The Back Story

“Kooked" someone made a fool of themselves, usually by falling and ruining a wave. An enduring term for someone who is a little strange, eccentric or crazy.

“Goose” lighthearted insult for someone who has done something silly.

We’ve kooked hiring more than we care to admit. Now we help others avoid a wild goose chase, particularly when the risk of getting it wrong is high.

Led by Warren, an independent recruitment specialist with 17 years’ experience, he’s spent the last nine building the Kiwi SaaS success ezyVet. That’s him there, what a goose!

We’re experts at crafting delightful hiring experiences that breathe life into what can be a pretty ordinary process. Startup or enterprise scale, a delightful hiring experience builds brands, accelerates growth and shapes memorable careers. We love technology and leveraging data but it’s our lived experience that delivers great outcomes for growing Kiwi businesses and the talent we seek.

Our Discovery and Recruitment solutions land particularly well with Exec’s, Founders, Senior leaders hiring the obscure, new roles or scaled iterations. Often niche and nuanced depending on the businesses size, scale and location. The type of complexity where cookie cutter recruitment can burn time, money and your sanity.

Hiring Runway appeals to those wanting to hire but realise they need infrastructure to make things efficient, repeatable and scalable for the future. It’s a broad topic that requires a bit of discovery before we can genuinely specify how, what and where you’ll reap the rewards. Typically startup’s and SME’s can benefit from small, simple pieces of tech or process to lay the foundations. Larger enterprises might require a specific solution for a workstream or wider project.

Some examples of runway we’ve paved for customers.

Discovery & Alignment - Bespoke sprints that validate hiring plans against the real market before the ‘heavy lifting’ begins. This is not CV volume, advertising management or open ended sourcing. It’s targeted search with tangible value in a short bite sized sprint.

Talent Journeys - Designed journeys or workflows for enhanced CX (candidate experience), from attraction through to 1 year post hire, off boarding and alumni + graduate programs). This links the delightful experience we strive for and really helps with workforce planning.

Brand Persona - Developed employer brand appeal with competitive advantage using unique persona marketing to segmented audiences aligned with talent journeys. Deliberate and targeted for a desired audience.

Tech - Due diligence and implementation of HR/Recruitment tech stack. A great HRIS and/or ATS can shift gears safely for a business gaining momentum.