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Celebrating a decade in business, we are passionate retail recruitment specialists who know that it takes more than skill and experience to turn a potential candidate into a great candidate – cultural and brand fit are vital.

Retail & Consumer Recruitment Experts

Why do clients have a (rather lovely) habit of calling us the best retail recruiter they’ve ever worked with? It’s down to three simple reasons:

1. What we do

Niche, National or International recruitment…

Niche is the recruitment challenge you don’t know how to fill because it’s a little out of the ordinary or because it requires such a specific set of capabilities that you’re unsure where to start looking.

National isn’t simply an issue of geography – it’s a matter of scale. Wherever you’re recruiting, and however big the challenge is, we’re already rolling up our sleeves.

We help International retailers build their teams in the UK. We help UK retailers recruit in overseas territories. Because when you’re launching into new markets it helps to have someone by your side who knows the way.

2. How we do it

Our promise to you? To treat every placement like it’s our only placement. To be honest and transparent. To do what we say we will. And to match only the right candidates with client brands that are their perfect fit. Here are the various ways we can do that:

Results-only recruitment: No risk. No commitment. No initial outlay. Results-only recruitment allows you to try us out and pit us against your other recruitment suppliers. Put us to the test.

Retained search & selection: When you make us your exclusive recruitment partner, we get to know you and your recruitment needs better, so we can deliver even more impressive results, faster, for less. Plus, you keep your recruitment plans hidden from the competition.

Retained advertised search: Any recruiter can look at a jobs board. We go (much) further. Our in-house experts and media partners plan and integrate media campaigns that help you reach the best people more effectively. And our recruiters have contacts built over years that give you direct access to key talent you won’t find anywhere else.

Proactive talent finding: They’re not looking for a new role. You’re not actively looking to recruit. But sometimes we meet a candidate we know would be perfect for you. So vacancy or not, we’ll introduce you to them.

3. How easy we make it

Recruitment doesn’t have to be painful. Here’s how we’ll make your next search (and every one after it) so much easier.

Brief: We really get under the skin of your business, so the candidates we find don’t just match up in terms of skills; they match in terms of values and brand fit too.

Identify: Ok is not ok. We’re searching for people you’ll eagerly say ‘yes!’ to. So from some discreet headhunting to an ad campaign, we’ll go further to find them.

Assess: You won’t see a candidate until we’ve seen them first. We pre-screen and interview so we’re confident about the people we send your way.

Shortlist: All hits. No filler. Our shortlists are like a ‘best of’ album by your favourite band.

Interviews: We arrange for shortlisted candidates to meet with your interviewer and communicate feedback from each party.

Offer: Ready to hire? We help with negotiations and support the candidate during any notice periods.

Post: We’ll keep in regular contact with you and the candidate throughout the first year to ensure everything is going smoothly.

Our People

ZD recruiters want to make a difference and they work really hard to do it. They dig deep into the lives of the candidates we place and the companies we recruit for to find really good matches.

They don’t ‘fill posts’, because when you do that you’ll probably need to fill them again next week. They find great people. They do that by building strong relationships. By staying in touch. By always, always, always doing what they promise.

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