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A five-minute wording self-check for a busy recruiter desk
Volume desks ship fifteen or more adverts a week. This page ties the individual wording-pattern guides into one recruiter desk job ad wording check habit: who pastes, who signs, when to upgrade from free to £9.99 or £79.99/mo. Workflow literacy only — not ATS implementation, not legal advice, and not Equality Act clearance.
Paste-primary. VacancyCheck reads pasted draft text. Live URL is retrospective only — see draft text first.
Free limited check · £9.99 full PDF · £79.99/mo (up to 20 full PDFs)
The five-minute pass
- Search the draft for the nine sample flag classes: age-coded titles, gendered titles, blanket fitness, experience cutoffs, native-speaker lines, own-car / driving, culture-fit vibe, EO footer vs body mismatch, raw client brief copied verbatim. See wording patterns to self-check.
- Paste once into the free check (one draft per rolling week on free tier).
- Review flags — human rewrite toward the work; compare sample free vs sample full.
- Sign and archive the text your desk actually publishes — not the raw brief.
- Upgrade when volume bites — £9.99 for a long must-have list; £79.99/mo when the desk needs up to 20 full PDFs per month.
Who does what on the desk
| Role | Typical action |
|---|---|
| Consultant / resourcer | Paste edited draft; fix obvious flags before resubmit |
| Team lead | Signs off rewrite on flagged ads; decides £9.99 vs subscription |
| Compliance / HR partner | Reads full PDF archive; does not replace legal advice |
When to use which SKU
- Free limited check — one pasted draft per rolling week; top on-screen flags.
- £9.99 full PDF — one vacancy, full flag list + suggested rewrites for the file.
- £79.99/mo subscription — up to 20 full PDFs per calendar month; subscriber desk at
/manage.html(noindex).
Do not treat the free tier as unlimited volume — that is the habit this guide is naming.
Pattern guides to open when flagged
- Years-of-experience cutoffs
- Client brief vs live line
- Fully fit / able-bodied
- EO line vs title
- Culture fit
- Native speaker vs language skill
- Own car / local only
Paste draft — free check See pricing
Not legal advice. Not Equality Act clearance. Not a compliance certificate.