Hire with Clarity
Avoid a wild goose chase. Make confident hiring decisions before you burn time and money. We help Kiwi companies grow with better hiring decisions, expert recruitment support and runway to help you scale.
build hiring runway
The challenge we solve isn’t just hiring great talent, that’s a really important outcome but often businesses experience a world of pain just to get there. We avoid that pain and wasted effort with solutions that pave the runway so you can fly the plane and land it safely again and again.
Metaphors aside, if you’re hiring to grow there’s a challenge you want to solve with talented people. The biggest constraint usually isn’t your product or services, it’s investing time and effort to find the ‘right’ talent to capitalise on momentum.
If hiring is reactive or murky, it stifles momentum, burns time and money at exactly the moment you need to stay laser focused on customers, capital and executing business critical plans.
Our mission is simple, provide hiring clarity, expert recruitment support and runway to help you scale safely.
Services
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It’s straight forward, time-boxed and designed to reduce wasted effort.
Sprint based assignments designed to help businesses make more confident hiring decisions, validating roles against the real market before you hire.
Particularly valuable when hiring obscure, new roles or scaled iterations. Often niche and nuanced depending on a businesses size and scale. We give you clear evidence to proceed with confidence or adjust before it’s expensive.
What are we solving?
Simply put, avoiding a wild goose chase.
How?
Role alignment
Quality market map
Validation conversations
Evidence based go forward recommendation
Outcomes:
Pursue mapped talent & run your recruitment campaign with confidence
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Adjust the role, scope, or approach
Why choose us?
This is not CV volume, advertising management or open ended sourcing. It’s discretely targeted search with tangible value in a short bite sized sprint. This type of service is usually reserved for c-suite hiring at significant cost and retained commitment. We remove those barriers to help you make confident hiring decisions before you burn time and money.
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Fixed, clear objective, outcome orientated.
Discovery & Validation Sprint + Expert Recruitment Support to land your pivotal hire.
Flexibility to choose what you do at the conclusion of any Discovery & Alignment sprint. Take the wheel and run your recruitment process which includes pursuing any shortlisted talent provided. No additional charge. We’ll even make the introduction for you.
Or, take our expert recruitment support to land you that pivotal role for a fee upon successful hire.
What are we solving?
Cost, continuity and capacity challenges.
How?
Validated, adjusted or rescoped role agreed via D&V sprint
Bespoke recruitment campaign design & management
Passive and active talent market coverage
Comprehensive end to end recruitment support
Outcome:
Hiring clarity to make confident decisions and hire your agreed talent
Why choose us?
Continuity and capacity are common reasons why customers take our expert recruitment support. Our Discovery & Validation sprint delivered ROI and they want a smooth process to recruit and hire but don’t have the capacity to manage it.
We provide a fixed scope with clear objectives that is outcome orientated.
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Comprehensive hiring expertise on demand.
Priority access retained for your growing businesses. Continuous role calibration, sourcing and our full suite of specialist expertise.
Hiring Runway appeals to those wanting to hire but also need infrastructure to make things efficient, repeatable and scalable for the future. It’s a broad topic that requires a bit of discovery before we can genuinely specify how, what and where you’ll reap the rewards. Typically startup’s and SME’s can benefit from small, simple pieces of tech or process to lay the foundations for their growing team to run with as they level up. Larger enterprises might require a specific solution for a more mature workstream or project.
Examples of runway we’ve paved for customers.
Talent Journeys - Designed journey maps or workflows for enhanced CX (candidate experience), from talent attraction through to 1 year post hire, off boarding, alumni & graduate programs. This links the delightful experience we strive for and also helps with workforce planning. The basic premise being does your postcard match the destination.
EOI - Expression of interest talent pooling. Engineered vehicles to attract talent, nurture interest, qualify and convert to active applicant when required.
Brand Persona - Developed employer brand appeal with competitive advantage using unique persona marketing to segmented audiences aligned with talent journeys. Deliberate and targeted for maximum appeal to a desired audience.
Tech - Due diligence and implementation of HR/Recruitment tech stack. A great HRIS and/or ATS can shift gears safely for a business gaining momentum with out being married to them.
Why choose us?
We genuinely care about delightful employment experiences. We’re experts at our craft and breathe life into what can be a pretty ordinary process. Startup or enterprise scale, a delightful hiring experience builds brands, accelerates growth and shapes memorable careers. We love technology and leveraging data but it’s our lived experience that deliver great outcomes for growing Kiwi businesses and the talent we seek.
The Back Story
“Kooked" someone made a fool of themselves, usually by falling and ruining a wave (insert anything hard worth doing really). An enduring term for someone who is a little strange, eccentric or crazy.
“Goose” lighthearted insult for someone who has done something silly.
We’ve kooked hiring more than we care to admit. Now we help others avoid a wild goose chase, particularly when the risk of getting it wrong is high.
Led by Warren, an independent recruitment specialist with 17 years’ experience, he’s spent the last nine building the Kiwi SaaS success ezyVet. That’s him there, what a goose!
Frustrated by the wild goose chase when hiring critical roles Warren saw an opportunity to avoid a lot of wasted time and effort. Not by cutting corners or reinventing the wheel. He found success through precise discovery and alignment.
The concept is simple, exec search does this as a rule though usually reserved for c-suite hiring and at significant cost with retained commitment. We remove those barriers to help you make confident hiring decisions for any hire before you burn time and money. Armed with tangible information business leaders can make informed decisions fast. The result is hiring clarity everyone involved needs to feel confident and keep momentum. Time is a precious gift. You can’t buy it nor can you steal it back. Why not discover what you want, validate it actually exists quickly and pursue it or iterate before you’re weeks into a process with no end in sight.
This concept was a catalyst for more innovation across the whole employment journey. Lots of light bulb moments, testing theories, collecting data and analysing the results. These small but impactful improvements helped pave the runway for growth, delightful hiring experiences and became the blueprint for Kooked Goose.
We’re experts at crafting delightful hiring experiences that breathe life into what can be a pretty ordinary process. Startup or enterprise scale, a delightful hiring experience builds brands, accelerates growth and shapes memorable careers. We love technology and leveraging data but it’s our lived experience that delivers great outcomes for growing Kiwi businesses and the talent we seek.
