Workforce Solutions
Know whether the hiring plan is achievable — before you commit
Most headcount plans are built in a spreadsheet and tested in the market a quarter too late. We bring real talent market data to the plan while it is still a plan: what exists, where, at what cost, and how long it will take.
Is this the right engagement for you?
- Leadership teams building an annual or multi-year headcount plan
- Companies deciding where to locate a new team or centre
- Organizations whose hiring consistently misses its targets
- HR and TA leaders who need to make a case with data
The problems this work exists to fix
01
Plans built without market reality
We test the plan against actual talent availability and compensation data before budgets are locked.
02
Hiring that misses its dates
Realistic time-to-hire modelling by role and market, so delivery commitments are based on when people can actually start.
03
No shared hiring standard
We help define the assessment bar, the interview process and the decision criteria so hiring quality is consistent across teams.
A process you can see into
- 01
Understand
business plan, delivery commitments and the headcount implied by both.
- 02
Map
talent availability, compensation benchmarks and competitor activity in the target markets.
- 03
Engage
stress-test the plan with the leadership team and identify the constraints.
- 04
Deliver
a costed, sequenced hiring plan with realistic timelines by role.
- 05
Build
hiring process, assessment frameworks and reporting to run against it.
What we hire under this practice
- Annual & multi-year headcount planning
- Location & market strategy
- Compensation benchmarking
- Talent market intelligence
- Interview & assessment design
- TA process and reporting design
How we can work together
Advisory project
A scoped, fixed-fee engagement delivering a specific plan, benchmark or framework.
Ongoing advisory
A retained arrangement giving your leadership team continuous access to market intelligence and hiring guidance.
Why clients bring this work to us
Advice from a practitioner who still runs live searches, not from a slide deck.
Real compensation and availability data from current mandates.
Every recommendation is something we can then help you execute.
Have a mandate in Workforce Solutions?
Send us the brief and we will come back with a view on how to run it — including whether we think we are the right partner for it.