Case studies · Facilities & cleaning
A specialist cleaning role, filled
Technical cleaning inside data centres and broadcast facilities, with nationwide travel and security vetting attached. 40 candidates worked, 6 presented, filled in 68 days.
Technical Cleaning Operative
A specialist cleaning and contamination management business working in data centres, server rooms and broadcast facilities · Technical cleaning & contamination management
- Time to fill
- 68 days
- Package
- £27,000–£28,500 depending on experience
- Location
- Wiltshire, with nationwide travel
Specialist cleaning inside data centres, server rooms and broadcast facilities is not general cleaning work. The brief asked for someone willing to travel the UK, work evenings, nights and out-of-hours shifts, hold a full driving licence, and pass DBS and security vetting before setting foot on a client site. That combination removes most applicants immediately.
Forty candidates were sourced and screened to produce six worth presenting. Twelve of the forty were interviewed by us first. Four of the six presented were interviewed by the client and one was hired. Sixty-eight days is a long search for a role at this level, and it took every one of them.
Pipeline — candidates reaching each stage
- Sourced & screened 40
- Internal interview 12
- Presented to client 6
- Client interview 4
- Hired 1
40 candidates worked. Filled in 68 days.
Sixty-eight days of searching cost the client the same as a fortnight would have. That is what a fixed fee is for.
68 days from brief to filled.
How the fee works
Every role on this page was delivered on the same basis: a fixed fee, agreed before we start, with no percentage of salary attached. The straightforward search and the difficult one cost the client the same.
That is the point of the model. A percentage fee charges you more for hiring a better-paid person and rewards us for the easy search. A fixed fee puts the risk of a long search where it belongs — with us. And if we do not fill the role, you get every penny of your fee back.
Every figure here comes from our own placement records. Clients and placed candidates are not named. Full detail on the model is on our Guaranteed Hire page.
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