ecruit has enabled us to reduce advertising costs while massively improving candidate quality
Head of Recruitment, Capricorn Financial Consultancy
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Capricorn Financial Consultancy is a specialist financial services firm operating across multiple international markets, including London, Singapore, and Hong Kong.
The business recruits across a wide range of financial and commercial roles, including Mortgage Advisers, Protection Advisers, Commercial Brokers, and Office Management positions. With ongoing growth and frequent hiring needs, Capricorn requires a recruitment solution that can support high-volume hiring, international reach, and strong data visibility.
Before working with ecruit, Capricorn Financial Consultancy faced several ongoing recruitment challenges:
Extremely high application volumes, but very low candidate quality
Poor engagement from applicants, including no-shows at first-stage interviews
Low application levels for international roles, despite advertising across multiple job boards
Difficulty tracking performance and applications across several platforms
One particularly challenging role was Protection Adviser, which the business had been recruiting for continuously since 2023.
Despite using multiple job boards, results were inconsistent, engagement was low, and the overall process was inefficient and costly.
ecruit approached Capricorn at a key moment when the business was actively looking to improve advertising quality and reduce recruitment costs.
Rather than continuing to spread advertising across disconnected platforms, Capricorn wanted:
Better job board variety
Improved candidate quality
A single system to manage and track applications
Reduced reliance on agencies that could not deliver the required volume
An added benefit was using ecruit as a “mini ATS”, giving the recruitment team clear visibility of application data in one place.
Since adopting ecruit, Capricorn Financial Consultancy has successfully filled approximately 15 roles across multiple locations and functions.
For a recent campaign, results included:
112 relevant applications
33 candidates interviewed
1 successful hire
Compared to their previous approach, ecruit delivered:
Massively improved candidate quality
Reduced spend on recruitment agencies and multi-platform advertising
Greater ability to be selective during shortlisting and interviews
Centralised data and reporting across all campaigns
While time-to-hire remained consistent (measured from first interview to offer), the quality of candidates entering the process improved significantly, reducing wasted interview time and improving overall hiring confidence.
Emma Kingsmill, Head of Recruitment at Capricorn Financial Consultancy, highlighted three key strengths of ecruit:
The quality of applications
Excellent customer service
Having everything in one place
“Ecruit has enabled us to reduce our expensive advertising cost, have a better variety of job boards, which means better quality applications, all in one place which makes data gathering a lot easier.”
Capricorn Financial Consultancy would strongly recommend ecruit to other financial services firms, particularly those hiring at scale or across multiple locations.
The combination of cost-effectiveness, improved candidate quality, strong service, and centralised data has made ecruit a core part of their recruitment strategy.
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