Here’s an idea. What if your talent acquisition partner listened a little more, talked a little less, worked fast and actually delivered what they promised? How refreshing would that be?
People who fit the role and the organisation. People who make a difference. People you’ll find it easy to say ‘yes’ to. Find them with us.
Find out moreLeaders who operate in the sweet spot between the operational, commercial and financial? We know who and where they are.
Find out moreThe CV is only the start. The brief is just the basics. Discover how much further we go to make your HR & talent recruitment a success.
Find out moreBoots. Dunelm. Wickes. When the UK’s biggest retailers need to find the right buyers and merchandisers for their businesses, they do it with us.
Find out moreFor more than a decade, big brands have trusted us to build their digital and ecommerce teams from scratch. Let us build yours.
Find out moreCommitted. Credible. Serious about working with you. That’s what makes a great Finance recruit. It’s what makes a great recruiter too.
Find out moreGreat brands need great people behind them. From brand and campaigns to content and customer marketing, we know the talent that gets people talking.
Find out moreTechnology keeps retail moving. We find the people behind the systems, data and infrastructure that keep businesses connected and customers coming back.
Find out moreProtecting the business. Managing risk. Driving responsible change. We find the legal, compliance and sustainability people who make it happen.
Find out morePlanning overseas expansion into or from the UK? We help brands and candidates thrive in new territories.
Find out moreHere’s the thing: you don’t need a retail recruitment agency right now. What you could really do with is some in-house help to cover your peak hiring season. Or to help out while someone’s on maternity leave. To run the assessment centre. Or to pick up the pieces of your own recruitment drive and address those tricky gaps that are still unresolved.
And then, on the odd occasion when you have a volume hiring exercise, you need someone who’ll be happy to work alongside you. Maybe they’ll handle the initial job ads and sift and you’ll take it from there. Maybe you just want to hand everything over to them and feel able to trust them to get on with it.
But you’ll never find a retail recruiter who’ll do all of that… will you?
It's pride and ambition. It's showing what you're made of and challenging yourself to go further. It's pouring your heart and soul into something you believe in. It’s feeling just a little out of your depth and then feeling brilliant when you pull it off. It’s feeling that you’ve got this.
The job you do is part of what makes you who you are. So changing jobs is life-changing stuff. Better do it with a recruiter who takes the time to understand the lives it changes.
It’s never ‘just a job’ to you. And it’s never ‘just a job’ to us.
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Employee Ownership (And How That Affects You)
‘Our people are our most important asset’. We bet you’ve read that before. It might be on your own organisation’s website. A few years ago, we decided to stop saying it, and start showing it.
We gave the business to our people. We won’t bore you with the details, but we placed ZD into an Employee Owned Trust.
In practice, that means, over time, they’ll reap the financial benefits of our success. Why are we telling you this? Because it makes a big difference to the way our clients and candidates view the ZD team member handling their talent acquisition or job search…
So if you’re looking for someone to solve your retail hiring challenges, think of it this way. Would you rather choose someone for whom that’s ‘just a job’? Or are you likely to get better results from someone for whom the outcome really matters?
Work with ZD and you work with a different sort of retail recruiter. We all know the sharp-suited, sales-patter-spouting reputation of some in our industry. We’re not like that. We don’t hire members of the team who act like that.
Almost all of us have worked in retail. Some of us have a head office background. Some started on the shop floor and climbed the ladder to store, area or regional management before deciding it was time for a change of direction. It means that when we recruit for you, we know your world. And when we help you find a fresh challenge, we know what that feels like.
Something else you might like to know about us is that we all love doing what we do. Not just retail recruitment, but retail recruitment as part of Team ZD. Take a look at the profiles of our people and you’ll find one of several common themes is that they’ve never worked anywhere that felt more like a family.
You should see the difference that makes to the results we achieve.
We’re all working to be more sustainable. At Zachary Daniels, we’re making lots of small changes that help us work cleaner. But one big thing we’re doing is that, for every role we fill – and for every role we’ve ever filled – we plant a tree.
We've'e now helped plant over 20,000 trees. That’s more than 600 tonnes of carbon emissions balanced out through our partnership with Ecologi.
And we’re just getting started…
Great at delivering your retail hiring solutions. Great at finding your next role. Great to work for. From Google to Glassdoor, you’ll find a 5-star experience is par for the course when you choose us. Something else you’ll find when you check out our reviews is that it’s rarely ‘Zachary Daniels’ that gets reviewed or namechecked. It’s always the individual recruiter, because the relationships our people build with clients and candidates is always personal. Always positive. And always worth shouting about.
Of course we do the retail (and hospitality and leisure) recruitment you’d expect. But since Zachary Daniels opened its doors, it’s the hiring you can’t easily handle in-house where we’ve built our reputation.
Volume hiring. The single, crucial exec appointment you’ve struggled to make. Entering the UK market. Expanding overseas. When you’re faced with a recruitment problem you’ve not faced before, we have. When you’re facing a hiring challenge you’re simply not staffed to handle, we are. It’s just another reason big brands choose us.
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