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Welcome to the smarter way to build your workforce & hire exceptional people 🎯

Tech-enabled, flexible recruitment services for fast moving companies with a high bar for talent.

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Grow smarter, leaner and more sustainably

In 2015, we started out supporting London’s technology & innovation start-up ecosystem. We’ve now delivered hiring success and workforce agility to over 200 early stage technology companies, impact ventures, cutting edge consulting firms & specialist agencies across Europe, working as part of their team.

Recruitment agencies are expensive and growing your talent team is a risk. Our flexible solutions seamlessly slot into your world, helping you optimise all stages of the talent acquisition lifecycle precisely when you need it.

Get ready to drive talent quality up, acquisition costs down and margins 🚀


What Canda can do for you

From seed to category lead, our service stack meets the complete needs of modern, talent hungry businesses building the future.

Whether we're working as your entire talent function, or to enhance your existing department; our guarantee is we'll achieve your hiring outcomes, amplify your story and you’ll have a stronger ecosystem of talent moving forward.

Permanent Workforce:

Embedded Talent Partners
Embedded Search
Employer Brand & Talent Attraction
RPO

Flexible Workforce:

MSP (Master, Neutral, Hybrid Vendor)
Vendor Management System
Specialist Freelancers & Fractional CxO
Payroll & Compliance Management
               



All the recruitment infrastructure you need to make talent your unfair advantage.

✅ Our Capabilities: To ensure seamless integration, we activate our 4 x pillars under your brand (in-house) and combine hands on, dedicated support through our own people, playbooks and proprietary tools, with our ecosystem connectivity to a world class network of vendors.

✅ Squad Model: We break down your hiring challenges into component parts and build a dedicated team to meet your needs. Talent Directors own your strategy & performance, specialist Talent Partner(s) across Tech, Creative, Commercial & Ops own your delivery. All supercharged by Canda's tooling & centralised resources across branding, sourcing and supply chain.

✅ Transparent Pricing & Peace of Mind: All of our solutions have simple, open book pricing and come underpinned by a service contract with performance guarantees. Have full confidence that you can always shift the accountability to execute your vision to a strong partner.

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We become you; embedding our specialist talent partners into your team to meet specific capacity or capability gaps.

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Creating powerful marketing campaigns to simultaneously showcase your culture and generate interest in your opportunities.

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Our Talent Partners are powered by the latest hiring & talent intelligence tools to give you the advantage of reaching and engaging candidates others can't.

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Through our solutions, our Talent Partners have access to a curated ecosystem of the best specialist suppliers at discounted rates due to our purchasing power.

               

Make access to Talent your superpower. Keep ahead of skills demand.

50-70% of the 'total workforce' will be temporary by 2030. The permanent hiring market will see a 23% churn in the next 5 years (+69 million jobs and -83 million jobs). 44% of niche technical skills are already being majorly disrupted.

There's no time like the present to build a strong, lean workforce, fit for the future.....and a sophisticated partner with ready-made infrastructure can make it happen.

Talent Team Agility Workforce Agility

Without Canda

Increased recruitment agency spend

Key roles remain unfilled

Team operationally stressed

With Canda

Hiring managers get their time back; no need to self-manage

We hire every role directly, saving unwanted recruitment fees

We keep things moving; average time-to-hire of 42 days & 8.7 Quality of Hire

Without Canda

Lack of spend visibility across the business

Excessive recruitment agency costs & reliance

A contingent workforce that is not lawfully compliant

With Canda

Cost savings.
Direct sourcing of all hiring types

Supply chain optimisation.
Transparent, standardised contracts & mark-up structures

100% compliance.
Fully audited & insured

Permanent Flexible

Why companies choose us?

We’re a team of goal-oriented and energetic in-house talent partners.

Our #1 business goal is to deliver customer impact through hiring success & workforce agility.

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Supercharge your in-house team through our customised solutions

Sourcing only

From £2,500 p/m

Monthly subscription

Immediate start

For companies that want to maximise the productivity of their recruiters with sourcing support (c.40% of their role) and develop overflowing pipelines!

