Talent & Hiring
Building and hiring an in-house agency team has its own realities. You’re shaping capability within corporate structures, balancing stakeholder expectations and planning for emerging skill shifts, particularly around AI, while still delivering day to day.
Through IHALC, members have access to resources and guidance from creative recruitment specialists The Industry Club, designed to sit comfortably alongside your talent team or existing hiring approach.
Talent Health Snapshot
A confidential 30-minute conversation to sense-check the hiring market before committing time or budget.
- A confidential 30-minute conversation to sense-check the hiring market before committing time or budget, covering the current market view, likely salary or level considerations, market appetite, potential hiring challenges, and any refinements that could strengthen a hiring brief.
- You’ll receive a short-written summary and clear perspective to inform next steps.
- No formal brief required. Limited to one per IHA.
Free for IHALC Members
Contact fiona.unsworth@ihalc.com for further details
Strategic Talent Mapping Sprint
A structured mapping project built around a defined brief. This may include:
- Competitor landscape: which comparable IHAs, brands or adjacent organisations (e.g. agencies) are likely to hold relevant talent, and how that talent is typically structured
- Mapped profiles: a curated view of relevant people in the market, including role level, background and likely fit
- Salary validation: indicative compensation benchmarks based on live market conversations and comparable roles
- Availability signals: early indicators of how open the market is, including whether relevant talent is likely to be actively looking, passively open, or hard to move
Focused market insight | 2 weeks | Fixed fee
Contact fiona.unsworth@ihalc.com for further details
Full Specialist Search
For senior, specialist or business-critical hires where additional focus and reach are valuable.
Market mapping, outreach, screening and coordination are managed end-to-end, in close alignment with your brief, stakeholders and internal hiring process. If mapping or longlisting has already been completed, that work carries forward.
Price on application
Contact fiona.unsworth@ihalc.com for further details
All chargeable services can be invoiced via your IHALC membership, helping simplify procurement and internal processing.
About The Industry Club
With 15 years’ experience in the creative and marketing recruitment space, The Industry Club work with top-tier talent from the best agencies across strategy, creative, createch design, client services, project management, production, and operations. Whether you’re building a permanent team or filling a tricky freelance brief, thanks to our partnership, IHALC members can access their specialist recruitment expertise and trusted network to help you find the people who’ll make the difference.
