What began in 2005 as a challenge to traditional recruitment fees and hard-sell tactics has evolved into a partnership-led, end-to-end hiring experience trusted by clients worldwide.
Growing up without growing dull
RR’s founders, Jamie Mistlin and Anna Taylor, built the company by ditching expensive commissions, empowering clients and candidates and designing tech to make hiring faster and simpler. Two decades on, the same outlier mentality drives how RR works today: collaborative, creative, and integrity-led.
Jamie Mistlin, co-founder, Recruitment Revolution:
“We’ve grown up and so has our model. Clients told us they wanted more than sourcing. They wanted us inside their world: amplifying their brand, protecting their time, curating highly-aligned talent pools, deeper level headhunting and delivering a hiring experience they’d want.
So that’s what we’ve become - a calm, collaborative agency and partner that still thinks like a challenger. Our new brand identity better reflects the depth and richness of the experience RR now delivers to some of the most trusted, category leading brands out there.
It’s been almost two years in the making, and we couldn’t be more proud - a bold, sharper visual identity that perfectly captures our personality and individuality”
Our new bold strap ‘As good as hiring gets®’ represents the sweet spot we occupy between DIY and high commission agencies - the former time-consuming, unsupported, with open-ended costs, and the latter often too salesy, conflicted and costly.
What’s evolved — and why it matters
Over time RR has broadened how it partners with clients, becoming an integral part of the recruitment process for many of the companies it works with. RR’s capabilities have grown and been refined across the last two decades of delivery:
- Managed service ‘concierge’ platform: RR’s intuitive & collaborative portal centralises hiring - providing live visibility to keep everything clear and trackable, with a dedicated team at the end of one-click functions.
- Talent engagement partners (integrated & embedded support): On-demand specialists who operate as an extension of the client team delivering expert support and a premium candidate experience end-to-end whilst enhancing and protecting the employer brand.
- Creative, go-to-market hiring (including paid media): Treating hiring like marketing to reach passive talent and tell a sharper employer story - from content and landing pages to targeted campaigns.
- VeRRified™ screening and curation: A verification layer that pre-qualifies candidates against key alignment non-negotiables, so shortlists are tighter and interviews count.
- Human-first, service-driven delivery: Two dedicated delivery teams, Client and Candidate Experience, source top talent and provide an experience that protects brand reputation.
This steady evolution reflects what clients asked for: more tools outside the norm to reach hidden talent, greater involvement inside their workflow, and ownership of the hiring experience when internal bandwidth is thin. Many now invite RR to take over their ATS to screen, select, curate and run the hiring experience, thus allowing busy CEOs / Founders and hiring managers to focus on other priorities.
“500, 1000, 2000 CVs - the number doesn’t phase us - it’s our job”
Same values, better experience.
RR’s collaboration, creativity and integrity still set the standard - from transparent pricing and organic hiring to human review of every application and a candidate experience recognised with an annual Feefo Platinum award.
Owing to the favourable pricing model, recent casework range has shown a strong demand for leadership, Executive and C-Suite hiring support, as well as increasingly more client and project wins in the US - where hiring commissions traditionally reach 30%.
Anna Taylor:
“Twenty years in, we’ve kept the spark that made us different and built the muscle to match it. Clients invite us inside their world now to deliver a hiring experience they’re proud of. Same values. Grown-up capability.”
About Recruitment Revolution
Recruitment Revolution (RR) is the on-demand talent sourcing & experience partner helping organisations hire better people with less hassle. Founded in 2005, RR launched the first-to-market online recruitment agency. The business blends people-powered expertise with custom-built technology to help clients hire faster, smarter and cost-effectively.
Serving founders, hiring managers and internal talent teams, RR champions organic hiring, transparent and accessible pricing and a humanised candidate experience powered by an award-winning delivery team.
With a client roster of startups to well-known brands, RR has become the go-to talent partner of choice delivering a service that’s ‘As good as hiring gets’.
