The best alternative to recruitment agencies for GreenTech builders.
We provide on-demand talent infrastructure and scalable sourcing & recruiter capacity to internal talent teams needing to scale hiring without losing control of their process, brand messaging and budget.
Sectors We Cover
GreenTech cuts across every one of these categories — we recruit specialist talent for all of them.
Our Passion
We work with companies and technologies focused on building real, measurable solutions that reduce environmental impact across energy, transport, industrial, water and built environment.
We're a lean high-performance recruitment business. Every hire we make should move a client closer to being a category leader, a candidate closer to their best career move, and Canda closer to being the leading talent partner in the UK GreenTech industry.
The Best Alternative to Recruitment Agencies
Not a recruitment agency selling CV's to the highest bidder. Not a platform selling seats and giving you more work. A partner who disappears into your team and provides done-for-you recruitment that delivers exceptional hiring outcomes and gives your time back.
- Keeping it in-house
- 1.5x vs. industry benchmarks — consistently above internal benchmarks on time-to-hire and quality
- You own all candidates & data
- Reduce agency fees by 70% — we save you thousands of £ on labour-intensive agency fees
- Scale solutions up or down to meet demand — maintain hiring quality & velocity in times of growth
- Speedy onboarding
The Services We Run For Clients
We support Talent teams by offering a number of different recruitment models to suit different problem statements and budgets. We are client-led, meaning we work top down to fill all of your positions. Each solution is run by the same team, using the same operational rigour.
Talent Advisory
Fractional Talent Director support to help solve your most complex hiring challenges.
Advertising + Screen
We advertise, manage applications, screen and submit qualified talent.
Sourcing Engine
AI-enabled outbound sourcing that delivers qualified leads into your calendar.
Launch Pad (Direct Recruitment)
A fully managed hiring process for 1–5 critical vacancies, run end-to-end.
Embedded Search Partner
Accelerated executive & specialist search process for £100k+ roles.
Fully Managed RPO
A fully outsourced, multi-discipline TA operation for scaling companies.
Talent Advisory
On-demand Talent Director providing fractional board-level support to help solve your most complex hiring challenges. Senior, hands-on advisory that helps you understand how to win in your sector — ideal for teams with a talent leadership gap who wish to transform how hiring works, optimise planning cycles, or simply troubleshoot ad-hoc problems.
Typical Use Cases
- Pre- or post-investment talent strategy planning with no in-house TA leadership in place yet.
- Founders and People leads needing a credible outside view on existing strategy and hiring performance vs. market benchmarks.
- Short, defined problem-solving projects (org design, hiring plan, hiring philosophy, comp benchmarking) rather than ongoing delivery.
Key Metrics
Includes
- Free of charge statement of work scoping
- Remote or in-person support
- Hiring intelligence & research
- Network introductions
- Every engagement concludes with frameworks and strategy your team can run independently
What Makes Canda's Advisory Different
- Unique vantage point — combined learnings of over 200 projects within the global scale-up ecosystem.
- Domain knowledge — currently running programs for GreenTech clients that give us front-line knowledge of the latest methodologies.
- Access to Canda's IP, data & tooling — beyond consulting time, powerful resources to support all engagements.
- Quick & easy — no long discovery process, no long-term commitments, just quick access on an hourly rate to Talent leadership & strategy.
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Advertising + Screen
We advertise your vacancy, manage the applications that come in, screen candidates against a scoring matrix and submit qualified & interested talent — with daily monitoring so nothing sits still. Our service stack includes premium advertising on all of the major platforms & job boards that generate attention from talent worldwide.
Typical Use Cases
- Time-poor teams that want to widely market their openings but can't handle the inbound volume & screening.
- Candidate experience-led teams who don't have time to be responsive to candidate applications.
- Roles with a healthy inbound applicant pool that just need managing, screening, rejecting and high quality submissions.
Key Metrics
Includes
- Campaign Manager + Screening Partner
- Advert design & build
- Organic & paid social recruiting
- Premium advertising slots on LinkedIn & Welcome to the Jungle
- Screening scoring matrix design
- Daily application management
- 15-minute recorded screening calls
What Makes Canda's Advertising Different
- Sector depth, not generic reach — we don't post to the same boards as everyone; we tap a live network of specialist talent with people who understand the domain.
- Pre-screened, not just pre-listed — every candidate submission has been assessed against the screening criteria, cutting down interview-stage drop-off and wasted hiring hours.
- We know what good looks like — from campaign data to the ideal candidate profile, our domain knowledge can de-risk your advertising spend & save wasted time screening bad candidates.
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Sourcing Engine
A fully managed outbound sourcing operation built on AI-enabled outreach and run by domain experts in AI/ML, GTM and operations talent profiles. We run multi-channel, multi-step campaigns, handle response triage, and deliver qualified candidates (leads) into your team's calendar. Live talent intelligence is captured from the market throughout every interaction. Every candidate is owned by you for future use.
