Most hiring goes one of two ways. You pay a recruitment agency 15% to 30% of salary, or you do it yourself at 11pm with a free job board and an inbox you cannot keep on top of.
This is the third option. The advert, the system and as much of the hiring as you want handled for you, by one named person who also knows your contracts and your team.
From £195 + VAT
Three fixed-fee options · no percentage of anyone's salary
You are hiring, and you want the right person without the agency bill.
"I could do this myself if I had the time and a proper system. I just don't, and the agency quote made me wince."
You have a role to fill. Maybe a second account manager, a first operations person, someone to take work off your plate so the business can keep moving. The job matters and you want to get it right.
An agency will find someone, for a fee that often does not match the role. Doing it alone means a free job board, 120 applicants, 95 of them wrong and no system to keep track of any of it.
This sits in the middle. We write the advert so the right people apply, set you up with a proper applicant tracking system under your own brand and handle as much or as little of the shortlisting and interviewing as you want. The person you hire is then the person we help you contract, onboard and keep, which no agency and no job board will ever do.
Three ways in, depending on how much you want to keep.
Start where you are. You can move up a level on the next hire, or hand the whole thing over from day one.
Advert Clinic
£195 + VAT
The advert that brings in the right people, not just more people.
For when you are happy to run the hire yourself, but your advert keeps pulling in the wrong applicants.
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A short call or questionnaire about the role
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A job advert written on our evidence-based framework: what the role is for, the day to day, what good looks like, the kind of person who fits
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A language check that flags wording shown to narrow your applicant pool before anyone applies
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Up to three values-based application questions that filter before interview
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Delivered in two working days
Best for a first-time employer or a founder who wants a sharper advert and will take it from there.
Hiring Setup
£495 + VAT
Your own hiring system, set up and ready, with the first role live.
For when you want to run your own shortlisting but need a proper system and an advert that works.
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A branded careers page and applicant tracking system set up and embedded on your website
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Your first role written and posted to Adzuna, Gov.uk and any paid job boards you pick (paid extra)
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Pre-screening questions and a GDPR-compliant application form
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Hiring-manager access so you and your team shortlist and interview inside the system
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A 30-minute walkthrough so you know how to use it
Includes year one of the system. Renewal £300 + VAT a year or included in a retained package. Extra roles posted for you at £85 + VAT each.
Best for a growing business making a few hires a year that wants control and a system, without an agency.
Managed Hire
From £1,500 + VAT
We run the whole thing, from advert to offer. Fixed fee per hire, no percentage of salary.
For when you want the hire handled and your time back.
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Everything in Hiring Setup
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Sourcing and posting, plus screening and shortlisting against an agreed brief
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Interview scheduling and a structured scorecard so decisions are consistent
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Feedback to candidates and the offer
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A clean handover into the contract and onboarding
From £1,500 for most roles, up to around £2,500 for senior or harder-to-fill positions. An agency on a £40,000 hire at 20% is £8,000.
Best for a founder or operator who would rather hand the hire over and keep the contract, onboarding and relationship in-house.
YOUR HIRING SYSTEM
See how your hiring system works, in three minutes.
The applicant tracking system is the engine behind Hiring Setup and Managed Hire. This short video walks through it. We set it up under your brand, so you never have to learn it cold.
OFFICIAL HIREFUL PARTNER
Why we work with Hireful
We are an official Hireful partner.
That gives your business proper hiring technology, the kind larger companies use, without the enterprise price tag, plus discounted job-board postings when you want to pay for reach and professional agency backup for the roles that need it. We handle the setup and stay alongside you.
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Everything in one place. Track applicants, schedule interviews and keep feedback together, instead of spread across your inbox and a spreadsheet.
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GDPR handled properly. Applications and messages are stored the right way, so you are not holding people's CVs in a way that creates risk.
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A careers page that looks like you. It links to your website and carries your brand through every step, so candidates get a professional first impression.
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Your managers kept in the loop. Assign a hiring manager to a role and they get updates as it moves, without you chasing.
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Post once, reach further. Send a role to several job boards from one place, with discounted paid postings when you want more reach.
The system is set up and supported as part of Hiring Setup and Managed Hire. See the three options above for pricing.
What sits outside this:
Senior or specialist executive search. We can refer you to a trusted recruitment partner and stay alongside you while they run it.
The employment contract and policies for the person you hire. That is First Hire Ready or HR Foundations Build, and a Managed Hire flows straight into it.
Ongoing HR advice between hires. That is the Retained HR Partner.
Most clients who hire more than once a year end up on a Retained HR Partner, with hiring, onboarding and day-to-day HR all under one roof and the system renewing inside it.
EMPLOYMENT LAW CONTEXT
Why getting the hire right matters more in 2026.
From January 2027, the unfair dismissal qualifying period drops from two years to six months. It is not a reason to hire scared. It does mean the cost of a wrong hire goes up, because you have less time before someone is protected, so a clear advert, honest screening and a probation period you run properly are worth more than they were. Getting it right at the front end is cheaper and easier than the problem it prevents.
The right person, in cleanly, and yours to keep.
No agency percentage. No inbox of mismatched CVs. No advert that shrank your shortlist before you read a single application.
A clear advert, a system that does the admin, and a hire that connects straight to the contract and the onboarding. The people who apply are the people who can picture themselves in the role, and the one you choose starts the job properly.
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