Digital for UK recruitment
Recruitment websites that convert candidates and clients, bespoke portals that integrate with your ATS, VoIP phone systems built for desk-heavy teams — from single-desk specialists to 50-strong agencies.
We understand UK recruitment
Recruitment is a sector where every competitor's website looks interchangeable. Stock imagery of people shaking hands, the same three testimonials, a "Submit your CV" button, a job board that may or may not reflect what's actually live in the ATS. The agencies that actually win — win because their digital does something different.
We build for recruitment because the work genuinely overlaps with what we do best: bespoke systems, live integrations, candidate and client portals, phone-heavy operations, GDPR-sensitive data. The tools that drive recruitment are rarely off-the-shelf for long — agencies outgrow them, or buy them and then wish they hadn't. That's where bespoke earns its money.
If your agency website is a brochure and your live jobs are a separate screen your consultants copy into Word documents, you're leaving revenue on the table.
What recruitment agencies typically need from us
Bespoke recruitment websites
Not a template with "recruitment" in the title — proper bespoke design that reflects your niche, your tone and your USP. Built to convert candidate applications and client briefs, not to look like a brochure.
Job board integration
Live roles pulled from your ATS or CRM (Bullhorn, Vincere, RDB, Mercury — or bespoke), automatically categorised, filterable by the specialism that matters to your sector. No more manual job posting.
Candidate and client portals
Registered candidates log in to update their CV, apply to roles, track application status. Clients log in to see shortlists, leave feedback, download reports. Built in Laravel, scaled to your data.
VoIP phone systems
Recruitment is a phone-first sector. Desk phones, mobile phones, click-to-call from your ATS, call recording for compliance, analytics for performance. Proper business telephony, not a domestic broadband add-on.
Microsoft 365 and Teams
Hybrid teams, shared mailboxes, client-specific distribution lists, Teams for candidate video screening, secure document sharing for CVs and contracts. Set up properly, supported on call.
GDPR-compliant hosting
UK servers, role-based access, encrypted backups, retention policies built into your candidate database. No Patriot Act, no EU-US data transfer headaches.
Bespoke recruitment systems, built to scale
What we've built for UK recruitment businesses:
- Bespoke recruitment websites on WordPress — clean, conversion-focused, built to reflect specialist positioning rather than look like every other agency.
- Laravel-powered candidate and client portals — login-based systems integrated with the agency's CRM, handling registrations, applications, shortlists and client feedback loops.
- Live job feeds pulled from ATS platforms — no more manual posting, no more "the jobs on the site are out of date".
- VoIP phone systems with click-to-call from the CRM and call analytics for consultant performance tracking.
- A named recruitment client: our work with Investing in Women included a bespoke WordPress site with an integrated recruitment system serving women-owned businesses across the UK.
How we work with recruitment clients
Understand your model
Recruitment agencies are not interchangeable. Permanent vs contract, generalist vs specialist, executive search vs volume — the digital needs differ significantly. First call maps what you do, who you serve, and where digital is currently costing you time or revenue.
Build the stack, not just the website
Most agencies need more than a website — live job feeds, candidate portals, CRM integrations, phone systems, Teams setup. We scope the full digital stack and phase the build so you're never waiting six months for the first win.
Evolve as you grow
Recruitment agencies scale — and often restructure. Sites that made sense at 3 consultants need re-thinking at 15. Ongoing support, feature additions and periodic redesigns keep the digital moving at the pace of the business.
Services relevant to recruitment
Laravel Development
Bespoke web applications, APIs and internal tools built on Laravel — the world's most popular PHP framework.
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Get your team on Microsoft 365 — properly set up, migrated and supported by people who know the platform inside out.
Find out moreWebsite and phones not keeping up with the agency?
30-minute call. No pitch, no salesperson, just a conversation about what's working and what isn't.
Frequently Asked Questions
Usually yes. Bullhorn, Vincere, Mercury, RDB, JobAdder and bespoke systems — if there's an API (or a feed we can build against), we can integrate. First step is always to check what your platform supports; some are more open than others.
Yes. Either as a lightweight form that creates a record in your ATS, or as a full candidate portal where candidates register, maintain a profile, upload their CV and apply with one click.
Taken seriously, not bolted on. UK-hosted, encrypted at rest, role-based access, retention policies coded into the platform, subject access request workflows built in.
If it's fed from your ATS, jobs update automatically — you don't touch the website at all. If you want to manually add one-off featured roles, the CMS makes it two clicks.
A standard recruitment website starts in the £4,000–£8,000 range. A bespoke candidate or client portal built on Laravel is typically £15,000+, scoped to your requirements. VoIP and hosting are priced per-user / per-site and usually added as ongoing costs.
Yes — the majority of our recruitment clients are spread across the UK. Remote discovery and delivery calls as standard, on-site visits where they genuinely help.