Unmatched Access to Skilled Candidates
We are the only recruitment company that has a community of over 9,000 active military spouses, that provide an agile workforce for businesses in need of flexible workers within days and that work tirelessly with employers to bestow the huge benefits to employing military spouses.
Our ability to attract high-quality military spouse applicants stems from our use of specific tools and techniques designed to target the right candidates.
Social Media Presence
9,000+
Facebook followers
2,800
Private Facebook Group members
2,300+
Instagram followers
10,300
Twitter audience
3,000+
LinkedIn followers
Robust Database
Over 5,700 military spouses actively looking for jobs or upskilling opportunities within our database
Employee Referral Scheme
A valuable network for attracting top talent
Seamless Employer-Spouse Connection
RFS understands the talent pool of military spouses, and the requirement of businesses in their pursuit of hiring the best.
We will be your strategic partner, providing tailored solutions to your recruitment challenges. Having worked closely with you to establish your hiring need, we will actively search out the ideal candidates in a process tailored to you.
Our Process
01
We will work with you to understand and agree each element of the job description. This should include required hard and soft skills.
Identification of the Hiring Need
02
We will put together a plan for the process to be taken and the communication channels that will be used.
Planning
03
We proactively search through our military spouse community to find the ideal candidate, leveraging our extensive network and community relations.
Searching
04
We identify candidates with the skills, qualifications, and experience required to meet your hiring needs.
Identification of the Right Candidate
What is our Liquid Workforce?
Agile and Flexible Support
The Liquid Workforce (LW) was established to create a workforce of agile, flexible military spouses. They provide support to businesses experiencing increased workload or require work to be outsourced. For the military spouses it means the opportunity to work-from-home, providing the vital flexibility the military lifestyle requires.
Recruit for Spouses has worked hard to create a flexible team ready to work short and long-term within a quick turnaround.
We manage the hours, payroll and compliance work, leaving customers to reap the benefits of having hardworking individuals online, ready to work. We can provide you with highly educated, motivated employees you can invest in, and that can grow with your business.
Why Employ a Military Spouse?
Military spouses are a highly skilled, adaptable, and resilient workforce. They bring a diverse range of skills and experiences, often overlooked or undervalued by traditional hiring practices.
Advantages
Highly Flexible and Adaptable
Military life includes regular moves, sometimes overseas. It is the military spouse who packs up the household, organising new schools, adapts to the new environment, new culture and new employment opportunities as well as settling the family. They are already flexible, patient and resilient because they have had to be.
Skilled and Highly Educated
The CV belies their true skill set. Short-term jobs or gaps due to military moves give the wrong impression. The reality is they have learnt to pick up where they have left off in each job, they have learned to re-network in each and every new posting and new community therefore developing a broad and diverse skill set.
Companies who value hard work, creativity, passion and resilience do not need to look much further than a military spouse.
These are the men and women who have been the constant at home while their partner has prolonged absences. They have kept the family together, managed the finances, held down a job all the while dealing with the absence of their partner or uncertainty of where or when they will need to relocate.
Tick Your Armered Forces Covenant Criteria
By employing military spouses, you can fulfill your Armed Forces Covenant criteria, demonstrating your commitment to supporting the armed forces community.
Forces Friendly
Promote being armed forces-friendly and open to employing reservists, armed forces veterans (including the wounded, injured and sick), cadet instructors and military spouses/partners.
Selection Processes
The employer must proactively demonstrate that service personnel/armed forces community are not unfairly disadvantaged as part of their recruiting and selection processes.
Exemplar
The employer must be an exemplar within their market sector, advocating support to defence people issues to partner organisations, suppliers and customers with tangible positive results.
Tapping into Talent: An Employer’s Guide to Hiring Military Spouses in the UK
Discover the untapped potential of 70,000 military spouses in the UK workforce. Our guide offers strategies for recruitment, retention, and creating a supportive workplace. Learn how to hire, empower, and benefit from this unique talent pool.
TESTIMONIALS
Voices of Success: Stories from Spouses and Employers
Richard Moore, Director Loyalty Rewards Virgin Ltd (left position spring 2024)
I’m delighted to be closely linked with Virgin Red’s mentoring partnership as well as working with the exceptional RFS individuals who form our customer support (Genies) team! Their dedication, flexibility and life skills are a true asset to our business.
