Ruby Melling

Fourteen years in recruitment taught me what most businesses find out the hard way.

I've worked across startups and multinationals, SMEs and large corporates, in the UK and Europe. I was talent partner to The Landing, a technology enterprise incubator for high-growth companies, working with a portfolio of businesses all scaling at once - which is the fastest way there is to see the same patterns repeat.

And the pattern was always this. Businesses spending hundreds of thousands of pounds on recruitment fees, and still unable to attract the people they wanted or keep the ones they had.

Hiring, development and retention aren't three separate problems. They're one system. When one part breaks, the others follow. A recruiter is paid to fix the first. An HR consultant is paid to fix the third. Almost nobody is paid to notice they're the same thing.

That's where Talentloop sits - the place a recruiter, an HR director and a workforce strategist would all need to be working together, and rarely are. We find where the pressure actually is, fix what's breaking, and leave when the system runs without us.

I lead every engagement personally, working with a team of senior talent and people specialists - so you get continuity as well as seniority.