✶ UK-wide · Permanent recruitment

The first call UK employers make for permanent hires.

Number 1 Recruit places permanent direct hires for UK employers across ten core services. Tight, vetted shortlists. One named consultant per client. The careful, considered approach to a profession that too often forgets it.

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✶ The Number 1 way

Three things that sit above everything else

Recruitment as a profession has lost its standards in too many quarters. Here is what we keep fixed regardless of how busy the desk is.

One named consultant

Every client works with a single named recruiter from intake through onboarding. No relays to a delivery team you have never spoken to.

Tight, vetted shortlists

Three to five strong candidates per role, fully briefed and reference-checked. Never a CV stack to look productive.

Long-term fit

We screen for retention as hard as we screen for skills. A hire who quits at six months is a problem we own with you.

✶ Our services

Ten UK services. One classical approach.

From entry-level admin to senior hires, here are the service lines Number 1 Recruit runs permanent searches across.

Office and Admin

Receptionists, administrators, EAs, office managers and ops coordinators.

Finance and Accountancy

Bookkeepers, AP/AR, qualified accountants, FBPs and financial controllers.

Commercial and Sales

BDRs, account executives, account managers and commercial directors.

Marketing

Content marketers, paid-media, brand managers and marketing heads.

HR

HR coordinators, advisors, business partners, talent leads and HR directors.

Operations

Ops managers, ops directors, supply-chain leads and continuous-improvement roles.

IT and Digital

Helpdesk, sysadmins, network engineers, devops, product managers and IT leads.

Customer Services

Contact-centre advisors, team leaders, complaints handlers and CX managers.

Project and Programme

Project coordinators, project managers, programme managers and PMO leads.

Senior Hires

Heads of, directors and C-suite searches across our ten services.

✶ Our process

From brief to first day, in four moves

A repeatable rhythm you can plan around.

Brief

30-minute scoping. Role, salary band, must-haves, deal-breakers, timeline.

Source

Active network plus targeted outreach. References pre-confirmed.

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Shortlist

Three to five strong matches with availability and motivation notes.

Place

You select, we coordinate. Follow-up at week one, month one and month three.

Where Number 1 Recruit fits

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Most UK employers do not need another agency racing to send the most CVs. They need one careful firm that listens, shortlists tightly, and respects how a hiring decision actually gets made internally. We were set up around exactly that.

Across our ten services, the search runs the same way. Whether you are hiring a permanent finance manager or a permanent head of operations, you get one named consultant, a vetted shortlist of three to five candidates, and follow-up that goes past the start date.

We focus on permanent direct-hire roles because that is where careful work compounds. Stop-gap shift cover is a different sport entirely.