Discovery is a workforce performance partner, not a contingency agency. We will help you attract, develop and retain talent through one integrated, evidence-led model.

Where you need hiring, we deliver it as an embedded, retained service (Talent Pipeline+, Project RPO+ or Pay Per Placement) rather than the traditional, broken recruitment agency model. We also develop and retain the people after you’ve hired them.

Talent Pipeline+ is a hybrid recruitment engine delivered at a fixed monthly retainer, combining the strategic alignment of an in-house team with the speed of an agency.

Unlike the contingency model, which rewards candidate volume and sees about 40% of hires fail within 18 months, Talent Pipeline+ builds a continuously nurtured pipeline and works the role until it’s filled.

Because you’re not paying for a replacement guarantee you rarely use, Talent Pipeline+ typically cuts external recruitment spending by up to 50% for organizations hiring 20+ people a year.

For organizations hiring 20 or more people a year through agencies, Talent Pipeline+ typically reduces external recruitment cost by up to 50%.

For example, a 275-person manufacturer hiring 40 people per year cut annual external cost by £138,986 (47%) with TP+ (before counting the hidden cost of vacancy drag). Your figures are sized to your actual headcount, attrition, agency rates, and salary mix using our Talent Pipeline+ calculator.

Because the presenting problem is rarely the real one. Most people challenges—high attrition, hard-to-fill roles, and missing sales targets—are lagging indicators of something upstream. Our assessments diagnose root causes so you don’t waste money trying to address symptoms.

Parallax is an exclusive behavioral diagnostic developed by Discovery. It uses neuroscience and language-based profiling to benchmark performance, evaluate candidates objectively, and identify development areas. As the core evidence engine used in every Discovery program, our people decisions are driven by data rather than intuition. Parallax was developed by Discovery and is used in all our services.

We work with ambitious and forward-thinking small/mid-sized organizations, typically in engineering, manufacturing, food, logistics, distribution and commercial services, where leadership is accountable for growth or transformation. Engagements scale from a single strategic hire to volume pipelines and whole-workforce programs.

Discovery has delivered for over 27 years across the UK, USA, EMEA and APAC.