Case studies · Ireland
Roles we have filled in Ireland
Eight placements across Dublin, Galway and Cork, with the real pipeline behind each one — how many candidates were worked, how many reached the client, and how long it took. 322 candidates worked, 51 presented, 9 people hired. The fastest closed in 20 days.
Membership Executive
A national compliance scheme for end-of-life tyres, working with producers, importers, retailers and waste collectors · Environmental compliance
- Time to fill
- 20 days
- Package
- €34,000–€38,000
- Location
- Dublin
The role sits between member service and data: managing member accounts, guiding registrations, and quality-checking the reporting submissions the scheme depends on. It needed someone comfortable in a CRM and genuinely careful with numbers — a combination that is easy to claim and harder to evidence.
Forty candidates were worked and sixteen interviewed internally before six went forward. The client interviewed five and hired one. Twenty days from brief to filled, the fastest search on this page.
Pipeline — candidates reaching each stage
- Sourced & screened 40
- Internal interview 16
- Presented to client 6
- Client interview 5
- Hired 1
40 candidates worked, six reached the client. Five interviews, one hire.
Twenty days, five client interviews, one hire. That is what a screened shortlist is for.
20 days from brief to filled.
Electrical Supervisor — Utilities
A public lighting contractor of more than forty years, delivering street, sports and monument lighting nationwide · Utilities & infrastructure
- Time to fill
- 22 days
- Package
- €55,000–€65,000
- Location
- Dublin, hybrid between site and office
Supervising electrical crews and specialist subcontractors on large infrastructural contracts is a supervisory job before it is a technical one — programme, budget, safety culture and subcontractor management, on street furniture and cabling works across the country.
That narrows the field to people who have carried real contract responsibility, so the search stayed deliberately tight: ten candidates worked, three presented, two interviewed and one hired inside three weeks.
Pipeline — candidates reaching each stage
- Sourced & screened 10
- Internal interview 6
- Presented to client 3
- Client interview 2
- Hired 1
Ten candidates worked, three presented. A small, precise search.
Ten candidates worked in total. A narrow brief does not need a wide net — it needs the right one.
22 days from brief to filled.
Production & Dispatch Coordinator
The same family-owned Co. Galway food manufacturer, hiring a third time · Food manufacturing
- Time to fill
- 27 days
- Package
- €16.50–€18.00 per hour
- Location
- Co. Galway, evening shift
A hands-on evening line lead for the dispatch department: operationally involved on the floor while taking ownership of an area and keeping the evening shift running. The same constraint as every evening role — the candidate has to want the shift, not tolerate it.
Twenty-two candidates were worked and four presented. The client interviewed three and hired one, in 27 days. It is the third role this manufacturer has trusted us with.
Pipeline — candidates reaching each stage
- Sourced & screened 22
- Internal interview 6
- Presented to client 4
- Client interview 3
- Hired 1
22 candidates worked, four presented. Three interviews, one hire.
A third brief from the same manufacturer. Repeat instructions are the only review that counts.
27 days from brief to filled.
Lead Maintenance Engineer
A family-owned Irish food manufacturer with almost a century of trading history, across three generations · Food manufacturing
- Time to fill
- 46 days
- Package
- Competitive salary plus benefits
- Location
- Co. Galway
This was explicitly not an office-based management role. The brief was for a hands-on lead who would spend the day on the factory floor — breakdown response, electrical and mechanical fault-finding, preventative maintenance and root cause analysis — reporting to the Managing Director and setting the maintenance culture on site.
Engineers who want that responsibility without the desk are a real but limited group, and the site is rural. Twenty-nine candidates were worked and eight presented before the client interviewed five and hired one.
Pipeline — candidates reaching each stage
- Sourced & screened 29
- Internal interview 15
- Presented to client 8
- Client interview 5
- Hired 1
29 candidates worked, eight reached the client.
A rural site and a hands-on senior brief. Twenty-nine worked to produce eight worth presenting.
46 days from brief to filled.
