Strategic Talent Services
TalentScale is designed to ensure every new employee strengthens enterprise value.
Stone’s proprietary hiring framework for M&A/PE related transformation, scaling mid-market and founder-led businesses, P&C leaders seeking structure, and growth-oriented CEOs.
Your Challenge
Poor hiring silently undermines enterprise value. The causes are typically internal, systemic, and almost invisible - until results slip. Common issues include:
Internal capability gaps
Visibility & control gaps
Rushed, reactive hiring
Misaligned processes
Our Solution
We turn hiring into your competitive advantage. TalentScale brings structure, speed, and data-driven certainty to every hire. What you gain:
Internal capability
Data-driven insights
Improved hiring speed
Improved hiring quality
Our Process
- Let’s benchmark your hiring against the market
- An enterprise-wide hiring blueprint with tailored business unit-level plans
- Choose from 30+ proven Build Projects to close gaps and strengthen processes.
- Access our embedded team on a fractional basis as an extension of yours.
Predictable Pricing
Strategic alignment of talent to business needs through:
- Competitor analytics
- Talent market mapping
- High performance leadership coaching
- Business unit workforce planning
- Strategic talent forecasting
- Executive remuneration consulting
Positioning your business as the employer of choice through:
- Employee Value Proposition (EVP) development
- Employer branding strategy
- Targeted media and advertising portfolio selection
- Branded employer videos and storytelling assets
Optimising hiring efficiency and scalability via:
- Best practice recruitment workflows
- Standard documentation and job specifications
- Onboarding to post-placement coaching
- Applicant tracking system (ATS) implementation
- Hiring dashboards and performance reporting
- Psychometric testing and benchmarking
Equipping hiring leaders with skills to hire effectively:
- Structured hiring fundamentals
- Employer storytelling and pitch coaching
- Behavioural interview training
What can we build for you?
From 30+ tested Build Projects, we’ll help you pinpoint the areas with the biggest impact, delivering transformation at a fraction of the cost.
What can we build for you?
From 30+ tested Build Projects, we’ll help you pinpoint the areas with the biggest impact, delivering transformation at a fraction of the cost.
Strategic alignment of talent to business needs through:
- Competitor analytics
- Talent market mapping
- High performance leadership coaching
- Business unit workforce planning
- Strategic talent forecasting
- Executive remuneration consulting
Positioning your business as the employer of choice through:
- Employee Value Proposition (EVP) development
- Employer branding strategy
- Targeted media and advertising portfolio selection
- Branded employer videos and storytelling assets
Optimising hiring efficiency and scalability via:
- Best practice recruitment workflows
- Standard documentation and job specifications
- Onboarding to post-placement coaching
- Applicant tracking system (ATS) implementation
- Hiring dashboards and performance reporting
- Psychometric testing and benchmarking
Equipping hiring leaders with skills to hire effectively:
- Structured hiring fundamentals
- Employer storytelling and pitch coaching
- Behavioural interview training
Why Stone & TalentScale
| Feature | TalentScale | Traditional Agencies |
|---|---|---|
| Scalability | Built for growth, with flexible resourcing and process layers | Transactional, difficult to scale |
| Cost Structure | Success-based, aligned to impact and value | Higher fees, higher failure rate |
| Focus | Full talent acquisition lifecycle | Filling individual vacancies |
| Support Model | Diagnostic, strategic, and execution support end to end | Execution only |
| Scope | Enterprise-wide, cross-functional | Role-by-role, function-limited |
| Scope of Support | Able to design, build, and manage your entire talent pipeline | Works within isolated requisitions |
| Transparency | Weekly reporting with full oversight and visibility | No centralised oversight or dedicated contact |
| Reporting | Centralised, real-time, data-driven insights | Infrequent or unavailable |
| Continuous Improvement | Ongoing optimisation across the full pipeline | One-off, transactional delivery |
| Customisation | Designed around your business goals and structure | One-size-fits-all |
| Approach | Strategic and proactive | Reactive |
| Commitment | Long-term partnership mindset | Fee-based and short-term focused |
| Control | Dedicated, embedded account manager | Recruiters change frequently |
| Further Features and Benefits | ||
| Financial Flexibility | No lock-in contracts, modular pricing, and freedom to use other partners | |
| Scalable Capability | Support spans junior hires through to C-suite and workforce design | |
| Scalable Capacity | Delivery team scales up/down based on volume and business cycles | |
Ensure every hire increases your value
46%
Speed of Hire -
reduction in time to hire
73%
Quality of Hire -
improvement in Hiring Manager satisfaction
38%
Retention -
increase in 12 month+ retention
“Rhino would never have been the same without Chris Andrews"
Richard Cropley, Founder, Rhino-Rack (sale value $260 million)