Solutions that fit your specific needs:
Rec-Revolution helps businesses hire directly, partnering with Owners, Directors, and busy HR/Operations teams struggling to attract top talent.
We deliver bespoke, data-driven hiring strategies that stop reactive recruitment, build resilient front-line teams, and drive revenue. Our specialised tools and targeted talent attraction methods give you a competitive edge in securing high-skilled talent. With expert insights, practical support, and tailored advice, we help you improve your business through smarter direct hiring.
Cut the waste. Hire smarter. Strengthen your team.
…Because we are a recruitment partner, not an agency. We provide cutting edge insight, direction and upskilling, working alongside your recruitment team, so that your business can compete for the best talent in frontline employees.
Over the last 3 decades working in agency and blue-chip, in-house positions, we have worked with thousands of clients and hundreds of thousands of candidates, so we understand recruitment to a depth and breadth that few possess. We now use these expertise to help you recruit directly; better and cheaper.
Alex and Chris have a combined 40+ years in recruitment in both corporate organisations and SME/Startups. We understand the challenges of what good and bad recruitment spend looks (and feels) like.
Retail & Hospitality & Volume Hires
We support your frontline recruitment of volume customer-facing roles. Typified by high turnover, hourly paid positions. We have solutions that turn this from ‘ongoing problem’ to ‘competitive advantage’ and save you huge costs.
Client needs / scope of project
Job boards were abusing a lack of proactive management and charging rack-rate for high volumes of advertising, whilst dated tools meant that recruitment had become a chore amongst area managers. Our task was to reduce advertising costs whilst improving response, retention, and engagement within the business.
What we did
Analysed data to understand their best candidate pool and reengineered their attraction, tools, and process to reflect this. We dispelled a number of myths around recruitment helping them to work faster and with more purpose to fill their positions. We delivered training to hiring managers to help understand their potential candidates and designed tools that made their lives easier, whilst substantially reducing spend.
The results
● 54% savings in advertising costs with dramatically improved returns
● Defined leadership within the recruitment process
● Improved retention leading to reduction in cost of of onboarding by 46%
● Improved customer scores and revenue in ‘stable shops’
Testimonial
“Rec-Revolution have brought to light the amount of money we were wasting. Not just on advertising but the costs of onboarding was not something in the company’s field of vision. We still have more work to do, but we are now on the right path. It’s also been great fun!”
Kate Richmond, Head of HR
Client needs / scope of project
A well established group of department stores facing decreasing volume and quality of frontline staff applications, whilst also incurring rapidly rising advertising and agency costs. Crucial vacancies and time demanded of hiring managers impacting customer service levels and revenue performance. Our task was to review the entire recruitment cycle including data analysis, job proposition, all recruitment processes, cost, advertising materials and hiring management recruitment capability.
What we did
Analysed two years of data to gain insights into most successful employee groups in terms of retention and longevity. Completely overhauled recruitment cycle from advertising through to offer stages with specific target groups in mind. Delivered training sessions to General Store Managers and hiring line-managers across multiple sites. Conducted A/B testing of advert copy to establish best appeal and candidate response rates, whilst reducing recruitment costs.
The results
● Time to hire reduced to 2.4 weeks (ave)
● Reduction of turnover of new hires by 32%
● Mystery customer scores showing steady improvement over the year
● Reinvigorated all stakeholders involved in recruitment
● Ongoing cost reduction on advertising costs as well as ongoing advice and support
Testimonial
“The Rec-Revolution guys have helped us understand the impact of frontline recruitment on bottom line, and given us tools and advice that has allowed us to take control of this fundamental part of the business.”
Liz McGowan, Ops & HR Director
General Business
Your people are your business. Hiring the right people that stay is crucial. We help you get it right, better and, cheaper, so your business can deliver for your customers.
Client needs / scope of project
Job boards were abusing a lack of proactive management and charging rack-rate for high volumes of advertising, whilst dated tools meant that recruitment had become a chore amongst area managers. Our task was to reduce advertising costs whilst improving response, retention, and engagement within the business.
What we did
Analysed data to understand their best candidate pool and reengineered their attraction, tools, and process to reflect this. We dispelled a number of myths around recruitment helping them to work faster and with more purpose to fill their positions. We delivered training to hiring managers to help understand their potential candidates and designed tools that made their lives easier, whilst substantially reducing spend.
