A modern, customer‑focused pricing model with low‑risk terms, flexible fees, and AI‑driven efficiency. Far removed from traditional recruitment. We spread fees, protect your exposure, stand behind every placement, and offer GRIP, Hybrid, and other tailored options.
Pricing, Value & Guarantees
Every scaling company wants three things from recruitment: certainty, quality, and control of cost.
Success Moves Finance offers three pricing models designed to give you exactly that, each with clear guarantees, transparent terms, and commercial logic that supports long‑term hiring success.
1. Contingency Recruitment (Traditional Model)
Contingency is the familiar industry model: you pay a percentage of the starting salary only when a candidate joins.
Fee: 20% of starting salary
Rebate:
• 100% if the candidate leaves in Month 1
• 75% in Month 2
• 50% in Month 3
When to use it:
Only when there is a genuine extreme skills shortage and you need multiple agencies searching simultaneously.
What most companies don’t realise:
• When you brief five agencies, each has only a one‑in‑five chance of being paid.
• To protect themselves, agencies send the same CVs to five of your competitors.
• This creates an “auction” environment where the highest bidder gets the best candidates.
• It also encourages speed over quality.
Our improvement on the model:
At 25%, we prioritise your assignment above all others and allocate dedicated headhunting resources. This ensures you receive the strongest candidates first and exclusively.
Our most popular model. GRIP gives you certainty, continuity, and controlled cash flow.
You choose the guarantee period: 6, 9, 12, or 24 months.
Your fee is spread evenly across the chosen term, starting with one month in advance. This makes it a retained contract with built‑in insurance.
What GRIP Guarantees
If your hire leaves or is terminated during the guarantee period, we replace them, at no additional cost.
You receive a minimum service period equal to the GRIP term you select.
Why clients choose GRIP
• Aligned incentives: Our recruiters are motivated to place candidates who stay, perform, and grow.
• Budget certainty: You can set annual recruitment budgets with confidence, even if you experience dropouts.
• Cash‑flow friendly: Costs are spread monthly rather than paid upfront.
• Lower risk: You are protected for the full duration of the guarantee.
Example
Recruiting an accountant on £40,000 salary:
• GRIP 12: £700 per month, first in advance
• GRIP 24: £400 per month, first in advance
We work to your instruction on service and level of filtering, assessing, interviewing. Full headhunting , AI search techniques included.
3. Outsourced Recruitment Department
For companies scaling fast, this is the most cost‑efficient and strategically powerful option.
You outsource all recruitment to Success Moves Finance, supported by our sister companies Success Moves Sales and Success Moves Tech.
This means you gain a single recruitment partner capable of hiring all commercial roles, finance, sales, operations, leadership, and more.
We operate as your dedicated recruitment department with KPIs, reporting, and performance standards.
Why companies choose this model
• 50% lower cost than traditional recruitment in most cases.
• Guaranteed capacity: You always have recruitment resources available.
• Higher quality: We run a thorough, professional, headhunting‑led process.
• AI‑enhanced efficiency: Internal HR teams often double costs by using agencies on top of their own overheads. In the AI era, this is rarely optimal.
• Faster hiring: No bottlenecks, no delays, no internal admin slowing the process.
• Full commercial coverage: Through Success Moves Sales and Success Moves Finance, you can recruit entire teams across multiple functions with one partner.
Benefits of Outsourcing Recruitment
A. Salary and offer negotiation handled professionally
B. Significant time savings for your leadership team
C. Access to the passive market (the top 15% of talent)
D. Broader reach and superior tools
E. Full AI and personal headhunting
F. Higher quality candidates and lower hiring risk
G. Scalable capacity as you grow
H. Major cost efficiencies
I. Real‑time market intelligence and benchmarking
Hi, Alex McMillan here, Director. You can email or call me below. alex@successmoves.co.uk +44 (0)7525-916574
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