Tailored recruitment strategies for ROI.

Create your Start-up Hiring Strategy

If you’re a start-up hiring your first employee, we have designed ‘Recruitment 101’ to help you understand the different stages of the hiring process and how to get your first hires easily and effectively.

  • 100% client satisfaction rate
  • 15 years of experience
  • Tried and tested / Proven methods

Startup Hiring Outcomes

  • Essential tools and resources for successful hiring
  • GDPR-safe recruitment processes
  • Confidence to recruit the right people for your business
  • A repeatable hiring strategy you can use for every future hire
  • More successful hiring and eliminate re-hiring costs

 

Get your first hires right and lay a foundation for growth.

Founder of a start-up or small business and wanting to expand, but unsure how to start hiring?

Recruitment 101 gives you the essential recruitment building blocks you need to hire with confidence from day one, from job descriptions and interview guides to GDPR-safe processes.

You’ll walk away with the tools, templates and know-how to attract the right candidates, assess them fairly, and make your first hires successful, cost-effective, and repeatable.

Define

Get clarity on what you’re looking for & your recruitment goals

Attract

Clear job requirements & adverts that reach the right candidates

Assess

Consistent, fair interviews that improve candidate experience and predict performance

Hire

Employ the right people at the right time for your business.

What You Get With a Startup Hiring Coach

  • Coaching on the end‑to‑end recruitment process and recruitment best practices
  • Clarity on the required skills, attributes and person specification to grow your business
  • Bespoke interview questions, guides, and practical assessment guides to identitfy the right candidate
  • Agency management toolkit and model terms
  • Salary benchmarking, offer negotiation, employment contract templates, PLUS  onboarding checklist

Recruitment 101 gives founders a simple, compliant recruitment plan and hiring strategy to attract, assess and hire the right person the first time.

What you can expect from working together.

My approach to Recruitment 101 is not only to give you my advice on Talent Acquisition but to coach you to understand and build out your recruitment process so that you can repeat the process again and again for future hires. I want to make sure you have the tools and resources required to take control of hiring for your business.

So, what does this look like in practice?

During the ‘Define’ part of our engagement, we will define what it is you really need in your business to build out the job description and determine what the person specification looks like. From here, we will identify the key technical skills and human skills you’re looking for and develop the job description – this will be the foundation for the ‘Assess’ stage.

To ‘Attract’ the right candidate’s you need a separate job advert and then the right channels to advertise on. We will make sure that we identify the key routes to market that will connect with the candidates you want. Whether that’s through online advertising platforms, networks or communities or through recruitment agencies, we will ensure you get the right people applying for your role.

The ‘Assess’ stage is a critical part of the recruitment process. We will use the information we gathered in the ‘Define’ stage to develop your candidate screening criteria, interview question guides and feedback templates – ensuring all information is captured and stored compliantly.

Now all that’s left to do is ‘Hire’.

Over a matter of days you will be equipped with the tools and resources you need to hire now and a scalable foundation for the future.

 

Where to Find our Startup Hiring Coach

MK Talent Advisory is based in Norfolk and delivers high-quality recruitment strategy services across the UK to both new businesses and established companies. Our talent advisory challenges issues that many small businesses face when getting started with recruitment, and we build scalable recruitment foundations to help UK businesses reach future goals.

Ready to build recruitment foundations for successful outcomes?

Mel is a talent acquisition coach in the UK and she helped me so much with recruiting my first hire in my business! I’d recommend her for anyone looking to get advice on what to look for in recruiting, I feel so much more confident now after working with her.

Alia Butler-Simmonds

We first came to work with Mel as part of the NNDC Go Digital programme, Mel is one of the independent advisors that support small businesses in the area. Mel was great to work with from the initial welcome email to the end of the programme, Mel is a great communicator, clear support in terms of next steps and advice to help us achieve our goals, Would highly recommend, you will not be disappointed…

Jonathan Bossley

I work as the Head of Recruitment for a life sciences SAAS scaleup. Mel partnered with our TA and HR team to help overhaul our Recruitment and talent management strategy. She provided a clear and comprehensive plan that was delivered successfully on time and within the agreed-upon budget. She quickly understood our problems and, over three months, completely transformed our working processes into more efficient, cohesive, and cross-functional ones. I would not hesitate to recommend Mel’s services to any internal TA function. Thank you!

Mike Difford

Mel’s detailed approach and knowledge of processes really stood out in what she assisted with and guided us into.

Debbie Joseph

Mel has been exceptionally generous in helping me understand the recruitment and talent acquisition considerations relating to my business’s expansion. Her advice and skills are valuable, and I have no hesitation in recommending her services whatsoever.

Robert Lowton

MK Talent Advisory delivered exceptional results on our recent project! Mel’s HR tech and TA expertise is top-notch. We were so impressed that we’ve continued on a retained basis. Highly recommend.

Morgan Russell

Mel has been a great support in shortlisting the right calibre of candidates for our business. We have interviewed a number of candidates and now have found the right person to fill our role. Thanks Mel for being tenacious!

Josh G