Find Out What's Really Breaking Your Hiring

A focused diagnostic session to identify exactly why great candidates aren’t making it through your process – and what to fix first.

Which of These is Killing Your Hiring Right Now?

Here’s the worst part: every week you don’t fix this, you’re either losing great candidates to faster-moving competitors, or you’re about to make a hire that won’t stick.

Most founders assume these problems are normal. They’re not. They’re symptoms of a broken hiring process – and they’re fixable.

The Hiring Health Check

Think of it as an MOT for your hiring process.

In 60 minutes, we’ll:

60-Minute Diagnostic

Deep-dive Zoom session where we examine your current hiring process, identify the exact breakdown points, and map out what’s fixable immediately versus what needs longer-term work.

You’ll leave the call knowing exactly what’s wrong.

Personalised Action Plan

Within 5 working days, you’ll receive a written document with 3-5 specific, prioritised recommendations – not generic best practices, but actions tailored to your company, your roles, and your constraints.

Most clients implement the first fix within 48 hours.

2 Weeks Email Support

Implementation questions always come up.

For two weeks after your session, you have direct email access for follow-up questions, quick reviews of job descriptions, or gut-checks on candidates.

Is a Hiring Health Check Right for You?

This is for you if...

You're a bootstrapped founder making your first few commercial hires
Your hiring process has evolved organically and needs a proper review
You're experiencing high candidate drop-off or low offer acceptance
You're preparing for a hiring push and want to get the foundations right
You want expert input before committing to a larger engagement
You've worked with recruiters before and weren't impressed - and want to understand whether the problem was them or your process

This isn't for you if...

Here's What Happens

Step 4

You implement.

I'm available by email for 2 weeks for follow-up questions

Step 5 (optional)

If you want hands-on support beyond the Health Check, we discuss which service makes sense for your stage - no pressure.

Investment

£300 + VAT

Significantly less than the cost of one bad hire.

More useful than a year of guessing.

I take a limited number of Health Checks each week to ensure quality.

If you’re planning to hire in the next 90 days, book sooner rather than later.

27 Years of Getting This Right

I started HFBAC because I kept watching brilliant founders make the same hiring mistakes – not because they were careless, but because nobody had given them an honest framework for getting it right.

After 27 years in recruitment – including work with Virgin StartUp and the British Library BIPC, and a previous career as the BBC’s first female football commentator – I’ve seen every version of a broken hiring process. And I know what the fix looks like.

The Hiring Health Check is the fastest way I know to give a founder clarity without asking them to commit to a long engagement first. Come with your biggest hiring problem. Leave with a plan.

— Helen Wingrove-Sanders, Founder – HFBAC

What Founders Say

“Helen understood immediately that we weren’t just looking for someone with the right skills on paper. She found us someone who genuinely understood our world and hit the ground running. The Chemistry First approach made all the difference.”

Common Questions

What actually happens in the 60 minutes?

We work through your hiring process systematically – the role brief, the sourcing approach, the screening process, the interview structure, and the offer stage. I’ll ask specific questions, push back where I see gaps, and give you my honest assessment of where the biggest problems are. It’s a working session, not a sales call.

What do I need to prepare?

After booking, you’ll receive a short pre-call questionnaire. It takes about 5 minutes and helps me prepare so we don’t waste your 60 minutes on basics. Optionally, send any relevant job descriptions, your careers page, or details of a specific hire that hasn’t gone to plan.

Is this just for companies who are already hiring?

No – it’s also useful for founders who are about to open a search and want to get the foundations right before they start. Prevention is significantly cheaper than fixing a bad hire.

What happens after the Health Check?

You’ll have an action plan you can implement yourself. If you decide you want hands-on support, we can discuss Project-Based Hiring, a Starter Retainer, or Fractional Talent Partner depending on what you need – but there’s no pressure. Many founders get exactly what they need from the Health Check alone.

Is this confidential?

Completely. What you share in the session stays between us. I use anonymised patterns from Health Checks to inform my content – never specifics from individual sessions.

What's your cancellation policy?

You can reschedule up to 24 hours before your session. Cancellations with less than 24 hours notice are non-refundable, but I will always try to find another time that works.

We're based in the US - can we still book?

Yes. The session is on Zoom and I work with bootstrapped founder-led businesses in the UK and US. We’ll find a time that works across time zones.

New: Hire Ready - Launching 15 April

Before your Hiring Health Check – or alongside it – Hire Ready gives you the complete framework for knowing whether you’re ready to hire and exactly how to define the role. Book 1 of The Bootstrapped Founder’s Hiring Trilogy. £16.99.

Ready to Fix Your Hiring?

Book your Hiring Health Check and get clarity on what’s not working – and exactly how to fix it. No corporate framework. No generic advice. 27 years of doing this with bootstrapped founders, applied to your business.