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Hire Train Deploy

Harness the power of future-ready talent.

What is Hire Train Deploy?

Hire Train Deploy (HTD) is a cost-effective and socially conscious way to recruit and utilise flexible resource, build a tech talent pipeline, improve your team’s diversity and reduce ever-expanding skills gaps. But only a global talent business with our critical mass of clients, candidates and consultants can deliver the skills you need - and the long-term training, support and opportunities that high-potential people deserve. Our extensive network across the UK ensures that we recruit and match the right talent with the right opportunities.

What is Hire Train Deploy?

Our track record

  • 43,000

    Professionals we help start their next chapter

  • 11,000

    Organisations who we help recruit talent

  • 28

    Years of delivering outsourcing solutions to clients worldwide

  • 60

    Countries where we deliver outsourcing services

How does Hire Train Deploy work?

HTD programmes in the UK deliver the flexible, accredited skills your business needs, without the responsibility and cost of managing the learning and development journeys of early-in-career talent. For a single, all-in fee, we transform high-potential candidates into high-impact tech consultants.

Across the UK we hire and assess diverse, early-in career talent and employ them from day one. We set up bespoke bootcamps to develop the technical and commercial skills training they need to hit the ground running. We coach and mentor their careers throughout their placement. And after 24 months, our consultants join your team permanently, or are redeployed. 

Key benefits

  • Improved workforce visibility 
  • Cost control, avoidance and savings  
  • Process compliance and risk mitigation 
  • Scalability in meeting resourcing demands 
  • Greater access to non-permanent talent 
  • Increase the diversity of your workforce

An award-winning service

Fresh talent, ready to go

Our HTD programmes give you access to a fresh and flexible pipeline of early-in-career talent without needing to manage their learning and development journeys. So you can expand and future-proof your tech teams with qualified, vetted, high-potential consultants without co-employment risks.

Tailored training

We combine a powerful blend of learning methods to ensure our consultants are ready to contribute from day one. Our bespoke bootcamps carried out in the UK, range from one week to 12 weeks and are designed specifically to deliver the accredited technical skills and commercial capabilities you need, when you need them. 

Agile, empowered teams

By adding flexible resource to your teams, you’re recruiting new talent into the business, without putting pressure on your existing teams to coach or develop their skills. Meanwhile, you are freeing up more experienced employees to do higher value work.

Ongoing development

We support our consultants to grow with you throughout their assignment. Our career development framework provides coaching, mentoring and the chance to constantly upgrade and update their skills. After 24 months, you will recruit our consultants to be a permanent part of your team or the consultants will be redeployed with a new role or client.

What makes our Hire Train Deploy model different?  

 

The size and scope of our global talent solutions business and our expertise in recruitment, assessment, and training enables us to deliver bespoke, de-risked, candidate-friendly HTD programmes that deliver the accredited skills you need to recruit the right talent.

 

By focusing on skills-based recruitment and development, HTD promotes diversity and social mobility. We help you hire and discover untapped potential and increase access to the tech industry for candidates from under-represented or disadvantaged groups.

 

There are no hidden costs with HTD. Our daily consultant rate covers their recruitment, training, onboarding, development, and retention, including ongoing support and mentoring, career planning, salary increases and loyalty bonuses.

 

 

Our success stories

Hear inspiring success stories from our clients and candidates as they flourish in their new career journeys. 

Meet our expert contingent workforce solutions team

Jessica  Holt

Jessica Holt

Managing Director of Consultancy

With over 20 years of experience, Jessica joined us in 2021 to establish our Consultancy function and consolidate our Employed Consultant Model.

Tom Elliott

Tom Elliott

Global Growth Director, Consultancy

With significant experience
in consulting and software services, Tom is responsible for forging global client partnerships to support business transformation.  

Kristen  Buckheit

Kristen Buckheit

Managing Director, EMEA

Kristen creates and implements strategic initiatives for our business and clients, empowering our internal teams to provide industry-leading client experience.

Hazel  Lancashire

Hazel Lancashire

Managing Director, APAC

Hazel is responsible for the strategic direction of our APAC Outsourcing business, with absolute focus on exemplary service delivery to our partners and streamlining business operations.

 

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Contact us to discuss your contingent workforce needs

 

 

FAQ's

  • What industries benefit from the Hire Train Deploy programme?
    Industries that benefit from the Hire Train Deploy programme include technology, finance, healthcare, manufacturing, retail, government, and insurance. These sectors often face rapid technological changes and skills shortages, making the HTD model ideal for quickly building a skilled workforce in a cost-effective fashion. By focusing on capability over experience, these industries can address skills gaps, enhance diversity, and maintain competitiveness. The model is particularly effective for roles across business change, data & analytics, software engineering & cyber security.
  • Do you offer Hire Train Deploy services on a global scale?
    Our offices span the UK - from London to Birmingham and Manchester - and extend globally. Our extensive network of clients, candidates, and consultants enables us to hire and deliver tailored HTD solutions across various regions and industries. We understand that each market has unique challenges and opportunities, so we customise our training programs to meet local needs while maintaining consistent quality and standards worldwide. By leveraging our global expertise, we help businesses recruit diverse talent pools, ensuring they have the skilled workforce needed to thrive in an ever-changing global economy.
  • How long is the training provided to consultants?
    Starting with an introductory training phase followed by 4 to 12 weeks of intensive skill development, the programmes emphasise both technical proficiency and essential soft skills, ensuring our consultants deliver business value from day one. 
  • Why engage with our HTD programme?
    This HTD model was born out of the frustration of working with traditional consultancies especially in regards to inflated project costs & knowledge leakage. The HTD programme addresses these common challenges by recruiting & developing high quality, diverse consultants and deploying them to organisations in a flexible, cost-effective and sustainable way. Organisations also have the option to permanently employ our consultants after their assignments. This ensures that we solve both short-term & long-term organisational challenges, whilst boosting diversity of thought across your workforce.

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