VERMELO | HIRING RESOURCES
FREE HIRING TOOLS AND RESOURCES FOR HR, TALENT & PEOPLE LEADERS AND HIRING MANAGERS
Vermelo publishes free hiring tools and resources for HR, talent acquisition and people leaders: calculators that put a number on recruiter capacity and agency spend, checklists for choosing an RPO or MSP provider, playbooks on embedded recruitment and contractor management, and original research on hybrid working and the multi-generational workforce in UK insurance. Most of it is written from running recruitment programmes for insurers, insurtechs and financial services firms, and all of it applies to any business hiring at volume.
Interactive hiring tools
Quick, free calculators and checks. Answer a few questions and get a result on the page.
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Tool
Recruitment Capacity Check
Compare the hires you have planned with the recruiter capacity you actually have, and see whether the gap is capacity or process.
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Agency Fee Calculator
Add up what per-hire agency fees are costing you across a year of hiring, then compare it with a fixed-fee model.
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Hiring Score
Score your hiring process across six areas, from workforce planning to risk and governance, and see which one is creating the most drag.
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Talent Solutions Finder
Not sure whether you need embedded recruiters, RPO, MSP or a specialist agency? Two minutes of questions, one straight answer.
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MSP KPI Tracker
The metrics a contractor and contingent workforce programme should be measured on, and where to benchmark yours.
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Embedded Talent KPI Tracker
Time to shortlist, offer acceptance, pipeline health and the other numbers an embedded recruitment team should report every week.
Track your hiring KPIs
Playbooks and original research
Longer reads for when you need to make the case internally.
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Playbook
The Embedded Talent Playbook
How embedded recruitment works, when it beats agencies or permanent headcount, and how to run an engagement from week one.
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Playbook
The MSP Playbook
Managing a contractor workforce: supplier consolidation, rate control, IR35 status process and the reporting your board will ask for.
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Report
Hiring Agility Report 2026
Why hiring slows in a tighter, more scrutinised market, where skills competition concentrates, why offers fail, and a 90-day plan to fix it. Includes a ten-minute self-assessment.
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Guide
Scaling Hiring Without Agency Chaos
For regulated scale-ups: the three structural shifts that stop multi-agency hiring becoming a cost, compliance and delivery risk.
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Research
The UK Insurance Working Policies Report
What 116 UK insurers told us about hybrid, remote and office-based working, and what their policy did to applications, acceptances and retention.
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Research
How to Attract a Multi-Generational Workforce
Our survey of what each generation, from Gen Z to Boomers, wants from an employer, and what it means for how you advertise, interview and retain.
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Guides and checklists
Short, practical reads on the decisions that come up most.
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Checklist
Hiring Health Check Framework
A step-by-step checklist to find where your hiring process is losing candidates, time and money, from brief to offer, and what to fix first.
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Guide
Why You Need an IR35 Audit
What an IR35 audit covers, the signs a contractor engagement may be inside the rules, and what fragmented compliance has cost other businesses.
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Guide
Fast, Compliant Pre-Employment Checks
Why slow screening loses candidates, what FCA pre-employment and annual maintenance checks involve, and how to run them without the delays.
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Free report
Competitor Benchmarking Report
See how up to three competitors are hiring, by role, location, volume and seniority, benchmarked against your own strategy. Free on request.
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Checklist
How to Choose an MSP Provider
The questions to ask before you appoint a managed service provider for your contractor workforce, and the answers that should worry you.
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Checklist
How to Choose an RPO Provider
What to ask for, the compliance test and a simple scorecard for comparing recruitment process outsourcing providers, including us.
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Comparison
Eleven Ways to Resource Your Hiring, Compared
In-house, agencies, embedded, RPO, project RPO, MSP, total talent and the rest, scored on the same eight criteria so you can see which fits.
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Reference
UK Minimum Wage Rates and What They Mean for Hiring
The current National Living Wage and minimum wage rates, how they have moved, and what the annual rise does to entry-level hiring. Updated every April.
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Guide
Most Employer Brand Problems Aren't in the Messaging
The four pieces of employer brand work, the order to do them in, and why the advert and the candidate experience come before the campaign.
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