Retained recruitment that delivers.
Finding and securing high-performing technical sales and engineering professionals can be a complex, time-consuming challenge.
Our retained recruitment service gives you the confidence that your critical roles are being handled with focus, precision, and complete accountability. From initial briefing to successful placement, we act as an extension of your business, guaranteeing delivery and long-term results you can rely on.
As part of our retained service, you’ll also benefit from added value tools such as detailed candidate behavioural assessments and comprehensive salary benchmarking, giving you deeper insights and stronger hiring decisions.
What is retained recruitment?
Retained recruitment is a strategic partnership for critical, senior, or confidential hires. It offers greater commitment, precision, and accountability than contingency recruitment.
By choosing this model, you secure the exclusive focus of our consultants—managing every stage from briefing and market mapping to candidate engagement, assessment, and placement.
Ideal for technical sales, engineering, or leadership roles, it ensures full market coverage, accurate shortlisting, and complete control throughout the process.
Our retained service also includes behavioural assessments and salary benchmarking, giving you deeper insight into candidate fit and market value for confident, data-led decisions.
With Mase Consulting as your retained recruitment partner, you gain a focused, transparent, and results-driven approach to your most important hires.
How it Works
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Retained vs Other Recruitment Models
Retained recruitment is ideal when you need complete focus, confidentiality, and guaranteed delivery for a key technical or engineering role. This consultant-led partnership ensures your vacancy receives priority attention from start to finish, with added-value services such as behavioural assessments, and salary benchmarking. For more flexible or high-volume recruitment needs, our Retingency and Ready-to-go Talent Acquisition Team models provide alternative solutions.
Retingency Recruitment
A flexible, results-based way to work with us. It combines the consultative approach and headhunting of a retained partnership with the pay-on-success model of contingency recruitment — giving you access to our expertise and network, with payment only due upon successful placement.
Retained Recruitment
- Consultative and collaborative approach
- Proactive sourcing of active and passive candidates
- Market mapping and headhunting services
- Dedicated account manager
- Candidate Behavioural Assessments for final-stage candidates
- Salary Benchmarking
- Discounts on recruitment fees applied
- Personally led by our Recruitment Director, who has over 24 years of success delivering niche and challenging hiring assignments.
Ready-to-go Talent Acquisition Team
An extension of your internal recruitment function. Our team works solely on your roles, managing multiple vacancies and providing regular progress updates — ideal during periods of growth or high hiring demand.
How our retained approach addresses recruitment challenges:
Priority Partnership
Retained recruitment gives you a true partnership with complete consultant dedication. Your project receives priority focus, detailed market coverage, and regular communication throughout every stage of the process. This ensures consistent delivery, accurate shortlisting, and complete confidence in each stage of your hire.
Enhanced Candidate Insights
Our retained service includes advanced candidate behavioural assessments for final-stage candidates at no additional cost. These insights help you evaluate motivations, working styles, and cultural fit, allowing you to make confident, data-led hiring decisions that last.
Market Intelligence
As part of our retained partnership, we provide comprehensive salary benchmarking and market analysis to ensure your offer is competitive and aligned with current trends. This data-driven approach gives you the knowledge to attract and retain high-performing professionals across technical sales and engineering.
Hiring with insights, not oversights.
At Mase Consulting, we integrate behavioural assessments as a vital component of our recruitment strategy. These assessments offer a deeper insight into candidates’ behaviours, preferences, and potential fit within your organisation, evaluating key traits and tendencies that traditional CVs and interviews often overlook. By doing so, they help minimise the cost of a bad hire, reducing the financial risks associated with hiring decisions.
As part of our retained recruitment service, these behavioural assessments are included complimentary, giving you added confidence and value throughout the hiring process.
Interested to see how much a bad hire can cost your business? Find out by using our Cost of a Bad Hire Calculator.
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Want to know how your salaries compare to your competitors?
Salary benchmarking, also referred to as ‘compensation benchmarking,’ is a thorough analysis of the market value for a specific role.
Unlike a basic salary survey, which provides average salaries based on a limited set of metrics, salary benchmarking offers much more detail. It considers various factors affecting an individual’s salary package, such as location, education, market sector, company size, and experience level.
The data collected during the benchmarking process is tailored to the specific needs of each client. By analysing the market and competitors, you can establish a reliable set of benchmarks for your own salary offerings. This helps you compete for high-performing professionals effectively without overpaying.
As part of our retained recruitment service, salary benchmarking for the role is included complimentary, giving you valuable market insights that support confident, data-led hiring decisions.
SUCCESSFULHIRES
2000+
talented individuals
placed in UK, Europe, Middle East, North America & Asia.
CUSTOMER SATISFACTION
5 star
rating on Google, attesting to our commitment to excellence.
ASSIGNMENTS DELIVERED
92%
of assignments we’ve received have been successfully placed.
MARKETEXPERTS
15 Years +
of experience as trusted industry specialists.
QUALITYCANDIDATES
91%
of CVs we send to clients secure interviews.
See how our recruitment and salary benchmarking solutions could benefit your business.
If you’re seeking a technical sales and engineering recruitment partner or looking for insights into salary and compensation packages, we suggest scheduling a chat with one of our specialists.
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