Services
How we work with you.
Permanent, contract, executive search and embedded talent, plus intelligence, benchmarking and community. Every mandate is headhunted, not just advertised.
Recruitment services
Hiring specialist technical talent.
From a single senior hire to embedded talent teams, scoped to fit the moment.
Permanent Recruitment
Contingent permanent hiring for specialist technical roles
Traditional contingent recruitment on a success-fee basis.
Contract Recruitment
Interim and contract specialists for defined projects
Day-rate contract hiring across engineering, data and product.
Executive Search (Retained)
Executive and senior technical search
Exclusive retained search with a structured milestone-based process.
Talent as a Service
Embedded recruitment on a monthly subscription
Embedded recruiters working as part of your team on a subscription model.
Start-Up Staffing
Fractional talent partner for early-stage teams
Fractional talent leadership + hands-on hiring for early-stage teams.
Intelligence & community
Beyond recruitment.
Market maps, salary benchmarks, employer brand and the deep-tech communities we run.
Talent Intelligence
Market mapping and salary benchmarking
Data-led talent intelligence and salary benchmarking.
Salary Benchmarking
Real-time salary and package benchmarks
Focused salary benchmarks for specific roles and locations.
Community Partnerships
Sponsor Humand's tech communities
Sponsor one of the largest technical communities in Oxfordshire.
Market Mapping
A structured view of the talent landscape for a role, team or company.
A research-led exercise that identifies every credible person for a role in a defined market, mapping companies, teams, seniority, compensation and availability.
Employer Branding
Position your business as a destination employer in deep tech.
Help scaling deep-tech businesses articulate their story to the technical audiences that matter — through content, community and candidate journey.
Sister brand
Looking beyond technical hiring?
Adroit Staffing is our sister brand for Sales, GTM and commercial hiring. It sits alongside Humand's specialist technical practice rather than within it. For non-technical roles, Adroit is the right door.
Our process
Headhunted, not just advertised.
Humand doesn't wait for applications. Every mandate is worked as a proactive, multi-channel search — direct approaches, our own network and community, and advertising where it genuinely helps — with structured screening before anyone is introduced.
Not sure which one fits?
A 20-minute call is usually enough to scope the right engagement: permanent, contract, retained or embedded.