Avoid a wild goose chase
Grow with the right people, tools and systems—without burning time and money. We help Kiwi businesses solve difficult hiring challenges, build repeatable ways to recruit, and use AI and technology to simplify how they operate.
The challenge we solve isn’t limited to hiring great talent. Growing businesses also need the right tools, systems and ways of working—but finding, understanding and implementing them can create a world of pain before any value is realised.
We help avoid that pain and wasted effort by paving the runway, so you can stay focused on flying the plane while your business becomes better equipped to land safely again and again.
Metaphors aside, growth creates challenges that require people, technology or often a combination of both. The biggest constraint usually isn’t ambition or opportunity—it’s having the time, knowledge and headspace to work out what will genuinely help.
When hiring is reactive, processes live in someone’s head or technology is underused, momentum slows and valuable time and money disappear exactly when you need to stay focused on customers, cash flow and executing your plans.
Our mission is simple: bring clarity to growth by helping Kiwi businesses find the right people, make better use of technology and build smarter, more repeatable ways to operate.
build hiring runway
Search Sprints
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It’s straight forward, time-boxed and designed to reduce wasted effort.
Sprint based assignments designed to help businesses make more confident hiring decisions, validating roles against the real market before you hire.
Particularly valuable when hiring obscure, new roles or scaled iterations. Often niche and nuanced depending on a businesses size and scale. We give you clear evidence to proceed with confidence or adjust before it’s expensive.
What are we solving?
Simply put, avoiding a wild goose chase.
How?
Role alignment
Quality market map
Validation conversations
Evidence based go forward recommendation
Outcomes:
Pursue mapped talent & run your recruitment campaign with confidence
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Adjust the role, scope, or approach
Why choose us?
This is not CV volume, advertising management or open ended sourcing. It’s discretely targeted search with tangible value in a short bite sized sprint. This type of service is usually reserved for c-suite hiring at significant cost and retained commitment. We remove those barriers to help you make confident hiring decisions before you burn time and money.
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Fixed, clear objective, outcome orientated.
Discovery & Validation Sprint + Expert Recruitment Support to land your pivotal hire.
Flexibility to choose what you do at the conclusion of any Discovery & Alignment sprint. Take the wheel and run your recruitment process which includes pursuing any shortlisted talent provided. No additional charge. We’ll even make the introduction for you.
Or, take our expert recruitment support to land you that pivotal role for a fee upon successful hire.
What are we solving?
Cost, continuity and capacity challenges.
How?
Validated, adjusted or rescoped role agreed via D&V sprint
Bespoke recruitment campaign design & management
Passive and active talent market coverage
Comprehensive end to end recruitment support
Outcome:
Hiring clarity to make confident decisions and hire your agreed talent
Why choose us?
Continuity and capacity are common reasons why customers take our expert recruitment support. Our Discovery & Validation sprint delivered ROI and they want a smooth process to recruit and hire but don’t have the capacity to manage it.
We provide a fixed scope with clear objectives that is outcome orientated.
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Build a better talent engine or let us run it with you.
Hiring gets harder when every role starts from scratch. Hiring Runway brings together the strategy, process, technology and hands-on recruitment expertise needed to make hiring more efficient, repeatable and scalable.
We can build a bespoke talent engine for your team as a defined assignment, or operate as your retained talent partner while you grow.
BUILD YOUR TALENT ENGINE
A focused assignment designed around a specific hiring challenge or capability gap. We diagnose what is slowing you down, design the right solution and leave your team with practical infrastructure they can continue using.
This might include:
• Hiring workflows and candidate journeys
• Talent pools and expressions of interest
• Employer brand personas and targeted attraction
• ATS, HRIS, automation and recruitment technology
• Hiring playbooks, templates and decision frameworks
TALENT ENGINE ON RETAINER
From NZD $5,000 per month + GST
Minimum three-month commitmentOngoing hiring expertise and infrastructure without building a full internal talent function.
You get:
• Priority access to hands-on recruitment support
• Continuous role calibration, sourcing and market insight
• Practical improvements to your hiring process and technology
• Reusable talent pipelines, workflows and hiring intelligence
• A talent engine that becomes more useful with every hire
Who it’s for?
For growing businesses that need to hire now—but don’t want to keep reinventing the process every time a vacancy appears.
Startups and SMEs may need simple foundations their team can build on. Larger businesses may need a defined solution for a specific hiring workstream, transformation or capability gap.
Why Kooked Goose?
Hiring is more than putting a body in a seat. Every interaction shapes your reputation, influences whether great people lean in and determines how confidently your business can grow.
We build delightful hiring experiences that work for candidates, hiring teams and the business behind them—then create the systems that make those experiences repeatable.
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