Hiring is a funnel: impression, click, application, interview, hire. We run it with the same discipline we apply to revenue campaigns — channel matched to the role, a message that disqualifies poor fits before the click, a short application path, and measurement that reaches past the submission.
Hiring run as an acquisition funnel
(impression, click, application, interview, hire — every stage has a cost, and only the last one matters commercially)
Judged on cost per application and cost per hire
(not on post reach, not on follower growth on the careers page)
Channel matched to the role, not to fashion
(LinkedIn for professional and management roles; Meta and Google for operations, trades, retail and logistics where candidates are not on LinkedIn)
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Same channels, same measurement stack as customer acquisition. Only the conversion definition changes — and that is enough to make everything else look different.
Same mechanism, different conversion
A recruitment campaign uses the same channels and the same measurement stack as a sales campaign. Only the conversion definition changes: application instead of order.
Employer brand and vacancy advertising run at different speeds
Building an employer reputation works over months; filling a specific role works over weeks. Run on one budget against one KPI, they block each other.
Without post-application data there is no optimisation
Application volume says nothing about fit. Until hiring outcomes flow back to the campaign, the system optimises toward the cheapest submission rather than the hire.
Which is why the first question is not what the budget should be, but where candidates currently drop — because the leak usually sits in the application form and recruiter response time, not in the campaign.
From the candidate proposition and creative to the application flow and measurement through to hire.
Candidate-facing proposition
Translating real working conditions into claims a candidate can verify: scope, pay range, work model, team, progression. No promise the interview will contradict.
Creative per role and location
Assets built for specific roles and sites rather than one company-wide creative. Footage from the actual workplace and team voices outperform a slogan on a background.
Campaigns in role-appropriate channels
LinkedIn Ads for professional and management hiring, Meta and Google for operations, trades and retail, plus remarketing to people who reached the vacancy and did not apply.
Careers page and application flow
A recruitment landing page with a short application path. The most common leak is not the campaign — it is a form demanding an account, a CV upload and fifteen fields.
Measurement through to hire
Application as a conversion is the floor. We wire hiring-stage feedback — interview, offer, hire — so campaigns learn from candidates who actually progressed.
Reporting in hiring terms
Cost per application, cost per hire and time to fill, split by channel and role, alongside the rest of your marketing activity.
Employer brand separated from vacancy advertising
Reputation work and role-filling get separate budgets, separate creative and separate metrics. Only then is it visible which one is working.
Candidate quality before application volume
A campaign optimised for the cheapest submission floods recruiters with unsuitable applications. We set the message and targeting to disqualify some candidates before the click.
A performance team applied to hiring
Creative testing, exclusions, remarketing and optimisation toward the real end event are applied here exactly as on revenue accounts. The conversion changes from order to hire; the operating discipline stays the same.
It pays off with continuous hiring, and where candidates are not actively searching so they have to be reached.
It makes sense when
Not yet, when
The audit comes first because adding budget to a funnel that loses candidates at the form only raises cost per application.
Audit of the hiring funnel
We check where candidates currently drop: the posting, the careers page, the form, recruiter response time. The output is a list of leaks to close before any budget is added.
Proposition, creative, measurement
Messaging set per role, creative produced for the roles and channels that matter, application path rebuilt, and measurement wired through to hiring stages.
Launch, test, scale
Campaigns run in role-appropriate channels, messages and formats tested, and budget moved toward the sources whose applications progress through the process rather than just arrive.
We charge for running campaigns, not per hire — so a recommendation to spend more has to be right for your cost per hire.
Your accounts and candidate data
Campaigns run in your own ad accounts. Access, candidate data and history stay on your side.
Management fee, not a placement fee
We charge for running campaigns — not a percentage of budget and not a fee per hire. A recommendation to spend more has to be right for your cost per hire.
Reported in hiring terms
Cost per application and cost per hire by channel and role, with reach metrics treated as creative diagnostics rather than results.
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The way we work is consistent across every scope: the business objective comes first, each capability has a defined role, and decisions are made against real business numbers.
Direct strategist contact
You work with the person responsible for direction, priorities and delivery — not a layer of account managers.
Infrastructure on your side
Accounts, analytics, automations, creative and data stay yours from day one — no dependency on the agency.
A daily decision rhythm
We connect marketing and analytics data in one operational view, so evidence turns into priorities and action quickly.
No long lock-ins
A 14-day rolling notice, a clear billing model and a clean handover if you decide to stop.
Employer branding is the work of shaping how current and prospective employees see a company as a place to work. In the layer we run, that means the candidate-facing proposition, the creative and paid campaigns that reach candidates, and the measurement of what an application and a hire cost. Two things are worth separating: reputation building works over months, while advertising a specific vacancy works over weeks. Run on one budget against one metric, they interfere with each other.
Employer branding answers why someone would want to work here and compounds over time into recognition and trust. Recruitment marketing fills specific roles to a deadline: posting, campaign, applications. The first lowers the cost of the second but does not replace it. In practice the workable split is separate budgets and separate metrics for each layer.
It depends on the role. For professional and management hiring, LinkedIn Ads works best because it targets by job title, company and seniority — covered on our LinkedIn Ads page. For operations, logistics, trades and retail, Meta and Google usually perform better, because that is where those candidates spend time and many have no LinkedIn presence at all. A job board alone only reaches people already actively searching.
Cost per application is the starting point but an insufficient one: a campaign optimised for the cheapest submission will flood recruiters with unsuitable candidates. The workable set is cost per application, the share of applications reaching interview, cost per hire and time to fill. That requires hiring-stage outcomes flowing back to the campaign — without it, the platform optimises for clicks, not hires.
No. We run the communication and acquisition layer: proposition, creative, campaigns, application path and measurement. EVP research, culture and HR process are a different discipline, and we say so plainly. If the offer is uncompetitive in that market, advertising will amplify the problem rather than solve it — better said before the budget is spent than after.
First applications usually arrive within days, because this is a conversion campaign rather than a reach build. Judging quality takes longer: a realistic cost-per-hire picture only forms once candidates have moved through a full hiring cycle for that role. The employer brand layer works on a different timescale and should not be assessed in the same weeks.
Tell us which roles you're hiring for, in which locations and how many seats are open. We'll talk about channels, messaging and where candidates are dropping today.
