Clinician-led recruitment with our Gold service

If you decide to invest in our Gold service, you’ll start with a 60-minute call with our team of vets and RVNs who specialise in recruitment. They’ll advise you on making your advert stand out and how to fill your vacancy as quickly as possible.

Once we understand your requirements in more depth, we search our database. If we find a good fit, we’ll reach out immediately. If this doesn’t find someone, we’ll launch a bespoke campaign across online, print and social media channels.

We do all the work for you and will talk to jobseekers to promote your practice. We respond to candidates immediately, screen their CVs and only send suitable people.

Recruitment is challenging at the moment, but there are vets out there who want to change roles. We’ve worked with practices that have advertised through different means and haven’t found any candidates, but when they switched to our Gold service, they had a far better response.

We’re not a recruitment agency. One of our main differences is we advertise the practice name so candidates can see where it is. Our reach is also much higher than recruitment agencies.

We own Vetfile, the largest veterinary database in the UK. Our print publications, website, jobs site and social media channels also give you unparalleled reach.

Gold is more expensive because it involves a lot of expertise on our side – our Gold fulfilment team includes a vet and two RVNs with more than 30 years of experience.

Gold also saves you an enormous amount of time. There are no forms to fill in – we write the job ad, design the print ads and organise the social media campaign. We can also direct mail to home addresses if needed.

Additionally, we can give you advice. For example, we’ll look at how competitive your benefits package is and advise you on what candidates value. We also have ideas of creative solutions other practices use to make their rota and OOH requirements more attractive.

We write your job ad for you – and design it so it works online and in print. We also write your social media campaign.

We’ve found practices value a vet and RVN from outside their practice writing their job advert, and often spot perks to a job that you may take for granted. For example, one practice we worked with offered breakfast every Friday. That’s a great benefit, but the practice took it for granted. We highlighted this in the job advert to illustrate how friendly and supportive the team is.

No, it’s an all-inclusive fee.

Gold is an investment of £4,895 + VAT for a vet. For RVNs please contact our sales team for a quotation. We offer substantial discounts if you need to recruit more than one person, as well as if you’re a repeat Gold customer.

We’ll do everything we can over a 4-month period to find you a vet or RVN. We update you over this period and are brilliant at lateral thinking to find you someone. If – after using all our techniques, tools and advice – we can’t, we’ll run your online advert until you fill the role for a maximum of 12 months. We’ll simply change the contact details to yours after the initial 4-month period.

From January to March 2023, the average time to offer was 66 days. The quickest time to offer was 14 days.

At the start of the process, we’ll conduct a 60-minute fact-finding and advice call with you. After this, we’ll ask you to provide us with photos and testimonials. We’d also advise responding to candidates quickly to improve the chances of them accepting your offer.

But remember, we do all the hard work for you. Our Gold service is designed to take the stress away from you.

Campaigns took on average 66 days in the first quarter of 2023; however, they can close earlier, or take as long as 120 days. This is because if you’re interviewing a candidate, we pause our print advertising. We also find it’s more effective to run print ads every other week.

We have easy-to-understand terms and conditions, as well as contracts.