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Lead generation built for recruitment

For recruitment agencies, business development is the hard half of the job. Finding candidates is a well-worn craft, but winning the client, the hiring company with live roles and a budget to fill them, is where growth is won or lost. Consultants are often stretched between delivery and sales, so a steady flow of qualified client leads is what lets an agency scale beyond its network.

The challenge is that client-side business development competes for time with candidate delivery, and cold outreach to employers is crowded and easy to ignore. Reaching hiring managers and HR decision-makers with live vacancies, in the sectors you specialise in, at the moment they are ready to use an agency, is what turns prospecting into placements.

Who the lead is

The lead is a hiring business with roles to fill, a hiring manager, HR lead, founder or department head with live vacancies and an openness to using a recruitment partner in your sectors.

Channels that fit

  • AI-targeted employer outreach
  • LinkedIn and email to hiring managers
  • live vacancy and hiring-signal tracking
  • sector-specific content and outreach

Why this works for recruitment

Clients, not just candidates

We focus the effort on winning hiring businesses with real vacancies, the harder, more valuable half of recruitment growth, so consultants can keep delivering.

Hiring signals, not guesswork

We target companies showing live hiring intent in your sectors, so outreach lands when a business actually needs help filling roles.

Sector-matched

Targeting is built around the industries and roles you specialise in, so leads are clients you can genuinely place candidates with.

How we generate recruitment leads

AI does the data-heavy targeting and enrichment; a UK team runs the outreach and qualification that turns a name into a booked opportunity.

  1. 01

    Define your sectors

    We map the industries, roles and hiring-business profile you want to win as clients.

  2. 02

    AI finds hiring intent

    AI builds a live list of companies with vacancies or hiring signals in your sectors.

  3. 03

    Targeted outreach

    We reach hiring managers and HR leads across email, LinkedIn and calls with a message about your specialism.

  4. 04

    Qualified client leads

    You get matched hiring businesses ready for a conversation about working with your agency.

What a qualified lead looks like

A qualified recruitment lead is a named hiring decision-maker at a company with live or upcoming vacancies in your sectors, open to a conversation about using your agency.

See how pricing works

Recruitment: your questions

How do recruitment agencies generate leads?

Recruitment agencies generate client leads through referrals, networking, cold outreach and tracking companies that are hiring. The most efficient modern approach uses AI to spot live hiring signals and vacancies in your sectors, then reaches hiring managers and HR leads with a targeted message, so consultants get warm client leads instead of losing selling time to cold prospecting.

How do recruiters find new clients?

Recruiters find new clients by targeting businesses with live or upcoming vacancies in their specialism and reaching the right hiring decision-maker before a competitor does. We use AI to track hiring intent and build a list of companies actively recruiting in your sectors, then get you in front of the hiring manager, so business development stops relying on the network alone.

How much does lead generation for recruiters cost?

Lead generation for recruitment agencies typically runs from around £1,500 to £6,000 a month on a retainer, or a set price per qualified client lead. Because a single client can generate multiple placements and fees, we agree the cost per qualified hiring-business lead up front so it maps to your placement value.

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