HR Recruitment - Frequently Asked Questions
We specialise in mid-to-senior HR recruitment, including HR Business Partner, HR Manager, Head of HR, HR Director, People and Culture leaders, and Chief People Officer roles. We focus on positions that shape how an organisation is led and how its people are supported. We don't do high-volume or junior recruitment, because our model is built for roles where getting the right person really matters.
A retained HR search typically takes two to four weeks from briefing to accepted offer, depending on the seniority of the role and how specific your requirements are. Senior and specialist HR recruitment at the higher end of that range often need direct headhunting rather than advertising, which takes longer but reaches candidates who aren't visible on job boards. We'll give you a realistic timeline at the briefing stage rather than an optimistic one.
Yes. Most of the strongest candidates for senior HR roles are already employed and not on job boards, so our HR recruitment is built around direct approach and headhunting rather than advertising. We map the market for your specific role and approach people directly, which means you see candidates a contingency agency posting an ad would never reach.
We recruit senior HR leaders across a broad range of sectors, from fast-growing tech and finance to professional services, manufacturing, healthcare and beyond. Our clients share a commitment to strategic, people-focused HR leadership.
We recruit HR professionals specifically, so we understand the difference between an HR Business Partner and an HR Manager, between a generalist and a specialist, and what a credible People Director CV looks like. That means we can pressure-test your brief, challenge it where it needs challenging, and shortlist on substance rather than keyword-matching. You won't spend the first three calls explaining your own function to us because our whole team are HR professionals and recruitment experts. In addition our sister company The HR Consultants provides outsourced HR support so we're actively doing HR, not just hiring HR roles.
We shortlist against your actual brief and the reality of your business, not against a database search, and we only put forward people we'd stand behind. Every candidate we send has been spoken to, assessed against the role, and briefed properly on your business before they reach you. You get a short, considered shortlist for your HR recruitment you can act on, not a stack of CVs to wade through.
Senior HR candidates judge your employer brand partly on how the recruiter representing you behaves, so we treat every approach as an extension of your business. We take time to understand your culture, your leadership, and why the role is genuinely worth someone's move, then represent it accurately. That protects your reputation in a small, well-connected HR market where word travels.
Our placement guarantee means that if your new hire leaves within the first 12 weeks, we place them for free.
s involved as you want to be, but we're set up to save you time, not add to your workload. After a thorough briefing we run the search, manage candidate communication, coordinate scheduling, and only bring you a shortlist worth your attention. You stay in control of the decisions that matter without doing the legwork of the search.
Yes, and it's one of the situations where getting it right matters most. When there's no existing HR leader to define the role, we help you scope what you actually need before we search, drawing on our understanding of how the function works at different stages of growth. That means the person we place fits the business you're becoming, not just the one you are today.
We work with SMEs and larger organisations across the UK, wherever the HR role being filled is senior or important enough to justify a proper search. What our clients share isn't a sector or a headcount, it's a hire that shapes how their people are led. If the role is business-critical, our model fits.
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