Talent Acquisition and Research Solutions

Helping you make better people decisionsM-Talent provides talent acquisition solutions for small, medium

enterprises.

M-Talent have been reducing our clients reliance on agencies,

Search & Selection, Media and RPO through a balanced framework

of talent research, intelligence, sourcing and insight.

M-Talent uses highly-developed research and mapping skills to

gather intelligence and information about the people, organizations

and markets of interest to you-complementing and enhancing their

sourcing and talent management strategies.

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M-Talent provides an innovative and cost effective way to attract

and retain the best available Executives, Senior Managers,

Professionals and Technical Specialists on a UK, European and

Global basis through a daily rate rather than a % fee.

M-Talent provides our clients with a dedicated talent research

team with sector knowledge and deep understanding of the

challenges facing our HR, Resourcing and Transformation clients.

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Mapping to produce an in-depth analysis

of competitor activity, rewards & benefits,

perception audits and labour market

assessment.

Identifying and engaging talent for specific

senior, specialist or hard-to-fill roles

across the world.

Developing a pipeline of talent

to meet short-term and strategic

hiring needs.

Providing real-time data to

shape and inform strategic decision

making processes.

Talent Intelligence

Talent Research

Talent Sourcing

Organisational Insight

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our ambition

We seek to partner with progressive organisational leaders and

HR professionals who recognise the need for a fresh approach to

strategic resourcing. People who are dismayed by the expensive

fees charged by traditional head-hunters, recruitment agencies and

RPO providers – often with disappointing results. Visionaries who

want to combine real-time market intelligence with inspirational

new thinking about talent acquisition.

our passion

To become the obvious choice for talent insight solutions

To continually redefine and exceed client expectations

To always strive to be better and continuously improve

To have a reputation for unmatched quality & reliable delivery - on

time and within budget

To be renowned for innovation, creativity and adding real value

To be known as engaging people who act with integrity

philosophy We’re on a mission to transform the way organisations identify and

engage the people they need to deliver a measurable, sustainable

improvement in organisational effectiveness.

our purpose

‘To become the leading talent research and organisational

insight partner serving the needs of organisational effectiveness,

transformation, talent management, resourcing and strategy

professionals with a UK, European and global remit.’

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approach

While our ultimate aim is to help you hire and retain better people

– we’re not a recruitment company. On the contrary, we’re a

research and insight consultancy that provides an efficient and

cost effective alternative to the expense of recruitment agencies,

consultants and RPO providers.

There are many differences. For a start, we focus on mapping the

high-performers who aren’t visible in the marketplace - the people

who can make a real difference to your organisation. Typically they

aren’t actively looking to move, so they’re not on a CV database or

talking to consultants.

Also, we don’t just focus on filling immediate openings. Our aim is

to use the insight we gather for your long term benefit.

So all the information we gather is used to create a sustainable

pipeline of high-performing people to meet both your current and

future opportunities. And we mean ‘all’. With no database of our

own, everything we do is solely for the purpose of building your

talent network.

What’s more, we don’t charge placement fees arbitrarily based

on a percentage of salary. We work on a retained fee that is a

straightforward reflection of the number of days our researchers

are focussed on your needs. And there are no little extras for

project management, scoping, reporting or the like.

Structure, process and previous experience are at the heart of

any successful research assignment, however we recognise the

need for flexibility. So we don’t have a ‘one-size-fits-all’ solution.

Our service is modular, providing total flexibility to design and

tailor a bespoke solution that exactly matches your individual

requirements.

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talent research If, like many people, you have a growing sense of unease about

engaging search consultants or recruitment agencies to find

you the really high-performing people who can transform your

organisation – we can help.

Experts in identifying and mapping the very best Executives, Senior

Managers, Professionals and Technical Specialists, we’re helping

many of the world’s leading corporations hire better people at a

significant reduction to traditional costs.

Talent Research is an innovative and cost effective way to discover

key individuals with in-demand skill sets. Our approach finds

both the high-performing individuals that aren’t visible in the

marketplace and not actively looking for a career change – as

well as those seeking a new challenge. This highly tuned, flexible

approach is proven to provide a real advantage to organisations

competing for the new hires who are ‘best in class’ and not just

the ‘best in process’.

Our service is entirely configurable to meet your specific needs on

a project-by-project basis and can include:

• Names identification

• Organisational & functional mapping

• Candidate approach

• Sifting & interviewing

• Psychometric testing & assessment

• Scheduling and correspondence

• Offer management

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talent intelligence Now, more than ever before, talent management decisions define

the success of initiatives to improve organisational effectiveness.

