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How Rate A Recruiter Works - A Recruiters Quick Guide

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The Rate A Recruiter 6C's and how we score reviews

Ok - so you are getting some reviews scores on Rate A Recrutier. Here's the science behind how we calculate that score!

Want to know how we use candidate or client reviews to calculate the RAR score?
This blog will give you more information on how we work out scores and how these are used to give recruiters or agencies their RAR score.

Blog 6Cs & Scoring.pdf
How to deal with mass applications!

We've all been there - post a job on a board and within 2 hours over 1000 applications!
How on earth can you can give 'good candidate care' to that many?
CTR ALT DEL is not the answer if you want to keep your Rate A Recruiter Score!
Read below for some interesting ideas on what the best recruiters are doing are in the market right now! 👇🏻

How To Deal With Mass Applications Blog.pdf
You got a bad review? Now what?

Responding to negative reviews is a really important aspect of protecting your reputation.

This Blog helps you keep your dignity intact. Gives some positive data on what responding means to your reputation and how not start a keyboard duels!

How to Respond to Negative Reviews Blog.pdf
Top tips on asking for reviews

New to managing your reputation? Feeling shy? Don't know where to start?

This blog gives you the top ten tips on; When, how and who to ask, without sounding desperate and why it's important to build your reputation and brand positively!

Top Tips for Online Reviews.pdf
What really matters in online reviews

Beyond stars: substance, patterns and credibility.

These are the things to consider when managing your online reputation in the recruitment space!

What Really Matters in Online Reviews.pdf

ADDITIONAL RESOURCES

Tools
JSL share their latest legislation updates here 👇🏻

Are you upto date on the latest changes for liability for umbrella recruiters

From April 2026, the new Joint and Several Liability (JSL) legislation will significantly increase financial risk for recruitment agencies working with umbrella companies.
Read more here

Simplicity Partnership

Simplicity in Business

Running a recruitment business is hard enough without chasing invoices and running payroll. Simplicity provides funding, contractor payroll, and back-office support designed specifically for recruitment agencies. They help recruiters get paid faster, manage compliance and credit control, and remove the admin that slows growth.

In short, they handle the operational heavy lifting so you can focus on what matters most: winning clients, placing candidates, and growing your desk.

You can find out more about Simplicity Partnership by following this link here

Blog series

Client lens
How to choose a recruiter

What to look for beyond the pitch deck and shiny logo.

This guide gives you all the thinking in one place when choosing a recruiter or agency to work with.
Some handy templates that you can take away and use, courtesy of Rate A Recruiter!

Resource_Client_Choosing a Recruiter.pdf
How to brief your Recruitment Agency

Treat your Recruiter / Agency like a partnership and thrive!

The whole point, usually, of using a recruiter is to save you time. So invest properly up front to get the most out of the relationship with your recruiter.

This handy guide will walk you through all you need to help you brief them on that role and help you get the best person for the role!

Resource_Clients_Hiring Agency Toolkit.pdf
Understanding recruiter reviews

Making sense of the scores, reviews, and signals on Rate A Recruiter and how to use them to make a better hiring decision.

You've found a recruiter, or more likely, you've found several. Their profiles are live on Rate A Recruiter, there are scores and reviews visible, and now you need to work out what it all actually means.

Resource_Client_how-to-read-a-recruiter-profile.pdf

Additional resources

Experts & toolkits
Hiring manager toolkit

A structured, bias-aware framework for interviewing candidates and making better hiring decisions.

Most hiring decisions are made on gut feel. Research consistently shows that unstructured interviews predict job performance about as well as a coin toss and 85% of hiring managers still rely on instinct as their primary decision making tool!
This guide will challenge some conventions and help you make some unbiased hiring!

Resource_Client_Interview toolkit.pdf
Reward Heads

Reward Heads are a boutique Reward consultancy operating remotely serving clients across the UK and globally. Our clients are at the heart of everything we do  - our solutions are not pre-made, rather they are tailored to each organisation, its challenges, and opportunities to support the Reward journey to recruit, retain, motivate, engage and align the best people, developing frameworks to support fairness and equity. We look at all aspects of Total Reward - pay, bonus and incentives, benefits, recognition, governance and so on.

Read our blog on why Pay Transparency is so important in the recruitment process

Rewards Head Blog.pdf

Career Coach Bios

A list of our "tried and tested" Career Coaches. Friends of Rate A Recruiter who truly want to help candidates find their next role. Professional friendly advice, coaching and support. Check out who you think might be a fit for you!

Blog series

Candidate lens
Six important things to do when moving job!

When you are wrapping up your time in one organisation and

getting ready to transition to another, it’s easy to get swept up

in the practicalities and a long list of things to do.

Six important things to do when moving job - Ellie Rich-Poole.pdf

👇🏻 Learn more about Ellie Rich Poole here at her website

Burnout, Resilience and Wellbeing

Burnout is rising. “Resilience” is everywhere.
But no one’s telling you what it actually means for your next move.
Start here 👇🏻

Burnout, Resilience, and Wellbeing Blog.pdf

👇🏻 Learn more about Kelly Swingler at her Website!

Data and privacy basics

What recruiters can hold, what you can ask for, and how to do it.

Additional resources

Guides & support
Candidate toolkit

CV structure, interview prep, follow-up scripts, and boundary setting.

Report a concern

If something feels off, flag it. We'll point you to the right route.

Blog series

Industry lens
Why recruitment reviews matter

Transparency without shaming. Accountability without pile-ons.

The RAR 6Cs explained

A shared language for "good recruitment" that's practical and human.

Additional resources

Collaboration
Partnership pack

How to collaborate with RAR (events, resources, standards, community).

Brand assets & guidelines

Logos, palette, and "please don't stretch the R" notes.