Typical Use Cases
- Time-poor talent teams that don't have time to source — a lack of sourcing creates downstream issues of poor pipeline quality.
- Access to scarce, passive specialist talent that won't come inbound, which matters most in a sector this talent-constrained.
- Extra capacity for hiring surges, with lasting intelligence — an instant sourcing engine that scales hiring without needing to hire more recruiters, plus a reusable map of the talent landscape.
Key Metrics
Includes
- Account Manager + Lead Sourcing Partner
- Outreach tools, sourcing platforms & messaging infrastructure
- Map & TAM analysis
- Messaging architecture
- Response triage and calendar scheduling
- Rejection intelligence
What Makes Canda's Sourcing Engine Different
- Enterprise-scale outreach, without the enterprise TA team — the output of a built-out sourcing function: leads directly in your calendar.
- Your own talent pipeline, not someone else's expensive closed network — agencies keep their network as their leverage; we hand it to you.
- TalentOps included, with live hiring intelligence — process design & tooling setup with live talent pool insights (market benchmarks, EVP development, salary data).
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Launch Pad (Direct Recruitment)
A fully managed hiring process — not a recruitment service. Every opening is run end-to-end, from role scoping to start date, by a dedicated talent partner backed by a specialist sourcing pod. We combine targeted advertising, AI-enabled outbound sourcing, and hands-on stakeholder management into a single accountable process — so instead of a recruiter working a CV pipeline, you get a partner running your hiring project alongside you. Every candidate sourced, every market insight captured, and every relationship built along the way is yours to keep.
Typical Use Cases
- Designed for 1–5 vacancies — this isn't about volume, it's about precision, speed and having no internal capacity to run a process.
- High-stakes single hires where getting it wrong is expensive, with no room for a bad hire and no internal expertise to assess candidates.
- Steady-state hiring for lean, permanently-small teams — never enough volume to justify an internal recruiter, but a recurring need all the same.
Key Metrics
Includes
- Lead Talent Partner to oversee strategy & performance
- Full market map & TAM analysis
- Premium advertising & Sourcing Engine
- Technology & tooling
- Candidate conversion material (content creation design & build hours)
- Offer management & pre-boarding support
What Makes Canda's Launchpad Different
- One accountable partner, not a transactional pipeline — dedicated support provides faster movement and a sharper candidate fit.
- Stakeholder management & hiring strategy is built in, not bolted on — we don't just supply CVs, we own the hiring outcome.
- We make the hires, you keep the playbooks — engaged candidate pipelines and processes that deliver results now and lasting impact.
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A full-lifecycle Talent Partner with specific domain expertise working inside your team on a fractional or full-time basis — Canda's embedded model covers hiring across all disciplines, inbound and outbound, stakeholder management, branded as you, with guaranteed hires in the first month.
Typical Use Cases
- 5–100+ hires a year, where an in-house model branded as you is more valuable than an outsourced project — fixed, predictable pricing with full control of employer brand, candidate experience, hiring process and budget.
- Covering a TA leadership/IC gap without breaking hiring momentum — an embedded partner slots directly into the vacant seat, keeping stakeholder relationships and processes running under your own brand.
- Multi-discipline hiring surges that outstrip your existing team's bandwidth — the embedded model scales up and down to meet demand.
Key Metrics
Includes
- Assigned Talent Director to oversee strategy & performance
- Branded Talent Partner, embedded in your team, culture, ways of working, internal comms and ATS
- Premium Advertising & Sourcing Engine support
- All software licences (see our current tech stack ↗)
- Allocated employer brand / content creation design & build hours
What Makes Canda's Embedded Talent Partners Different
- A specialist, not a generalist, placed inside your team — Canda's partners bring domain fluency in AI/ML, GTM, Engineering, Product and Ops hiring from day one, so there's no ramp-up period spent teaching them your market.
- Backed by an engine, not working solo — partners are backed by the full sourcing pod, advertising infrastructure, and live talent intelligence behind them, so your one internal relationship is actually powered by a team's worth of capacity.
- Hires & speed are guaranteed, not promised — Canda guarantees hires within the first month, which removes ambiguity entirely and gives you something concrete to hold the engagement to from day one.
Pricing
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Embedded Search Partner
A discreet, senior search service for your hardest-to-fill and most business-critical vacancies — led personally by a Head of Search, running a unique sourcing, assessment and selection process built for speed without cutting corners, drawing on live market intelligence and warm relationships with Canda's extensive network, with milestone-based pricing and a replacement guarantee.
Typical Use Cases
- Confidential succession or replacement of a senior leader — when a Director or Head-of-level exit needs managing quietly, before the team or the market knows a change is coming, discretion isn't a preference, it's risk management.
