What Questions Should You Ask Your Recruitment Website Developer?

We often have recruitment agency owners get in touch with us at the very early stages of their search for a new website and they’re not sure what to ask. To help all you recruitment marketers and recruitment agency owners out there we’ve put together a list of questions you should be asking any prospective digital design agency or freelance web developer when they’re pitching to work on your new recruitment site. 

How long have you been in the business of designing and developing recruitment websites?

What makes your design agency so good?

Where are your offices based?

How many full time staff do you have in your design agency and where are they based?

Can you show us some examples of your work - specifically recruitment websites?

Can you show us the performance stats and Google Lighthouse reports for those recruitment websites?

Do you specialise in building recruitment sites or are you a generalist?

Which platforms do you specialise in? Drag & drop templates? WordPress? React, Angular, etc.?

Do you offer bespoke recruitment websites on top of template designs?

Do you have web developers who specifically work for your company?

Where are your web developers based? Are they UK based?

If you’re not a web developer how do you check the quality of freelancers work?

How long does it take to put together a proposal?

How much will it roughly cost?

How long would it take to build our recruitment agency website from the briefing stage to final deployment?

Is there anything you're currently working on which would delay an immediate start?

How much would the recruitment website roughly cost?

Can you make sure it is indexed by Google and ranks well?

Can you recommend an SEO consultant?

How much would SEO services be roughly?

Can you create backlinks for our website?

Can you recommend a copywriter?

How much would copywriting services be roughly?

Can you recommend a designer who has experience in the recruitment sector?

How much would a UX/UI designer cost?

Can you recommend a photographer?

Can you recommend a videographer?

Can you source images for us?

Can we pick a specific colour palette for our recruitment website?

Where could we get inspiration for colour palettes that work?

Can we pick specific fonts to use?

How does the process work?

What pages should we consider having on our recruitment website?

Can you integrate our website with our recruitment CRM?

Can you integrate our recruitment agency website with a chatbot?

Can you integrate our recruitment site with a virtual chat application?

Can you integrate our site with WhatsApp?

Can you integrate our agency site with LinkedIn?

Can you integrate our recruitment firm website with Google Analytics 4?

Who would be our main point of contact throughout the process?

Do you provide support after our website is deployed?

What support is that? Email? Telephone?

Do we have to pay extra for support?

Can you migrate our current website URLs to the new website?

Can you purchase the domain for our recruitment business?

Do you provide hosting for our recruitment site?

How do you ensure our agency site is secure?

Do you provide us with an SSL certificate?

How much is the annual hosting charge? What does this consist of?

If we’re paying a monthly fee for the recruitment website how much will this work out to be over the life of the website (say 5 years)?

How long will the website last for?

How open are you to changing parts of our website after it is deployed?

If we want to make changes to the website how would we do that?

Do you charge us an hourly fee for changes to the website?

Is there an in-built CMS with the website?

What is a CMS?

How does the CMS work and what can we edit ourselves? Blogs, jobs, team & testimonial pages?

Can we host our podcast on the website?

And if you’ve got any questions for us then just get in touch.