Fractional Recruiters Are Redefining Work-Life Balance
For years, recruitment has been sold as a hustle. 🏃♂️🔥Long hours, relentless targets, Friday beers, repeat. And for a while, that model worked.It built fast-moving agencies, ambitious teams, and plenty of success stories. But here’s the truth no one says out loud — it’s not sustainable for everyone.More and more brilliant recruiters are quietly saying:“I […]
What Is Fractional Recruitment (and Why It’s the Future)?
The way we work has changed. Hybrid schedules, portfolio careers, side hustles — professionals everywhere are looking for flexibility, freedom, and fairness. Recruitment is no different.And out of that shift has emerged a new model that’s quietly reshaping how businesses and recruiters work together:👉 Fractional Recruitment. You might have heard the term before — but […]
What Recruiters Really Earn — And What They Deserve
Recruitment is one of the most rewarding — and demanding — professions out there. 💼🔥You work long hours, juggle competing priorities, and deliver tangible results that change people’s lives and drive businesses forward. 🌍✨ But ask most recruiters in the UK what they actually take home for that effort… and the answer can be sobering. […]
Why Fair Fee Models Attract the Best Recruiters
In recruitment, talent attracts talent. ✨The best recruiters don’t just deliver results — they raise standards for everyone around them. So, when experienced recruiters start moving away from traditional agency life and towards fair-fee networks, it’s worth asking: why? 🤔 At Jiggle, we see it every day. Recruiters with years of experience are joining fair-fee […]
How Jiggle Helps Recruiters Earn More for Their Expertise
You’ve done the years. You’ve built your desk. You’ve got the client trust, the candidate network, and the instinct that only comes from experience. But here’s the truth — in most agencies, your income doesn’t reflect your expertise. You’re bringing in the business, closing the deals, and building the relationships, but after all the costs, […]
Commission vs Fee Sharing: What’s Best for Recruiters?
Every recruiter knows the phrase “you eat what you kill.”It’s the unofficial motto of traditional recruitment — you bring in the business, close the deal, and earn a commission on the fee. It sounds simple enough.But if you’ve ever worked in a recruitment agency, you know it’s rarely that straightforward. The question we’re hearing more […]
Fairer Fees: The Movement Changing Recruitment
The Trouble With Tradition For decades, recruitment agencies have run on a formula that looks successful from the outside — fast paced, money-driven, full of energy.And yes, it can drive great results. But beneath the buzz, those models often create toxic environments that wear down even the best recruiters. They’re built to drive all the […]
How Much More You Could Earn as an Independent Recruiter
Every recruiter knows the feeling, you’re smashing your targets, hitting record billings, but your payslip doesn’t quite tell the same story.You bring in the business, build the relationships, close the deals… yet when the commission lands, most of the reward has already gone elsewhere.Sound familiar? 😬 At Jiggle, we think that’s upside down.You’ve done the […]
The Truth About Agency Fee Splits, and How to Keep More of What You Earn
If you’ve worked in recruitment for a while, you already know how the numbers play out. 💭 You work hard, bill thousands each month, and yet somehow your payslip never quite reflects the effort you put in. Sound familiar? It’s the same story for countless recruiters across the UK — people who are exceptional at […]
Going Solo Without Going It Alone: Inside the Jiggle Network
Let’s be honest, the idea of running your own recruitment business sounds exciting… until reality hits. 😅 Suddenly you’re not just the recruiter, you’re the marketer, the accountant, the credit controller, the IT department, and the customer service line. You spend your morning sourcing candidates, your afternoon chasing invoices, and your evening trying to fix […]