Frequently Asked Questions

The Food & Drink industry is the only industry we work within. It’s been this way since the business was established in 2002. We are genuine Food Industry recruitment specialists.

We keep things straightforward and simple. We offer a Standard Food Recruit Service for £695 with one additional option.

You will receive an Invoice to cover the cost of the service. No other costs are involved. There are no hidden extras.

It takes less than 24 hours from making contact to seeing your vacancy “live”.

We believe a Fee Structure requiring Recruiters to be more transparent can only benefit the Customer who know exactly what they will pay. The Flat Fee Structure also ensures we provide the service at a considerably lower price than a traditional recruitment agency, without compromising on the quality of service.

The average salary of a customer vacancy is £45,000 pa. For this a traditional recruitment consultancy would charge around 20% of salary, equating to a recruitment fee of £9000. We charge £695, saving £8305, equivalent to a 92% saving on recruitment fees. For higher salaried positions the savings are even greater.

Yes. We provide a Service Guarantee. If we are not able to provide a shortlist of at least four suitable candidates to enable you to fill your vacancy after the initial 28-days of service, we will re-advertise your vacancy on the major job sites and search CV's for a further 28-days.

We will assess suitability for our service and discuss vacancy criteria and skills and experience required. We will then produce a job advert that meets your approval. Your job advertisement will go live across our network of recruitment job boards, social media and other portals. We simultaneously search our internal and external databases for suitable food professionals.

The overwhelming majority of vacancies are suitable for the Food Recruit service. However, we are completely transparent and will not work on a Job Vacancy where experience tells us the likelihood of producing a comprehensive shortlist of candidates is low.

We fill 90%+ of the vacancies we work on.

The Recruitment Service lasts 28-days, during which time we will work hard to ensure you receive enough suitable candidates to make a successful appointment to the role.

You will be given the name of a recruitment consultant assigned to your vacancy with direct email and telephone number provided. Your dedicated consultant will be experienced within the recruitment of Food industry professionals.

There are No hidden costs. You pay a low one-off flat fee and that is all. No hidden charges, and no extra charges if you decide to recruit more than one person.

We are Food Industry specialists, we don’t recruit for any other sectors.

Customers have the opportunity to utilise our wealth of experience and vast network of contacts including our database of 60,000 GDPR compliant UK Food Industry professionals.

We reduce cost-per-hire saving our customers an average 90% on their recruitment fees when compared to traditional recruitment agents.

We commence the service quickly without upfront payment and guarantee your vacancy will be managed by a recruitment consultant experienced in recruiting Food Manufacturing professionals.

We offer honest advice and with a success rate of 90%+ and comprehensive Guarantee, customers have the security of knowing their financial risk is minimal.

If we don't provide customers with a comprehensive shortlist of candidates our comprehensive Guarantee is triggered and we offer our full service a second time, at considerable cost to us.

As we work to tight margins, we are motivated to provide a great service to the customer first time around, so they don’t use the Guarantee and we don’t incur further costs.

Our interests are aligned with our customers interests in finding suitable candidates quickly.

Avoiding additional costs gives us all the motivation we need to quickly and successfully assist you in filling your vacancy at the first time of asking.

We cover salary levels from £20,000 pa to £150,000 pa.

75% of the vacancies we assist with fall within a Salary range of £30,000 pa - £80,000 pa.

We cover all Job Disciplines within the Food & Drink industry.

We cover the whole of the UK and Overseas roles.

We cover both Contract and Permanent positions.

There is no catch. The price may be low but the quality of service is high. The combination of charging a flat fee, operating efficient systems, conducting most of our work online and utilising the skills of experienced Food sector recruiters means our costs are substantially lower than traditional recruitment agencies.

In terms of service there is very little difference. The process of identifying candidates is the same.

Both methods involve advertising the position and searching internal and external databases of candidates.

Both methods involve cross-referencing candidate skills and experience against the requirements of the job.

One difference is the low-cost flat fee we charge at the start of the process, another is the streamlined way we operate having removed non-essential elements that don’t add value.

These factors enable our customers to save an average 90% in cost, compared to using a traditional recruitment consultancy, without compromising the quality of service provided.

Unless you have signed a ‘sole agency agreement’ you are free to immediately use our recruitment service and save £000’s.

Many of our customers have considered using a traditional recruitment agency but have not done so due to cost or have used them previously and felt they didn’t provide value for money.

Customers who have switched their vacancies to Food Recruit have been quick to recognise the benefits of using a Food & Drink specialist and the £000's saved on recruitment costs.

Every candidate is screened against the Job and Person Specification discussed at the beginning of the process. We fully grasp the skills and experience you are seeking and probe on company culture and the type of character who will fit into your culture. We find talent that meets your expectations of what good looks like.

Your vacancy will appear across leading job boards, encompassing General, National and Regional job sites, Food Industry portals, and Discipline specific sites (i.e. Sales, HR, Engineering etc).

Your vacancy will also appear on social media such as LinkedIn. Please contact us for an up-to-date list of exact job boards where your vacancy will appear. When your vacancy 'goes live' it will appear on job boards and websites and we will send you a selection of links so you can view the live vacancy.

As job Advertising is not quite as effective as it was a few years ago, we add value by contacting passive candidates through our GDPR compliant database of 60,000 UK Food Industry professions. We also contact candidates with the skills required on external databases that number around 20 million registered job seekers. We are also very active on LinkedIn, identifying and contacting individuals with the experience and skillset that matches the Job Vacancy.

We provide a personal service ensuring the recruitment process runs smoothly and this includes bi-weekly calls and contact emails to update you on progress and discuss applications.

No. You pay a straightforward one-off flat fee for the service. You can recruit as many people as you want. If you recruit four people, your total cost is limited to the initial £695 flat fee.

If you are looking to recruit for a number of different roles (10+), we can negotiate a bespoke package.

Our customers would say no, as they would rather pay a modest fee and enjoy dedicated recruitment support from experienced Food industry consultants, acting proactively on their behalf, leaving them free to focus on their day-to-day duties.

Many businesses advertise jobs themselves, hopeful there is a chance the ideal applicant see’s their advert and applies. We think Food Manufacturing recruitment is too important to leave to chance, so we proactively go out and find the ideal candidate. This is where we really add value and spend most of our time, searching for passive candidates, proactively contacting Food professionals on behalf of our customers.

In a challenging Labour market, to find quality candidates for vacancies it is crucial that deep searching of LinkedIn and internal/external Databases takes place. We don’t sit back and wait for job applications to come in, we contact relevant people, inform them of the benefits of the opportunity and company, and encourage them to apply.

It is also worth considering the time you would spend on Recruitment Administration, such as reviewing all applications, replying to unsuitable applicants, and fielding phone calls. This is time consuming and pulls you away from your important daily tasks.

Recruitment is difficult and Job Advertising is not as effective as it once was. Application statistics back this up. Rather than get bogged down with running multiple adverts and trying to navigate LinkedIn and social media platforms, our customers believe we are better placed to assist them and provide better value for money than a traditional recruitment agency.