Summary
Before You Hire was founded by Doug Caiger after 25 years in recruitment and workforce operations, including nearly a decade supporting complex workforce environments at Vodafone.
The business helps UK SMEs make better decisions before committing to a hire.
Many organisations are not short of work, but still feel under pressure. Teams are stretched, responsibilities have become blurred and the same dependable people are repeatedly stepping in to protect delivery. Hiring can feel like the obvious solution, even when the underlying problem is unclear ownership, an overloaded role, a capability gap or a structure the business has outgrown.
Before You Hire provides an independent second opinion before a role goes to market.
Through a fixed-fee review, we work with founders, managing directors and senior leaders to understand what is creating the pressure, where the work currently sits and whether a new hire will genuinely solve the problem.
The outcome may be to proceed with the hire, redesign the role, strengthen existing capability or address the issue another way.
Because we do not recruit and receive no placement fee, the advice is not influenced by whether the business hires. The focus is solely on helping leaders make a clearer, more confident decision before committing time and money to recruitment.
Before You Hire is designed for growing SMEs that want to reduce hiring risk, create clearer accountability and build a business that is less dependent on informal workarounds and individual rescue.