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START-UPS AND SCALE-UPS

Attracting Talent in the Start-Up and Scale-Up market

Offering much more than just recruitment, we’ll source the right people to fuel your business.

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What we can help you with

  • Consulting | Creating solutions around fees, within your budget, offering payment plans.
  • Strategy | From first tech hire to mapping out multiple hires.
  • Market Insight | Evaluating candidates, salary benchmarking, benefits guidance, and advice on talent retention factors.
  • Review | Creating, shaping, and reviewing job descriptions.
  • Attracting Talent | Tapping into our existing database and networks of talent, targeted advertising, using sophisticated search techniques, tracking down scarce skills, and fully branded campaigns to get your name out there.
  • Best Practice | Offering a proven slick recruitment process.

Our Services include:

  • Permanent & Contract Recruitment
  • Partnership and Branded Approach
  • Start-up / Scale-up Expertise & Consultancy

  • Permanent & Contract Recruitment

    Our recruitment team is here to respond to your every need, from short-notice short-term contracting, to permanent hires and volume recruitment drives.

  • Partnership and Branded Approach

    We offer a range of options, from standard contingent support, recruiting as and when you need alongside other agencies and your own ways of attracting talent, only paying a fee if we deliver, to working as a trusted partner exclusively, helping fully streamline the process and create way less noise in your inbox. Another popular approach is a co-branded partnership where we look after the entire process at an agreed flat fee, freeing up your time to focus on other responsibilities, whilst we find filtered, screened and qualified top talent for your business.

  • Start-up / Scale-up Expertise & Consultancy

    We are start-up & scale-up experts, fully immersed in the communities that surround us. From creating that first job description through to the ideal onboarding process, we have the case studies, technical knowledge and sourcing techniques to help you make that incredibly important first hire or to scale an entire team, with the best talent on the market.

What we do and how we work with you:

  • Step 1: We understand your business and define the requirement

    We’ll get to know your business and take a personal consultative approach to understand the requirement based on tech, product/projects, culture, vision, mission, approach and team dynamic. Throughout the years, we’ve worked with many start-ups and scale-ups across the UK. We really understand the unique challenges start-ups face in a competitive market and know how to support mass growth when scaling up too.

  • Step 2: We find the talent

    We use a range of proven methods and tools across our vast network of talent in the Technology, Data, Engineering, Science, Marketing, Product and Design industries. We have a highly skilled, experienced and caring team ready to approach active and passive candidates through sophisticated searching techniques.

  • Step 3: We review CVs, qualify candidates and present the best options

    We use an in-depth qualification process when reviewing CV’s and vetting candidates. We’re able to talk technical, but understand that the culture fit is a huge part of getting it right for you. Motivations, behaviours, communication and environment preferences are just a few things we’ll include in candidate conversations. We also offer ‘anonymised CVs’ to ensure true diversity and remove any unconscious bias. You can find out more about our approach to ensure true diversity here.

  • Step 4: Interview process & feedback

    We can suggest or create a tailored interview process that suits the role and urgency. Post interview feedback is invaluable to us as we aim to find your perfect candidate as quickly as possible, but also pride ourselves on relaying constructive feedback to candidates, leaving them with a positive impression of your organisation.

  • Step 5: We can present the offer / Reject the candidate

    We understand that you delivering an offer directly to a candidate can give that extra special, personal touch. However, if you’d like us to deliver it for you or manage the (sometimes awkward) negotiations, then rest assured, we have all the experience needed to help reach a decisive and happy outcome. We can also handle all conversations with unsuccessful candidates for you.

  • Step 6: Onboarding

    80% of candidates that leave within 12 months of starting a new role cite the onboarding process as a key driver. We can advise you on how to make your new recruit feel welcomed and thrive as quickly as possible, staying for the long haul. We’ve even written a blog on it here!

We have deep connections within the local tech ecosystem

We have partnered with a range of start-up incubator programmes and accelerators over the past 20 years, helping many to flourish and grow. On many occasions we have successfully run well-received workshops on best practice hiring, talent attraction and engagement, retention, job spec creation, CV writing and more.

As regular recruitment advisors to SETsquared, we play a key role in supporting start-up and fast-growing businesses. We have strong working relationships with TechSPARK, Future Leap Network, South West Creative, Future Space and other leading communities and even run three of our own Tech meetups including Green Tech South West, MotherBoard and Tech Ethics.

We realise that the proof is in the pudding, so we’re delighted to refer to the many start-ups that we have helped to scale, including Moneyhub, Neighbourly, Pirate Studios, Candide, ESS and Malvern Panalytical amongst many, many others. We’ve quickly grown their talented teams and advocated for them in the local market.

 

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