The need for real-time knowledge and intelligence to shape and

enhance the people decision-making processes is therefore of

paramount importance.

Our unique ability to look outside your organisation, and often

‘inside’ your competitors – enables M-Talent to provide you with

a clear window on your talent landscape. Using web, telephone

and face-to-face research skills, honed over the last decade, and

constantly refreshed to reflect the latest technological innovations,

we transform empirical data and collated information into

powerful talent insights.

Our broad range of services includes:

• Market mapping & organisational profiling

• Labour market assessment

• Competitor activity analysis

• Salary, reward and benefits surveys

• Perception audits

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talent sourcing Talent Sourcing is an innovative solution that can help you

transform your approach to strategic resourcing through the

creation of a sustainable pipeline of talent to meet current and

future hiring needs. Developed over recent years, it is a direct

response to the demands of progressive organisations looking

for a paradigm shift in recruitment practice. Tired of expensive

and time-consuming activities that often lead to unsatisfactory

appointments they are rightly calling for a fresh, effective

alternative to job boards, consultancies, agencies and RPO

providers.

Our approach applies the very latest online sourcing

methodologies combined with advances in telephone-based

research to identify and map high-performing individuals - and

to reach out and engage them in a mutually beneficial career

dialogue. Underpinned by the latest innovations in Candidate

Relationship Management software (CRM), we’re helping our

clients build career-long relationships with key individuals to

ensure there is already a powerful rapport established when

appropriate positions occur.

This modular, totally flexible solution is designed to either

provide overspill support for in-house teams to cope with

peaks in demand or as an outsourced solution for all or part of

the process.

Key activities include:

• Market analysis and mapping

• Talent network creation

• Audience research

• Talent pool development

• Assessment & selection

• Talent bank management

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organisational insight We help our clients build and execute competitive advantage

through intelligent and thoughtful organisational insight.

Our clients use our services to provide real-time data to help

shape their performance improvement strategies through a deeper

understanding of competitor ‘best practices’. Opening a window

on to the external world we deliver answers to the toughest

organisational design, effectiveness and transformation questions.

More information about our wider organisational insight solutions

can be found at writeinsight.co.uk.

From a strategic resourcing perspective, we can shine a light on

the structures, strategies, techniques and technology that ‘best-

in-class’ organisations are adopting to deliver a transformational

improvement in resourcing practice.

We can provide a valuable insight into:

• the optimum organisational structure for your internal

Resourcing function

• role design within your team

• the evaluation of alternative delivery approaches (in-house,

outsourced, offshored or hybrid)

• effective direct sourcing strategies

• application of technology solutions (ATS/CRM/HRMS)

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sectors Our depth of experience and breadth of knowledge enables our

research methodologies to deliver across a number of diverse

sectors. As a consequence we have developed a team that

contains consultants and researchers with expertise across a wide

range of areas, including:

• banking and financial services

• energy and utilities

• manufacturing and engineering

• retail, distribution and logistics

• technology, media and telecommunications

• pharmaceuticals

• food and drink

• legal, consulting and professional services

• further and higher education

• charities and local government

The nature of our work often makes client confidentiality

important - however we’re proud to be associated with some of

the largest, most successful corporations in the world, undertaking

projects on every continent.

While the geographic distribution of assignments vary, as a general

rule, around half our work is in the UK, with the other half shared

across Europe, US, Russia, Asia, China and Australia.

Functionally, our expertise spans the full spectrum of Executive,

Senior Management, Professional and Technical roles.

Key specialisms include, but are not limited to:

Sales & Marketing, HR, IT, Engineering, Buying, E-Commerce,

R&D, General Management, Finance, Operations, R&D and

Change Management.

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NEWCASTLE

M-Talent Ltd

24 Apex Business Village

Annitsford, Cramlington

Northumberland

NE23 7BF

Telephone: +44 (0)191 250 4957

Fax: +44 (0)191 250 4841

Email: inbox@m-talent.co.uk

LONDON

M-Talent Ltd

1 Northumberland Avenue

Trafalgar Square

London

WC2N 5BW

Email: inbox@m-talent.co.uk

LEEDS

M-Talent Ltd

Jason House, Kerry Hill

Horsforth

Leeds

LS18 4JR

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