Talent Seed

Talent Seed provides recruitment support for small and medium-sized businesses, offering outsourced recruitment, online training and do-it-yourself hiring toolkits. Clients can have it manage the whole hiring process, hand over parts such as ad writing, CV culling and phone screening, or run recruitment themselves with its guidance. It advertises under the client's brand rather than its own.

Talent Seed charges by time rather than by placement, and says its final bill is generally around a third of what a recruitment agency charges. Its principal has recruitment experience across nine countries, and the company says its focus is on fit with a client's culture and values. Online recruitment courses on interviewing and the recruitment process are delivered in partnership with The Wise Advice Academy, and it offers standardised toolkits for admin and customer services roles.

It recruits for industries including logistics, manufacturing, retail, online and digital, financial, trades and not-for-profits, in roles such as warehousing, machinists, cabinetmakers, builders, plumbers, customer services, administration and sales and marketing. It does not take on highly specialised roles such as medical positions.