Don’t give us a vacancy. Give us the problem.
Tallann Group recruits senior engineering, infrastructure, construction and data centre professionals, taking accountability for the appointments a business depends on.
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Most businesses don’t have a recruitment problem. They have a business objective that requires people to deliver it.
A consultancy needs the leadership capability to open a new office. A contractor has won a major project and has 16 weeks to build the delivery team. A critical appointment has been open for six months and the same candidates keep circulating.
These aren’t isolated vacancies. They are business projects with workforce dependencies. Tallann takes responsibility for delivering them.
A defined operating model, from business case to appointment.
Recruitment Project Management, or RPM, is how Tallann runs each appointment as a managed project. Every engagement follows five stages, with clear outputs and one accountable partner.
Explore the modelDefine
Establish the business case, scope and measures of success.
Map
Establish the addressable market.
Engage
Take the proposition directly to the market.
Intelligence
Use market evidence to improve the decision.
Deliver
Manage the work through to appointment.
Results where the market had already narrowed.
Associate Director, Structural
Ireland
Open for more than six months after multiple agencies had worked the brief.
Five weeks from initial brief to signed contract.
Senior Engineering Manager
New Zealand
National scope from a base outside the main centres.
Four weeks from initial brief to signed contract.
Current appointments by region.

Asia-Pacific
New Zealand and Australia

Europe
Ireland, the UK and across Europe

Middle East
The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC)
Candidates are sourced globally, wherever the required capability exists.
View our marketsDesigned for appointments where the business consequence of getting it wrong is greater.
Critical leadership. Scarce technical capability. Multiple related appointments. New offices or disciplines. Project mobilisation. International expansion. Succession. Confidential appointments. Previously unsuccessful searches.
Where RPM appliesOne accountable partner, from brief to appointment.
Kieran O’Shaughnessy has more than 23 years’ experience in recruitment and has personally delivered more than 1,200 appointments across New Zealand, Australia, Ireland, Europe and the GCC. The partner who agrees the mandate remains accountable for delivering it.
About TallannIf a critical appointment has become a dependency on the business plan, the next step is a single conversation.
We will discuss the business objective, what has already been tried and whether Recruitment Project Management is the right structure. If it isn’t, we’ll say so.