- First senior leadership hires following a funding round — a visibly struggling search for a first Head of Engineering, Director of Commercial, or similar critical seat risks investor and market confidence at exactly the moment credibility matters most.
- Targeted approaches into a small, named pool of competitor talent — in niche disciplines, the handful of people who've actually done the job often sit inside direct rivals, requiring deep market mapping and quiet, considered engagement.
Key Metrics
Includes
- Assigned Search Partner (Head of) + research pod
- Role scoping & hiring + compensation strategy consulting
- Market mapping, TAM analysis and sourcing strategy
- All software licences (see our current tech stack ↗)
- Content creation (candidate conversion material)
- Weekly reporting & live talent intelligence
What Makes Canda's Search Different
- An inside advantage no standalone search firm has — not working externally, embedded directly in your team, driving the process from within, backed by warm network, live market intelligence and an unrivalled understanding of the sector.
- 60-day close opt-in — for roles where speed matters as much as precision, clients can opt into a mutual 60-day close commitment, well ahead of the 90–120+ day sector norm, without trading discretion or hiring rigour.
- Expert human judgment with AI labour — AI sourcing and market mapping widen reach and assess role fit at speed, but company fit is judged by an experienced Head of Search, not a model. Technology extends reach; human judgment decides who's truly right.
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Fully Managed RPO
A fully outsourced multi-discipline Talent Acquisition operation for high-growth companies scaling across every function — a dedicated Canda team runs market research, sourcing, screening and full-cycle hiring end-to-end, flexing up or down with demand, backed by a sourcing engine, shared technology, live market intelligence and transparent reporting, so hiring capacity never becomes the bottleneck to growth.
Typical Use Cases
- Post-funding hiring surges across multiple disciplines — when headcount targets jump to 15–30+ roles a quarter, RPO gives you instant, scalable capacity across engineering, GTM and ops, without building an internal TA function from scratch.
- Sustained, high-volume hiring (30–100+ roles a year) — at this volume, per-hire agency fees compound into a major line item; a dedicated RPO pod becomes a fixed, predictable cost that scales with demand instead of against it.
- New market or product-line launches needing hiring at pace — entering a new region or standing up a new function requires simultaneous mapping, sourcing and screening across roles you've never hired for before; RPO covers the full spread without managing multiple vendors.
Key Metrics
Includes
- Dedicated RPO pod (Talent Partners, sourcing pod, coordinators) sized to your volume
- Full-cycle ownership: market sizing, advertising, sourcing, screening, interview coordination, offer management
- Workforce planning & hiring forecast consulting
- All software licences (see our current tech stack ↗)
- Content creation (job ads, candidate conversion material, employer brand assets)
- Weekly reporting & live talent intelligence dashboard
What Makes Canda's RPO Different
- A pod, not a single point of failure — hiring doesn't rest on one recruiter's capacity; a full pod flexes with volume, so peaks never become bottlenecks and knowledge never walks out the door with one person.
- Flex up or down with real demand — most RPO contracts lock you into fixed capacity regardless of hiring volume; Canda's pod scales month to month with your actual pipeline, so you're never overpaying for idle capacity or under-resourced at peak.
- One integrated engine, not stitched-together vendors — advertising, sourcing, screening and reporting run through a single Canda-built engine and team, not multiple disconnected suppliers you have to manage and reconcile yourself.
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Results & Case Studies
A sample of the GreenTech and impact-led companies we've helped build their teams.
Qflow
The on-site truth captured in seconds: a construction materials, waste and carbon data platform.
Utility Warehouse
Helping people stop wasting time and money.
Ecologi
Climate action at your fingertips.
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About Canda
Canda is a talent partner for UK GreenTech builders — Energy, Transport, Agriculture, Industrial, Built Environment and Water. We provide on-demand talent infrastructure so ambitious companies can build the strongest, fastest, most agile workforce in their category, without the overhead of a traditional agency.
We're a lean, fully remote team that blends embedded human expertise with AI-enabled sourcing — done-for-you recruitment made possible by expert human judgement and AI labour. Not a recruitment agency selling CVs. Not a platform selling seats. A partner who disappears into your team.
B Corp Certified
Certified in 2023, recognising our commitment to verified social & environmental performance and legal accountability.
Employee Owned
20%+ employee owned, with a robust financial plan facilitated for every team member.
Global Reach
Connecting talent & opportunity across the UK, Europe, the Middle East and the US.
Our Values: PACE
Passion
Bring energy and heart to every conversation — high EQ, low ego, low drama.
Accountability
Own the placement, own the outcome. Grit, rigour, no shortcuts.
Consistency
Be the recruiter people can set their watch by — reliable, fair, trustworthy.
Evolve
Stay ahead of a market that never stands still — bias for action.
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