About us
Mission statement.
To deliver a best in class, professional and positive recruitment experience that creates win-win outcomes for clients and candidates.
Learn more about Talent Seeker.
Talent Seeker is the leading specialist marketing headhunting firm in the South.
Founded in 2015 and working out of offices in Fordingbridge and Southampton, we recruit for multiple local companies of all sizes in Southampton, Portsmouth, Bournemouth, Poole, Salisbury, Basingtstoke and Winchester. We also recruit for organisations further afield in Woking, Guildford, London, Essex and Lancashire.
Talent Seeker is a trusted recruitment and headhunting partner and one of the few 5* Google rated external recruiters in the region. Talent Seeker will provide you with an outstanding and unique recruitment approach that is friendly, collaborative and professional. We don’t advertise vacancies, as you can do that yourself. Instead we focus on putting your opportunity, business, brand and culture in front of a highly targeted and matched pool of potential candidates. These means you receive higher candidate quality, and people who really want to work with you and your brand.
Our Founder – Matthew Edge-Wilkins is a former In-house Recruitment & HR Manager – so our culture is based around delivering a best-in-class service, unmatched candidate quality and the formation of long-term partnerships with the clients and HR consultants we work with. We want you to see us as a seamless extension of your people function, and an integral value-add service to your talent acquisition strategy.
Should your recruitment needs fall outside our specialist sectors of marketing, it’s still worth contacting us, as we’ve successfully recruited lots of other senior level roles over the years in operations, sales, wellbeing and finance.
OUR FEES
Most headhunting firms are more expensive than recruitment agencies, but not us. We will charge you the same fee levels as you would pay to a local high street recruitment agency. With talent seeker, the fees range between 15% – 20% depending on the salary level, and we are happy to fix the % rate for exclusivity on your vacancies, which is what most of our clients choose.
Getting to know you and your business and building up a long-term, trusted and loyal partnership is the most important thing to us….as well as finding you great talent of course!
Connect with Our Founder: Matt Edge-Wilkins
Matt has over 20 years experience connecting hundreds of companies of all sizes and sectors with high-calibre, passive candidates. In 2015, he chose to launch Talent Seeker, a Marketing headhunting firm, combining the best elements of in-house recruitment and executive search to deliver a best-in-class external recruitment service.
Connect with Matt directly on LinkedIn or book a 30 minute Calendly meeting to discuss how he, and Talent Seeker, can help make your recruitment efforts more successful.
Values we champion.
Partnering with HR Consultants.
The best work comes from bringing together leading experts in their field and we’re no different. We’re a people centric recruitment company with a ‘human’ first approach and we’re proud to partner with some of the South’s leading HR Consultants to create win-win partnerships.
These valuable collaborations mean our clients get to benefit from top tier HR expertise when needed, and we can support them when their clients have hiring needs. Here you can find out more about our HR partners and the added value they bring.
Click the logos to find out more about our HR consultancy partners.
Wat Our Customers Say About Us
Alix Passey-Brown
HR Consultant & Founder of Twyford HR
Talent Seeker are our preferred supplier of recruitment services and the only talent supplier we endorse. Matt Edge-Wilkins has recruited to a number of senior and high profile posts for our clients, including recent placements at a leading independent school and a national sight loss charity. Whether technically complicated or within high competition talent market places, Matt’s success rate for our clients is 100%.
Anna Steed
Head of Planning & Performance - RNIB
Matt @ talent seeker was great to work with he brings a refreshing perspective to the recruitment experience. Very efficient and professional from both the candidate and employer perspective, he has placed multiple people at my current organisation. Highly recommended.
Dan Moors
Head of Sales & Marketing - Void Acoustics
Talent Seeker have helped us during a period of expanding our marketing department. Matt and his team go that extra mile to search for candidates that match the brief, and they provide excellent summaries of each candidate which goes beyond just their CV, demonstrating why they are suitable candidates to be interviewed. I have dealt with many recruiters previously and Talent Seeker are amongst the best, so would highly recommend!
Karen Pearce
HR Director - Winchester College
I wanted to thank you again for all your support in helping me build my HR team. I would not have got this far with the quality of team members without you.
Holly Roberts
HR Manager - AFC Bournemouth
AFC Bournemouth have worked with Talent Seeker on a number of roles over the last three years, successfully placing key positions to the business. Matt is friendly, knowledgeable and has gone above and beyond to help us in a very difficult and challenging recruitment climate. Talent Seeker provide high quality candidates that fit the brief and they’re very communicative and helpful throughout the recruitment process.
Luke Dunton
Candidate
Matt at Talent Seeker was beyond professional, patient and supportive throughout the whole recruitment process! He was very informative about the job role in question and helped build a bridge between myself and my new job.
A very genuine, polite and insightful Individual who helped me focus on the target at hand. I would recommend Matt at Talent seeker if you are looking for a new job!
Tina Flower
Marketing Consultant - Match Marketing
During my time as Head of Marketing for Platinum Property Partners, Talent Seeker worked in partnership with me to build a highly skilled and award winning marketing team. Working with them was a dream, they took time to understand the DNA and culture of our business and we collaborated closely throughout the entire process. I am now running my own marketing consultancy and Talent Seeker are the first company I contact for hiring needs.
Zaneta Kowalczyk
HR Manager - The Doctors Clinic Group
I could not recommend Matt enough from both candidate and the employer perspective. He has helped me to find my next role and he continues to support my current organisation with fulfilling our recruitment needs. He is friendly, professional, knowledgeable and has great communication skills. I am glad I can continue my working relationship with Matt and if you haven’t worked with him yet – do not wait as you are missing out!
Corporate social responsibility.
Giving back to society and the community we live in and support is important to us. Businesses like ours have a duty and platform to make a positive difference and our goal is to become a brand that people can resonate with, trust and value.
Becoming CSR ambassadors has benefits for all companies. Not only does it have a positive impact on their own employees, business, culture and community, it also helps attract future customers and provide a positive step towards becoming an employer of choice.
Charity partner Julia’s house.
We are proud to have partnered with the amazing local charity, Julia’s House since 2017.
Talent Seeker provide Julia’s House with a monthly donation to help support the incredible work they do in providing practical and emotional support for families caring for a child with a life-limiting or life-threatening condition, providing frequent and regular support in their own homes, in the community or at the Julia’s House hospices.
Join us at talent seeker.
We’re always on the lookout for great people to join us on our journey. If our approach to recruitment and values resonate with you, feel free to reach out.
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