TALENT
ACQUISITION
AND ADVISORY
Making people your unfair advantage
Our services
Talent
ACQUISITION
Finding the exceptional people who’ll drive your growth. Specialising in technology, commercial and executive leadership.
Talent
ADVISORY
A complete strategic hiring solution that builds your in-house talent capability – without the overhead.
Talent acquisition for scaling companies
Focused search expertise from Seed to Scale
Technology
experts
The ones who:
Build products and inspire
teams
Recruiting your CTOs, VPs of
engineering, chief product officers, tech leads, senior engineers
Commercial
excellence
The ones who:
penetration
Drive growth and market penetration
Hiring your sales leaders, marketing
heads, commercial directors
Executive
leadership
The ones who:
scalable foundations
Shape strategy and build scalable foundations
directors
How we find the people who’ll help your business grow.
Understand your
story, goals and the job spec
- What’s the motivation to hire?
- What does success in this role look like?
- How will it support your growth?
- Is this a permanent, fractional or interim hire?
When you define this you’re able to tell a brand-centric and mission-focused story that draws the right candidates.
Map your talent-market fit
When your needs, the available talent in the market, and what it takes to attract them at your stage and budget all come together, we call it talent-market fit.
We help you understand this landscape – which roles are in high demand, where you can find overlooked gems, and how to position your opportunity competitively.
The goal is to make hires that fit both your business needs and the realities of the current talent market.
Find and vet exceptional people
The best candidates aren’t on job boards waiting to be found. They’re already employed or being approached by several companies.
We reach these people through targeted outreach, deep networks in the scale up world, and by sharing your story in a way that makes them want to learn more.
Every candidate we put forward is carefully vetted for skills, cultural fit, growth potential, and alignment with your company’s stage and goals. Read more about our B.E.S.T. model.
Guide you and your candidates
Your employer brand matters, even if you’re a 15-person startup. How you treat candidates now affects who will want to join you in the future.
We prepare candidates so they arrive at interviews ready and enthusiastic.
We handle communications, set clear expectations, and make sure both sides have what they need to make confident decisions.
The result? A process that’s professional, respectful, and demonstrates what your company is all about.
Talent advisory for scaling companies
Your in-house talent search function
Strategy
A roadmap of who
to hire and when
A workforce strategy aligned to your goals and funding milestones
Story
A brand that
stands out to
top talent
A brand that stands
out to top talent
A reason and destination that excites top performers
Selection
Interview better.
Hire smarter.
Ensure every hire drives impact
Assessment
Frameworks that track the quality of hiring decisions
Measure your hiring success so your talent strategy can be continuously improved
Retention
Retention strategies aligned to your company’s growth
Creating environments where your top performers thrive
Successful talent advisory starts with the end in mind
The real cost of losing
people
Up to 2 times their annual salary (plus the cost of recruitment and training)
Team efficiency – which drops by up to 30%
Your best talent – who quickly leave, dampening company culture
Satisfied clients
Hitting those growth targets
Fundraising opportunities
Retention is about more than pay
Your best people have options. They always do. And when they start looking, it’s rarely because of money – it’s because they’ve stopped feeling challenged, valued or connected to where the company is going.
Our talent advisory service works with you to make sure that never happens. We help you build:
- Meaningful growth paths, even in flat structures
- Career conversations that help people see their future with you
- Skill development opportunities that keep people engaged
- Retention strategies that go beyond matching external offers
A talent partner – not a service provider
Most retention problems only become clear after someone has already decided to leave.
We partner with you early on, identifying the warning signs before they turn into decisions, and help create a workplace where your top people truly want to stay.
Insights
A Chief of Staff for VoCoVo
Finding VoCoVo a key executive hire in just 32 days.
An AI Engineer for Ask Silver
How Akaina Talent helped a fast-moving tech startup make their first key technical hire in just 36 days.
How our B.E.S.T. model helps you hire exceptional talent
Our four-part framework that helps to deeply understand a person’s potential, ability and fit.