Full recruitment.
One fixed fee.
Every stage of the hiring process, done properly. You know the cost before we start. And it doesn't move.
Everything the agency does.
Without the percentage.
A copywriter drafts a focused, on-brand advert from a 20-minute brief. Posted under your name, not ours, so candidates engage with your business directly.
Your vacancy goes live across the major UK job boards, plus sector boards relevant to the role.
We don't just wait for applications. Consultants proactively search CV databases and talent communities to surface passive candidates who match the brief but aren't job-hunting.
Every CV reviewed against the brief. Every applicant gets a fast, polite response under your name. Unsuitable candidates are handled and declined for you.
A curated shortlist of suitable candidates, with our notes against your essential criteria.
A consultant runs a structured Teams video call with promising applicants to confirm fit, motivation, salary and notice before they reach you. We screen on video as standard. It confirms the candidate is who their application says they are, and keeps us ahead of applicants using AI tools to script or game text and phone screening.
We coordinate diaries with candidates and confirm slots, so you spend time interviewing, not chasing.
Guidance on benchmark salary, counter-offers and start dates. We help close the candidate cleanly.
One person owns your vacancy from brief to hire. Direct line, sensible response times.
From advert to offer, we're your front line: fielding questions, replying fast, and representing your business professionally throughout.
We charge for the work.
Not the salary.
Compare that to a 15% agency fee on a £40,000 role: £6,000. We charge £2,999. The same work. £3,001 less. Tell us about the role and we'll get started.
Brief to hire in
four moves.
A short call to scope the role. We write the advert; you approve it before it goes live.
Vacancy live on the major job boards. In parallel, consultants actively source passive candidates. CVs screened daily; unsuitable applicants handled by us.
You receive a curated shortlist with our notes, plus Teams video screen summaries.
We schedule interviews and support the offer. You meet the right people and hire.
Built for businesses that
hire more than once a year.
Fixed Fee Recruitment works best for companies who recruit regularly and want budget certainty. If you're paying percentage fees and wondering why the cost never seems to reflect the work, this is the alternative.
It's particularly well-suited to hiring in engineering, automation, materials handling, SaaS, defence, and specialist manufacturing. Though we work across all sectors.
The percentage model hasn't changed in 50 years.
Everything else has.
The 15-to-25% recruitment fee was built for a different era. Before job boards. Before LinkedIn. Before a recruiter could reach ten thousand candidates from a desk in an afternoon. Back then, the percentage roughly matched the effort.
That world is gone. The tools got faster and cheaper. The work got easier. The fee never moved.
We're sometimes told we're undercutting the market. We see it differently. We're charging what the work actually costs to do well in 2026, not what it cost in 1975. A £50,000 hire doesn't take more effort to fill than a £35,000 one, so why would it cost you thousands more?
Fixed fee isn't us racing to the bottom. It's us pricing honestly for the job in front of us. The percentage model had a good run. We just think it's had its day.
Three things
change.
Fixed at brief, paid upfront. No percentage on salary.
vs 15–25% of first-year salary.
The same person you brief writes the advert, screens applicants, and supports the offer. Direct line, no reassignments.
vs 3–4 handovers per agency hire.
Applicants apply to your business under your name. You keep the full pipeline and every application, hire by hire.
vs agency-owned CV databases.
Real briefs.
Real results.
They go beyond just reading CVs, asking detailed, scenario-based questions that highlight candidates' real-world expertise. This level of preparation has saved us so much time… I also really appreciate having the option to access their system for real-time updates.
We liked that you only sent through the very best candidates… A cost-effective service, whilst providing very real tangible value.
What really sets this team apart is their determination. Adie worked tirelessly to ensure we got exactly what we needed, like a dog with a bone… The pricing was excellent, especially when compared to traditional recruiters.
Hiring for the long term?
Get a careers site to match.
For businesses with ongoing recruitment plans, we can build a branded career site that sits within your own website. A permanent, professional careers presence that we keep populated with your live roles. Every vacancy gets a custom shareable link, so your team can push roles out across LinkedIn, email and social, all pointing back to your brand.
It's the difference between filling one role and building a hiring engine. If you're recruiting continuously rather than occasionally, this is how you do it without the per-hire agency bill.
Ready to talk about
your next hire?
Tell us about the role. We'll give you a clear picture of what we'd do, what it costs, and whether we're the right fit.