Flat Fees vs. Placement Fees <back to FAQ

Why flat fees? The principle is simple, we will happily perform a set amount of work on each of your vacancies. We will clearly state what we are going to do, when we are going to do it, what job boards, CV databases and other resources we will use. Once we explain this plan, you will hopefully see that the odds are very much in your favour. How can you do all this for £699? We currently manage 150-200 vacancies at any time and have a well trained team, the software, and senior management experience required to achieve this. Why are flat fees better than placement fees? They are only better if you can successfully recruit for a position. No one likes spending money and not filling their vacancy. We will typically fill over 80% of the vacancies we are given, so at least 4 out of 5 times our clients are recruiting staff at £699 per hire, or less if they process multiple vacancies through us. What if we want to hire more than one person from the CVs you send for one vacancy? No problem. If you are working to our flat fee model there is no extra charge. One of our clients hired 9 call centre executives from one campaign last year. What's wrong with placement fees? Nothing. Just that we don’t believe all positions need to be recruited via the placement fee model. In our experience, 80-90% of most companies’ roles can be recruited by our flat fee model. In some situations, clients might prefer to operate to a placement fee model. In such situations we are able to offer a low placement fee of just 10% of basic salary. However, this only applies to situations where we are authorised to work on a vacancy as the sole agency for a period of 10 working days. Why does your 10% fee only apply to sole supplier assignments? Many companies operate a preferred list of agents with a bunch of agencies all competing to make placements on the same vacancies. Ultimately, this means that once an agency makes a placement that have to charge you a fee which is in excess of the work they have done to bring about the single placement. Why does this fee have to be in excess of the work they have done? They have to charge you a fee large enough to cover all the other vacancies they worked on but did not gain a placement for. For this reason, we don’t look to work on any multi-agency assignments. If a client gives us a vacancy we can give them a very full picture of who is available and interested in their vacancy, normally within a week.

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