Our Services
Major Talent is our specialist division dedicated to permanent, interim, contract and executive search. Born from the success of Major Recruitment, our team is backed by over a hundred years’ of combined experience in talent acquisition and management. At Major Talent, we partner with businesses to streamline recruitment processes, reducing hiring costs while fostering trust and loyalty. Whether you're hiring for a single role or managing a large-scale project, our tailored solutions and vertical sector specialists ensure the right talent is matched to your roles.
Our proactive approach offers headhunting, market insights, and brand enhancement, all designed to improve the hiring process, the candidate experience, and your employer value proposition. We integrate seamlessly with your HR team, delivering results that reflect your values nationally and internationally. Our national infrastructure aligns with your operations, this means we are well positioned to partner with you across every site in your group.
Our MODEL
Strategic Talent Acquisition, Not Just Recruitment
We do not deliver standard permanent recruitment. What we offer is a strategic Talent Acquisition model designed to help you attract, engage, and retain individuals who reflect your values, contribute meaningfully to your sites, and grow with your business.
We will assign dedicated specialists by skill set, ensuring each vacancy, whether in operations, technical, supply chain or commercial, is handled by someone who speaks the language of that discipline.
Alongside them, we’ll embed regional relationship managers who will act as trusted partners to your hiring managers, providing coaching, support and hands-on guidance from vacancy briefing through to onboarding.
BUILDING YOUR BRAND
Employee Value Proposition That Resonates and Retains
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Our first priority will be to fully understand it, what it means to your current teams, how it’s perceived externally, and where its strengths lie. That understanding allows us to represent your brand confidently and consistently in the market, helping us to attract candidates who align with your culture and values.
However, an EVP isn’t static, it evolves as your business grows and the needs of your workforce shift. We’ll work with you to explore ways to refine and strengthen it further, using feedback from new hires, insights from leaver data, and benchmarking against your peers. This messaging will run through every part of the candidate experience, from the way a job advert reads to how someone is welcomed on day one.
ATTRACTION AND RETAINING
A Full-Cycle Approach
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Our candidate attraction strategy is designed to build long-term interest in your roles, not just fill vacancies. We combine data, marketing and outreach to identify and engage with the right people at the right time. Alongside direct advertising and search, we’ll target passive candidates through social campaigns, referrals and talent pooling. We’ll build relationships that last, so when the right role comes up, we already know who to speak to.
Retention starts from the very first conversation. We screen every candidate for values, motivations and long-term goals, not just technical skills. Interviews will be structured around behaviour and scenario-based questions, supported by DISC (Dominance, Influence, Steadiness, and Conscientiousness) profiling and a consistent scoring model. Once placed, our relationship managers stay involved through the onboarding phase, supporting both the hiring manager and the new starter to ensure a smooth transition and long-term engagement.
CRITICAL SKILLSET ROLES
Proven Solutions for Complex Challenges
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We understand the challenges that come with hard-to-fill roles, whether due to location, skill scarcity or market competition. Our approach breaks the problem down into short-term and long-term strategies. In the short term, we map the local market, monitor competitors, and proactively engage candidates using EVP-led messaging. Every conversation is recorded and added to a talent pool, ready for future roles.
Longer-term, we’ll work with you to develop internal pipelines, use apprenticeship pathways where relevant, and explore flexibility in role design or package. Understanding what candidates want, and adjusting where possible, makes a real difference. And by regularly reviewing leaver data and feedback, we can help you adapt before it becomes a recruitment problem.