SMEPriority A range of enhanced recruitment services designed for SMEs
Helping small and medium enterprises Whilst larger corporate businesses often have a range of resources at their disposal when recruiting – including large HR/internal recruitment teams, various routes to candidate attraction and big recruitment budgets – most of our SME clients don’t have the same advantages. At Butler Rose, we have used our years of consulting experience, plus feedback from clients, to design a full recruitment service that works for SMEs. So, if you become an SMEPriority client, we will become your recruitment partner and provide an enhanced package that extends far beyond just ‘finding you the right candidate’. The package includes consulting with you to scope out your vacancies; benchmarking your salaries; designing your interview process; mapping out the market to give you the best possible shortlist; and providing ‘above the norm’ screening checks and rebate/replacement guarantees. Butler Rose includes this to give you total peace of mind, and with a reduced recruitment fee to help you manage your costs, we are offering the perfect package! In the highly unlikely event that we do not believe we can fill a role – for instance, if you cannot pay a market rate salary – then we would of course release you from the agreement for that vacancy to try other avenues.
What benefits do SMEPriority clients receive?
Dedicated account management Each SMEPriority client will have a dedicated account manager, with experience in the market most relevant to your business, as well as a relationship director that will have a minimum of 10 years accountancy and finance recruitment experience. Your account manager will meet with you regularly to guide you through the process of recruiting, and will be your point of contact for any recruitment-related queries.
Your relationship director will be on hand to provide additional expertise, and will meet with you for service reviews at an interval of your choosing.
can interview your candidates – particularly useful if you are limited on space or are recruiting for a confidential role
Prefer to conduct your service reviews over dinner or drinks? That’s fine by us, just let us know!
Enhanced checks for permanent placements
Job profiling and salary benchmarking
We check candidates’ identity documents and entitlement to work in the UK, we ask them to complete a criminal record declaration and are able to confirm qualifications, as standard. As an SMEPriority client, as part of the package we will also provide:
Whether you’re recruiting for an accounts payable assistant or a finance director, your account manager will meet with you at the start of each recruitment process and consult with you on matters such as:
• Basic DBS checks on all placements, ensuring there are no unspent convictions that they have not declared
• How to position the role specification to attract the best possible candidates
• Employer references covering the last two years (or longer on request), assuring you of quality and time saved
• Which salary band to position the role in (we use real data from comparable jobs in the market)
Reduced recruitment fees
• How best to structure your interview and selection process
Full market coverage For our SMEPriority clients, Butler Rose will treat each role as if we had been retained for a search and selection campaign. Therefore, rather than only advertising your role and speaking to active candidates in the market, your account manager will spend time mapping out the market and using Butler Rose’s extensive networks to headhunt passive candidates for each role. You can be assured that you will not only fill each role with a suitable candidate, but the best candidate possible.
Additional interview services As an SMEPriority client, you can take advantage of any of the following interview services if required: • Your account manager working with you to design your selection process – for example, by using our expertise to design a suite of competency and technical based questions to ask candidates at the interview stage • Your account manager sitting in on interviews to assist with the process, or be on-site to take feedback directly from candidates following their interviews • Utilising private meeting rooms in our offices where you
The only fee you’ll ever pay us for are our standard recruitment fees and with SMEPriority you will receive a 30% reduction on roles up to £45k alongside a 40% reduction on more senior roles. Our fees are based on percentage of remuneration package, and are discounted to the below rates: Annual remuneration package
SMEPriority fee
Up to £24,999
15.4%
£25,000 to £44,999
19.6%
£45,000 and above
21%
We will also fix our temporary margin for you, so you’ll never pay more than a 20% mark-up on contractors.
Extended guarantees for permanent placements Butler Rose has a standard safety net that provides an eight week guarantee on permanent placements; rebating our clients an eighth of the fee for each week not worked, should
the candidate leave during their first eight weeks of employment.
Charity rewards scheme
As an SMEPriority client, we will DOUBLE this to a 16 week rebate period, giving you extra peace of mind. We will also provide an alternative option of replacing the candidate free-of-charge should they leave during this 16 week period.
As an SMEPriority client, if you recruit* five candidates or more through us in each 12 month contracted period, Butler Rose will donate an amount equivalent to 5% of our fee/ mark-up from the fifth placement onwards to a charity of your choice.
‘Try before you buy’ option for temporary contractors Our SMEPriority clients will be provided with every temporary contractor on a 48 hour working interview basis. This means that should you not feel they are suitable for the role at any point in their first two days, we will cancel their assignment and you will not be charged a penny.* *Butler Rose will pay the candidate for their time at our own expense.
Priority access to Butler Rose events As an SMEPriority client, you will receive priority invitations to a range of seminars and networking events that Butler Rose run regularly around the country. These include: • Private dining events • Breakfast seminars • Round table events • Events covering a range of topics from GDPR to finance transformation • Guest speakers from the finance and HR communities • Invitations to sporting events including rugby, horse racing and golf
*Permanent/FTC placements or contractor assignment of 4 weeks or more
How to become an SMEPriority client Simply contact Butler Rose and let us know that you want to join the scheme! In return for this comprehensive package, we will ask that you commit to giving us your accountancy and finance recruitment business on an exclusive basis for a 12 month period, which can then be extended on an annual basis should you wish to remain an SMEPriority client.
Dedicated account management
Additional interview services
Job profiling and salary benchmarking
Enhanced checks for permanent placements
Full market coverage
Charity rewards scheme
‘Try before you buy’ option for temporary contractors
Priority access to Butler Rose events
Extended guarantees for permanent placements
Reduced recruitment fees
We will guarantee to fill every role for you. We will immediately assign you an account manager and a relationship director who will come to meet you at a convenient time to get the ball rolling and to begin understanding your business and your recruitment needs.
Contact us today if you are interested in becoming an SMEPriority client!
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