Better hiring starts by getting closer to the business.
Phoenix TalentOS is a founder-led embedded recruitment and search partner. We work closely with hiring managers to define the right profile, find and engage hard-to-reach candidates, and build a more repeatable hiring process along the way.
From individual critical searches to ongoing embedded recruitment support.
“Need one critical hire today? We can start there.
Need a more repeatable hiring model tomorrow? We can build that together.”
External expertise. Internal mindset.
Traditional agencies usually enter when a vacancy opens and leave when it is filled. Embedded recruitment works closer to the business.
Phoenix operates as an extension of the hiring team — understanding the company, role, hiring manager and candidate market before executing the search.
The immediate goal can still be simple: make a great hire.
The difference is that the knowledge, structure and improvements created during the process can be reused for the next one.
Closer to the business
Understand the team, role and commercial context before searching.
Hands-on execution
Market mapping, direct sourcing, headhunting, screening and candidate management.
Better hiring decisions
Clearer role criteria, structured assessment and stronger feedback loops.
Reusable knowledge
Capture what works so future hiring does not start from zero.
How we work
A methodical, four-step process that delivers the right person for your immediate opening while building permanent clarity into how you hire.
Understand
We get close to the business, hiring manager, role and market before starting the search.
Search
We map the relevant candidate market and directly approach people who may not be actively looking.
Hire
We manage candidate conversations, qualification, feedback and the process through to decision and offer.
Improve
We capture what worked so the next recruitment process becomes faster, clearer and more repeatable.
Recruitment-led execution: You don't need a large transformation project to start. We can begin with one critical hire today.
Ways to engage
Start with the immediate hire you need to make today. If there is a broader hiring challenge, we can build structure around your recruitment process as we work.
Recruitment Assignment
For companies with a clear hiring need
Hands-on support for an individual role — from role calibration and candidate-market mapping to sourcing, screening and hiring support.
Sales, commercial, operational, specialist and professional roles.
Critical Search
For difficult, senior, confidential or highly specialised roles
Focused headhunting for candidates who are unlikely to respond to job advertising or traditional database recruitment.
Leadership, senior commercial, confidential replacements, or niche specialists.
Embedded Recruitment
For companies with recurring hiring needs
Phoenix works as an extension of your internal team across several roles or over an agreed period — combining execution with hiring-process improvement and reusable recruitment infrastructure.
Growth stages, team buildouts, new market expansion, or capacity relief.
Hiring Infrastructure & Advisory
Where recruitment problems are recurring, Phoenix can help improve role briefs, interview structure, candidate evaluation, market intelligence, workflows and responsible use of AI.
How Phoenix compares
Different models serve different needs. Here is how our founder-led embedded approach fits alongside traditional agencies and HR advisory.
Traditional Recruitment Agency
- •Usually engaged for a single defined vacancy
- •External delivery model outside your internal tools
- •Mainly focused on candidate introduction
- •Market knowledge and candidate data remain with the agency
Effective when you simply want quick external CV submissions for standard roles.
Phoenix TalentOS
- Works closely alongside the hiring manager & leadership
- Understands role, culture, and business context first
- Combines direct proactive search with hiring process support
- Builds reusable knowledge and structure during delivery
Combines advice with hands-on search execution.
HR & Management Consultancy
- •Often focused on high-level organizational advice
- •Creates frameworks, slide decks, and competency models
- •Limited hands-on candidate sourcing and headhunting
- •Leaves the actual search workload to internal teams
Valuable for broad HR policy, but doesn't fill your open headcount.
Phoenix TalentOS
- Works directly alongside hiring managers & leadership
- Understands business and technical context before outreach
- Combines proactive direct search with process structuring
- Leaves reusable templates and intelligence with your team
Combines executive guidance with direct search delivery.
Have an immediate single opening? We can run a dedicated Recruitment Assignment or Critical Search with the same rigor.
AI-supported. Human-led.
AI-supported research and workflows make market mapping, preparation, documentation and communication more efficient. Candidate engagement, assessment and hiring decisions remain human-led.
Technology supports the process. Judgment and relationships still make the hire.
Direct senior involvement from briefing to hire.
Phoenix TalentOS was founded by David Rozsa to offer companies a closer alternative to transactional recruitment.
David combines international business development experience with specialist recruitment and headhunting, and works directly with clients throughout the assignment — from understanding the hiring need to candidate engagement and final hiring support.
No junior handoff. No unnecessary layers. One accountable partner who understands the assignment.
Frequently asked questions
What are you trying to hire?
Tell me about the role, hiring challenge or team you are building. Your message goes directly to David Rozsa, founder of Phoenix TalentOS.
Prefer direct email? Reach David at [email protected]