We help NZ tech teams headhunt contractors, permanent hires, and senior leaders for roles where the wrong person creates delay, rework, management drag, or delivery risk.
No one pays anything until placement. That is not the real buyer power. The real power is knowing which hire can protect the project, reduce the drag, and move the work in the real environment.
The lead-gen truth
A hire can look expensive when you compare it to a fee. It looks very different when the role sits inside product delivery, cloud migration, ERP, data, cyber, integration work, or a customer-facing platform.
If the wrong person slows a $2M delivery, “cheap recruitment” becomes expensive very quickly.
This is why the service starts with risk, not resumes.Choose by risk, not by label
The right service depends on what the hire needs to protect. Capability, delivery speed, leadership direction, or urgent execution.
Best for software, product, data, ERP, cyber, cloud, infrastructure, and BA roles where the upside should grow over time.
Best for urgent delivery gaps, release pressure, integration work, migrations, project backfill, and specialised technical delivery.
Best for senior technology, product, delivery, security, data, and transformation leaders where the wrong hire changes more than one team.
How we make hiring safer
We do not start by flooding you with options. We start by finding the signal that makes the right person obvious and the wrong person easier to avoid.
In 15 minutes, we identify whether the real issue is the brief, market, pay, process, profile, or environment.
We define the actual job: outcomes, constraints, pace, pressure, seniority, and what failure would look like.
We approach people already close to the work, not just the candidates who happen to be applying.
You get a focused shortlist with why they fit, what to test, and where the risk may still sit.
Why leaders usually call
These are the moments where a normal recruitment process usually becomes too slow, too vague, or too risky.
Proof that sells the outcome
This is the proof that matters for a buyer: delivery moved, leadership improved, rare skill was found, and the business got leverage.
Risk: Rare skill set, relocation during COVID, and a role that needed lead-level ownership.
Outcome: Pure headhunting solved a search that could not rely on active applicants.
Risk: Urgent integration gap inside a large, complex environment with legacy pressure.
Outcome: Known market relationship turned speed into a safer decision, not a rushed one.
Risk: The obvious CV was not the whole story. The role needed judgement and growth potential.
Outcome: Hire became far more valuable than the original job title suggested.
“Jessica helped us identify the talent required for Blackwall’s next phase of growth.”
Brian Gould, MD, Blackwall NZContractor Risk Score
Contractor waste usually starts before the contractor starts: unclear outcome, slow access, weak handover, moving scope, or no clear owner for decisions.
In 15 minutes, we can usually tell whether the real risk is the brief, the process, the profile, the pay, the market, or the environment the person is walking into.
No pressure. No generic sales pitch. Just a sharper read before the mistake gets expensive.