About Rec Revolution
Recruitment experience, applied commercially.
We have spent decades inside recruitment: seeing what works, what wastes money, and why hiring problems survive for years when nobody has the time or specialist judgement to tackle them properly.
Our point of view
Recruitment deserves the same discipline as any other critical business process.
Rec Revolution exists because too many organisations accept poor hiring performance as normal. They pay agencies by default, lose candidates through slow decisions, and absorb avoidable churn without ever seeing the full cost.
We help leaders step back, understand what is really happening, and rebuild recruitment around clearer ownership, better judgement, and practical tools.
Our intelligence platform makes patterns easier to see. Our experience is what turns them into useful action.
40+
years of combined recruitment experience
Multi-sector
experience across operational and growing businesses
Commercial
recommendations grounded in cost, speed, and quality
The founders
40+ years of knowing where it breaks.
Co-founder
Chris Shaw
More than 20 years in recruitment across agency and in-house environments. Chris specialises in candidate attraction, advertising strategy, and practical tools that make hiring managers' lives easier.
Co-founder
Alex Foxell
More than 20 years working with SMEs and corporates on recruitment strategy, process design, and people performance. Alex brings the analytical structure that turns insight into lasting change.
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