AV Installation Engineer
An audio-visual integrator delivering meeting rooms, collaboration spaces and larger event environments · Audio-visual & technology
- Time to fill
- 60 days
- Package
- €40,000–€45,000, structured progression toward €60,000
- Location
- Dublin, client sites nationwide
The brief wanted three to four years of commercial AV installation across a wide technical surface — Teams and Zoom rooms, displays, projection and edge blending, audio infrastructure and digital signage — plus the client-facing confidence to survey a site and be trusted in front of the customer.
Breadth is what made it slow. Plenty of engineers hold part of that stack; fewer hold enough of it and are willing to travel. Thirty-one candidates were worked, six presented and four interviewed before an offer was signed.
Pipeline — candidates reaching each stage
- Sourced & screened 31
- Internal interview 8
- Presented to client 6
- Client interview 4
- Hired 1
31 candidates worked, six presented, four interviewed.
Sixty days on a broad technical brief. The fee was agreed before we started and did not move.
60 days from brief to filled.
Senior Environmental Scientist
An employee-owned environmental and engineering consultancy with offices across the UK, Ireland and internationally · Environmental consultancy
- Time to fill
- 69 days
- Package
- €40,000–€55,000 DOE
- Location
- Dublin, hybrid
The brief asked for four to five years of consultancy experience in environmental management — a technical appointment inside an employee-owned practice that puts real weight on professional development. Consultancy experience is the narrow part: plenty of environmental scientists work client-side, far fewer have carried billable technical work.
Twenty candidates were worked and five presented. The client interviewed four and hired one.
Pipeline — candidates reaching each stage
- Sourced & screened 20
- Internal interview 6
- Presented to client 5
- Client interview 4
- Hired 1
20 candidates worked, five reached the client.
Twenty candidates worked to find five worth a consultancy's time.
69 days from brief to filled.
Graduate / Junior Quantity Surveyor
A specialist in radon testing and remediation with over thirty years in the industry · Construction & remediation
- Time to fill
- 89 days
- Package
- €38,000–€45,000
- Location
- Co. Cork
A junior quantity surveying role in a rural part of Co. Cork, for a specialist whose work most QS graduates have never encountered. The technical bar was reachable; the constraint was location and the willingness to build a career in a niche rather than on a large commercial site.
Fifty-one candidates were worked to produce seven worth presenting. The client interviewed three and hired one. Eighty-nine days — and on a fixed fee, a search of that length costs the client exactly what a three-week one does.
Pipeline — candidates reaching each stage
- Sourced & screened 51
- Internal interview 17
- Presented to client 7
- Client interview 3
- Hired 1
51 candidates worked, seven presented, three interviewed by the client.
Eighty-nine days and fifty-one candidates worked. The length of the search is our risk, not yours.
89 days from brief to filled.
Food Production Line Leader
The same family-owned Co. Galway food manufacturer, hiring again · Food manufacturing
- Time to fill
- 137 days
- Package
- €16.00–€18.50 per hour
- Location
- Co. Galway, evening shift
An evening-shift line leader is one of the hardest briefs in food manufacturing. The skills are learnable; the constraint is the shift. Every candidate has to want evenings, be able to reach a rural site for them, and be ready to lead a small team rather than simply work the line.
It took 119 candidates worked and 47 internal interviews to produce twelve worth presenting. The client interviewed seven and hired two of them. This is the search that most clearly makes the argument for the model: on a percentage fee, 137 days of work would have been billed against the salary; on a fixed fee, the client paid what was agreed at the start.
Pipeline — candidates reaching each stage
- Sourced & screened 119
- Internal interview 47
- Presented to client 12
- Client interview 7
- Hired 2
119 candidates worked. Twelve presented, seven interviewed — and two hired.
119 candidates worked, two hired, and a returning client. The hardest search on this page cost the same as the easiest.
137 days from brief to filled, twice over.
How the fee works
Every role on this page was delivered on the same basis: a fixed fee in euro, agreed before we start, with no percentage of salary attached. The twenty-day search and the 137-day search cost the client the same.
That is the point of the model. A percentage fee charges you more for hiring a better-paid person and rewards us for the easy search. A fixed fee puts the risk of a long search where it belongs — with us. And if we do not fill the role, you get every cent of your fee back.
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Every figure here comes from our own placement records. Clients and placed candidates are not named. Full detail on the model is on our Guaranteed Hire page, or call us on (01) 575 5347.