recruitment solutions
In-house recruitment
A smarter long-term hiring model for engineering and technology businesses
Traditional recruitment models are often reactive, fragmented, and expensive.
Multiple agencies.
Internal recruiters.
Job board spend.
LinkedIn licences.
Advertising costs.
Inconsistent hiring outcomes.
Over time, these costs build quietly across the business, often without improving hiring quality, speed, or delivery confidence.
Octagon Group’s in-house recruitment model offers a more strategic alternative.
Our subscription-based approach gives businesses ongoing access to specialist engineering recruitment support through a predictable monthly partnership model designed to reduce overall hiring costs, improve delivery consistency, and centralise technical recruitment under one trusted partner.
What is in-house recruitment model?
Instead of paying separate recruitment fees for every hire, businesses partner with Octagon Group through a monthly retained model.
This gives you access to:
- Specialist technical recruiters
- Ongoing hiring support
- Proactive talent pipeline building
- Contract and permanent recruitment support
- Employer branding support
- Market insight and hiring intelligence
- Dedicated recruitment delivery
All through one integrated recruitment partnership.
The goal is simple:
Reduce fragmented hiring spend and create a more efficient, scalable recruitment function.
Challenges around traditional recruitment model
Many engineering and manufacturing businesses already spend significant amounts on recruitment through a combination of:
- Agency fees
- Internal recruitment salaries
- Job board advertising
- LinkedIn Recruiter licences
- Employer branding activity
- External sourcing tools
- Contractor hiring support
Individually, these costs often feel manageable.
Collectively, they become expensive, difficult to measure, and operationally fragmented.
In-house recruitment – a more predictable and scalable hiring model
Our retained in-house recruitment service, also known as RPO (Recruitment Process Outsourcing) or MSP (Managed Service Provider) is designed for businesses that hire regularly and want greater control, visibility, and consistency across recruitment.
This model helps businesses:
- Reduce reliance on multiple agencies
- Lower overall recruitment spend
- Improve hiring quality and alignment
- Build stronger long-term talent pipelines
- Reduce time-to-hire
- Scale hiring support as business needs evolve
Instead of starting from scratch with every vacancy, we work as an extension of your business, building long-term understanding of your teams, projects, leadership style, and hiring priorities.
How the in-house recruitment model works
Dedicated recruitment partnership
You gain ongoing access to specialist engineering and technology recruiters who understand your business, technical environment, and hiring goals.
Predictable monthly investment
A fixed monthly fee creates cost predictability while reducing large one-off agency fees and fragmented recruitment spend.
Permanent and contract hiring support
The model supports permanent and contract recruitment, project ramp-ups, leadership hiring, and specialist technical searches — all tailored around your business requirements.
Proactive talent pipeline building
Rather than reacting only when vacancies appear, we continuously build and engage talent pipelines aligned to your future hiring plans.
Recruitment process support
We support you through the whole process - from sourcing strategy and candidate qualification to employer branding building to create a more effective and scalable recruitment function.
Designed for engineering-led businesses
Our retained recruitment services are particularly valuable for businesses that:
- Hire regularly throughout the year
- Struggle with fragmented agency spend
- Need specialist technical talent
- Want stronger hiring consistency
- Are scaling engineering or manufacturing capability
- Require both contract and permanent recruitment support
Good recruitment shouldn’t feel reactive, fragmented, or unpredictable.
Octagon Group’s subscription-based in-house recruitment model is designed to give engineering and technology businesses a more efficient, scalable, and commercially sustainable approach to hiring.
Why choose Octagon Group?
Specialist recruitment expertise
Our consultants focus on engineering, manufacturing, and technology markets — giving clients access to recruiters who understand technical environments and specialist skillsets.
Reduced
overall hiring
cost
By consolidating recruitment under one partnership model, businesses can reduce duplicated spend across agencies, advertising, licences, and internal hiring overhead.
Better long-
term hiring outcomes
A retained partnership creates stronger alignment between hiring strategy, delivery goals, workforce planning, and long-term capability building, helping businesses hire more consistently and strategically over time.
Scalable recruitment support
As hiring demand changes, the model scales with your business — whether you are growing teams, opening new sites, launching products, or managing delivery pressure.
Trusted by
clients and candidates
With over 100 5-star Google reviews, Octagon Group has built long-term relationships across engineering and technology hiring through honest communication, strong market expertise, and consistent delivery.
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Let’s discuss your hiring plans
If your business is investing heavily in recruitment across agencies, advertising, and internal hiring support, we can help you assess whether a retained recruitment model could reduce cost and improve hiring outcomes.
Speak to Octagon Group about in-house recruitment services for engineering and technology businesses.