Strategy & Discovery
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Detailed requirement assessment for individual key hires or larger projects. Go to market strategies defined utilising market, salary, and competitor insights. Partnership parameters explored with one off fee, subscriptions, or fractional TA options available. Vacancy intakes are recorded, transcribed, and held in our AI platform. We never miss or forget anything.
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Introduction & Shortlist Delivery
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Receive candidate profiles with detailed screening summaries by email or enjoy accessing all candidates in a project via your personalised link. Our candidate management system allows for full shortlist management and interaction with detailed profiles and links to LinkedIn profiles all in one place. We produce candidate profiles and summaries using transcribed screening calls and AI meaning more accuracy, more detail, and no over selling.
Attraction & Sourcing
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Carefully crafted and impactful recruitment advertising on major platforms in tandem with direct candidate sourcing and headhunting on leading candidate data bases such as as LinkedIn, Indeed, CV Library, Total Jobs, REED, and our own extensive network. Our candidate outreach can include personalised video outreach, email campaigns, LinkedIn sourcing, social media posting, and referrals. We also partner with a network of small recruitment businesses for the extra reach when needed.
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Interviewing and Assessments
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We arrange all interviews and manage all feedback processes with both hiring managers and candidates. Your interviews are strengthened by the accuracy of our candidate screening. For final interview stages we can apply ECR emotional intelligence assessments and identify key areas to explore supported by interview questions. Allow us to use our knowledge and experience throughout all interview stages to improve hiring outcomes and improve accepted offer rates.
Qualify, Screen & Shortlist
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In-depth candidate screening and vacancy briefings with the option to utilise our call recording and transcription tech. We interrogated our recorded screening calls using powerful AI. Imagine your killer questions answered, in the candidates own words, with 100% accuracy, every time, on every profile submitted to you. A powerful way of helping you to assess CV's, and reduce wasted interviews.
Offer Process & Aftercare
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Offer management starts at the beginning of the candidate journey to ensure successful end of process outcomes. All candidates are introduced based upon there own words and comments with 100% accuracy reducing end of process issues. We then conduct regular candidate communications through notice periods and onboarding. This is more important now than ever with the impact of the Employment Rights Act 2025
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Cut Through The Noise with Tech & AI Enhanced Recruitment
Our service is powered by an AI-driven CRM that captures, transcribes, and analyses every candidate conversation.
This ensures 100% accuracy in how we assess and represent talent, no guesswork, no assumptions, no risk of overselling or missing key details.
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We create tailored, structured screenings aligned to your exact requirements. Whether you need proof of experience, specific qualifications, or competency-based responses, we gather it directly from candidates, clearly, consistently, and in their own words.
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The result? You only interview the people who genuinely meet your criteria, saving you time and dramatically improving hiring outcomes.
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Better for hiring managers, better for candidates, better for everyone.
The Power of Video
We combine expert recruitment with cutting-edge technology to bring you the best talent—faster and more effectively. That’s why we’ve partnered with Hinterview, the leading video interview platform designed specifically for recruitment processes.​
See Beyond the CV
Traditional CVs only tell part of the story. With video interviews, you get a genuine sense of a candidate’s personality, communication style, and cultural fit—before they even walk through the door. Imagine having carefully selected killer questions answered on video in snippets you can watch in under 20 minutes. Think of the time this would save you and candidates in waisted interviews.
Save Time and Speed Up Hiring
Screen candidates more efficiently with tailored, recorded interviews. Hinterview allows you to review interviews at your convenience, share them with stakeholders instantly, and accelerate the shortlisting process. A great way to remove interview stages from your process.
Collaborate with Ease
Hinterview makes it easy to review candidate shortlists, make informed decisions, provide feedback, and schedule interviews.
Engage Top Talent Quickly
Top candidates don’t stay on the market for long. Video interviewing allows us to capture interest fast, present your opportunity compellingly, and keep the hiring process moving—so you don’t miss out on the best people.
Stand Out to Candidates
Using innovative tools like Hinterview positions your company as forward-thinking and candidate-focused—an attractive quality for both top talent and your employer brand.
Hiring Managers
99%
of hiring managers who viewed video profiles said it helped them to better understand the candidates.
73%
of hiring said that video profiles helped them eliminate at least one step from the hiring process.
70%
of hiring managers prefer to work with video profiles as it offers a more engaging and effective hiring experience.
Candidates
80%
reported video job ads to be more compelling.
67%
said they would prefer to apply with video.
Improving Diversity & Inclusion
Our transcription and video tools can play a valuable role in improving diversity and inclusion in the recruitment process. By shifting focus from CVs to real human interactions, it helps reduce unconscious bias often present during traditional document reviews, enabling hiring managers to evaluate an individual's own words, not just paper credentials.
Our video interview tools can also be adapted for audio-only interviews, supporting candidates who may be camera-shy or have accessibility needs.
For individuals with neurodivergent conditions, our process offers consistency and flexibility, with the option to provide structured questions in advance, ensuring everyone has the opportunity to perform at their best in a format that suits them.
Integrating Emotional Intelligence into Recruitment with ECR
At PMB, we go beyond traditional recruitment by integrating science-backed Emotional Intelligence (EQ) assessments into our selection process. As part of our premium recruitment service, we offer the Emotional Capital Report (ECR) — the world’s most advanced tool for measuring and developing Emotional Intelligence in professionals.​
What is ECR?
The Emotional Capital Report (ECR) is a psychometric assessment that evaluates leadership and interpersonal behaviours across 10 emotional and social competencies that are scientifically linked to effective performance. Whether you're hiring for operational, technical, or leadership roles, the ECR provides deep insight into a candidate’s emotional strengths and potential development areas — all in under 10 minutes.
We offer both ECR Self and ECR Selection assessments during recruitment, helping you make confident, informed hiring decisions based on behavioural science.
Backed by Science & Proven in Business
The ECR is built on over 15 years of research and has been validated across 180,000+ professional profiles globally. It is used by Fortune 500 companies for recruitment, leadership development, and performance optimisation — now available through our agency as part of your recruitment package.
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Key scientific advantages include:
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A globally normed database of professionals.
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High statistical reliability and validity.
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Benchmarks across gender, age, and profession.
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Behavioural interview guidance based on EQ scoring.
Why Use ECR in Recruitment?
The modern industrial and manufacturing workplace demands more than just technical skills. Emotional intelligence, traits like adaptability, self-control, teamwork, and optimism, are essential for safety, productivity, and long-term employee success.
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The ECR empowers you to:
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Make fact-based hiring decisions using validated, measurable data.
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Evaluate leadership potential with precision.
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Understand behavioural fit within teams and your organisational culture.
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Identify development opportunities even before day one.
Full-Service ECR Support: Reports, Coaching & Training
We don’t just deliver the assessment. Through our trusted ECR partner network, we offer access to expert report writing, ECR-based coaching, and EQ training programmes as optional add-ons. Whether you’re looking to support a new hire, develop an existing leader, or elevate your team’s performance — we’ve got the resources to help you do it right.
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Let us help you recruit with insight.
Contact us to learn how ECR can strengthen your hiring process and future-proof your workforce.