Strategic TALENT PARTNER for
Startups and Scaleups in AI
Powered Insights.

EXECUTIVE SEARCH
redefined for ResTech, Insights &
GTM Strategy.

Strategic Talent Partner for Startups and Scaleups in AI Powered Insights. Executive Search redefined for Res Tech, Insights & Strategy.

What do some of the world's leading ResTech companies have in common? They all turn to Talent Pools for transformative senior leaders.

TALENT POOLS

Talent Strategy. Reimagined.

Each letter embodies a value-added service, equipping businesses with the insights, tools, and expertise to build and sustain a competitive advantage.

We provide in-depth market intelligence, including real-time data on compensation trends, competitor hiring practices, and talent movement within your industry. This service ensures you're well-informed about market dynamics, helping you stay competitive in your talent strategy.

Our employer branding and job advertising services are designed to elevate your visibility and appeal. We help craft compelling job ads, refine your careers page, and develop a social media strategy to attract high-quality candidates aligned with your culture and values.

For key roles, we offer succession planning to ensure your business’s continuity by identifying and nurturing high-potential leaders. We also provide leadership coaching and strategic support to help develop future leaders within your organisation.

Expert in senior-level and multi-hire engagements, we offer comprehensive executive search services for critical roles. Whether it’s a single executive placement or a large hiring campaign, our approach focuses on delivering high-calibre, passive candidates.

Our onboarding consultation service ensures new hires are smoothly integrated into your company. We help design effective onboarding programs that engage employees from day one, setting them up for success and enhancing long-term retention.

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DE&I) are integral to our recruitment strategy. We offer tailored DE&I consulting, including training and inclusive hiring practices, to help you build a more equitable workplace that attracts diverse talent.

We proactively build a pool of qualified candidates for your future roles, aligned with your growth strategy. This service enables you to reduce time-to-hire and maintain a steady flow of top talent as your business evolves.

From the first touchpoint to the offer stage, we optimise the candidate journey, ensuring a seamless and positive experience. This includes enhancing your communication, feedback processes, and interview techniques, fostering a candidate-friendly reputation.

Our flexible, fractional recruitment service acts as an embedded Talent Acquisition partner without the commitment of a full-time hire. Ideal for companies with variable hiring needs, this service offers senior recruitment expertise on a pay-as-you-go or monthly subscription basis.

We offer training sessions for hiring managers to improve their interview skills, mitigate unconscious bias, and enhance the candidate experience. This empowers your team to attract, assess, and secure top talent effectively.

Using market data, we benchmark your compensation packages to ensure they are competitive and aligned with industry standards. This service helps you make informed decisions on salaries and benefits, attracting and retaining high-quality employees

Solutions

Tailored SOLUTIONS to suit your specific circumstances, as every client and every role is unique.

FRACTIONAL

A fixed weekly PAYG (Fractional) subscription for a 360° TA solution. I’ll embed into your team to optimise processes, careers pages, and candidate journeys. I’ll also create strategies to save time, reduce costs, and future-proof hiring. Subscription + Optional Hiring fee agreed per role.

ENGAGED SEARCH

EXECUTIVE SEARCH

Talent Pools is a specialist search partner to Founders, CEOs, VCs, and Boards of Directors in Insights, GTM Strategy and ResTech firms. We deliver top-calibre C-suite interim and permanent professionals.

EMBEDDED

No placement fees – just a monthly subscription for unlimited mid-level hires* and full TA support. Embedded in your team to fix hiring headaches and scale smart. *Senior roles handled separately via retained search.

Our Story

I founded Talent Pools to give ambitious companies access to the talent they didn’t even know existed, ensuring every hire drives innovation, growth, and competitive advantage.

With four flexible hiring solutions and talent intelligence strategies for Market Mapping, Talent Mapping, Talent Pipelining & Salary Benchmarking, we deliver the talent and insights you need to scale, gain a competitive advantage, and drive success in your Go To Market strategy.

In 2023, I attended a Generative AI conference in San Francisco, and it completely transformed my perspective on the future of market research. Since then, I’ve been passionate about how AI can amplify, not replace, traditional research methods. Working with AI-powered insights platforms to scale their businesses confirmed my belief that technology unlocks new opportunities while enhancing the value of tried-and-tested market research approaches.

I founded Talent Pools because I saw a gap in the market. Digital or technology recruiters often miss the nuances and rigour of the market research industry, while traditional insights recruiters struggle with the demands and vision required to attract talent for agile, AI-driven startups or scaleups. Talent Pools bridges that gap, combining a deep understanding of market research processes with AI expertise and passion for innovation, empowering ResTech companies to build high-performing, future-focused teams.

Joanna Byerley

Founder of Talent Pools

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Testimonials

See what our clients have to say about working with us! Their experiences and feedback reflect our commitment to quality, excellence, and lasting results.

Client Success Stories

Engaged Search for Head of Insights | ResTech

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UK-based tech startup specialising in creative testing software.

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Embedded TA for Growth Strategy Consultancy

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UK-based growth strategy start-up focusing on GTM, product/service, and experience strategies for global technology clients.

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Pricing

Whatever your challenge, we can be flexible to tackle your specific pain points and deliver the results you need to scale. Maybe you need to make your first hire. Or scale from 10 to 30 plus.

Or perhaps your headcount is already into three figures and it's about key hires.

Or you want to attract the best senior insight leaders, especially when you need to consider a difficult location, a niche skill set, confidentiality or if your brand is not well known. We've developed plans to suit you at each stage.

Plug In & Plug Out

What you will get:

Stay & Scale

What you will get:

Find & Elevate

What you will get:

Lead & Transform

What you will get:

Plug In & Plug Out

What you will get:

Stay & Scale

What you will get:

Find & Elevate

What you will get:

Lead & Transform

What you will get:

Not ready to hire yet but interested in Bespoke Intelligence Solutions including Talent Mapping, Talent Pipelining and Benefits & Compensation Insights?

Contact Information

Joanna Byerley

Strategic Talent Partner for Startups and Scaleups in AI Driven Insights. Executive Search for disruptive companies globally.

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