Services — Hiring & Succession Planning

UK Number Gathering

Verified UK direct dials and contact details for the people you want to reach — researched to your brief, checked before delivery and supplied CRM-ready for Bullhorn, Vincere, JobAdder or your own system, under UK GDPR. Your consultants spend their day talking, not searching.

Every conversation starts with the right number

We find and verify the direct contact details your consultants need — so call time is spent talking, not searching.

Give us the brief — a market, a patch, a candidate list, a client target set — and our research team gathers the direct dials, switchboards, mobiles and email addresses to match. Every contact is verified before it reaches you, and delivered in whatever format your team works in.

Sourcing is GDPR-aware with a documented audit trail, and pricing is by project and volume — so the cost per verified contact is a fraction of the consultant hours it replaces.

Every number gathering project includes:

  • Direct dials, switchboards and mobiles researched to your brief
  • Verification before delivery — no dead numbers padding the batch
  • CRM-ready delivery in your format, on your schedule
  • GDPR-aware sourcing with a documented audit trail
  • Fast turnaround with volume pricing for ongoing batches

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Example Projects

Direct-dial refresh project — sample cover
Direct-Dial Refresh — 2,500 Contacts UK · Legal sector Download
New-patch contact build — sample cover
New-Patch Contact Build Texas · Healthcare staffing Download
CRM cleanse and verify — sample cover
CRM Cleanse & Verify Global · IT recruitment Download

The benefits of outsourced number gathering

More time selling

Consultants stop burning hours hunting for numbers and spend them where they earn — on the phone with candidates and clients. Call time goes up without headcount going up.

Verified & compliant

Every contact is checked before delivery and sourced with a documented audit trail — so the data is accurate to dial and defensible to hold.

Lower cost per contact

Project and volume pricing means each verified number costs a fraction of the consultant time it replaces — and the batch stays yours.

Where number gathering helps

Number gathering is a simple service that solves several expensive problems. Here are the most common:

Fuelling consultant call time — a busy recruitment desk

Fuelling your consultants’ call time

A desk is only as productive as its call sheet. When consultants research their own numbers, selling time disappears into searching.

We keep the call sheets full — a steady, scheduled flow of verified contacts matched to each consultant’s patch, so the phone time never runs dry.

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Refreshing a stale CRM database

Refreshing a stale database

CRMs decay fast — people move, switchboards change, mobiles go dead. A database full of dead numbers quietly wastes hours every week.

We re-verify and refresh your existing records in batches, flagging leavers and updating details, so the database your team relies on is one they can trust.

Breaking into a new market or patch

Breaking into a new market or patch

Opening a new vertical, geography or client patch means starting from zero contacts.

We build the contact base for the new patch before your consultants pick up the phone — so day one on the new desk is a selling day, not a research day.

Our process

Every project is shaped to your desks and systems, but in general this is how we’d work with you:

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Agree the brief, volumes and format

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Research across all legitimate sources

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Verify every contact before delivery

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Deliver CRM-ready, on schedule

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Refresh and top up on a cadence

Why gather numbers with Audentia?

Contact data is only useful if it’s accurate, compliant and in your team’s hands when they need it. That’s the whole service: verified data, delivered on schedule, at a cost that makes obvious sense against consultant hours.

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Verified accuracy

Numbers are checked before they reach you — unverifiable contacts are flagged, never hidden in the batch.

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Volume & speed

Batches of hundreds to thousands, turned around fast and delivered on the schedule your desks plan around.

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GDPR-aware

Legitimate sourcing with a documented audit trail for every data point, supporting your compliance position.

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Your data, your format

Spreadsheets, CRM imports or direct-to-system — delivered your way, and it stays yours.

Testimonial
“Our consultants were losing two hours a day to finding numbers, and half of what was in the CRM was dead. Audentia now keeps every desk’s call sheet full with verified contacts, and re-verifies our database in rolling batches. Call volumes went up the first week — and the cost is trivial next to the consultant time it gives back.”

Operations Director — Multi-desk recruitment agency

Number gathering case studies

Doubling call volumes case study

Doubling a desk’s weekly call volume

With verified call sheets delivered every Monday, a struggling desk doubled its weekly candidate conversations — without a single extra hire.

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CRM refresh case study

Bringing a 40,000-record CRM back to life

Rolling re-verification flagged the leavers, fixed the switchboards and restored trust in the database — batch by batch, without disrupting the desks.

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New market contact build case study

A contact base for a brand-new vertical

Before launching a healthcare desk, our client had us build the full contact base first. The new consultants sold from day one.

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Contact research for UK recruiters

Verified UK direct dials, delivered CRM-ready

British recruitment consultants lose hours every week to switchboards, gatekeepers and out-of-date numbers. We research the direct dials, mobiles, switchboard extensions and business email addresses you need against a named target list, verify them before delivery, and hand them over in a format your CRM will import cleanly.

Work is delivered to your template for Bullhorn, Vincere, JobAdder, RecruitCRM, Salesforce or a plain spreadsheet, with a dated verification note per record. Research is conducted on a legitimate-interest basis under UK GDPR and the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations, which matters when the people you are calling are B2B contacts in Britain rather than consumers.

Verified before it reaches you

Each number is checked against a second source or tested before delivery, with the verification date recorded so you know how fresh the record is.

CRM-ready for UK systems

Delivered in your Bullhorn, Vincere, JobAdder or RecruitCRM import format, de-duplicated against a list you supply.

UK GDPR and PECR aware

B2B contact research on a documented legitimate-interest basis, with suppression against any do-not-contact list you provide.

Where we work across the UK

  • London
  • Manchester
  • Birmingham
  • Leeds
  • Bristol
  • Edinburgh
  • Glasgow
  • Cardiff
  • Belfast
  • Reading & Thames Valley
  • Cambridge
  • Oxford
  • Newcastle
  • Sheffield
  • Nottingham
  • Milton Keynes
  • Aberdeen
  • Liverpool
  • Southampton
  • Coventry

UK questions we are asked most

Is buying contact data legal for UK recruiters?

Researching business contact details for a legitimate business purpose is lawful in the UK on a legitimate-interest basis, provided it is documented, proportionate and respects objections. We research to that standard and supply the processing note alongside the data.

What formats can you deliver in?

CSV or XLSX to your own column template, or directly in the import format for Bullhorn, Vincere, JobAdder, RecruitCRM or Salesforce.

How quickly can UK contact research be turned around?

Small lists are typically back within one to two working days. Larger programmes run on an agreed weekly volume so your consultants get a steady flow rather than one large dump.

Do you suppress numbers we already hold?

Yes. Send us your existing records and we de-duplicate against them, so you only pay for contacts you did not already have.

UK Hours, And Every Other Time Zone

A London desk on UK hours, and research running across six time zones so your search never sleeps

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Let's fill your call sheets.

A thirty-minute conversation is usually enough to scope your first batch — volumes, format and turnaround.