In the race to scale, every business strives to win clients, refine services, and increase revenue. Yet one challenge can silently undermine all that momentum:...
When Clients Go Dark
Recruitment agencies rely on timely placement fees to keep their businesses running, yet many face chronic payment challenges. In the UK,...
Late payments are often blamed on clients, but agency behaviour plays a major role. Small signals like vague terms, inconsistent reminders, or overly casual follow-ups, can teach clients...
The Hidden Risk Behind Growth
Small recruitment agencies often run lean operations — focused on delivering great service, winning new clients, and placing candidates quickly....
How Overdue Recruitment Fees Quietly Stall Growth
At first, it doesn’t feel like a problem. One unpaid invoice. Then another. Placements are still being made. Consultants are still billing. But behind the...
When Familiarity Undermines Authority
In recruitment, strong relationships are an asset… until they’re not. The closer you get to a client, the easier it becomes for boundaries to blur. Payment terms are stretched, disputes drag on, and...
Backdoor hires are a recurring issue for recruitment companies. We know the problem, we see it growing, and we have a solution – our HireChecker tool. With...
In this case our client, a recruiter specialising in IT, had been dealing with the HR Manager of a large workwear clothing manufacturer to place an ERP Manager.
Temp to perms are usually fairly simple cases, the candidate is taken on as a temporary worker or contractor on day rate, they reach the end of their placement, some time later you find they’ve been hired on a permanent contract, a transfer fee is due. This case is a little different.
