Advertise a job — from £399 +VAT
We write the advert and put it on the major job boards for a flat fee per vacancy, live within 24 hours. Applications come straight to you. No commission when you hire.
Our story
Why TalentFinder exists
Because a small business should be able to hire a good person without handing a fifth of their first-year salary to an agency — and without being left alone with a job board and a pile of CVs.
- Established 2016 — flat fees, no commission, on every hire
- 46 published placements across 18 sectors, each with its real pipeline
- Preston-based team serving employers across the UK and Ireland
The problem
The problem we set out to fix
When we started in 2016, an employer who needed to hire had two choices, and both were bad for most businesses.
The first was a recruitment agency. Agencies charge a percentage of the salary — typically 15% to 20% — so the fee rises with the salary even though the work does not. For a company hiring its fifth or tenth employee, a single hire could cost more than a month of that person's wages before they had done a day's work.
The second was to go it alone: buy a job board advert, receive a few hundred applications, and lose evenings sifting them. Cheap on paper, expensive in time, and no one to call when the shortlist was empty.
The maths that started it: a £35,000 hire through a 20% agency costs £7,000. The same role on Guaranteed Hire (£30,000 – £44,999) is a flat £2,000 +VAT, and the fee is refunded in full if the role is not filled.
The answer
What we built instead
One company, two ways to hire, and the same rule behind both: you know the price before you start, and it never moves.
Guaranteed Hire — from £1,500 +VAT
A dedicated recruiter advertises, headhunts, screens and interviews until the role is filled, for a flat fee set by salary band. If the role is not filled in the agreed window, you get 100% of the fee back.
How we work
How we work
- 1
The price is agreed before the work starts
A flat fee, quoted up front, that does not change with the salary the candidate accepts. No commission, no percentage, no surprise invoice.
- 2
We carry the risk on a managed search
On Guaranteed Hire the fee is refunded in full if the role is not filled. That keeps us honest about which roles we can fill, and it keeps us working until it is done.
- 3
We publish what actually happened
Our case studies show the real pipeline for each placement — how many candidates were worked, how many reached the client and how long it took — anonymised so no client is named.
- 4
Straight talk over a hard sell
If advertising alone will fill your role, we say so and charge the smaller fee. If it will not, we say that too. The wrong product costs everyone.
The proof
What the fixed-fee model looks like in practice
Every figure is computed from our own placement records and the review sites we can point you to — nothing here is a marketing estimate.
46placements — published as anonymised case studies
Across 18 sectors, each one showing how many candidates were worked, how many reached the client and how long it took.
1,542candidates worked — 51 people hired
The full funnel behind those placements, from sourcing to the signed offer. The fastest fill took 14 days.
Time to fill is the only date we publish — no client is ever named.
4.3out of 5 on Trustpilot — 163 reviews
Independent reviews from employers who have used us, verified on 2026-09-05.
4.7out of 5 on Reviews.co.uk — 284 reviews
Independent reviews from employers who have used us, verified on 2026-09-05.
4.5out of 5 on Google — 217 reviews
Independent reviews from employers who have used us, verified on 2026-09-06.
Who we are
Who we are
We are a Preston-based team of recruiters and sales advisors working with employers across the UK and Ireland, in engineering, finance, legal, construction, care and the trades.
TalentFinder UK is the trading name of Cameron Clarke Associates Limited, company number 09975494, incorporated on 28 January 2016. Our Irish employers are served through talentfinder.ie.
99 Fishergate, Preston PR1 2AE · 0161 327 2895 · 01772 886799
Talk to us about your next hire
A 15-minute call is enough to tell you which of the two routes fits your role and exactly what it will cost.
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