Recruitment media planning & buying

Reach that's measured,
not just wide.

Every campaign has a radius. Most agencies widen it and bill you for the noise. We set it deliberately, then amplify it until the right people are inside it.

50+ years

Collective tenure in the industry

300+

Campaigns successfully delivered

96%

Client retention

£240M+

In media placed

The Radius idea

A campaign only works inside its radius.
We widen it on purpose.

Recruitment media is a distance problem. A warehouse role travels eight miles. A clinical lead travels the country. Spend the same way on both and one of them is wasted.

We plan around that distance — geographic, sector, seniority — and then push it out channel by channel until the audience worth reaching is inside it. No further.

It is a slower way to sell media, and a much better way to fill roles.

Meet the team

We were all somebody's first hire once.

A slightly unfair look at the people who will actually run your campaigns.

Matt as a child
Matt today

Matt

Some kids just wanted to play. Matt wanted to know the plan first. That same instinct makes him the account director who keeps every client relationship on track, making sure the work always lands exactly within radius of what matters most.

Emma as a child
Emma today

Emma

Some kids lost track of their friends at the park. Not Emma, she always knew exactly where everyone was. That instinct is exactly what makes her such a brilliant campaign manager and account coordinator, keeping clients close and campaigns firmly within her radius from start to finish.

Alissa as a child
Alissa today

Alissa

Some kids drew outside the lines. Alissa, aged 6, drew perfect circles. She's carried that precision into her work as our marketing and design lead, creating campaigns with pinpoint accuracy so they land squarely within the radius of the audiences that count.

Zara as a child
Zara today

Zara

Zara, aged 7, already had opinions about which biscuits deserved top billing on the shelf. These days she puts that same instinct to work on search rankings, helping brands earn their spot at the top for the right reasons. She's our SEO and marketing lead, and yes, she still has strong opinions about biscuits.

Sectors

Volume and specialist hiring, sector by sector.

We buy media for in-house talent teams and for agencies buying on behalf of their clients, across the sectors where distance and urgency matter most.

Logistics & Warehousing

Shift-pattern and radius targeting for roles that live or die on catchment.

Health & Social Care

Clinical and care roles that often need national reach, bought with the same discipline as a local vacancy.

Engineering & Manufacturing

Skilled trades pipelines built before the vacancy opens, not after it's gone unfilled.

3rd Sector & Charities

Stretching campaign success for charitable organisations that need every pound to reach further.

Multi-site & Multi-location

One campaign, live and locally targeted in every town you're hiring in.

Public Sector

Framework-compliant campaigns that still have to compete with private-sector pay and speed.

Trusted by teams hiring across the UK

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Results

Numbers we're happy to be held to.

−38%

Cost per applicant

Close proximity of locations meant triple targetting the same candidates with advertising.

3.1x

Applications that convert

Honest role storytelling attracts people who actually stay.

+47%

Qualified applicant rate

Tighter radius targeting delivered a more relevant applicant pool and cut the noise.

9/10

Clients still with us at year three

We are measured on retention, never on placement commission.

14

Locations launched at once

One campaign, local reach in every town you hire in.

+61%

Direct applications year on year

Reach that compounds instead of resetting every quarter.

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What we do

Six things, done properly

01

Media planning

We map where your audience actually is before a penny is spent, then set the radius each role needs to cover.

02

Job board & aggregator buying

Rate-negotiated slots and sponsored placement across the boards that perform for your sectors, not the ones on a rebate deal.

03

Programmatic & pay-per-application

Budget that follows performance in real time, capped per role so no vacancy quietly drains the plan.

04

Social & video campaigns

Paid social built for passive candidates, with creative that survives a two-second scroll.

05

Employer brand & creative

Adverts, landing pages and assets that make the role sound like the job it actually is.

06

Measurement & reporting

Plain-English reporting from impression to hire, so you can see what worked and what we should stop paying for.

Our approach

Built for the third year,
not the first invoice.

Recruitment media is full of people paid to move budget. We would rather spend less of yours and be here in five years' time. That means telling you when a channel has stopped earning its place, and when you do not need us at all.

Paid on outcomes, not on spend

Our commercial model does not reward pushing more budget through more channels. If a channel stops working, we say so.

Fewer clients, longer relationships

We take on the work we can genuinely serve. Most of our conversations are with people we have worked with for years.

Your data stays yours

Accounts, pixels and performance history sit in your name. Nothing is held hostage if you leave.

How it runs

Step

1

Plot

Understand the role, the market and the honest size of the audience.

Step

2

Set the radius

Choose channels and spend by the distance each role really needs.

Step

3

Amplify

Launch, then move budget daily toward whatever is converting.

Step

4

Hold

Report on hires, not clicks, and reset the plan for the next quarter.

Contact

Let's find the edge of your radius.

Tell us what you are hiring for and where it keeps going wrong. We will come back with an honest view of what the media should look like — no deck, no pressure.

enquiries@radiusrm.com

01480 595930

Gibson House, 2 Lancaster Way, Ermine Business Park, Huntingdon, PE29 6XU

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