Recruitment plus
Recruitment Plus is our tailored recruitment solution, designed for you by Cummins Mellor under your employer brand.
Are you growing fast or hiring regularly and struggling to find excellent people?
Something’s missing, but you’re not sure what.
You're losing valuable time and money by hiring the wrong individuals, slowing the potential growth of your business. If that sounds familiar, it’s time to take a different approach.
Invest in your success by getting answers about your people puzzle and how to solve it - this begins with your personalised Recruitment Health Check.
What is a Recruitment Health Check?
Meet Michelle Mellor, founder of Cummins Mellor and chair of the Recruitment and Employment Confederation.
Your Recruitment Health Check is a rare opportunity to get full access to Michelle’s recruitment brain for five days.
It includes a three-day on-site discovery phase where Michelle will visit your premises and spend time digging deep into your people issues, asking the right questions, and understanding what’s missing from your people strategy.
The learnings you’ll take away from this experience will completely change your approach to people for the better.
Following this, you will receive:
A detailed report on Michelle’s findings to understand where you’re at
Tailored recommendations on how to improve how you hire and retain
A comprehensive map of your existing hiring process so you can get a clearer view of what’s working and what’s not
A simple people plan you can start putting into practice right away to fill live vacancies and improve morale
A clear summary of all of the above you can keep and present to your board to get buy-in to make the changes needed.
What is a tailored recruitment solution?
Your tailored recruitment solution is 100% unique to you and your needs as an organisation. It’s designed for businesses that need the kind of specialist support you get from a true partnership, and no two solutions are exactly the same.
This is for you if your Recruitment Health Check identifies major structural changes needed to how you hire, and you lack the time, confidence, or experience to implement them yourself.
Rest assured, we’ll always recommend the right solution for you at the right time, so you can trust us to be honest about what you need to overcome your current challenges and move forward as a business.
How it works
Your Recruitment Health Check is a four-step process to understand what’s going on under the bonnet of your business.
Step one
Free consultation - a completely open-ended conversation at your premises with your HR lead, C-Suite or director-level decision-maker.
Step Two
Five-day discovery phase - Michelle will spend three days on-site at your premises and two days analysing the findings and writing a detailed report.
Step Three
Presentation of the full report with all key stakeholders and a one-page people strategy full of actionable advice.
Step four
Decide your next steps - Action the findings yourself or continue to work with Cummins Mellor to design a tailored recruitment solution.
How our Recruitment Plus tailored recruitment solutions work for some of our key clients
CASE STUDY
Unleash & Engage
Unleash & Engage is an ambitious and fast-growing coaching business. Following a Recruitment Health Check, we designed a bespoke hiring strategy that sees U&E fully outsource their recruitment needs to a dedicated member of our team, who works exclusively on their account.
Georgia is the face of their recruitment division, offering a seamless and empowering experience that makes the best candidates want to work for Unleash & Engage.
Hear what Unleash & Engage have to say...
“We had a problem. A good one, but a big one. Our business was growing fast, and we could no longer manage the business demand for new recruits in house.
The most precious thing to Unleash & Engage is our culture, which comes from the people we work with. Get the recruitment wrong, and our client's experience is at risk. As you can imagine, we were nervous about outsourcing such an important job. From day one we knew we were in very safe hands. We built our model from scratch – together. And that’s the overriding feeling you get working with Cummins Mellor, everything is done in partnership – we are all in it together.
We honestly can’t tell where one of us starts and the other ends – it's a wonderful relationship built on trust, respect and abundant honesty. Katie, Georgia and the team are masters of their craft – not just the technical aspects of recruitment, but the nuances that make potential candidates turn towards an opportunity. The feedback we get from new team members is overwhelming – praising the recruitment experience and attention to detail.
We couldn’t be happier to be part of the CM family. We know our brand is in very safe hands, and we are proud to partner with them on such an important part of our business.”
Unleash & Engage
CASE STUDY
Blackburn College
One of the region’s largest employers, Blackburn College needed strategic support for hard-to-fill roles to enable them to run more courses, as well as a dedicated recruitment resource to meet its volume-hiring needs.
After an enlightening Recruitment Health Check, we created a unique recruitment strategy Blackburn College could dial up or down with their shifting needs, safe in the knowledge everything was handled by experts with a deep understanding of their organisation.
Hear what Blackburn College have to say...
“Excellent working with Katie and her team finding solutions and success to recruitment challenges. Katie’s leadership, professionalism and experience shine through. Looking forward to our continued solutions focussed working.”
Blackburn College
CASE STUDY
WEST Youth Zone
Following a free consultation call, we delivered a series of 1-1 training sessions to the CEO of a new charity on how to recruit effectively. At that stage, the full Recruitment Health Check wasn’t suitable as the Youth Zone was in its pre-opening stage, so we designed a bespoke solution to solve the CEO’s immediate hiring challenges.
Hear what West Youth Zone have to say...
"Katie offered me some bespoke training sessions as I was feeling a completely snowed under with recruitment for charity I am setting up. There were so many options for outsourcing recruitment, but they were all out of our budget and/or I was confused by the range of services on offer and how relevant they would be.
Kate put together something individualised for me, and it was such a fantastic investment. She made some really simple suggestions which made a big difference, as well as talking me through some recruitment tools which have put me back in the driving seat of the process. She was kind, patient and positive and I wouldn't hesitate to reach out to her for advice again, thank you Katie!"
CEO Elanor Gunn.
11 signs you need a Recruitment Health Check
You’re growing quickly and need to put a strategy behind your hiring process
OR, you have volume-hiring requirements and need to invest in a more strategic approach to recruitment
You have to hire a certain number of people per year in line with your business plan but lack the time to do it properly
You don’t have a recruitment specialist in your core central team and it’s resulting in unsuitable hires which cost time and money
You like to outsource areas outside of your core expertise to specialists and enjoy working in partnership with experts
You’re based in Lancashire and value working with a local supplier
OR you’re a remote team that likes to hand-pick the best suppliers nationwide
You make values-based decisions about who to work with
You know you need to do something differently to find excellent people but you’re not sure what it looks like
You have hard-to-fill roles and haven’t had success using conventional recruitment solutions
Your board and HR team don’t always see eye to eye and you need help bringing harmony and direction so everyone is on the same page.
What makes Recruitment Plus different?
This is a truly bespoke hiring solution designed to solve the people puzzle in your organisation using our three decades of recruitment expertise.
It starts when you book your Recruitment Health Check with one of the UK’s leading recruitment experts and enter into it with an open mind, sharing freely so we can come up with the best solution for you to overcome your challenges and hire and retain the best talent in your industry.
This is the key to taking your business to the next level - and we would be honoured to partner with you on this exciting journey of growth and opportunity.
What will your solution look like? Are you ready to find out?