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Talent Acquisition Consultancy

We help agencies build in-house talent acquisition that works: the team and the employer brand, salary banding, the right ATS, and training for everyone who hires.

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What we build

Build the function, not just the hire.

Great hiring depends on what sits behind it: a TA team with a clear remit, an employer brand candidates believe, pay structures that hold up, and systems and interviewers that work the same way every time. We design and build that with you, and leave your team able to run it.

TA functions

Building out in-house TA teams, from structure and roles to how they partner with the business and the hiring managers they support.

Employer brand

An employer brand that gives candidates a real reason to choose you, carried through your careers site, job adverts and interviews.

Salary banding

Benchmarked salary bands and progression structures, so offers are consistent, fair and easy to explain.

Applicant tracking systems

Choosing, implementing and configuring the right ATS, with workflows your hiring managers will actually use.

Hiring-team training

Training for hiring managers and interviewers on your recruitment process, structured interviewing and fair, consistent assessment.

AI tools, human decisions

AI tools that take the admin out of recruitment, from screening support to scheduling and reporting, always with a person at the heart of every hiring decision.

Training & coaching

Hiring well is a skill. We help teams build it.

Two ways to build capability inside your business: ongoing coaching for TA leaders and their teams, and one-off workshops you can book for anyone involved in hiring.

Coaching

Coaching for TA leaders and teams

Practical coaching on how to improve your TA function: strategy, structure, stakeholder management, metrics and making the case for investment. Led by Andrew and Tom, who have spent their careers building and leading in-house hiring functions.

For TA leaders

One-to-one coaching on strategy, structure and working with the leadership team.

For TA teams

Group sessions on process, sourcing and partnering with hiring managers.

Led by

Andrew Dobbs

Executive Director

Tom Davies

Founder, former TA Director

Workshops

One-off workshops for TA teams and interviewers

Book a single session when you need it: ahead of a hiring push, after a new ATS goes in, or when new managers start interviewing. Every workshop is practical and built around your own process.

Structured and competency-based interviewing
Fair, consistent assessment and reducing bias
Candidate experience, from first contact to offer
Getting the most from your ATS
Writing job adverts that attract the right people

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Selected work

Case study 01

An embedded talent solution — and we're still there.

The brief

Provide an embedded talent solution.

The client

Independent MedComms agency with ambitious growth plans

The challenge

A small agency targeting growth across multiple verticals with very different service offerings — needing both leadership-level hires and a recruitment-process overhaul, to ensure the right hire every time and deliver a class-leading candidate experience.

The approach

A recruitment-process audit and strategy overhaul; integration of internal AI tools for efficiency; implementation of the Teamtailor ATS with training modules for hiring managers — while also sitting as an external sourcing resource to supplement their direct hiring.

The outcome

The best endorsement there is: we're still embedded, and the partnership continues.

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The specialist talent consultancy for medical communications, healthcare consulting and market access.