There is very little difference between recruitment consultants and recruitment agencies, except that ‘consultants’ tend to operate in the high end market and agencies at the lower end. For example, if you ran a warehouse and wanted to recruit a logistics manager you would probably use an agency calling itself a recruitment consultancy and if you wanted to recruit a forklift truck driver you would use a recruitment agency, even though both are the same. Traditionally, recruitment consultants look to assist with white collar (office based, managerial, professional) roles and recruitment agencies tend to concentrate on blue collar (industrial, semi-skilled & technical) roles.
We describe ourselves as legal recruitment consultants because not only do we provide traditional services of contingency based recruitment, we also provide expert advice & assistance to our clients on business planning, M&A and acquisition through expansion. Recruitment agencies tend not to have this level of expertise.
