We find the person. You make them yours.

Recruitment, with the employment left to you

Direct Hire covers the whole search. We take your brief, look for remote candidates who match it and introduce the strongest. Once you've picked someone, you make the offer and they join your company as your own employee or contractor.

From day one the relationship is between the two of you. Their pay, management and terms are in your hands.

Where Direct Hire makes sense

Good signs:

• You already employ people in your hire's country, or you're set up to pay contractors there.
• You want them on your own books from the start.
• Your HR and payroll are in place, and finding the right candidate is the gap.

Look elsewhere if: you'd rather we handled pay and HR (Managed Service), you've already chosen the person (Employer of Record), or there's a run of roles to fill over the coming months (RPO).

How a search runs

1. 1

   Shape the brief. Skills, tools, working hours and how the person will fit in.

2. 2

   Search, test and check. We look widely and put forward only the few who fit. Each one has been tested on work drawn from your brief and has passed background and reference checks. First introductions usually come within a few days.

3. 3

   Interview and decide. You meet the shortlist, with our notes on each candidate, and choose. We can support the offer conversation if that helps.

4. 4

   Hand over. Your hire signs with you and starts on your terms.

A single fee, paid at the start date

The fee is set by the role and its scope, and we explain it before the search begins. You pay it once, when your hire starts, and that's the only charge from us for the search.

Covered by the fee:

• Help shaping the brief
• Sourcing, screening and practical testing
• Background and reference checks
• A shortlist with notes on each candidate
• Interview scheduling and help through the offer

What affects it: seniority, how specialized the skills are, and the market you're hiring in.

Splitting the work

What you're signing up to

• Employer: you, with the person as an employee or a contractor. That choice is yours.
• Pay: you pay your hire directly.
• Our fee: due once, on the start date.
• Afterwards: the working relationship belongs to you, and we're here when the next role comes up.

The search agreement sets out every term, and we go through it together before the search begins.

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Any role we recruit for can be hired directly, including Executive Assistants, Business Development Managers, Accountants, UI/UX Designers and HR Operations Managers.

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