Get in touch with our team and we will discuss your requirements before sending a written proposal, including the fee, guarantee terms and an estimated timeline, usually within 24 hours.
Traditional agencies charge a percentage of salary — typically 20–30% — regardless of how straightforward the search actually is. A senior hire can carry a five-figure invoice before you’ve even finished onboarding them.
HST Hiring works differently. We agree one flat, transparent fee before the search begins, whatever the role, whatever it takes to fill it. You know the exact cost from day one, and there’s no financial incentive on our side to rush a shortlist out the door — because our fee doesn’t move with the offer, our advice on pay stays honest too.
Hiring for one role, or hiring all year round
— either way, the cost is agreed upfront and never moves.
Pay once, per role, agreed before the search begins. Confirmed in writing after a free scoping call — no obligation.
One affordable monthly fee that flexes with your hiring volume. Based on expected hiring volume, reviewed together every quarter.
Get in touch with our team and we will discuss your requirements before sending a written proposal, including the fee, guarantee terms and an estimated timeline, usually within 24 hours.
We specialise in legal recruitment and adjacent professional services — including accountancy, HR, technology and SME operations roles — from fee-earner and support roles through to senior and leadership hires.
Yes — it’s built for exactly that. If you’re hiring a single role, or hiring occasionally rather than continuously, Fixed Fee gives you agency-level search without committing to a retained or ongoing arrangement. For businesses hiring more frequently, our Talentflow service is usually the better fit.
Most Fixed Fee searches produce a first shortlist within 5 business days of the role being confirmed, with an average time-to-offer ranging from 6 to 12 weeks depending on seniority and how niche the role is.
Yes. Every Fixed Fee placement comes with an 8 week replacement guarantee. If the candidate leaves or is let go within that window through no fault of the client, we’ll run a free replacement search — details are set out in our Terms of Business.
The fee covers the full search-to-offer process: role scoping, market mapping, candidate sourcing and screening, shortlist delivery, interview coordination, offer management and post-placement check-ins. You’ll get a single point of contact throughout, backed by our wider consultant network.
If we do not place a suitable candidate within the agreed search period — and we have not met our own service commitments — you receive a full refund within 14 working days. Not a credit note. Not a discount on a future hire. Your money, back.
Yes. The reason we work this way is because we’re not operating as a traditional contingency agency. Once you engage us, we commit our time and resources to working exclusively for your firm on that vacancy.
Rather than competing with several agencies to be the first to send a CV, we run a dedicated search for you. This includes proactively identifying and approaching suitable candidates, advertising the role where appropriate, screening applicants and conducting an initial video interview before introducing candidates to you.
The upfront fee allows us to commit those resources from day one and gives us the ability to offer the service at a much lower overall cost than traditional contingency recruitment.
We start with a scoping call to understand your hiring plans and current pipeline, then provide a proposal covering scope, fee and terms. Once agreed, we onboard within 2 business days and begin work on your live roles immediately.
Businesses with consistent or growing hiring needs — multiple roles a year, planned headcount growth, or teams without in-house recruitment capacity, who want dedicated, embedded support without building an internal talent function from scratch.
Yes. Placements made under Talentflow carry a replacement guarantee as long as the subscription service is still being used.
Talentflow is built around ongoing capacity rather than per-role invoicing, so unused capacity in a given period is reviewed at the quarterly check-in rather than being lost — full detail is confirmed at the point of agreement.
Yes, Talentflow agreements typically run on a 3 month initial term with a months notice period thereafter, giving both sides time to see the benefit of an embedded partnership while avoiding indefinite lock-in. Full terms are set out in the Engagement Order.
Talentflow gives you an embedded extension of your team: dedicated consultant time, proactive talent pipelining (not just reactive search), market intelligence and salary benchmarking, employer brand support, and regular reporting on pipeline and hiring progress — in addition to full search-to-offer delivery for each role.
This is agreed upfront based on your hiring plan — most clients run 2-5 concurrent or rolling vacancies under a Talentflow agreement. If your volume changes significantly, the plan can be reviewed and adjusted rather than requiring a new agreement each time.
Talentflow runs on a fixed monthly fee rather than a per-placement percentage, agreed based on expected hiring volume and role complexity. As a guide, plans typically start from £950 per month. As the fee doesn’t move with salary or headcount within the agreed scope, your recruitment cost becomes predictable and easy to budget for.
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“They took time to understand what we required”
“We used HST for assistance with a role. They were fantastic in taking the time to understand what we required. Their approach really made the process as easy as possible and we found a great new team member from it. Thank you. If we need an agency again in the future you will be at the top of the list”
“We’ve seen a significant improvement in both efficiency and outcomes”
“Working with HST Hiring has completely transformed our recruitment process. Previously, we were juggling multiple agency relationships and struggling with inconsistent candidate quality and availability. Since partnering exclusively with HST, we’ve seen a significant improvement in both efficiency and outcomes”
“Hiring was proving expensive for us”
“As a growing Family specialist solicitors hiring new staff is central to our growth plans. Hiring through the traditional recruitment agency model was proving expensive for us as we were paying fees to agencies and this meant there was a pressure to make the hire work given the fees we paid and, unfortunately we did get some hires wrong and didn’t work out.
We tried to do the hiring ourselves to save that cost but struggled to keep on top of things.
When we were presented with the HST Fixed Fee solution we understood that working with a hiring partner that would enable us to reduce costs, have them work exclusively for us and manage the whole process from end to end, it was perfect for us. Its been a great decision that we will continue to work with”
“Always a First Class Service”
“I have successfully hired several excellent employees through their Fixed Fee service and would not hesitate in recommending them.”
30 minutes, no obligation. We’ll scope the role and talk through
what a fixed fee search would look like.
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