Agency hiring without the agency fee_^™

Recruitment Revolution uses a fixed, all-in project fee model instead of charging a percentage of salary. Fees start from £2,250 +VAT
for roles paying up to £49K rising based on 3 fee bands: £50-74K, £75-99K, £100-250K. For senior, exec, and C-suite hires, they recommend a bespoke Dedicated Talent Partner led approach customised to each project – this is very popular with busy Hiring Managers, Founders, and CEOs.

On the Supported plan, onsite fees range from £2,250 (Up to £49K) to From £3,995 (£100-250K), with Hybrid and Remote pricing higher within each band. On the Managed plan (Most Popular), onsite fees range from £2,495 (Up to £49K) to From £4,495 (£100-250K), with Remote reaching From £5,995 for £100-250K roles. The Dedicated plan, best for senior, Exec, and C-suite hires, is priced individually across all bands rather than fixed.

Supported is the entry-level fixed-fee plan covering the full end-to-end hiring process. Managed, the most popular option, adds VERRIFIED candidate screening, access to passive talent, employer brand content tools, a managed hiring portal, ATS syncing, DISC profiling for roles £75K+, and job offer negotiation support. Dedicated is priced individually and positioned as best for Senior, Exec, and C-suite hires, where the seniority and confidentiality of the search calls for a bespoke, headhunt-led approach and where companies want to deliver the most premium experience to candidates.

The Supported plan fee covers a fully managed, end-to-end hiring process: sourcing, shortlisting, and job offer support, a dedicated client delivery and candidate experience team, sourcing strategy consulting, hand-reviewed candidate screening, weekly check-ins, unlimited interview scheduling, and ownership of the resulting talent pool.

The Dedicated plan is Recruitment Revolution’s bespoke, quote-only tier, positioned as best for Senior, Exec, and C-suite hires, reflecting the greater confidentiality, market mapping, and headhunting effort that senior and C-suite searches typically require compared with a standard Supported or Managed hire.

Yes. Hybrid and Remote roles carry a slightly higher fee because reaching candidates who could be based anywhere requires more budget to market the role to a wider audience, whereas Onsite roles draw from a local candidate pool and need less spend to reach the right people. In the Up to £49K Supported plan band, Onsite costs £2,250, Hybrid £2,495, and Remote £2,995, all +VAT.

VERRIFIED is Recruitment Revolution’s enhanced candidate vetting service, included in the Managed plan, that pre-aligns candidates on location, salary, key skills, availability, right to work, and commute.

A Talent Engagement Partner costs £95/hour plus a 2-hour setup fee, and is offered as a bolt-on to the Managed plan for businesses wanting a more deeply embedded, brand-elevating hiring presence.

Yes. Headhunting – in-depth talent research, market mapping, and strategic outreach for hard-to-reach candidates – is built into the Dedicated plan as standard, or available as a supplementary service through adding a Talent Partner to Managed projects.

Enterprise-level hiring is quoted individually, involving multi-role deals: bulk ‘Enterprise Resourcing Credits’ and ‘Continuity Credits’, distinct from the Dedicated plan which is priced by seniority rather than volume. Businesses hiring at scale should contact Recruitment Revolution directly on 0800 294 3113 or team@recruitmentrevolution.com for a tailored quote.

Clients can add Paid Social & Display targeting and re-targeting to drive traffic to and back to career pages, and International Sourcing across APAC, EMEA, and the US.

Yes. Recruitment Revolution specialise in sourcing talent – how you hire them is up to you.

No. Recruitment Revolution’s pricing model is built around one fixed, all-in project fee per project, with no hidden costs, high commissions, or retainer fees layered on top. Optional add-ons, such as a Talent Partner or paid social targeting, are priced transparently and separately.

Much like larger enterprise RPO or embedded Talent Partners, Recruitment Revolution charges a fixed project fee to run and deliver a managed service to help you hire directly, vs a commission fee charged by commission agencies if you hire their candidate. All projects are backed by Recruitment Revolution’s Hire Service Guarantee: they continue working with the client until a hire is made, or for up to 3 months, whichever comes first, giving clients runway to succeed if candidates decline a job offer or it’s taking a little longer to find the right candidates.

The client does. Any talent pool built during a search belongs to the client afterward, allowing them to re-engage or hire additional candidates later without paying further fees.

No. Recruitment Revolution uses a fixed project fee model instead of the 15-25% of salary commission structure typical of traditional recruitment agencies. Because a commission-based fee grows with the offer, a contingent agency can end up incentivised to push candidates toward the highest possible salary rather than the best fit for the role. Recruitment Revolution’s fixed fee removes that incentive, allowing the relationship to function as a genuine partnership, helping you hire the right person on your terms, not theirs.

