Recruitment Agencies

Here at Chapter Eight, we always prefer to recruit direct if at all possible and most of the people who work here applied to us directly.

We get loads of calls every day from recruitment agencies and we can't keep in touch with all of you, although we appreciate the interest you have in us.

We already have a preferred supplier list in place for the few agencies we have a long standing relationship with and we're not reviewing this at the moment.

The one and only way to get yourself into our good books is if you follow these instructions to the letter:

• Most importantly, you've got to have a candidate who is absolutely perfect for a very specific role. By that we mean not just someone from your database, but someone who fits all the criteria for the job as described on our web site.
• You have met with the person personally and interviewed them - as well as having taken up references for that person (education, employment, etc).
• Your candidate must write us a cover letter and send us their unaltered full CV. This bit is very important to us. We want the candidate to write the cover letter, not you. If the candidate doesn't want to do this, then they don't really want to work at Chapter Eight, and we will not consider the application.
• You will also agree to our terms and conditions - we can send you these once we receive your superstar's CV and letter.
  

Once this has all been done, you should send the candidate's CV and cover letter to: jobs@chaptereight.com. Please only send us your absolute best candidate, not a whole bunch. We only want to hear about your superstars.

Other stuff

• You promise never to advertise on our behalf with our company logo
• We cannot accept CVs for permanent roles from people who are here on a short working visa
• If you send us any CVs in that do not fulfil all of the above, we are not able to consider the application.
  

 

Temporary and fixed term roles

We don't take on temporary helpers through agencies. Fixed term roles are done the same way as permanent roles, so see the section above.

 

What will happen if you call us?

We will ask you to e-mail us. We do not take cold calls from agencies who are not on our preferred supplier list, so please don't call us.

If you want us to keep your details on file for when we review our preferred supplier list, you should email them to: jobs@chaptereight.com .

We'll then file your details and will refer to them in case we need help in the future. Please don't call us - we'll call you if things change or if we need help with filling a vacancy. In your e-mail with your details you should tell us what areas you specialise in.

 

What happens if I ignore what you've said on this page?

If you do call us consistently and if you don't follow our guidelines, we'll have to blacklist your agency and we really don't want to resort to such heavy-handed techniques if we can help it.

We absolutely want to give priority to people who apply to us because they want to really work here and we want to devote our time to dealing with them only.

While we totally understand that you are only doing your job and that you want to help us, we ask that you respect the way in which we want to handle recruitment here at Chapter Eight.