Oliva Advisory was winning more projects and needed extra delivery capacity fast. With only 8 people on the team and no HR, every hire fell on the founders and leads. That meant hours spent interviewing instead of billing clients.
People resource is one of the key success pillars for a consulting business. By that time our friends at Oliva Advisory needed to lay the foundation of it. Without HR-dep, without big brand investments, without 10k budgets per each new hire. The challenge was rough. Yet we new the way
As the client couldn’t go with a generic headhunter package, we ‘ve build the setup that matched their reality of a small team, tight budgets, and ad-hoc hiring driven by incoming project wins. Together we designed a solution that gave them control, trust, and cultural fit. The Pay-per-Interview model let them pay only for the value they actually received, while our recruiters acted as brand ambassadors and integrated into their daily operations. With this mix, we removed interview overload from the founders, represented the company convincingly to candidates, and kept costs predictable.
How we solved it:
Volume
hires delivered: planned 3, later expanded along the year
Interview-to-hire
tech interviews to get one hired, gradually dropped to 3 after a few quarters of the collaboration
Budget
of hiring budget saved against a generic headhunter fees of ~10k per hire, keeping us at 60% cheaper than market
Time
hours of founder and senior teammates secured for billable client topics, ~14 per each hire
Retention
of hires stayed long term, 5 out of 7 are still thriving in a client’s teams today, after almost 1.5 years
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As a consultancy, it is particularly important for us to find talented employees. Oliva Talent Management does an excellent job and finds outstanding experts for us at a fair price.
I was only able to successfully complete many projects thanks to the help of Oliva Talent Management. I am very satisfied with Oliva Talent Management's performance in finding first-class experts who fulfill all project requirements.
As a consultancy, it is particularly important for us to find talented employees. Oliva Talent Management does an excellent job and finds outstanding experts for us at a fair price.
As a consultancy, it is particularly important for us to find talented employees. Oliva Talent Management does an excellent job and finds outstanding experts for us at a fair price.
