I build hiring functions and run them from the inside. This page is the record and the resources. The service lives at A Player Talent.
Direct sourcing function built from nothing across product, UX and technology.
Recruitment function rebuilt. First KPI dashboards giving HR leadership live visibility.
Data engineering, infrastructure and cybersecurity hiring for a digital transformation.
Sales, commercial and digital hiring across EMEA and the Americas. No job board spend.
Embedded team delivering technology hiring in a heavily contested candidate market.
Direct sourcing strategy and technical assessment frameworks, plus hiring manager training.
End-to-end delivery across the UK advisory practice.
Product, engineering and commercial pipelines built through GitHub, Stack Overflow and direct search.
Also: 3M, Attorney General's Office, APT Portfolio, Inflights, Baxter Williams.
14 years of briefs and the failures repeat. Growing companies overpay per hire by £15,000 to £30,000, and rarely because they hire bad people.
Direct sourcing with a structured process closes all five. That is the whole job.
Built for founders making their first 15 hires.
Ten-point check on where your pipeline is breaking. Twenty minutes.
Nine prompts doing the strategic hiring work before you source anyone.
Every template and scorecard for the first ten hires.
40 Claude prompts for every stage of hiring, from JD to offer letter.
Eight Claude skills for founders hiring without a recruiter.
Closing candidates who are not looking, and handling the counter-offer.
The service, the pricing and a calculator that runs your own numbers all live at A Player Talent.