The 20% fee isn’t payment for hours worked on your role – it’s payment for risk. Traditional contingent agencies only get paid if a hire lands and sticks, so every search that falls through and every rebate owed on an early leaver has to be absorbed somewhere, and that somewhere is the fee charged to everyone else, much like insurance premiums rising for the whole pool when claims increase. A 20% commission reflects underwriting the uncertainty of working without any guarantee of getting paid at all, not overcharging for the work involved.

No. A higher percentage-based fee reflects the agency’s commission structure, not a guarantee of better sourcing or screening quality. A traditional agency charging 15-25% of salary on a £60K role bills £9,000-£15,000, several times Recruitment Revolution’s fixed fee for the same role, largely because percentage fees scale with salary rather than the actual work involved. The percentage model can also incentivise agencies to push for higher offers since their fee rises with the salary, which isn’t necessarily aligned with the client’s budget. Recruitment Revolution’s fair and sustainable fee removes that incentive and exclusively powers a dedicated delivery team, talent sourcing, hand-reviewed screening, and a hire guarantee.

Recruitment Revolution isn’t a cheap agency – it runs a different model. Instead of a risk-baked placement fee, priced on the chance a hire won’t stick, Recruitment Revolution charges a fair and sustainable fee for delivering a hiring service: sourcing, screening, and managing the process end-to-end. In practice they operate like an in-house talent team you can switch on and off, a Managed Service Provider model giving you the agency experience without the hefty agency fee, priced on the cost of doing the work rather than on insuring against every placement that fails elsewhere.

DIY job board posting shifts all the labour of writing the ad, posting it, screening applicants, chasing candidates, and scheduling interviews onto the hiring manager, whereas Recruitment Revolution’s fixed fee includes a dedicated delivery team doing that work end-to-end. Job board ads and LinkedIn Recruiter licences (roughly £250-£1,000+ per post, or £8,000-£12,000+ per year for a Recruiter seat) only buy visibility, not sourcing or screening, so once the internal hours spent posting, finding candidates, and screening CVs are factored in, a fixed managed fee from £2,250 +VAT is often comparable or cheaper, with the added benefit of a service guarantee.

Like any professional managed services business, Recruitment Revolution exists to add more value, expertise, knowledge, and range than most people can deliver on their own – and, critically, to save time, which is often the most overlooked cost of hiring. How much is your time worth? Recruitment is admin-heavy and needs to be done right, not crammed into evenings and weekends. Recruitment Revolution handles everything end-to-end so you can stay focused on other high-value tasks.

Recruitment Revolution offers the same embedded talent experience without the heavy monthly subscription. You get a dedicated delivery team, sourcing technology, and embedded expertise, priced accessibly for companies with limited budgets, no appetite for heavy retainers, or simply a need for support on a specific role or project rather than an open-ended commitment.

Hiring is only as good as the person driving it, so this depends on whether that team member is fully aligned with your goals and skilled enough to run the process properly – if either is missing, you risk losing great talent. There’s also a conflict-of-interest risk: asking a team member to hire their own future boss, or someone who could be seen as a threat to their position, creates real fail points. If you delegate internally, it works best to keep them as a stakeholder rather than the sole owner, staying present or setting out a clear scorecard approach from the start.

This is completely normal – during the first few weeks of a project, the market’s reaction to your role becomes clear, and if the right talent isn’t showing up, the positioning needs reviewing and recalibrating using the data and insights gathered. Hiring is marketing: if the right people aren’t converting, every touchpoint gets reviewed and fixed, the same way you’d adjust a customer acquisition campaign. Recruitment Revolution specialises in sourcing transformation and knows which levers to pull when a search needs adjusting.

The Recruitment Revolution experience is made up of four teams: Client Delivery, Candidate Experience, Talent Partners, and Screening. Hiring projects run like a production line, with each team working in synchronisation to deliver success, a process refined over more than 20 years. This structure means projects aren’t reliant on one key person and vulnerable in the event of an absence.

Recruitment Revolution specialises in finding talent. Over more than 20 years they’ve built proprietary sourcing tools and a repeatable hiring playbook that lets them bring the right candidates to the table fast, regardless of sector or seniority – whether that’s a Head of Sales for a SaaS business or a CFO for an engineering firm.

We are currently averaging a 92% success rates on ‘Supported’ projects, 94% on ‘Managed’ and a 100% hit rate on our ‘Dedicated’ projects.

The average for an embedded talent partner model is typically 90% to 95% placement success rate so you’re in good hands.

In case you were wondering the average success rate for a commission based recruiter is as low as 25%. But that doesn’t mean they are bad.

Our strong stats are attributed to the collaborative nature of the RR model where we truly partner with your business – we are all invested and on the same team we get results.

But the best stat of all and the one we love… Zero sales cold calls in 21 yeas. We must be doing something right.