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Hiring requests are specific in the way a recruiter needs them to be. The employer says whether the roles are permanent, temporary or contract, executive or senior leadership, or a volume of hires at once — and how many people that means, from a single role to more than twenty.
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Page reviewed 11 September 2026
What a recruitment lead shows you
Every recruitment request answers these questions before it reaches you. Follow-up questions appear only when an earlier answer calls for them.
Level is asked separately: entry, experienced, manager or executive. A single executive search and twenty entry-level hires are different businesses with different fee structures, and the preview tells them apart before you spend anything. Company headcount comes with it, so you can see who you would be working for.
How many people work there?
Optional- Just me
- 2–9
- 10–49
- 50–249
- 250 or more
What kind of hiring?
- Permanent roles
- Temporary or contract workers
- Executive or senior leadership
- Many hires at once
How many people do you need?
Optional- 1
- 2–5
- 6–20
- More than 20
What level are the roles?
Optional- Entry level
- Experienced
- Manager
- Executive
Every request also includes
- When the work is needed
- Emergency / as soon as possible
- Within a few days
- Within a few weeks
- Flexible / still planning
- Budget
- Not asked for this trade. You quote from the details above.
- Project summary
- A short description of the job in the client’s own words.
- General location
- The city or postal area. The exact address is shared only after you connect.
- Photos
- Up to 6 optional photos. Before you connect, you see how many were added.
Services you can choose
When you set up your profile, pick the ones you do and mark the rest as not for you.
The guide clients get on this site
We publish a recruitment guide for clients. It is written for them, not for us, and its headings are a fair list of what someone who has read it will ask you about.
What the guide covers
- Contingency, retained and embedded permanent recruitment
- The Conduct Regulations 2003 and the Fair Work Agency
- Candidates are never charged to find work
- Fee models, rebate periods and what to negotiate
- How a permanent assignment should actually run
- Recruiter, staffing agency or executive search firm
- Who carries the right to work duty in a recruitment chain
Questions it answers
- Can a recruitment agency charge me, as a candidate, to find me a job?
- What is the difference between an employment agency and an employment business?
- Who regulates recruitment agencies in the UK now?
- What should a rebate clause say?
- Is contingency or retained recruitment better?
- Do I still have to do a right to work check on an agency-introduced hire?
Guide last checked 22 September 2026.
What recruitment leads cost
LokalMatch sets lead prices by service and location. You see the price of each lead before you decide, and you pay only when you choose to connect.
See how leads workCurrent lead price
Pricing is set per request.
- We haven’t published a standard price for recruitment leads yet. You see the price of each lead before you decide, and you pay only when you choose to connect.
Who carries the right to work duty in a recruitment chain
From our guide for this trade, with the official sources it was checked against.
The duty follows the employment relationship rather than the introduction. On a permanent placement you are the employer, and GOV.UK puts the obligation on you: check that a job applicant is allowed to work for you in the UK before you employ them.
Where the same firm is instead supplying its own temporary workers, the position shifts with the status, because those workers are employed by the agency and not by you. That is one more reason to know which of the two services you are buying for a given role, and to have it stated in the terms rather than assumed from the invoice.
A recruiter will usually have seen documents along the way and may offer to keep copies. Take them if offered, then carry out and evidence your own check before the first day of employment anyway. GOV.UK says an employer will not have to pay the civil penalty if it can show it made the correct checks, and that evidence has to be yours to produce.
Sources: GOV.UK — Overview of the Conduct Regulations 2003 · GOV.UK — Information and guidance for employment businesses and agencies · GOV.UK — Agency workers: fees · GOV.UK — Check a job applicant's right to work · GOV.UK — Penalties for employing illegal workers
How matching works
Requests are matched by published rules that are the same for every pro.
How we rank and match pros- You receive a request only for services you offer and haven’t excluded, in the areas you serve.
- Your account must be active, with your email address and phone number verified, and you must be accepting new requests within the daily or weekly limits you set.
- Requests reach you only with timings you accept, such as emergencies, and budgets that aren’t clearly outside the range you work in.
- When more pros fit than a lead allows, we give more weight to an exact service match, how directly you cover the area, verification, how quickly you reply and, once you have at least three published reviews, your rating. Never to who pays more.
- Each lead goes to a limited number of pros, and you see that number before you decide.
Invalid leads and refunds
If a lead turns out to be invalid, you can ask for a refund review from your dashboard. We look at each request and let you know the outcome. A lead may qualify when:
- The contact details are wrong or don't work.
- It duplicates a lead you already received.
- It isn't a real request for work.
- It's outside the services or areas you listed.
Verification you’ll need
Before you receive leads, you confirm your business email and phone number with one-time codes. Business registration, licence and insurance details are optional during sign-up; once our team checks them, your profile shows what was verified and when.
Contact details verified
You confirm your business email and phone number with one-time codes. This is required before you receive leads.
Business registration checked
Our team reviews the registration details you provide.
Licence and insurance checked
Where your trade calls for a licence or insurance, we review what you provide.
Verification shows which details were checked and when. It isn’t a guarantee of workmanship, and it can’t be bought.
Read how verification worksGetting set up for recruitment work
- Set the hiring types you take. Contingency permanent placement, temporary staffing and retained executive search are rarely the same desk.
- Say which sectors and functions you recruit in. Employers judge a recruiter on whether they know the roles before anything else.
- Licensing applies to recruiters and temporary help agencies in some places. Add your licence details during sign-up so our team can check them.
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