When your business wins a new project, experiences a period of unexpected growth, or expands into new regions, hiring demand can quickly increase.
Vacancies start building up, hiring managers need more support, and your internal talent acquisition team soon reaches its limits.
The obvious solution might be to hire additional talent acquisition staff, but when you factor in, sourcing, recruiting, onboarding and training new individuals this can take months, and often by the time they’re ready to deliver, the pressure has often already passed.
So how can you scale up your hiring capacity right now without increasing headcount or compromising on quality?
That’s where our ready-to-go talent acquisition service comes in.
The Challenge: When Hiring Surges, Resources Don’t Always Keep Up
Even the strongest internal recruitment teams can struggle when demand rises suddenly. It’s not a question of skill, but of bandwidth.
Let’s look at the most common challenges and how Mase Consulting helps to overcome them.
1. Capacity Strain
Your internal recruiters can only manage so many vacancies before efficiency begins to dip. The admin increases, communication slows and hiring managers start to feel the impact.
Our solution:
For six weeks, a specialist within our team works as part of your business, focusing solely on your vacancies. They provide immediate capacity and keep your hiring momentum strong, while your internal team maintains full control and visibility.
You gain an extra pair of experienced hands without any onboarding delay or long-term commitment.
2. Hiring Delays
Adding additional internal talent acquisition staff sounds like a good idea until you factor in the time it takes to bring them on board. Recruiting, training and getting them fully operational can take up to four months.
Our solution:
We can start within days. Our specialist consultants know the market and are ready to deliver results from week one. It’s a fast, flexible way to respond to sudden increases in workload without disrupting your team.
3. Candidate Experience
When teams are under pressure, candidate communication is often the first thing to slip. Slow responses and inconsistent updates can damage your brand reputation resulting in a poor candidate experience and a reduction in offer acceptance rates.
Our solution:
Our embedded consultants act as brand ambassadors, managing candidate interactions with care and professionalism. Every applicant receives a consistent, respectful experience that protects your brand and strengthens engagement.
The Six-Week Solution
Rather than dividing roles between multiple agencies or rushing to hire internally, our model combines the best of both worlds: the focus of an in-house recruiter with the reach and structure of a specialist recruitment partner.
Here’s what it looks like in practice:
We dedicate our most senior recruiters
A dedicated consultant with experience in your market joins your team for an intensive six-week period. They handle every stage of recruitment exclusively for you, supported by our leadership team to ensure smooth delivery.
We provide weekly transparency
Each week you’ll receive a clear report showing how many candidates were approached, interviewed and submitted. You’ll always know where things stand and how your vacancies are progressing.
We deliver quality and insight
All candidates go through our intense interviewing process, and we can include behavioural assessments for those reaching the final stage interview. This provides valuable insight into how each person will fit within your business and existing team.
We keep it flexible
Once the six week partnership ends, you can renew the agreement if needed or simply allow it to come to its natural end should hiring demand have eased. No ongoing contracts or the worry of having to release the additional talent acquisition staff hired internally – just the support you need, when you need it.
Why Businesses Choose This Approach
Our embedded model bridges the gap between traditional retained recruitment and internal talent acquisition. It’s ideal for businesses that:
- Need to hire for multiple roles within tight deadlines
- Require additional recruitment capacity without waiting to grow their internal team
- Want structure, transparency, and clear communication throughout the process
- Value candidate quality, cultural fit, and brand consistency
It’s a simple, effective way to scale recruitment without losing control.
Added Value
Our six-week partnerships can include additional services to strengthen your hiring decisions.
Salary Benchmarking
Our salary benchmarking services help you stay competitive and attract the right professionals, even in fast-moving markets.
Behavioural Assessments
Available for shortlisted candidates, these assessments highlight communication style, motivation and team fit, helping you make confident hiring decisions.
Together, these services ensure speed and quality go hand in hand.
The Outcome
With Mase Consulting’s ready-to-go talent acquisition team, you gain immediate recruitment power without increasing headcount within your talent acquisition team.
You’ll have an experienced consultant working daily on your vacancies, weekly progress updates you can rely on, and a shortlist of high-performing professionals ready to hire.
When the next hiring surge hits, you’ll already have the solution in place.
Need Immediate Support?
If your business is entering a busy hiring period or managing an unexpected uplift in recruitment, we can help.
Book a call today with our team to discuss your requirements here, or alternatively you can give us a call on +44 (0)161 870 5000
