About Us
Boutique HR recruitment agency based in London
Get To Know Us
Hi, we’re Peeq; a husband and wife led business that helps leaders create amazing places to work through impactful HR recruitment.
We partner with growth businesses to help them achieve their goals by hiring the right HR talent, into the right roles, at the right time.
We take away the headache of needing to create detailed job descriptions, marketing your role, dealing with hundreds of applications and screening candidates to work out who is the best fit. This is the stuff we live and breathe.
For our HR and talent acquisition candidates, our promise to you is that we will treat you as an individual, not a commodity, and do our best to add value to your job search in whatever way we can.
What Makes Us Different
92% fill rate
We’re incredibly proud of our 92% fill rate which is almost twice the industry average.
Tiered pricing
We offer 3 different recruitment packages that allow our customers to only pay for the services they actually need.
No employees
We have built our business on equality and fairness which is why our Associate HR Recruiters (our Peeqers) are all self-employed freelancers. They are also the ‘secret sauce’ behind our high fill rate. Like us, they get paid for delivering which makes them incredibly TENACIOUS!
Our Story
In 2004 Peeq’s Co-Founder, Mark Barnicoat, launched Oasis HR with his former business partner. Mark had previously spent five years working in the world of recruitment and, driven by a desire to build an agency where relationships were central to success, found his spiritual recruiting home in the world of HR.
Initially focused on hiring Talent Acquisition professionals, it wasn’t long before Oasis HR transitioned to recruiting across the full spectrum of HR. Over the 15 years the business traded, Mark built a strong network within the HR space, helped Oasis HR win numerous awards, chaired many HR events and enjoyed honing his recruitment skills.
Key amongst these achievements was placing numerous HR professionals into great roles – many of which are still with the same businesses today!
In 2011 Mark made Oasis HR’s first Marketing hire, Katie Barnicoat, with whom he Co-Founded Peeq and shares his life with outside of work. Together they co-parent their four children in a blended family dynamic and spend much of their free time chasing after their energetic springer spaniel, Barley.
Over Katie’s nine years with Oasis HR, she progressed into a Communications Director role, overseeing all things marketing and ops. Most notably, Katie was instrumental in running Oasis’ well regarded HR Think Tank Series community.
In 2020, the pandemic stretched Oasis HR to breaking point and despite the best efforts of all on the ground, the business folded in November of that year. Both Katie and Mark, along with Oasis’ remaining employees, lost their jobs and faced the daunting prospect of providing for their family with both their incomes wiped out simultaneously.
With the support of loved ones, an incredibly loyal client base, invaluable advice from key industry contacts and some rockstar Associates, Peeq was born.
December 2020 marked Peeq’s first placement and the start of what’s been an amazing journey. A hybrid recruitment model that focuses entirely on output rather than input.
No employed recruiters, no KPIs, no cold calling, no unnecessary meetings and no pointless data entry.
A business built on equality, partnerships, trust and respect.
An HR recruitment agency minus the bulls**t.
You’re twice as likely to make an HR hire if you choose Peeq. Yes you read that right!
Why? Two reasons. Firstly, we only partner with our clients on an exclusive basis so we ‘own the problem’. Secondly, we don’t employ recruiters.
What we do is work with highly experienced freelance HR recruiters, our Associates, to hire for our clients. We give them the tools and infrastructure to be successful, and the rest is down to their magic and expertise.
Our Associates are not employed by us and only get paid for making a successful hire. This makes them incredibly tenacious and committed to finding the best talent. It’s for this reason that our fill rate sits above 90%, compared to the industry average of 46%.