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RPO & Embedded Talent

Your Hiring Function. Our People. Fully Embedded.

Most internal hiring teams are built for steady state. A mine entering construction phase, a battery metals company scaling across three new markets, an energy developer mobilising a project team in 90 days, that is a different problem, and it needs a different answer.

Our embedded RPO model puts experienced sector specialists inside your business, using your systems, attending your meetings, accountable to your timeline. HR stays fully across every decision. The recruitment load shifts. The visibility and control stay exactly where they should be.

We have delivered across greenfield builds and brownfield expansions, from single-country hiring campaigns to 500-person project ramp-ups spanning multiple jurisdictions across Africa, the Middle East and Asia.

20+
Average hires per RPO engagement
87%
Offer acceptance rate
4 weeks
Average time to first placement
6 continents
Delivered across

How We Engage

Project RPO

Full embedded hiring function for construction-phase and project ramp-up. Ideal for greenfield builds, brownfield expansions and capital projects mobilising fast across one or multiple jurisdictions. We take on the full hiring load while your HR team retains complete oversight and decision authority.

Focused Embedded Hiring

For growing teams that need a dedicated hiring partner without the overhead of a full RPO engagement. One specialist embedded into your business, working your systems, building real relationships with your hiring managers. Right-sized for teams scaling steadily rather than rapidly.

Multi-Country Workforce Build

Complex hiring programmes spanning multiple geographies, languages and labour law frameworks simultaneously. We coordinate centrally while deploying specialists who understand the local hiring realities in each market. Built for operators expanding across Africa, the Middle East or Central Asia.

Change & Transition Hiring

Restructures, leadership transitions, post-acquisition integration and operational turnarounds all create urgent, sensitive hiring needs. We work discreetly alongside HR and leadership teams to fill critical gaps fast, without disrupting business continuity.

Micro-RPO

Right-sized embedded support for targeted, time-bound hiring needs, localisation programmes, succession planning, or focused volume campaigns that don't require a full project deployment. A single specialist embedded with your team, combining AI-assisted talent mapping with genuine on-the-ground market reach. Built for precision, not scale.

Every Engagement Starts With a Hiring Review

Before we place a single person, one of our senior specialists works alongside your HR team to understand exactly where the hiring pressure sits, what's working, where the bottlenecks are, and what your hiring managers actually need from the process. This isn't an audit of your HR function. It's a practical working session that lets us hit the ground running rather than spending your first weeks getting up to speed. The output is a clear picture of how to deploy our support in a way that makes an immediate difference, so HR can focus on the broader people agenda, and we handle the recruitment load from day one.

Included as standard in every RPO engagement at no additional cost.

How Embedded RPO Works

01
We Audit Before We Assume

Before anyone opens a brief, we work alongside your HR team to understand what's actually going on. What's worked, where the friction is, what your hiring managers genuinely need.

02
Sector Specialists, Not Generalists

The people we embed know your industry, FIFO structures, local content obligations, what a construction-phase hire demands versus steady-state. They represent your business as if they're part of it.

03
HR Stays Fully Across Everything

Every shortlist, every offer, every process decision shared in real time. We carry the execution. The oversight stays precisely where it belongs.

04
We Leave the Place Better Than We Found It

Processes documented, pipelines built, frameworks left behind. The next ramp-up starts from a stronger position.

Capabilities & Examples

Renewable Energy Developer | Scale-Up | EMEA

Embedded talent partner engaged as the company scaled from 12 to 60 people across multiple EMEA markets. Full hiring function delivered including sourcing, assessment, offer management, and onboarding coordination, without the cost of building an internal TA team.

Mining Project Ramp-Up | 20+ Hires | 6 Months

RPO engagement for a major mining project entering construction phase. 20+ hires across engineering, HSE, commercial, and project management functions delivered within 6 months. Embedded recruiter working directly alongside the project leadership team.

AI Technology Scaleup | 3 European Markets

Embedded talent partner for a high-growth AI technology company scaling across Europe. Roles spanned data science, engineering, commercial, and executive functions. Hiring processes built from scratch and talent brand developed alongside the business.

Focused Embedded Talent | Growing Energy Team | Middle East

Targeted embedded solution for a mid-size energy company without internal TA resource. 8 specialist hires delivered across technical and commercial functions over 4 months. Fully flexible engagement, scaled down on project completion.

Greenfield Mine Build | West Africa | 65 Hires in 4 Months

A junior miner entering construction phase in Guinea needed a full site leadership and technical team built from a standing start, no internal TA function, no hiring infrastructure. Embedded specialist placed on the ground in week one. 65 hires delivered across 4 months spanning engineering, HSE, processing and project management. 91% still in role twelve months later.

Battery Metals Scaleup | Australia & Asia | 40 Hires over 18 Months

A lithium and battery materials company scaling rapidly across Australia and Southeast Asia needed a full hiring function, not just a recruiter. Process built from scratch, structured interviewing introduced across technical and commercial functions, 40 hires delivered with a 94% offer acceptance rate. The internal TA framework they subsequently built was structured around what we left behind.

Brownfield Expansion | Three African Countries | 120 Hires in 8 Months

A tier-one mining company expanding operations across three countries simultaneously, different languages, different labour laws, different local hiring realities in each. Embedded specialists deployed across each geography, coordinating centrally and reporting weekly to a single HR Director. 120 hires completed in under 8 months. Local talent represented 68% of all placements, significantly ahead of the company's own local content targets.

Energy Infrastructure | Qatar | 30 Specialist Hires

An energy infrastructure developer needed 30 specialist hires in a 5-month window, technical, commercial and project management roles requiring Arabic language capability or specific GCC market experience. Bilingual embedded recruiter placed. All 30 hires delivered within timeline. No external agency spend outside this engagement across the full period.

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