The Founder's Story

Amanda Maine-Tucker founded Maine-Tucker Recruitment in 1987 to demonstrate that it was possible for a recruitment company to place people in jobs and only to benefit financially if both the Client and the Candidate were a good fit long-term. A “partnership” culture and not a “sales” culture was born.

So Amanda designed the very first three month 100% quality refund guarantee which still stands today. No scales here! In simple terms if a Client was not happy with a Candidate or indeed a Candidate left a Client then the recruitment fee would be returned to the Client with no quibbles or a replacement immediately found. Most Clients opted for a replacement because they felt so comfortable with the fact that they could always opt to have their money back. Needless to say the business grew.

Consultants who work at Maine-Tucker then and today have to be committed to providing top quality Candidates; there is no other choice because if a placement is wrong then the money must be returned to the Client. It is a proven fact that Candidates prefer recruitment companies who only gain a fee if the placement is successful; they know that they will not be pushed into an unsuitable job.

This quality guarantee has now been developed further to provide temps with a similar quality promise. The company started out operating from tiny offices in Pall Mall, but due to the influx from a wide range of Clients seeking to protect their recruitment fees Maine-Tucker then moved to larger offices in Jermyn Street.

Finally Maine-Tucker outgrew their Jermyn Street offices and moved to the offices they currently occupy in Piccadilly. Meanwhile their Client base spread from major corporations (for example VISA) and household names (for example Royal Mail) to small and very personal briefs ranging from royal families to one-man-band start-ups in a huge range of businesses in the West-End and City.

They have also developed a totally unique “Preferred Supplier” service product which means that a Client can in partnership with Maine-Tucker design exactly the service they need. For example, the Maine-Tucker timesheet organisational system using state-of-the-art internet matrix is without equal – this means you not only get accurate paperwork but you can rest assured that it will all be legally correct.

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