Permanent Recruitment

The Candidate is your quality, connected recruitment partner. We have an extensive database of active and passive candidates, keen to develop their marketing career searching for their next step. Candidates trust us because we immerse ourselves in the sectors we recruit for, understanding their journey. Clients partner with us to get a true insight into their future employees.

Our permanent recruitment service presents the best available candidates by fully understanding your brief to minimise your time spent on the recruitment process. We will ensure efficiency in the process and a quality outcome meaning longer retention from your newly recruited employee. To give you peace of mind, we offer a generous rebate period or replacement in the unlikely event of it not working out.

We’ll apply top service levels to every brief we work on, giving you access to both passive and active candidates to help find the ideal employee. Our proven structured approach and incentive to place, ensures efficient, precise candidate identification and hiring.

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The Candidate Process

Consult

Consult with you on creating the brief, helping you develop it and working to present your business in the best light.

Understand

Understand your business culture for the perfect candidate match, knowing this, alongside skills and experience, is crucial for long term employee retention.

Timescale

Agree timescale expectations so you know when to expect the first CVs, ensuring you are available for interviews and set expectations on your next employee’s notice period.

Shortlist

Present at least 3 qualifies candidates for your role or an agreed amount that you feel is best suited to your hiring process and taking feedback on any refined requirements that come to light.

Organise

Organise all interviews and supply detailed feedback to both you and the candidate. Help you secure your choice by managing the various stages and suggesting the best ways to assess candidates.

Aftercare

Post hire check ins with both yourself and the new employee to ensure that everyone is happy with the decision and make changes if needs be.

Our Industries

Automotive

Advertising Agency

Creative Agency

eCommerce

Fashion

Financial Services

FMCG

Health and Beauty

Manufacturing

Marketing Agency

Media Sales

Professional Services

Property

Travel

Utilities

Private Equity/Venture Capital

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Our Expertise

The Candidate is the leading marketing recruitment agency sourcing the UK’s top talent in digital, marketing, analytics, creative and technology. We’re proud to support the future of UK businesses and beyond.

Digital

We're the best recruitment agency for digital marketing jobs in the UK, having placed thousands of candidates in digital jobs since 2012. Our extensive database and effective sourcing techniques mean that we’re the experts in digital recruitment, identifying the best candidates for our clients’ openings in quick timescales resulting in long-term placements.

Marketing

We understand how to recruit the best candidates for the marketing jobs we recruit for as many of us are from marketing backgrounds. Coupled with an outstanding recruitment service, we help candidates develop their marketing careers in some of the best job opportunities in the UK. Whether it’s a marketing agency position, or client-side opportunity, we’ll work to ensure the best recruitment experience and outcome for clients and candidates.

Analytics

Data and analytics jobs complement the marketing recruitment we undertake for many of our clients. We’ve built a large database of many top-quality candidates and have a record of working with clients to effectively place them in both permanent and contract roles. Our specialist recruiters in this area will advise you on the level of candidate you’ll need to ensure effective recruitment to complete any project or ongoing role.

Creative

We have many creative jobs available at all levels across this inspiring and ever evolving industry. We’ve worked with candidates throughout their creative careers and worked with many agencies and companies on the best creative jobs in Manchester and across the UK. Our creative consultants will work to identify the best candidates, whether they are active or passive, from our extensive creative database.

Technology

Work with the best tech recruitment agency who has placed candidates in many tech jobs, including recruitment of developers of all types, engineers, leads, designers and project managers to name a few. Our tech recruitment consultants understand emerging tech and what clients need in order to fulfil their projects. We have candidates available to immediately fill contract and permanent roles.

Permanent Recruitment