FAQs

November 2008

When recession hit the Founders felt the traditional recruitment placement fee model no longer reflected the needs of companies mainly the requirement to pay a high % of the basic salary. The internet & job boards were and continue to be the primary source for candidate attraction, following 6 months of research with HR directors from both small and large corporate businesses confirmed that it was resourcing support that was needed.

The founders alone have nearly 35 years recruitment experience.

Whilst we have yet to find someone who offers an exact match to our services we acknowledge there are companies offering part of or similar services.

eSift are able to cover the whole of the UK, Ireland can also be covered although there would be an additional charge for advertising

We are able to cover a variety of industry sectors including; Pharmaceutical, Security, Marketing, Retail, Catering,

We have successfully recruited in the following areas; Administration, Secretarial, Customer Service, Marketing, PR, HR, IT, Sales, Finance, Graduates, Management, Retail, Hospitality & Catering, Security. Our salary bracket would be between £15,000pa to £100,000pa

Yes, all candidates who apply for your role can be sent to you for you to use for other roles within the company or to add to your talent pool for future use.

All roles will go on to Reed, Monster, Total Jobs, we also use CW Jobs for IT vacancies

Advertising on Total Jobs, Monster and Reed runs for 28 days this, CW Jobs advert will run for 7 days this is dictated by the job boards

No we are not legally allowed to add your logo to our advert. You can advertise on the same job boards using your logo but there will be a cost implication with each site and then we can manage the response.

This is your decision, we can blind advertise where it will say "Our client is looking to recruit…" or we can include the company name “Our client Joe Blogs is looking to recruit…”

Yes you can pay to use the board of your choice and arrange for responses to come to us and we can manage the candidates to suit you (i.e. CV sift, telephone screen and supply a short list)

Our Fully Managed Recruitment Service comes with our eSift guarantee "In the unlikely event your campaign does not generate the ideal candidate then we will re-run the campaign FREE OF CHARGE for another 4 weeks"

For us by including candidate management, telephone screening and CV searching as part of our service we are able to have a 95% fill rate

By being an online resourcing service we are able to provide a cost effective solution by not interviewing candidates face-to-face but always delivering the attraction and provision of a shortlist.

Yes, as the advertising would need to cover each location, however for a large number of locations we could cost this under our volume model which would work out cheaper.

No, you wouldn’t need to pay for 30 different campaigns however we would need to ensure we attract the right number of candidates in to the process in order to have 30 candidates for you to offer to at the end. To do this we would need to have a strong advertising activity in place and would cost this under our volume model.

This is no problem because all the CVs belong to you, you can offer to more than one candidate without fear of being charged anything extra. There are no placement fees!

No, we cannot pass on our cost of advertising alone as we are duty bound to provide a service. The minimum service we can provide is response management as all the response to the advert on the job boards come into an eSift email address.

We are experienced in managing response from other sources including the paper, specialist trade publications, application forms and through a recruitment telephone hotline