The results
● 54% savings in advertising costs with dramatically improved returns
● Defined leadership within the recruitment process
● Improved retention leading to reduction in cost of of onboarding by 46%
● Improved customer scores and revenue in ‘stable shops’
Testimonial
“Rec-Revolution have brought to light the amount of money we were wasting. Not just on advertising but the costs of onboarding was not something in the company’s field of vision. We still have more work to do, but we are now on the right path. It’s also been great fun!”
Kate Richmond, Head of HR
Client needs / scope of project
A growing children’s care home business needed process and direction to find both qualified and unqualified staff, critical to establishing their operations in challenging recruitment areas within the South West. Costs and quality both vital challenges. Our task was to define, create and support an effective recruitment strategy.
What we did
Defined the person specification and analysed the turnover cycle of team members. Created recruitment tools to attract the right people and run proactively as they developed their recruitment approach, allowing them to compete against the agencies they had previously used.
The results
● Clear picture of the candidates to target for long term success
● Proactive approach to managing hiring cycle
● 37% savings in advertising costs with dramatically improved returns against agency hires
● Improved expectation management and subsequent retention of new hires
Testimonial
“We were so busy dealing with operational issues that no-one really owned recruitment and no-one quite knew where to start with it. Alex & Chris gave us a structure that we could implement and own, and are there for whenever we have questions. Working with them means we don’t have to employ a recruiter but we keep control of our business.”
J Jenner, Business Owner
Professional Services
The requirement for specialised skills and talent is a crucial business need. It’s tough to compete for highly sought after talent. We help you succeed in securing the key people you need.
Client needs / scope of project
The CEO needed to make a key hire to take responsibility for commercial partnerships strategy and operational management away from the CEO to facilitate greater growth and development of the business. The new role required scoping and developing in terms of remit and function and understanding what skill sets and profiles of potential hires existed.
What we did
Developed a role definition and profile to identify a pool of potential target candidates. Devised an advertising strategy including ad-copy and branding, defined USPs for the role, sites to advertise and also utilise both out existing networks and those of the client.
The results
We were able to attract over 30 high calibre candidates from a variety of sources which gave us a very strong list of candidates to screen and present a range of options. The client interviewed selected candidates and hired a truly great person. Start to finish of this project was just over 2 weeks.
Testimonial
‘’As an SME making time to recruit seemed over whelming, it was just easier to kick the can down the road and crack on as we were. Our criteria was to be supported whist retaining ownership and control of the actual process itself. Rec revolution do just that, friendly, efficient support which has been highly cost effective for our business.’’
Jonathon Nye, CEO
No! We do not recruit for you. We provide your team with the analysis, tool, skills, and ongoing support to get it right them selves.
A minimum wage full-time employee costs a business £3500 in their first month. Across industry in general, this population turnover is 45% in the first 3 months of employment. Losing just 10 within their first 3 months equates to at least £35000 with almost no return.
Our aim is to reduce this by half in the first year.
No. We come in and understand your business, face to face. We recognise that recruitment is an intrinsically human process that sometimes works well with select technology, but each solution is different for each customer. Ideally we want your current tech to work for you better.
It’s easy. We will need some data, and conversations with some key people in the organisation, then all the heavy lifting happens in the background.
No. Our project fees vary with the size and scope of each assignment. We want your business to succeed through reducing its cost whilst driving revenue through hiring better, long term teams.
No. You retain control of your recruitment but with much improved understanding process and systems, along with ongoing support if you want it.
We have recruited for thousands of different businesses throughout our careers, and know the importance of cultural fit. We spend time with key players in your business to make sure we are reflecting what is important to you and your teams.
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We have no desire to sell you something you don’t want or need, but if you have genuine frustrations or concerns around your recruitment, we can help! So get in touch for your free no obligation recruitment assessment that will also show you some of what we can do for you.
We only need a few minutes of your time.
(We know your time is precious, but if you already have concerns about the quality and costs of your recruitment, they are almost certainly founded!)
In return, we will provide you with a free recruitment assessment including constructive feedback, actionable recommendations regarding…
