RECRUITMENT
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Outsource Your Hiring to Emerald Zebra
Experience the Difference
Let us handle your recruitment challenges while you focus on growing your business. With our market-leading data, extensive talent network, and expert team, Emerald Zebra is your trusted partner for hiring in Cyprus’s competitive sectors.
The Emerald Zebra Team
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Salary Benchmarks for Your Industry
Leverage our exclusive salary data, sourced from 550+ employees, 20,000+ candidates, job advert and placement data, and 20 partner organizations, to stay competitive in the FinTech, Tech, Finance, and iGaming sectors. This isn’t just another salary guide—it’s the most exhaustive salary benchmark available in the market, giving you a competitive hiring advantage.
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Confidence with Every Placement
We’re so confident in our recruitment service process that we offer a 3-month free replacement guarantee for every placed candidate. If things don’t work out within that timeframe, we’ll provide one free replacement, ensuring your investment in talent is protected or a refund on a sliding scale.
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Maximum Job Visibility
All promotional efforts are included at no extra charge. We operate on a success-only basis, meaning you only pay when we place a candidate. Your job posting gets targeted exposure across multiple platforms to reach both active and passive candidates:
● Free LinkedIn Promoted Job Slot.
● Emerald Zebra Job Board: Cyprus’s only dedicated FinTech, Tech, Finance, and iGaming job board.
● Jobs of the Week Carousel: High LinkedIn engagement and equally high engagement rate.
● Targeted marketing reach to our engaged talent pool.
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Talent Sourcing
With our Sourcing Hub, we have access to 600+ million candidates globally, far beyond the local market. Combined with our ever increasing talent pool of screened local candidates and LinkedIn Recruiter network, we persevere to find the right talent wherever they are.
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Candidate Experience (HEX)
We place the candidate experience at the heart of everything we do. Our HEX (Human Experience) model ensures a seamless and personalized recruitment journey for every candidate. By focusing on building trust and delivering an excellent experience, we help our clients attract and retain talent while enhancing their employer brand.
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Proven Recruitment Expertise
Our founder brings 25 Years experience and leads a team of experienced recruiters with 10+ years of experience each in the local and international recruitment market. With our candidate-centric approach and commitment to client brand representation, we position your vacancies with impact and professionalism, ensuring you attract the best talent.
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Efficient, Tech-Enhanced Hiring Process
We leverage one of the best Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS) available, integrating automation to our administrative tasks and keeping the hiring process moving quickly and efficiently.
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Fast CV Delivery
We understand the urgency of filling critical roles. For most straightforward searches, we deliver pre-screened candidate CVs within 96 hours (4 days)—giving you a head start in securing the right talent. Our knowledge and processes, combined with the human touch and advanced sourcing techniques, ensure you get the best candidates fast, without compromising on quality.
Ready? Contact us today and experience recruitment the Emerald Zebra way!

Frequently Asked Questions - FAQs
Emerald Zebra specializes in recruitment for the FinTech, Tech, Finance, and Gaming sectors. Our team has unparalleled expertise in these industries, ensuring we can identify and attract the right fit talent for your specific business needs.
At Emerald Zebra, we want to prioritize understanding your company’s unique culture, values, and goals. The wrong hire is a costly hire. Therefore, to ensure that each hire aligns perfectly with your organizational needs and contributes to a diverse, inclusive, and equitable workplace, we meet with you, we discuss your requirements and ensure that we have everything we need to start an informed search.
Emerald Zebra stands out due to our niche focus on key sectors, our market knowledge, longevity in the market (20+ years), our amazing team and the leadership of our founder, Donna Stephenson, a renowned recruitment specialist. Our team’s approach, combined with our commitment to excellence in the candidate and client experience and journey, ensures a polished, professional recruitment service that drives results to help your company thrive.
Looking to Hire?
Fill out the form below, and one of our consultants will arrange a 30-45 minute consultation call to understand your needs in depth and align our efforts for successful placements.
With Emerald Zebra, you’ll receive a shortlist of pre-screened candidates who understand the role and your company. Plus, you only pay when a new employee joins, and our guarantee period ensures peace of mind with a free replacement or refund if needed. Let’s connect and find the right fit for your team and for the candidate!
Useful Articles

Emerald Zebra’s Executive Recruitment Division in Cyprus
ICT, fintech and finance specialist recruiter Emerald Zebra’s executive division, Emerald Zebra Executive, targets high-level roles with salaries ranging from €80,000 to €180,000+. According to director Donna Stephenson, this executive division caters to the growing demand for top-tier professionals in Cyprus’s thriving ICT, fintech, finance, and iGaming sectors.

Emerald Zebra’s Recruitment Value: How Emerald Zebra Eliminates the Three Bottlenecks to Successful Hiring
The true value of a recruiter lies not merely in filling vacancies but in transforming the hiring process. At Emerald Zebra, we believe that our role as recruitment specialists is to help our clients in Cyprus avoid the three critical bottlenecks that can derail a successful hiring strategy: badly defined roles, poorly advertised or sold opportunities, and inadequately assessed cultural and skills fit.

Case Study: Head of AML & Compliance Placement by Emerald Zebra
Emerald Zebra successfully filled the role of Head of AML & Compliance for a FinTech company based in Limassol, Cyprus. The client, a Central Bank of Cyprus-licensed organization offering payment solutions, sought a highly qualified compliance professional to lead its AML and Compliance operations. This role offered a salary range of EUR 65,000 – 96,000 gross/year, depending on the candidate’s experience and qualifications.