Enhance: Setting a New Standard in Recruitment
Our Enhance Service is the cornerstone of our recruitment offering, crafted to provide a hiring experience that goes well beyond the basics. Through a meticulous, multi-step approach, we ensure that each candidate is rigorously vetted, carefully assessed, and aligned with your unique needs. Even at this foundational level, our process surpasses industry norms, delivering a depth of insight and quality that sets us apart.
Understanding Your Needs
We believe that every successful hire begins with understanding - your goals, your culture, and your unique needs. Together, we delve deep into the specifics of your vacancy. Your dedicated Deerfoot Consultant collaborates closely with you to capture the role's key aspects and the nuances of your organisations values and goals. We use this information to produce a bespoke video presentation of your vacancy, showing the opportunity and the essence of your organisation, which we then share with a curated audience of potential candidates.
Attracting the Right Talent
Our advertising strategy is about quality exposure, designed to attract candidates who align with your needs. We craft a bespoke job advert optimised for top visibility across leaking UK job boards, our website, and professional networks like LinkedIn. Our approach maximises reach but maintains a focus on reaching talent that aligns with your specific requirements.
Comprehensive Talent Search
We leverage every tool at our disposal to find top talent. Beyond our extensive in-house database we search the UK's largest CV repositories, as well as LinkedIn with our Recruiter Professional Services Licences. We also use not one, but two industry leading advanced intelligent search tools - DaXtra Search Nexus and SourceBreaker - ensuring an exhaustive search that captures both active and passive candidates across the entire market.
Building Candidate Connections
Once candidates are identified, we take the time to introduce them not only to the role but your company's culture and values. Through the use of personalised outreach we give candidates a truse sense of the opportunity beyond the job title, helping them to envision a future within your organisation.
Tailored Candidate Discovery
Each candidate completes a tailored application form, developed by your Deerfoot Consultant, that dives into areas critical to you. This step sharpens our focus on finding those who not only match the job description but also demonstrate the traits and skills that matter most to your team.
Thorough Candidate Screening
Our screening process digs deep, looking beyond the CV. We explore a candidate's employment history, validating the credibility of past employers and checking for red flags. This thorough review helps ensure that candidates meet both technical and ethical standards, reducing the risk of future mismatches.
Two-Step Interview
Our candidate interview process is structured for depth, not speed. We conduct a two-step interview pre-submission process to assess technical abilities, cultural fit, and motivation. Through these in-depth conversations, we build a comprehensive understanding of each candidate, ensuring only the best-aligned talent reaches your desk.
Collaborative Candidate Review
With our peer review quality gate, candidates are assessed by not one but two experienced Deerfoot Consultants, each bringing an average of 9 years in tech recruitment. This step adds an additional layer of expertise, providing with a well-rounded view of each candidate's potential.
Complete Candidate Presentation
We provide more than just a CV. Our candidate profiles offer a 360-degree view of each applicant, with insights from technical capabilities to personality fit. Out aim is to give you a balanced and objective perspective so you can make a decision with confidence.
Industry Leading Assurance
We’re confident in the ability of our recruitment process to deliver quality candidates. If the fit isn’t right within the first 3 months, we offer a 100% refund - ensuring your peace of mind.
Benchmarking
Our benchmarking service provides key insights into current market rates for tech roles, empowering you to make informed hiring decisions
Hire Better with Deerfoot
Our recruitment process focuses on securing candidates who not only meet your immediate needs but are poised for long-term success, maximising the probability of a lasting and impactful hire
Elevate: A Premium Solution for In-Depth Candidate Assessment
For critical hires, Elevate offers a heightened level of candidate assessment, designed to provide a complete and insightful view of each applicant. By combining video-presented candidates and psychometric testing, this premium service brings you closer to understanding each candidate’s communication style, motivations, and capacity to excel in high-impact roles. Elevate empowers you to make hiring decisions with confidence, selecting individuals who are not only skilled but are primed to contribute meaningfully to your organisation’s goals.
The Enhance Service, Taken Further
Get a Clearer View with Video Interviews
With Elevate, we give you a head start on understanding each candidate’s communication style, personality, and professionalism through video interviewing. During a recorded two-way live interview with a Deerfoot Consultant, candidates answer a set of targeted questions which can be tailored by you, or created in collaboration with our consultants based on insights from the initial opportunity discovery phase. This allows you to see how candidates engage and express themselves on screen, gaining valuable early impressions that might otherwise only emerge in a live interview. By incorporating this step, you can streamline your hiring process, often reducing the need for an initial interview stage, saving time, and expediting your path to the right hire.
Unlock Deeper Insights with Psychometric Testing
To complement traditional evaluations, our psychometric assessments offer a deeper look into a candidate’s thinking styles, behavioral tendencies, and core motivations. This testing can be especially beneficial for high-stakes roles that require resilience, adaptability, and leadership qualities. By understanding each candidate’s strengths and potential challenges through a structured lens, you gain a predictive insight into their ability to excel in demanding environments. This layer of analysis empowers you to make well-informed decisions, selecting candidates who aren’t just qualified but are truly prepared to thrive in your team’s culture and challenges.
