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Websites for agencies that work as hard on hirers as on candidates

Most recruitment sites are built for candidates — job board, apply button, upload a CV. Hirers are the ones who pay you, and they usually get a contact form and a paragraph about your values. Yours will give them a reason to ring, and tell them what kind of business you are.

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The problem

Your site is built for candidates. Hirers are the ones who pay you.

A hiring manager with a vacancy and three agencies to choose between is not going to browse your jobs. They want to know what you recruit, whether you've placed this role before, how you charge, and what happens if it doesn't work out. Most agency sites answer none of that.

What happens now
  • The whole site is the job board. A hirer lands on a page designed for someone looking for work, and has to hunt for the part that's for them.
  • "We are a leading recruitment agency" and no statement of whether you're an employment agency, an employment business, or both. Those are different things with different obligations, and a hirer who knows the difference notices.
  • No terms of business anywhere. Rebate period, transfer fees, notice — the questions that decide whether they use you. Asking means an awkward call before they've committed to anything.
  • One form for everyone. A candidate uploading a CV and a hiring manager with a live vacancy land in the same inbox, in the same format, at the same priority.
What happens instead
  • Two front doors. Hirers and candidates get their own route from the first click, with different pages and different forms.
  • A plain statement of what you are. Employment agency, employment business, or both — and which sectors. It reads as competence, not compliance.
  • Your commercial terms in outline, published. Rebate structure, how you charge, what happens on a withdrawal. It's the fastest way to disqualify the enquiries you don't want.
  • A vacancy enquiry that arrives usable — role, salary band, location, whether it's perm or temp, and when they need someone.

How it plays out

A Monday, mid-morning

A vacancy and a candidate, minutes apart, going to different places.

Operations manager, one vacancy, three agencies open in tabs10:14
Sees you're an employment business as well as an agency — so you can cover the temp gap while they recruitThe other two sites don't say10:15
Reads the rebate period before enquiring, rather than asking for it10:16
Vacancy — warehouse supervisor, £32–36k, permanent, needed within six weeks10:17
Routed to the perm desk
Candidate, same site, different route — CV uploaded, salary expectation, notice period10:31
Routed to the resourcing inbox
Consultant calls the hirer already knowing the role, the band and the timescale.10:45

What your enquiry form captures

Two audiences, two forms

The hirer's form is the one that earns money, so it asks the questions a consultant would otherwise spend a call establishing.

Hiring or looking?
The only shared question. It decides everything after it and which desk the enquiry reaches.
Role and sector
Tells you within a second whether it's work you do. Half of enquiries to a specialist agency aren't.
Permanent or temporary
Different desk, different terms, different fee basis — and it's the answer that decides whether you're acting as an agency or an employment business on this placement.
Salary or rate band
A range, not a number. Enough to know whether the fee justifies the work.
When do you need someone
"Yesterday" and "next quarter" are different jobs. It also tells you whether a temp-to-perm conversation is worth having.
CV upload
Candidate route only. Parsed on arrival so nobody rekeys it.

The pages

What an agency's site actually needs

Nine pages, and they split into two halves that barely overlap.

01Home
Two clear doors — hiring, or looking for work. Not a job search box and a menu.
02For hirers
The commercial half. What you recruit, how you work, how you charge. The page a hiring manager actually needs.
03Sectors
Each specialism its own page. A hirer searching for a specific discipline shouldn't land on a general page.
04Terms in outline
For hirers. Rebate period, fee basis, notice. Publishing it disqualifies the wrong enquiries before they cost you a call.
05For candidates
The other half. What to expect, how you handle data, what happens after they apply.
06Vacancies
Live roles, each its own page so it can rank and be shared. Fed from your ATS, not typed twice.
07The team
Which consultant covers which desk. Hirers instruct people, not brands.
08About and compliance
What kind of business you are, which regulations apply, and your data handling. Short, plain, and findable.
09Contact
Both routes, and a number that reaches a desk rather than a switchboard.

Connects to

What agencies usually wire in

Chosen for this work, not a list of everything we can connect.

Companies House APICalendlyHubSpotPipedriveGoogle CalendarMicrosoft TeamsMailchimpAirtableGoCardlessTrustpilot

Pricing

Published, so you don't have to ask

Studio

A strong, well-built site without bespoke design work.

£1,295one-off

then £69 per month

  • Up to 8 pages
  • Enquiry form designed around your business
  • Google Business Profile setup
  • One revision round
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Signature

Where the website is a working part of how the job comes in.

£2,500one-off

then £89 per month

  • Up to 12 pages, including area pages
  • The integrations above, wired and tested
  • Automated acknowledgement on every enquiry
  • Migration with search positions kept

Three standard integrations are included. See what counts as one.

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Questions

What agencies ask us

Why does it matter whether we say we're an agency or an employment business?

Because they're different things in law and different obligations attach. An employment agency finds permanent work; an employment business supplies temporary workers. Most firms do both, and there's nothing wrong with that — but a hirer who knows the difference reads a site that doesn't say as one that hasn't thought about it. We'll build the page; what it says about your obligations is yours and your advisers'.

Our site mentions the EAS. Is that still right?

Not since April 2026. The Fair Work Agency brought together several enforcement bodies including the Employment Agency Standards Inspectorate, and is now the state regulator for agencies in England, Scotland and Wales. It's a small thing to update, and it's the kind of detail a compliance-minded hirer notices.

Should we really publish our terms?

Not the full contract — the outline. Rebate period, fee basis, notice. Firms resist this because they think it invites negotiation, and it does the opposite: it disqualifies the enquiries that were never going to pay your rate, before they cost you a briefing call. The agencies that publish tend to get fewer enquiries and better ones.

Can it pull vacancies from our ATS?

Usually. Most systems offer a feed or an API, and each role gets its own page with the structured markup Google for Jobs reads. Tell us which system at Discovery and we'll say honestly whether it's straightforward or a bespoke job.

What about candidate data?

CVs are personal data and a lot of agency sites collect them with no retention notice and no deletion route. We build the notice and the route. What your retention period should be is a decision for you — we'll put whatever you decide where a candidate can find it.

How long does it take?

Three phases — Discovery, Build, Launch. The ATS connection is usually the variable; everything else is predictable. We agree the timeline at Discovery and you'll know immediately if anything slips.

Do we own it?

Yes. The domain is registered in your company's name, not ours, and transfers free on request. If you leave, the site leaves with you.

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