A Quarry Manager vacancy open six months, filled from a shortlist of two
Six months of searching produced nothing. The brief had not changed; the way it was being worked had to.
The brief
The operator had been searching for a Quarry Manager for nearly six months without success. The role had been to market and had produced no hire. In the client’s words, what was arriving was CVs sent "for the sake of it" — volume against a role where the competence gate is narrow and the pool of people who clear it is small.
How ARG worked it
The process below is ARG's standard approach to a specialist brief, documented on how to hire. It is what every brief gets, described as such rather than as a narrative about this one.
- 1A briefing call that establishes the competence the role actually gates on, the shift or travel pattern, and whether the budget and the brief can both be true.
- 2A direct search rather than an advert, worked against the sector network rather than a job board, with RecXchange widening the pool beyond ARG’s own book.
- 3A shortlist of three to five people with a written summary on each, screened before submission so the hiring manager interviews only the people worth interviewing.
- 4A 12-week staggered replacement guarantee on the placement: 100% in weeks one to four, 75% in weeks five to eight, 50% in weeks nine to twelve.
The outcome
ARG presented two candidates within a week of taking the brief. One was hired. The client attributes the difference to reach rather than effort: RecXchange opened a pool wider than the agencies previously on the role could get to. They now bring their briefs to ARG first.
“We'd been searching for a Quarry Manager for nearly six months with no luck. ARG took the time to really understand the role and didn't just send us CVs for the sake of it. Within a week, they presented two strong candidates, one of whom we hired. Their use of RecXchange to tap into a wider talent pool made the difference, we now only go to ARG.”
ARG's average for a Quarry Manager
15 daysaverage time from brief to offer across ARG's quarry manager placements (interim cover available in days).
This is ARG's published average for the role. It is not a measurement of the engagement above, which the client describes in their own terms and for which no timing is published.
Where this comes from
The brief and the outcome above are the client's own account, taken from their review on ARG's reviews page and quoted in full. Nothing about the client, the fee or the timeline is stated beyond what they published. The process section is ARG's standard method, not a reconstruction of this search.
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