Mitch King

About

If my Grandmother was still alive and asked what I did for work, I’d say that I help Startup & Tech companies find great people to hire. Having worked as the Founding Recruiter inside Startups and lead Talent Acquisition processes & strategy, I'm now working independently with Startups & Tech companies to fill their roles, improve their hiring capabilities and reduce their hiring mistakes. I have a few ways I can work with you: Embedded or Retained Recruitment - you give me a role or many roles and I fill them but I do it as a partner to your business. This means I don't hide company names from candidates and I can broadcast your company and roles to my network to find you the best fit for your business. Fractional Talent Acquisition - monthly retainers where I can still fill roles but also look at your hiring systems, processes and capabilities. Like having a part time Head of TA that is also a hands on recruiter. Projects & Workshops - a growing request has been to work with Founders and their Leadership teams to make them better at hiring themselves. Sessions and engagements can cover interview training, tool selection and setup or anything you might want to improve in your hiring capabilities. Sourcing & Shortlisting - you pay to advertise a role and get a few applications but not a great amount or quality but you don't want to pay a full recruitment fee. I can run searches, advertise and shortlist candidates and provide you with a quality list of people to start interviewing. Top of funnel candidate generation if you'd like. It means you don't have to pay the annual subscription to the tools I use or spend hours searching and filtering applications, I do all of that for you and you take it from there. This has been popular with early stage companies as the cost is less than a recruitment fee and not much more (sometimes less) than what you may have spent on advertising yourself, with agreed minimum number of candidate matches that a job ad doesn't give you. Being independent means I can explore different ways of working with you, so if none of the above is a perfect fit please, run your crazy ideas past me. My beliefs on how to do this are quite simple and revolve around transparency and authenticity. The ramblings of my LinkedIn posts are my own thoughts and should rarely be taken too seriously.