FAQ's

It’s quite common for a Talent partner to only have 5-7 hours per week to source whilst it should be 40%+ of activity. We offer 35 hours per week dedicated sourcing support to work top of funnel and make sure your pipeline always has 20+ candidates in play.
Bi-monthly subscription
Your talent team briefs our sourcers (daily or weekly) on roles and they approach, engage and screen talent to meet your requirements. Depending on complexity of role, aiming to add 2-5 qualified and interested candidates to the pipeline per day
£2,500 - £5,000 fixed price per month depending on specialism required
You - all candidates are submitted to your ATS or we can work inside your ATS
3 days from kick-off call to commencing sourcing
Workable, Team Tailor, Greenhouse, Lever, Smart Recruiters, Workday
No, we have our own sourcing tools so no need to buy licences or sign up to lengthy commitments. However we are more than happy to use yours if you want total visibility

Embedded talent

From £5,995 p/m

3 month minimum commitment

Immediate start

For companies that want to augment additional talent partner capacity or specialist capability into their team to met a short-medium term peak in hiring.

FAQ's

A dedicated Talent Partner that implants into your team, supercharged by centralised sourcing & employer brand support and the latest hiring tools to get the best results
3, 6, 9 or 12 months
Engineering, Product, GTM, Sales, Marketing, Data, Operations, People and Finance
You let us know the roles, volume and timeframes that you need in-house support for and we will identify the best Talent Parter and tools for the assignment. The service is spearheaded by the dedicated Talent Partner and is inclusive of all hiring tools (Linkedin licences, job slots, variety of sourcing platforms etc)
We agree on a maximum requisition load our Talent Partner will carry at any given time and once a role is closed, you can launch another. This is purely so we can offer transparency, have protection on the load our Talent partners are managing and to allocate the correct resources vs work.
A fixed monthly service cost. Our pricing is linked to how many live roles you need us to manage and the target hiring cadence per month. No additional costs unless it’s determined in the sales process that niche sourcing platforms or advertising channels are required.
It depends on the complexity of the project but typically 1 x Talent Partner can hire 3-4 people PCM within our model. We expect to impact hiring after a 1 month ramp up.
No additional cost. If your business can recruit really efficiently, you benefit from making as many hires as you want.
You. All recruitment and candidate activity is captured within your systems. We develop your own talent pools for future use.
We don’t use freelancers. All of our team are permanent, invested and trained in our recruitment philosophy.
Onboarding is led by our Head of Customer and will require c. 4 hours customer time to set the team up for success and accelerate the speed to impact.
Every customer is assigned a CRM (Head of Talent level) to manage the customer relationship, the performance of the team and be the escalation point for any issues. We closely monitor the data, spot early if something is not on track and intervene to course correct any underperformance. The HOT will not get involved in "Talent Projects" unless you specifically ask for our help on something and a day rate will be agreed. That said we will always look for weak points in your TA lifecycle and make recommendations, leaving you in an even stronger position.
The beauty of our model. If circumstances change, typically we need 10 days to dial the support up or down and we require anywhere between 1 - 8 weeks notice to terminate.
Workable, Team Tailor, Greenhouse, Lever, Smart Recruiters, Workday

Project RPO

From £25,000

10 hires minimum

2 weeks to mobilise squad

For companies with a one-off hiring project to meet the demands of a specific location, function or program, e.g. expanding into new locations + building new teams.

FAQ's

You brief us on the scope of a hiring project or challenge you are facing and we will propose an in-house talent solution that allows you to fully outsource the accountability of delivering against those needs. We combine people, process and technology to supercharge your existing team
3 - 12 months
We agree to a fixed price and timeline. All work is guided by a project plan, milestones and deliverables. We place an element of our revenue “at risk” to incentivise performance, as well as continued support at our own expense if deadlines are not met
Each project has a bespoke implementation & delivery plan and is led by our Head of Customer. Typically it takes us 2 x weeks to set up the campaign and mobilise our team

Talent partnership

From £15,000 p/m

12 month commitment & minimum of 50 hires

Up to 6 weeks to mobilise the team

For companies that want a high-quality talent acquisition function but don't want the risk of building and managing the team.

