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.
It is a pleasure to work with Oliva Talent Management. The whole team quickly catches on to our requirements and puts them into practice. I would especially like to thank Viktoria, who was our assigned recruiter. She is great.
It is a pleasure to work with Oliva Talent Management. The whole team quickly catches on to our requirements and puts them into practice. I would especially like to thank Viktoria, who was our assigned recruiter. She is great.
We like the brand and the website. It reflects our philosophy, integrates with offline identity, and was delivered with empathy and transparency.
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.
With Andrii’s support, our QA scaled effectively. We kept quality stable while releasing faster and growing the team
On Andrii you can rely. If you give him a task, there are no unsolvable problems - he always finds a way.
