Sainsbury's - McCarthy Recruitment

225 Managers placed in 6 weeks!

CV to interview ratio 100%

98% candidate acceptance rate

Filled 100% of 225 vacancies briefed

72% of candidates headhunted

Focus on volume recruitment, within project timescales without compromising on culture & values

Having worked with Sainsbury’s for a long time we weren’t particularly known in their business as being able to deliver volume recruitment as we had always worked on niche or difficult to fill roles for them but Jon had faith in us and it paid off.

We don’t like to brag but the numbers are pretty impressive:

675 candidates screened
100% CV to Interview
353 in-store interviews
225 roles filled
72% of candidates were headhunted
98% acceptance rate
50 HR and Operational Staff trained on headhunting

The flexibility of The Runner worked perfectly for this project which saw our entire team with all hands to the pump for a number of weeks making sure that we delivered for Jon and his team.

The sheer number of candidates we actively approached was pretty staggering but as always we never compromise on quality.

We combined The Runner with consultancy support for this project. After completing the recruitment element we handed the baton to The Talent Expert. We trained the Sainsbury’s team to do what we had just done for them, headhunting. We upskilled 50 of Jon’s talent team and Store Managers in “How to Headhunt” and were delighted with the feedback we had, particularly from Store Manager’s which was incredible. Our training resulted in the Sainsbury’s team successfully headhunting a further 90 people by putting what we had taught them into practice.

We are a business who 100% in-source our recruitment, I have 120 recruiters but I needed help. I partnered with McCarthy to fill 225 vacancies and they did an absolutely brilliant job. 100% of the CV’s they submitted were invited to interview, I had never heard of that before! They took a huge amount of pressure off me and my team. They had an unbelievable interview to offer rate, they just got it. My return on investment was massive.