FAQ's

Talent Strategy, Talent Insights, Talent Attraction, Employer Branding, Recruitment Marketing, Content Creation, Manager Training, DE&I, Process Design, Tech Stack procurement
12 months+
You brief us on your forecasted annual hiring needs and we will build, operate and manage a best in class in-house recruitment function on your behalf that has built in scalability to handle market volatility
We have a tried and tested “discover, build, hire” implementation framework that is led by our Head of Customer and delivered over a 6 week period
Yes, all of our solutions are supported by centralised resources that can shift across our portfolio to handle peaks in hiring demands
We have a variety of pricing models to suit different needs, ranging from fixed price per hire to all encompassing fixed monthly management charges

Embedded search

20% of starting salary

8 - 10 week hiring sprints

Immediate start

For companies that have a complex and urgent senior hire that requires a headhunting methodology and approach, but don’t want to pay unnecessary executive search fees.

FAQ's

Whilst this is more aligned to traditional search practices, we're confident it's better, cheaper and faster than traditional methods. It differs from our core hiring model but still maintains the core in-house principles. We de-risk the process and cost by taking a milestone based approach. The milestone based model will give you acceptable check-points to walk away if you feel it's not the right solution, but this is very rare!
Our pricing is always linked to our cost base and a fair margin for the work we carry out as we do it, as opposed to sales motivations, performance fees and chunky commissions. Keeping to the in-house principles, we also ensure that our delivery leads are dedicated to you and not working on 5+ other searches, affording them the time needed to focus solely on you, iterating the way to a successful outcome
Head of, Director, SVP, VP or Lead
£85k - £175k basic salary
20% of starting salary; fee charged in two instalments linked to 1) set-up & sourcing and 2) start date
1) Set up & Sourcing: 1 hr consultation (JD qualification, assessment criteria, best way to shape process) | Creation of shared document to manage profiles | Long list build & calibration | 100+ personal outreach | 20+ screenings (vacancy pitch, must-haves, motivations, enthusiastic about the mission and wants to meet the founder) | 5 candidate shortlist

2) Shortlist acceptance and intro request: Coordination of all assessment stages | Detailed interview feedback, pay expectations and probability of converting | Offer strategy & management

3) Successful hire: Pre-boarding care | seamless handover to people team

Sourcing only

From £2,500 p/m

Monthly subscription

Immediate start

For companies that want to maximise the productivity of their recruiters with sourcing support (c.40% of their role) and develop overflowing pipelines!

FAQ's

It’s quite common for a Talent partner to only have 5-7 hours per week to source whilst it should be 40%+ of activity. We offer 35 hours per week dedicated sourcing support to work top of funnel and make sure your pipeline always has 20+ candidates in play.
Bi-monthly subscription
Your talent team briefs our sourcers (daily or weekly) on roles and they approach, engage and screen talent to meet your requirements. Depending on complexity of role, aiming to add 2-5 qualified and interested candidates to the pipeline per day
£2,500 - £5,000 fixed price per month depending on specialism required
You - all candidates are submitted to your ATS or we can work inside your ATS
3 days from kick-off call to commencing sourcing
Workable, Team Tailor, Greenhouse, Lever, Smart Recruiters, Workday
No, we have our own sourcing tools so no need to buy licences or sign up to lengthy commitments. However we are more than happy to use yours if you want total visibility

Embedded talent

From £5,995 p/m

3 month minimum commitment

Immediate start

For companies that want to augment additional talent partner capacity or specialist capability into their team to met a short-medium term peak in hiring.

FAQ's

A dedicated Talent Partner that implants into your team, supercharged by centralised sourcing & employer brand support and the latest hiring tools to get the best results
3, 6, 9 or 12 months
Engineering, Product, GTM, Sales, Marketing, Data, Operations, People and Finance
You let us know the roles, volume and timeframes that you need in-house support for and we will identify the best Talent Parter and tools for the assignment. The service is spearheaded by the dedicated Talent Partner and is inclusive of all hiring tools (Linkedin licences, job slots, variety of sourcing platforms etc)
We agree on a maximum requisition load our Talent Partner will carry at any given time and once a role is closed, you can launch another. This is purely so we can offer transparency, have protection on the load our Talent partners are managing and to allocate the correct resources vs work.
A fixed monthly service cost. Our pricing is linked to how many live roles you need us to manage and the target hiring cadence per month. No additional costs unless it’s determined in the sales process that niche sourcing platforms or advertising channels are required.
It depends on the complexity of the project but typically 1 x Talent Partner can hire 3-4 people PCM within our model. We expect to impact hiring after a 1 month ramp up.
No additional cost. If your business can recruit really efficiently, you benefit from making as many hires as you want.
You. All recruitment and candidate activity is captured within your systems. We develop your own talent pools for future use.
We don’t use freelancers. All of our team are permanent, invested and trained in our recruitment philosophy.
Onboarding is led by our Head of Customer and will require c. 4 hours customer time to set the team up for success and accelerate the speed to impact.
Every customer is assigned a CRM (Head of Talent level) to manage the customer relationship, the performance of the team and be the escalation point for any issues. We closely monitor the data, spot early if something is not on track and intervene to course correct any underperformance. The HOT will not get involved in "Talent Projects" unless you specifically ask for our help on something and a day rate will be agreed. That said we will always look for weak points in your TA lifecycle and make recommendations, leaving you in an even stronger position.
The beauty of our model. If circumstances change, typically we need 10 days to dial the support up or down and we require anywhere between 1 - 8 weeks notice to terminate.
Workable, Team Tailor, Greenhouse, Lever, Smart Recruiters, Workday

