By Elliot Gulliver-Needham The net fee income of Robert Walters dropped 21 per cent in the first quarter of the year, as yet another recruiter has been burned by a slowing job market. The firm revealed today that it had cut its headcount by 13 per cent since last year to 3,812 in a quarterly trading update for the first three months of 2024. While the UK is only 16 per cent of Robert Walters’ market, it saw fees drop by 20 per cent, or by 27 per cent when excluding outsourcing. However, the group noted that fee income grew sequentially in London for the first time in five quarters. Fees for pe…