Direct Hire & Executive Search

Careful, curated, and customized direct hire & executive search solutions for your unique business needs.

Permanent Placement, direct hire

Are you looking for someone to help shape your business? Someone who won’t blend into the background?

Welcome to TalentWorld and to personalized direct hire & executive recruitment unlike any other. Because we’re all about putting your needs, workplace culture, and unique challenges to work in a human and effective way.

Our value-add for Executive search.

TalentWorld takes pride in doing things differently. This includes setting up all our leadership & executive placements for success by providing a leadership assessment and 1-hour session with a certified coach. This allows our permanent placements in leadership roles to develop greater self-awareness, enhance leadership resiliency during a period of change, and to accelerate leadership effectiveness through the onboarding process.

Differentiators
A new kind of staffing & recruitment agency.

We’re building something different. A staffing agency that brings back a sense of depth to an industry that’s about speed and automation.

We focus on building chemistry with people. 

We coach our permanent placement recruiters to ‘think like marketers’ because we believe the fundamentals of digital marketing will allow them to spend less time on talent attraction and more time building meaningful relationships. 

Our endless curiosity means we strive for better.

We have a National Team of experts from recruitment, marketing, and technology who are solving industry-wide challenges. Their focus is on how we can improve the people experience – for clients, recruiters, and candidates alike.

Numbers don’t lie, and neither do we. 

We recognize that what works in one market, might not work in another. Each permanent recruitment strategy we develop is unique and driven by data. And our radical honestly means we’ll never overpromise and underdeliver.

Our Commitment
Driven by relentless commitment, rigour & adaptability, active curiosity, and radical honesty.

When you work with us, we ensure that the person you hire is aligned with the values and culture of your business, and that you get them quickly. Because in an industry that’s about speed and automation, we’re about people, building chemistry and finding the right fit. 

We do this by leveraging technology where it makes sense. Not to replace humans, but rather to enhance the recruiter experience. So that our team genuinely has the time to building meaningful relationships with every candidate open to it.

From temporary placement and contract workers to our direct hire and executive recruitment. Everyone is treated with true care because we believe this is the foundation of trustworthy relationships.

Curious to see how we can help you? Let’s talk.

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