine understanding, forging lasting connections with clients and candidates alike. In doing so, she has helped countless individuals find roles that changed the course of their careers, while also helping businesses find the talent they needed to grow.
What sets Evelyn apart, above all, is how much she cares. She brings empathy to every interaction, often putting herself in a candidate’s position to properly understand their circumstances. This ensures the opportunities she puts forward aren’t just a good match on paper, but genuinely right for the person behind the CV. That authentic interest in people and their success has underpinned her long career and remains central to how she works.
Exceeding expectations has always been part of Evelyn’s approach, one built consistently around relationships, understanding, and delivering the right result for candidates and clients alike.
Retirement, for Evelyn, isn’t a matter of age or years served but of purpose. She has said she’ll continue in recruitment for as long as she feels the same passion and drive to connect with people and make a difference — and that she’ll know it’s time to step back only when that personal motivation fades.
Evelyn herself points to the many colleagues, clients, and candidates who have played a part in her journey, too numerous to name individually, all contributing to a career built on trust and shared success.
The team at AllNeeds Recruitment wanted to take this moment to thank Evelyn directly, recognising her professionalism, experience, and people-first approach as a benchmark for the recruitment industry. The team says it’s proud to have her on board and is looking forward to celebrating many more milestones together in the years ahead.
