Outsourced talent acquisition
Hire the right people, without the cost of an in-house recruitment team.
Aspire to Grow works as part of your business. We plan your hiring, find and engage the right people and manage the whole process, so you can get on with running the company.
- 20 years plusof hands-on talent acquisition experience
- Fixed feesagreed before any work starts
- Under your brandworking directly with your hiring managers
Not a recruitment agency. Part of your team.
Why businesses come to us
Too small for an in-house recruiter? Too busy to recruit yourself?
In most small and growing businesses, recruitment falls to directors and senior staff who already have enough on their plates.
Writing adverts, reading applications, approaching candidates and arranging interviews all takes time. And paying a recruitment agency for every hire soon gets expensive.
We offer a different route. We work as an extension of your business, giving you professional talent acquisition support without the commitment of employing a full-time recruiter.
You focus on growing your business. We’ll help you find the people to grow it.
Three ways to work with us
Recruitment support that fits around your business
An independent review of how you hire, help with one important vacancy, or a talent acquisition partner who stays with you. Pick the one that matches where you are now.
1
Recruitment Health Check
A clearer, more confident approach to hiring.
We advise, you act
We review how you attract, assess and select candidates, point out the hiring risks and recommend practical improvements, so your next recruitment decision is a better one.
Best whenYour recruitment isn’t giving you the results you need, or you want to improve your approach before the next hire.
2
Hire With Confidence
The right support to make a better hiring decision.
We manage the process with you
From defining the role and sourcing candidates to screening and interviews, we run your recruitment campaign and help you decide with confidence.
Best whenYou have an important vacancy to fill and want to cut the risk of making the wrong hire.
3
Fractional Talent Acquisition Partner
Your recruitment manager, without the full-time cost.
We become part of your team
Flexible, ongoing recruitment expertise. We plan future hiring, build talent pipelines and run your campaigns, which frees up your senior team’s time.
Best whenYou’re growing, hiring regularly, or want a more proactive and consistent approach to recruitment.
How we compare
Three ways to make a hire
Every business hires in one of these three ways. Here is what each one really asks of you.
Doing it yourself
The usual way for small teams
- Who does the work
- You or your senior team, on top of the day job
- What it really costs
- Management time, and sometimes a missed opportunity
- The challenge
- Finding time to recruit well while running the business
- What you keep
- The hire, and the recruitment approach you already had
How we work
Aspire to Grow
Fractional talent acquisition
- Who does the work
- We do. We work as part of your business and manage recruitment from start to finish
- What it really costs
- Clear, fixed fees agreed before we start, far less than typical agency fees
- The challenge
- Building the right approach and reaching suitable people before you need them
- What you keep
- The hire, a stronger recruitment process and a growing talent pipeline
Recruitment agency
Right for some roles
- Who does the work
- An outside recruiter finds and introduces candidates. You still run the process
- What it really costs
- A placement fee for each successful hire
- The challenge
- Often focused on filling one vacancy, not on your longer-term pipeline
- What you keep
- The successful hire
How a hire runs
Six steps from first conversation to first day
A structured, open process that saves you time and lowers the risk of a wrong hire. It takes around two days of our time in total, spread over several weeks.
- Understand your needsWe talk through your business, the role, your team and what success looks like, then agree an approach that suits you.
- Plan the recruitmentWe define the role, set out the ideal candidate profile and agree how we will reach and engage the right people.
- Attract and sourceTargeted advertising, direct candidate searches and our own networks. Candidates are kept informed throughout.
- Screen and shortlistWe assess candidates against what we agreed and give you a shortlist with clear recommendations.
- Interview and offerWe organise interviews, gather feedback, support your decision and manage the offer through to acceptance.
- Onboarding supportWe don’t stop at an accepted offer. We stay in touch with your new hire and help them settle in.
Included in every hire
The whole hire, handled
- Job profile and candidate pitch
- Advert writing and marketing
- Direct search and networking
- Screening and assessment
- Interview support alongside you
- Feedback for every candidate
- Offer management
- Onboarding support
“The true cost of recruitment is getting the hire wrong.”
Pricing
Prices you can see before you call
We know how frustrating it is when a service provider won’t show its prices. Ongoing support is priced by the month, based on how many people you hire in a year.
Starter
£1,150a month
Up to 10 hires a year
Growth
£1,750a month
Up to 15 hires a year
Scale
£2,450a month
Up to 20 hires a year
Enterprise
£3,150a month
21 to 30 hires a year
Pay less by paying aheadSave 10% when you pay quarterly, or 20% when you pay annually.
One-off work has a fixed feeA Recruitment Health Check or a single hire is priced as one fixed fee, agreed with you before we start.
Our set-up
One company, a small family of specialist brands
Talent acquisition is what we do under our own name. Aspire to Grow Ltd is also the company behind these brands, each built to do one job well.
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Tendle
Our bid support service. Tendle helps specialist businesses find and win public sector work.
In collaboration with
Webstones Tax
We collaborate with Webstones Tax, a professional accounting firm in Leeds.
Who we are
The people you will be working with
Talent acquisition
Garry Jones
Garry has more than 20 years of hands-on experience in talent acquisition. He has built recruitment functions from the ground up, led and scaled in-house teams, and hired across financial services, IT, engineering and the environmental sector.
His experience covers the whole hire: sourcing and headhunting, interview design, screening, onboarding and retention, along with employer branding and candidate experience.
Operations management
Clare Slater
Clare has spent more than 25 years in operational leadership, delivering complex services at scale. Much of that has been in healthcare and other regulated environments, including NHS frameworks.
Through Tendle, our bid support service, she has delivered 30 complex bids in the past two years, 28 of them successful, on contracts from £5m to £200m.
“Think of us as your own talent acquisition partner. We become part of your business, helping you find the right people, reduce hiring risks and build a stronger approach to recruitment, without the cost of a full-time recruitment team.”
Garry Jones, Aspire to Grow
The honest bit
Is Aspire to Grow right for your business?
We would rather tell you now where we add the most value, and when another approach would suit you better.
A good fit if
- You’re a small or growing business without a dedicated recruitment team.
- Recruitment is taking valuable time away from your directors and senior staff.
- You want to reduce recruitment costs and lower your hiring risks.
- You want better candidates than job adverts alone will bring you.
- You want to build a talent pipeline and plan for growth.
Not the right fit if
- You prefer to brief several recruitment agencies on the same vacancy.
- You can’t commit time to interviews or give timely feedback.
- You need a permanent, full-time recruiter based in your business.
- You want a traditional contingency service, where a fee is only paid on a successful placement.
Start a conversation
Tell us about your next hire
Send a few lines about the role or the problem, and Garry will come back to you. We’ll always talk you through the options before anything begins.
Call or message07557 790187