Alignment Talent Partners
Explore our range of fractional, project and embedded talent acquisition services designed to help you move your talent acquisition function forward with confidence.
Boutique Banks
Private Equity
Investments & Wealth
Fintech & Insurtech
Insurance & Lloyds
FS Charities & NGO’s
Why Choose Us
Talent Partners was founded on a simple belief - that growing financial services firms benefit from access to high quality talent acquisition expertise without the cost or commitment of a permanent hire.
With over 12 years of in-house talent acquisition experience built exclusively within financial services, we bring a depth of sector knowledge that generalist consultancies simply cannot replicate.
Every engagement is grounded in a genuine understanding of how financial services firms are structured, how they hire and what good looks like in this market.
Our purpose is to be strategic talent acquisition expertise, on the days you need it.
What We Offer
Our aim is to help you improve the quality of every hire, reduce agency spend and equip your hiring community to make better decisions throughout the recruitment process.
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Whether you’d like us to strategically lead a small function or run your end-to-end hiring process from role intake to offer negotiation, we plug in as an embedded extension of your business and take the strategic or operational load away from your internal people team.
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We put the foundations in place that make recruitment repeatable. Applicant tracking setup, role description templates, interview question banks, scoring rubrics and offer frameworks, so every decision is run to the same standard.
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Managers are often promoted into roles where they need to interview well, with no preparation. We close that gap through practical sessions on structured interviewing, evidence based assessments and inclusive practice, so your leaders make sharper decisions and every candidate gets a fair shot.
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How people experience you before they join shapes who applies, who accepts and who stays. We help you articulate what makes your company worth joining, then design every touchpoint of the application journey to reflect that promise, from first advert to first day.
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Filling roles well in the moment isn't enough if you're not looking ahead. We work with leadership to map current capability against where the business is going, identify the skills you'll need before they become urgent and build a plan that keeps people decisions ahead of growth rather than reactive to it.
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External recruiters have their place, but unmanaged spend adds up fast. We audit your supplier base, benchmark fees against the market, renegotiate terms and reduce reliance on third parties where it makes sense, redirecting that budget into capability you actually own.
Our Process
Book A Discovery Call
A focused conversation to understand your hiring challenges, your current process and whether there's a genuine fit on both sides. Together, we outline a path forward that’s realistic, strategic, and tailored to your specific needs.
Receive A Proposal
Following our call, you will receive a clear, tailored written proposal scoped specifically to your business needs, with defined deliverables, timelines and pricing. We’ll give you the time to decide what happens next.
We Collaborate
We stay flexible and responsive to make sure the process fits your flow. You'll have direct access to senior expertise from day one, with progress updates and a clear sense of what's happening and why throughout the engagement.
Conclude or Continue
At the end of each agreed phase we review what's been delivered and decide together what comes next - a handover with everything embedded in your business, or an ongoing partnership where we continue delivering for you.
Let’s Work Together
If you're interested in working with us, complete the form with a few details about your project.
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