Recruiting Services

Recruiting services are offered by third-party recruitment agencies that help businesses find and hire people for open positions.

Depending on the type of recruitment services the agencies offer, they can cover the entire hiring lifecycle or support recruitment at specific stages. The best fit depends on the solution you need and how involved you want the agency to be, as some will simply collect and find CVs for you to review, while others will embed recruitment partners into your business.

TalentHub is a recruitment agency that offers professional recruiting services to startups and scale-ups looking to expand their operations.

If you partner with a recruiter who provides recruitment support services across the entire hiring process (like TalentHub), they will help businesses with things like:

• Creating a solid job description for your vacant roles
• Actively reaching out to candidates who aren’t currently looking for work
• Screening candidates and assessing them based on skills, personality, and cultural fit
• Drafting detailed candidate profiles and shortlisting the best for interviews
• Supporting your new hires through onboarding

Recruiting services usually depend on the recruiter or agency, but they can be narrow in scope or support businesses through the entire hiring process.

This can include things such as:

• Permanent placement — The recruiting services provider helps companies find FTEs.
• Executive search — It’s difficult to find candidates for C-suite roles because most aren’t looking for work, so executive search firms help businesses with finding leadership candidates.
• Sourcing — Recruiting services that offer sourcing help companies with finding and screening candidates
• Recruitment process outsourcing (RPO) — When a company needs to hire for many roles quickly, an RPO helps during seasonal or rapid growth periods.
• Temporary and contract staffing — For when you need to fill roles for a short period of time, or you want to trial workers via a contract-to-hire method.

If you’re looking to make permanent hires, find leaders, or need help managing the hiring process, TalentHub can help with all of the above and more.

Of course, especially when you need to fill difficult-to-fill positions.

Recruiting services are great when every day a seat remains unfilled costs your company, or when you are struggling to commit resources to the hiring process. Using recruitment services not only relieves the strain of hiring (finding, screening, interviewing, and onboarding talent), but also gives you access to a talent pool you otherwise wouldn’t find when posting on job boards.

For key hires, usually yes. Recruiting services pay off when an empty seat costs you more than the fee, when the role is hard to fill, or when your team lacks the time or network to run the search well.

However, there are moments when it makes less sense to partner with a recruiter, like when hiring for entry-level positions or high-volume roles.

Different recruiters use different pricing models, and costs usually increase with the seniority of the role and how much of the hiring process you hand over.

Typically, and going by recruiting services industry standards, the fees go as follows:

• Contingency — 15% to 25% of first-year base salary, paid when the hire starts
• Retained search — 25% to 35% of first-year base salary, paid in stages
• Flat fees — Roughly €4,200 to €18,800 per hire
• RPO subscriptions — Roughly €1,700 to €8,600 a month

TalentHub charges a percentage of the candidate's annual gross salary, paid across three stages, and the price flexes with the scope and type of service.