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We work out which roles you’re actually struggling to fill and what’s putting the right people off. Sometimes the answer isn’t a video, and we’ll say so.
Recruitment Video Production
Recruitment Video Production
Show candidates what the job is actually like, so the right ones apply.
Employer brand films, employee stories and role-specific videos for firms that need to fill real jobs. Your own people on camera, in their own words, saying the things a job advert can never say. Fixed prices from £2,000 + VAT, and your films are back within two weeks of filming.
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What our clients say
★★★★★
Professional, straightforward, know their stuff … Very fair prices.
Simon Andrews
Fraunhofer
★★★★★
The final videos were very high quality, especially given that none of us had done a project like this before and are rarely on camera!
Andy Norrie
Quarch Technology
★★★★★
Nothing is too much hassle and they will go the extra mile every time.
Faith Bateman
West Partnership
★★★★★
They helped us craft a great story in a compelling way … an output that far exceeded our expectations.
Ross Marshall
Threesixty Architecture
★★★★★
The edit was one of the best I’d seen completed so quickly, and I had minimal amends to suggest.
Jade Griffiths
Amazon
★★★★★
Use them for all my agency clients and they are absolutely brilliant every time.
Calum Hart
From the Hart Digital
★★★★★
A brilliant, thoughtful, creative and super efficient team … quick to incorporate feedback.
Eugenie Teasley
Amazon
★★★★★
Really responsive, great infrastructure for providing feedback, excellent final product.
Rebecca Leary
Creative Scotland
★★★★★
We’re now onto our 4th project with Jack & Josh and hopefully many more to come.
Phil McTaggart
John Viola Academy
★★★★★
Their content approach has helped generate consistent new revenue, enquiries and visibility.
Andrew Patrick
Round Thirteen
★★★★★
Jack and Josh were amazing to work with.
Jim McCallum
B2B consultancy founder
A job advert can describe the role. It can’t show anyone the job.
You write the advert, you put it out, and then you wait. What comes back is either not enough people or the wrong ones, and the role sits open for another two months while everyone else covers the work.
Everything that actually makes someone take a job is the stuff a job spec can’t hold. Who they’d sit beside. Whether the place is calm or frantic. Whether anyone there seems to enjoy it. Every firm’s advert claims to be collaborative and people-first, so yours reads exactly like the one below it.
Most recruitment video doesn’t fix that, because it’s the same advert with a drone shot. Candidates spot a staged film instantly, and the better the candidate, the faster they spot it. Honest beats glossy here every time.
The films that do the hiring work
Most firms need two or three of these, not all six. Which ones depends on whether you’re building a reputation as an employer over time, or you have one specific job you cannot fill.
Employer brand film
The main film for your careers page. What your firm is actually like to work for, who you’re looking for, and who you’re honestly not.
Employee stories
One person, one job, their own words. The format we built fifteen films on for Fraunhofer, and still the most convincing thing you can put in front of a candidate.
Day in the life
The actual shape of a working day in a specific role. Especially useful when the job title means something different at every firm.
Role-specific films
A film for one vacancy, usually the one you’ve re-advertised twice. Aimed at the small number of people who could genuinely do it.
Social cutdowns
Short vertical edits from the same shoot, sized for LinkedIn and for the job ads themselves, so the films reach people who aren’t looking at your careers page yet.
Early careers and apprenticeships
For people choosing a path rather than a job, who often have no idea your kind of work exists.
One filming day usually produces several of these. A careers page rarely needs one big film. It needs a few different voices, because the person deciding whether to join your finance team and the person deciding whether to join your workshop are not persuaded by the same thing.
Recruitment films we’ve made, and the job they did
Every person in the films below is a real employee, not an actor, and nobody was given a script to learn.
Two are from a series of fifteen films we’ve made for the Fraunhofer Centre for Applied Photonics in Glasgow, a laser and photonics research centre and part of Fraunhofer, Europe’s largest application-oriented research organisation. The third is for Quarch Technology, who build automated test systems for data storage and networking from their site in Aviemore.
