Recruitment Stages

You provide the key information about your requirements, and the manager clarifies the details needed for the search. Where necessary, they help refine specific terms so that the responsibilities, schedule, level of pay and expectations of the candidate are clearly aligned and reflect current market conditions.

This helps create a realistic and competitive vacancy and improves the chances of finding the right candidate. The manager will also give you an initial indication of candidate availability and the likely pace of the search, taking into account the role, location and agreed requirements.

During the discussion of your enquiry, the manager explains the key cooperation terms. They also send you a link to the page outlining the key terms and a separate link to the Public Offer Agreement. This allows you to review the main information quickly and read the full agreement.

After reviewing the terms, you confirm in writing by messenger or email that you agree to them and ask Sweet Home to begin the search for the agreed vacancy.

Sweet Home searches its own database and advertises the vacancy through relevant internal and external channels.

All candidates considered for the vacancy follow the same process. Where a candidate is not yet registered with Sweet Home, they provide the required information and documents and complete a professional interview and preliminary assessment. Only registered candidates who meet the agreed vacancy requirements are presented to the client.

After the interviews, you select the candidate with whom you are ready to continue the process.

The manager organises a final meeting during which the client and candidate agree the final terms of their working relationship. The agency records the agreed terms and provides both parties with a contract template incorporating them as an example for formalising the arrangement.

The client and candidate may use the proposed template or choose another form of agreement. However, the final terms must be agreed with Sweet Home involved, and a copy of the signed document must be provided to the agency. These recorded terms form the basis for formalising the working relationship and paying the agency fee.

After selecting the candidate and agreeing the final terms of the working relationship, the client pays the agency fee in accordance with the Public Offer Agreement.

Once payment has been received, Sweet Home exchanges the client’s and candidate’s contact details so that they can communicate directly. At the client’s request, the agency also provides copies of the candidate’s documents required for verification and formalising the arrangement.

Where the client wishes to check references, they may ask Sweet Home to do so or contact the candidate’s previous employers directly. For this purpose, the agency provides contact details where consent has been given for their disclosure or shares written references supplied by the candidate.

The client and candidate sign the agreement reached between them. A copy of the signed document is provided to Sweet Home so that the agency has confirmation of the final terms, the start date and any other arrangements relevant to the performance of the Public Offer Agreement.

The manager helps coordinate the candidate’s start date and remains available during the initial stage of the working relationship. Further support, a renewed search or a bonus replacement is provided in accordance with the terms of the Public Offer Agreement.