Client's feedback
Linda Baldwin, AMS
Through RFS, we were able to find a bid writer, that elusive pink unicorn. I was so impressed with the quality of their talent pool.
Client's feedback
Linda Turner, AMS client
I regularly compare recruiting experienced Bid Managers with searching for the illusive purple unicorn – RFS sourced & presented two candidates with experience that exceeded our expectations.
Client's feedback
Steve Leach, Group Managing Director, AMS
Never have we had such a small powerful collective team that we see in our military spouse talent pool. The soft skills they bring are outstanding.
Client's feedback
Virgin Red
Our military spouse team has consistently hit 100% positive feedback. A statistic we have never seen before.
Client's feedback
Andrew Swaffield, Chief Commercial Officer Virgin Group & CEO Virgin Red
Virgin Red began working with RFS in July 2020, many of our RFS colleagues have been part of the team since the very start and make up our Member Support Genies. The team deliver an outstanding level of support to the Virgin Red members, responding to up to 4,000 requests each month and our customer satisfaction score is consistently over 80%. We currently have 19 RFS Genies working with us, and we’re delighted to have brought a further 5 RFS colleagues into our business as permanent employees. We look forward to continuing to grow our partnership with RFS in the future.
Client's feedback
Kate Powney, Head of delivery, Virgin Red
When we engaged with RFS, not having worked with such a small agency before, it was a risk but we saw a 80% increase in productivity within three months of engaging with them.
Client's feedback
Kate C, Virgin Red
Kate reached out to RFS after listening to our podcast with Virgin…."I’m a PR and Communications Manager at Virgin Red. Quite simply, the opportunity to work at Virgin through Recruit for Spouses has opened doors for me that I thought had closed. As a military spouse with two young children, living away from my extended family in various military communities in the UK and overseas - always a long way from a city centre - my PR career has taken lots of twists and turns as I tried to keep it on track while juggling family life. This role at Virgin is a dream come true and means my career goals are back within reach.
Spouse's feedback
Helen C, Senior Rewards operations Executive, Virgin Red
Helen’s husband used to serve in the Royal Marines but in 2014 he was medically discharged.
Keen to still work from home, Helen has landed her dream job with Virgin Red: “I never dreamed I’d be doing this. I owe so much to Recruit for Spouses and Virgin Red for helping me to get my foot in the door and opening up a whole new career for me. What they are doing for military spouses is just brilliant. My role is fully remote and while I love going into the office to see people when I can, the reality is I wouldn’t be doing this job if I had to commute into London everyday.
Spouse's feedback
Elizabeth Crook
More importantly, I wanted to reach out and thank you and the team, without your help and support I wouldn’t have been able to get to where I am today, applying for a job outside of RFS was scary and a little daunting however it’s been great! I have a career and a plan, being able to find myself a career whilst being a military spouse has been the best thing ever ❤️
Spouse's feedback
Joselyn Stone, Researcher E50K
I've submitted the feedback form and wanted to express my heartfelt gratitude for your ongoing support in my employment journey. Your guidance has been invaluable, and I'm truly honoured to have had the chance to work with you. Thank you once again for everything, and I'll be sure to stay in touch.
Spouse's feedback
Zara
I would absolutely jump at the chance to work for Kelly OCG should the opportunity arise. I honestly feel like this training has been so refreshing and exactly what I needed to get me excited and on that career ladder.
After dedicating many years to raising my family and frequently relocating due to military life, finding the right work/home life balance has been tricky. However, this course has given me a renewed sense of purpose and direction.
Given my varied and often short-term job history due to frequent moves, I will definitely need assistance in refining my CV to better reflect my skills and experiences.
I am extremely grateful for the work you do at RFS and the support you provide to Military Spouses. The opportunities you offer are invaluable, and I deeply appreciate your efforts.
Feedback on the "Kelly OCG Recruitment" Course
Spouse
I am absolutely loving this course and all the brilliant content. It has honestly been mind blowing, learning about all the techniques involved in sourcing and recruitment. It’s definitely a field I can see myself not only working in but throughly enjoying too.
The support from my mentor has been brilliant and she has been so kind in offering some great advice within the field and encouragement along the way.
Feedback on the "Kelly OCG Recruitment" Course
Spouse
So far so good! It has been interesting learning something new and love how easy and flexible it is to do lessons off the app. In addition to that, the support from my mentor is incredible.
Feedback on the "Kelly OCG Recruitment" Course