Candidate Selection

44% of pfj candidates come via word of mouth or referral. 25% of these use us on a sole basis. The remainder of our candidates come to us via our extensive online and offline marketing campaigns.

pfj advertise in the national press, business to business press weekly, other trade magazines monthly and the web daily. We budget for a minimum of 8% of our turnover to be used generating candidates for our clients.

Most of our candidates are working and they have limited time to find a new job. They work with pfj because they have confidence in us that we can deliver results quickly and don't make themselves available through other agencies.

All candidates are initially screened by specialist account managers over the phone. If successful they are then invited for a face to face structured interview.

All candidates are given instant feedback and if matched to relevant jobs they will be given a full brief on your job. Hence the importance of us getting as much client information as possible.

It is always worth asking a recruitment company if their candidates are interviewed face to face - body language often discloses more than words and you should not be paying much to recruitment companies who do little more than shift CV’s.