Fraunhofer’s fifteen films do two jobs at once: showing prospective recruits the people behind the centre, and putting the research itself in front of industry. The videos outperform every other kind of post on Fraunhofer’s LinkedIn, text and images included, and the series has kept growing since the first shoot.
Quarch has a different problem. Aviemore is a long way from anywhere, so a specialist engineering firm in the Cairngorms isn’t asking people to change job. It’s asking them to move their life. No job advert is going to carry that. Seeing the team, the workshop and the place does far more of the persuading.
Why it works
Why our recruitment films work
The hard part of a recruitment video isn’t the camera. It’s getting real people to say something true, on a working day, without it costing the business a fortnight.
- Your people don’t need to be good on camera Most of them will tell you they’re terrible at this. We plan on a short call, skip the script entirely, and ask questions instead. Nobody memorises anything, and most contributors need about an hour.
- We film around the working day Shoots get planned around real shifts and real workloads, not the other way round. We’re used to workplaces where the work cannot stop for a camera crew.
- Fixed prices, published From £2,000 + VAT, agreed before anything is booked. No day rates, and travel beyond the central belt sits in the quote as its own line, agreed up front.
- One day, several films A batch filming day typically produces three or four finished films plus cutdowns, which is usually what a careers page and a set of job ads need between them.
Results, not reports
One client, fifteen films, and a series that has kept growing because it works.
How we make recruitment video
Three steps, one filming day, and as little of your team’s time as we can manage.
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Plan, script & film
We plan it with you, then film in one day at your place, around your team’s real schedule. Most people need about an hour on camera, and we’re good with people who’d rather be anywhere else.
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Delivered in two weeks
Your finished films and cutdowns, back within two weeks of filming, ready for your careers page, your job ads and LinkedIn.
What a recruitment video costs
From £2,000 + VAT, fixedThat’s a price for a finished film, agreed before anything is booked, not a day rate that moves once you’re committed. Most recruitment work is a batch: one filming day, several films, one price agreed at the start. Travel beyond the central belt is its own line in the quote.
Hardly anyone in this industry publishes a number, which is its own kind of answer. Ours are on our pricing page. If you need films every month rather than a one-off hiring push, the Pro Video Plan starts from £1,200 + VAT a month.
Recruitment video production FAQs
What is a recruitment video?
A film made to help you hire: showing candidates what your firm is like to work for, what a particular role actually involves, and who already does it. It usually lives on your careers page, in your job adverts and on LinkedIn. The useful ones are built around real employees talking about their own jobs, rather than a company film with the word “careers” on the end.
What’s the difference between a recruitment video and an employer brand film?
Mostly timescale. An employer brand film is the long game: it builds a reputation as a place worth working, and it’s still doing that job in two years. A recruitment video is often tied to a specific vacancy or a specific hiring push. Most firms start with one employer brand film and a couple of employee stories, then add role-specific films when a particular job proves hard to fill.
How much does a recruitment video cost?
From £2,000 + VAT for a finished film, agreed before we book anything. Most recruitment projects are a batch of films from a single filming day, which brings the cost per film down. Travel beyond the central belt is quoted as its own line. See our pricing page for the full list.
Do our staff need to be good on camera, or learn a script?
No, and we’d rather they didn’t. Nobody learns a script. We have a short call beforehand so people know roughly what we’ll ask, then we ask questions and let them answer in their own words. People who describe themselves as terrible on camera are usually the most convincing in the finished film, because they’re clearly not performing.
How much of our team’s time does it take?
About an hour each for the people on camera, plus a short planning call with whoever’s running the hiring. We film in one day at your premises and work round shifts and meetings. We do this in working research centres and offices where the work cannot stop, so the disruption is genuinely small.
How do we know if it worked?
Look at whether the applications you get are better matched, not just whether there are more of them, since the point of an honest film is that some people rule themselves out. Watch how long people spend on your careers page once the film is on it, and ask at interview whether they saw it. We’d rather tell you to measure it properly than quote you an industry statistic, because the figures that circulate about recruitment video mostly can’t be traced back to anyone who actually measured anything.
The role you can’t fill is costing you more than the film will.
Tell us what you’re hiring for and we’ll tell you whether video helps, and what it would cost. If it won’t help, we’ll say so on the call.
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