Permanent Recruitment
…that doesn’t waste your time.
You don’t need another agency sending you CVs to look busy. You need someone who understands the role, respects your time, and only puts forward people worth interviewing.
We’re Impact Recruitment – a Northamptonshire-based team that’s been doing permanent recruitment properly for over 24 years, across commercial, industrial, supply chain, and technical & engineering roles.
An unfilled role is stressful. But a wrong hire is worse and it’s the one thing every client tells us they’re trying to avoid.
Was it a new starter who looked great on paper and turned into a disciplinary headache six months in?
Maybe it’s the third person you’ve hired for the same role in two years, and you’re starting to wonder if it’s the role that’s cursed!
Perhaps it’s a specialist post that’s been open sooo long, everyone else on the team is quietly picking up the slack and starting to eye up the job market themselves…
Replacing an unlucky hire typically costs one to three times their annual salary once you count lost productivity, retraining, and management time. That’s before you factor in the damage to team morale, or having to explain to your boss (again) why the role is still open. *gulp*
You didn’t get into this job to spend your evenings rereading CVs. We’ve built our recruitment process so you don’t have to.
Let’s get your evenings back and walk into Monday’s meeting with a solid shortlist, rather than another tightrope to walk.
Your Hiring Challenges, Our Solutions.
Most recruitment agencies work the same way: take a rushed brief, search a database for “close enough,” and send you a stack of CVs to prove they’re active – not because those people are truly right for the job.
You end up doing their job for them, just with worse tools and no fee in your wallet. Eh?
That’s why so many hiring managers we speak to have the same three complaints:
- “They CV-spammed us with no real vetting.”
- “They didn’t understand our team, our culture, or what the job actually involves.”
- “They disappeared once the invoice went out.”
Most of our clients come to us with one or more of the following problems. If any of this sounds familiar, you are in the right place.
Vacancies staying open too long
Every week a role goes unfilled puts pressure on your existing team. We can move quickly, but only once we understand the role properly, which is what makes the shortlist relevant.
Poor quality applicants
Low application volume, unsuitable CVs, or candidates who interview well but do not perform. We source proactively and only put forward people we have properly assessed.
High turnover in a role
Rehiring for the same position repeatedly is expensive and demoralising. We look at why previous hires have not worked and make sure the next one is a better fit from the start.
Replacing a leaver or building the team
Whether you are backfilling a departure or growing headcount, we manage the process end-to-end so your management team can stay focused on running the business.
Specialist or hard-to-fill roles
Roles that require a specific combination of skills, experience, and cultural fit rarely fill themselves. We use our local market knowledge and candidate network to find people who are not actively applying.
Frustration with previous agencies
CV spam, poor communication, recruiters who disappear after placement. Many of our best client relationships started with exactly this frustration. We work differently.
Our Process
How we do it differently
Our process is more thorough than most clients have experienced elsewhere. That thoroughness is what makes the difference between a hire that sticks and one that sucks.
We meet with you (face to face or by video) before any search begins. We want to understand the team, the culture, the real requirements of the role, and what success looks like six months in. We will challenge the brief if something does not stack up – politely, but we’ll say it. A better brief produces a better shortlist.
We do not simply post an advert and wait. We proactively approach people in our network across Northamptonshire, including strong candidates who aren’t actively job-hunting but would move for the right opportunity. For hard-to-fill specialist and technical roles, this is usually the only way to find them at all – they’re not exactly advertising themselves.
Every candidate we put forward has been interviewed and assessed in depth. We consider skills, experience, motivation, and cultural fit, and we give you an honest view of each person, including any reservations. We do not pad shortlists. If we have two strong candidates, we send two.
From interview scheduling to feedback to offer negotiation (salary, notice periods, counteroffers), we stay on it. You won’t lose a good candidate because communication went quiet on our end – we know how that story ends, and it’s not a good one.
We manage the offer process carefully (salary, notice periods, counteroffers) and stay close until the candidate starts. Then we follow up. A placement is not complete just because someone accepts an offer. We’re not going to vanish the moment the invoice is paid.
What You Can Expect
The outcomes of partnering with us
Reduced hiring risk
Exhaustively assessed candidates and reliable briefing mean fewer poor hires making it through the process.
Stronger retention
People who are well matched to a role and culture stay longer. That means lower recruitment costs over time and stable teams.
Management time back
We own the process so you can focus on your actual job, not reviewing unsuitable CVs or chasing a recruiter for updates.
Better team performance
The right permanent hire raises the capability of the whole team around them. That impact compounds over time.
Hiring confidence
Working with a recruiter who is honest about candidates and market realities means you make decisions with clarity, not hope.
A recruiter who knows your business
Over time, we build the context that makes every hire we work on together faster, more relevant, and more successful.
Got a Permanent Vacancy to Fill?
Tell us about the role. We will give you an honest view of the market and what a good recruitment process looks like for it.
Sectors We Cover
Commercial
Industrial
Supply Chain
Technical & Engineering
Permanent FAQs
It depends on the role and the market, and we will give you an honest timeline upfront. Most of our placements complete within three to six weeks from brief to offer. Where roles are more specialist or senior, we factor that into the plan from the start and we keep you updated throughout.
Commercial, industrial, supply chain, and technical & engineering, from operational roles through to senior management.
Our knowledge is concentrated in Northamptonshire and the surrounding region, which means we understand the local talent market and candidate availability.
We offer a rebate period as standard. Because we stay close to every placement, problems tend to surface early and we deal with them directly – no disappearing act.
Our focus on fit rather than speed means this happens far less than clients have experienced with other agencies.
A job board gives you applications. We give you assessed candidates matched to your brief (including people who aren’t applying anywhere else) and we manage the whole process so your time is protected and your team respects who you bring in.
Your time saved, reduced risk hires, and trusted by your senior leadership team.
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