Recruitment · Hourly & shift-based roles across the UK

Every applicant screened. Only the right ones reach you.

Hiring warehouse staff, hospitality teams or cleaners means hundreds of applications and hours on the phone. HeadsUp calls every applicant within hours and checks right to work, availability, shifts, travel and experience. A recruiter reviews every result, and you get a shortlist of people who can actually start.

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Screening call — Warehouse Operative, Leeds 00:00
Example screening calls. Simulated for illustration; names and numbers are fictional.
The problem

The best applicants take the first job that calls them back.

For hourly roles, speed decides who you hire. Most applicants wait days to hear anything, and by then they've started somewhere else.

"Can you do weekend nights?"
"Yes, Friday and Saturday nights are fine. Not Sundays."
Availability checked on the first call
"Do you have the right to work in the UK?"
"Yes, I've got a share code I can send over."
Right to work asked before anything else
"How would you get to the site for a 6am start?"
"I drive. It's about twenty minutes from me."
The no-shows filtered out early
How it works

From job ad to shortlist in days.

You tell us what you need. We do the advertising, the calling and the sifting.

Tell us the role

Pay, hours, location and what a good hire looks like. We write and post the job ads for you.

Every applicant gets a call

Our AI assistant phones each applicant within hours and asks your screening questions. It says it's an AI at the start, and candidates can ask for a person at any time.

A recruiter sends your shortlist

A person on our team reviews every call and interviews the strongest candidates. You get a short list with notes on each one, ready for you to meet.

Roles

Built for roles with lots of applicants and a need to start quickly.

The kind of hiring where screening is the bottleneck:

Warehouse & logistics

Are you happy with rotating shifts and lifting up to 20kg?

Hospitality & events

Have you worked behind a bar or on a busy floor before?

Cleaning & facilities

Can you do early mornings, five days a week?

Retail

When could you start, and how many hours are you after?

Customer service & call centres

Are you comfortable on the phone all day, including evenings?

Office admin & reception

Which systems have you used, and can you do full-time hours?

Hiring for something else? Tell us. If you get lots of applicants, we can probably help.

What you get

A shortlist, not a pile of CVs.

  • Every applicant contacted. No one slips through because nobody had time to ring them back.
  • Your questions, asked the same way every time. Every applicant is screened against the same criteria you set.
  • A person reviews every call. The AI asks the questions, our recruiters decide who goes forward, and you decide who gets the job.
  • Notes you can act on. Availability, start date, right to work and travel for each person, so your interviews go straight to the point.
Warehouse Operative — Leeds38 applicants screened
Amira H.Nights OK · drives · 2 yrs pickingSHORTLISTED
Daniel O.Days only · starts Mon · forkliftSHORTLISTED
Kerry W.Weekends only · no carREVIEW
Jordan P.Can't start for 8 weeksNOT NOW
How we work

Fair to candidates. Clear for employers.

Screening is only useful if people trust it. These rules apply to every call.

Upfront about the AI

Candidates are told at the start of the call that they're speaking with an AI assistant. They can ask for a person or opt out at any point.

People make the decisions

No one is rejected by a machine. A recruiter reviews every screening call, and the hiring decision is always yours.

We only call people who applied

We contact candidates who applied for a role or registered with us. We never charge candidates a fee for finding them work.

For employers

Working with our first employers now.

We're taking on a small number of founding employers, so each role gets close attention from our team.

Founding employers

Pay only when someone starts

No sign-up fees and no retainer. Tell us the role, and we'll agree simple terms with you before we post a single ad.

  • Job ads written and posted for you
  • Every applicant called within hours
  • Recruiter-reviewed shortlist with notes
  • Right-to-work checked before anyone reaches you
  • A direct line to the founders
Talk to us about a role
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We fill hourly and shift-based jobs with UK employers in warehousing, hospitality, cleaning, retail, customer service and admin. It's free for candidates, always.

  • Send us your CV, or just your name, phone number, town and the kind of work you want
  • We'll call you about roles that match. The first call may be with our AI assistant, and it will say so
  • Tell us any time if you'd rather not be called, and we'll stop
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