Employers

If you want a recruitment agency PSL recruiter with a 30% fill rate and a transactional approach, we will be happy to make you a recommendation.


But should the promises of "5 CVs by Friday" work against you, you may find our insight-led partnership brings you a better outcome.


If you need to get the right people on board – we can help.


100% fill rate for retained projects. 1-year free replacement guarantee. 3.8 year average retention for management and leadership hires.

We find the right candidates for key hires and problem vacancies.


Our work starts by auditing your business needs and job description. Where there is a disconnect, we will work with you to close the gap. This ensures we set your project off in the right way, and that we target the right candidates.


From there we agree on a tailored approach that will find, engage and onboard those candidates. Whether they are active jobseekers, passively open to approach, or embedded in successful careers and hard to access. You’ll get what you need.


Our fee is arranged in line with the needs of the project.


By gaining full insight on your vacancy, organisation, business operations, context and employment benefits, we ensure six things:


  1. agree on the right service, based on the individual requirements of your vacancy, candidate availability and market conditions
  2. write a full report of your vacancy, its context and impact. This both confirms our understanding with you and serves as an employment value proposition for ideal candidates.
  3. establish the right market map for your needs
  4. identify, approach and attract candidates that best meet your requirement
  5. act as your advocate, preparing interviewees and making them excited about your opportunity, ensuring they give their best at interview and that they are more likely to accept a job offer
  6. provide constructive feedback about the recruitment process, candidate marketplace and, if you are struggling to fill a vacancy, why that is


All our services are the consequence of this approach, whether it’s retained, search or recruitment enablement.


Candidate and employer experience is a core part of our philosophy and strategy – an interconnected approach whose outcome is filling your vacancies with the best people.


Talk to us, if you’d like to know why we put so much emphasis on experience.


'Paying it forward' is a key part of our approach too. One area in which we do this is through Reciprocate - one sixth of all profits from retained projects are allocated to providing free support to exec job seekers in the UK. Our default is 1-hour job search strategy calls; however if you, as an employer, prefer us to support the job seeker community in a different way, we are happy to do so.




For volume campaigns, or if you are struggling with providing the right focus on your recruitment, you can rely on us to help. Click on Cognate to see how.


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