Flexible Recruitment Support During Active Hiring
Structured screening and flexible recruitment support when your team is already stretched.
Hiring should not slow down delivery. When hiring sits alongside everything else, interviews are often delayed or rushed.
For many SMEs, vacancies sit alongside delivery, deadlines, and day-to-day operations. Early-stage interviews frequently fall to already busy managers or HR generalists balancing multiple responsibilities.
In the current hiring market, where applicant volumes are high and AI-assisted CVs are common, reviewing applications and conducting consistent early-stage conversations can be difficult to manage alongside core operational work.
Lunar CV provides flexible recruitment support for busy, active hiring periods. This may involve conducting structured first-stage interviews on your behalf, or providing broader recruitment support across multiple vacancies when internal capacity is limited.
Flexible Recruitment Support
For organisations managing multiple vacancies with short-term hiring pressure, we provide structured recruitment support on a flexible basis.
Support may include:
- Vacancy advertising and management
- Application screening and shortlisting
- First-stage candidate interviews
- Hiring manager liaison
- Interview scheduling and coordination
- Structured summary notes and candidate scoring
- Short-term end-to-end recruitment support during busy hiring periods
- Competency-based interviews
Support is tailored to your current recruitment needs and can be provided for a defined period.
Structured First-Stage Interview Support
For urgent or time-sensitive hires, or when applicant volume is high, Lunar CV conducts structured first-stage interviews with your selected applicants on your behalf.
Following each interview, you will receive:
- Structured interview conversations aligned with your role requirements
- Assessment of communication, clarity, and role alignment
- In-depth summary notes for each candidate
- A simple, consistent scoring framework
- A professional recommendation on candidates for progression
Once interviews are complete, you will receive a ranked shortlist based on agreed role criteria, allowing your hiring manager to focus their time on a smaller number of candidates who have already been through an initial professional assessment.
We reduce the early-stage interview load and provide an informed view on which candidates are most likely to perform well in the
Interview Support Packages
Focused
Best when you need help getting through the first batch of applicants.
Up to 8 first-stage interviews.
Shortlist recommendation included.
£295
Standard
Best when applicant volume is high and time is limited.
Up to 20 first-stage interviews.
Shortlist recommendation included.
£445
Extended
Best when you would prefer all first-stage interviews for a role to be conducted on your behalf.
Up to 30 first-stage interviews.
Shortlist recommendation included.
£645
Who We Work With
We typically support:
- Professional services firms
- Accountancy practices
- Legal support teams
- IT services companies
- Small SaaS teams
- Growing SMEs without internal Talent Acquisition teams
Organisations with internal Talent Acquisition teams during extremely busy hiring periods
When We Can Help
Interview support is particularly useful when:
- Hiring managers have limited time for first-stage interviews
- HR teams are managing multiple priorities and have limited time for first stage interviews
- A new role has attracted a high volume of applicants
- You want greater consistency in early-stage candidate conversations
- You would prefer to meet a smaller, pre-assessed shortlist
Need Support Beyond Interviews?
In addition to first-stage screening, Lunar CV can provide flexible, on-demand support across areas such as:
- application screening
- candidate coordination
- short-term hiring support during growth periods
Support can be provided for a defined period or on an ad-hoc basis, depending on your needs.
If you have an open role and would like to reduce the time spent screening candidates during the early stages of hiring, we can discuss whether outsourced candidate screening would be helpful within your current process.
Why Lunar CV
Recruiter-Led Assessment
With over a decade of recruitment and professional interviewing experience across agency, in-house, and RPO environments in the UK and Europe, Lunar CV understands how to assess communication, role alignment, and practical readiness beyond what is written on a CV.
Consistent First-Stage Interviews
Each candidate is interviewed using the same agreed approach, helping to reduce inconsistency in early-stage conversations and ensuring applicants are assessed fairly against role-specific criteria.
Shortlist Recommendations
Following interviews, you will receive a clear recommendation on which candidates to progress, allowing hiring managers to focus time on those most likely to succeed in the role.