Project RPO

From £25,000

10 hires minimum

2 weeks to mobilise squad

For companies with a one-off hiring project to meet the demands of a specific location, function or program, e.g. expanding into new locations + building new teams.

FAQ's

You brief us on the scope of a hiring project or challenge you are facing and we will propose an in-house talent solution that allows you to fully outsource the accountability of delivering against those needs. We combine people, process and technology to supercharge your existing team
3 - 12 months
We agree to a fixed price and timeline. All work is guided by a project plan, milestones and deliverables. We place an element of our revenue “at risk” to incentivise performance, as well as continued support at our own expense if deadlines are not met
Each project has a bespoke implementation & delivery plan and is led by our Head of Customer. Typically it takes us 2 x weeks to set up the campaign and mobilise our team

Talent partnership

From £15,000 p/m

12 month commitment & minimum of 50 hires

Up to 6 weeks to mobilise the team

For companies that want a high-quality talent acquisition function but don't want the risk of building and managing the team.

FAQ's

Talent Strategy, Talent Insights, Talent Attraction, Employer Branding, Recruitment Marketing, Content Creation, Manager Training, DE&I, Process Design, Tech Stack procurement
12 months+
You brief us on your forecasted annual hiring needs and we will build, operate and manage a best in class in-house recruitment function on your behalf that has built in scalability to handle market volatility
We have a tried and tested “discover, build, hire” implementation framework that is led by our Head of Customer and delivered over a 6 week period
Yes, all of our solutions are supported by centralised resources that can shift across our portfolio to handle peaks in hiring demands
We have a variety of pricing models to suit different needs, ranging from fixed price per hire to all encompassing fixed monthly management charges

Embedded search

20% of starting salary

8 - 10 week hiring sprints

Immediate start

For companies that have a complex and urgent senior hire that requires a headhunting methodology and approach, but don’t want to pay unnecessary executive search fees.

FAQ's

Whilst this is more aligned to traditional search practices, we're confident it's better, cheaper and faster than traditional methods. It differs from our core hiring model but still maintains the core in-house principles. We de-risk the process and cost by taking a milestone based approach. The milestone based model will give you acceptable check-points to walk away if you feel it's not the right solution, but this is very rare!
Our pricing is always linked to our cost base and a fair margin for the work we carry out as we do it, as opposed to sales motivations, performance fees and chunky commissions. Keeping to the in-house principles, we also ensure that our delivery leads are dedicated to you and not working on 5+ other searches, affording them the time needed to focus solely on you, iterating the way to a successful outcome
Head of, Director, SVP, VP or Lead
£85k - £175k basic salary
20% of starting salary; fee charged in two instalments linked to 1) set-up & sourcing and 2) start date
1) Set up & Sourcing: 1 hr consultation (JD qualification, assessment criteria, best way to shape process) | Creation of shared document to manage profiles | Long list build & calibration | 100+ personal outreach | 20+ screenings (vacancy pitch, must-haves, motivations, enthusiastic about the mission and wants to meet the founder) | 5 candidate shortlist

2) Shortlist acceptance and intro request: Coordination of all assessment stages | Detailed interview feedback, pay expectations and probability of converting | Offer strategy & management

3) Successful hire: Pre-boarding care | seamless handover to people team
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