Recruitment Services to Attract and Retain Top Talent

Top talent for the win

Businesses thrive when the right people are in the right roles, not just today, but for the long term. Recruitment is where that foundation is set. From shaping meaningful roles to designing fair, engaging hiring processes, recruitment plays a critical role in building teams that perform, stay, and grow with your organization.

At True North HR, recruitment support is part of a broader HR strategy. We help organizations make thoughtful hiring decisions that align with their culture, values, and future goals, supporting not just who you hire, but how and why you hire them.

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Recruitment Is More Than Hiring

Recruitment is not a single transaction; it’s a reflection of your culture, leadership approach, and employee experience. How roles are defined, how candidates are engaged, and how decisions are made all send powerful signals about what it’s like to work in your organization.

Our recruitment support focuses on the full picture: employer branding, candidate experience, and alignment with long-term business goals. We help you design recruitment strategies that attract the right people, reinforce your values, and set new hires up for success well beyond their start date.

This approach strengthens retention, supports engagement, and ensures hiring decisions contribute to a healthy and sustainable workplace.

How Our Recruitment Support Works at True North HR

Recruitment support at True North HR is structured, strategic, and integrated into your broader HR practices.

Strategic Role & Workforce Planning

We start by understanding your business goals, team structure, and future growth plans. This includes clarifying role expectations, assessing workload and capability needs, and ensuring hiring decisions support where your organization is heading, not just immediate gaps.

Employer Branding & Hiring Process Design

Strong recruitment starts with clarity and consistency. We support job design and job descriptions, interview frameworks, and hiring processes that reflect your culture and values. This includes improving candidate experience, embedding inclusive hiring practices, and ensuring your process is compliant and defensible.

Selection Support & Retention Readiness

We guide interview decision-making, support hiring managers with evaluation tools, and help align onboarding with recruitment goals. Early engagement, role clarity, and realistic expectations are critical to retention, and we build these into the recruitment process from the start.

Our recruitment services are offered as part of an ongoing HR partnership and are not intended to replace a recruitment agency.

Why It's Important

The recruitment landscape is highly competitive, so it’s important to position your brand as one that ensures employee happiness. Give employees a genuine understanding of what they gain by working with your company and how it sets them up for real success. Employees thrive in environments that play to their greatest strengths and highlight their value. But it doesn’t end there; changing times require that companies continuously review and refine internal and customer-facing cultures based on market insights.

Business growth can face various recruitment challenges:

Talent recruitment

Looking for strategies to attract and retain skillful, qualified candidates?

Time management

Want to streamline the recruitment process and enhance screening?

Skill matching

Trying to figure out how to align candidate skills with job requirements?

Diversity and inclusion

Seeking strategies to attract and retain a diverse talent pool?

Legal compliance

Striving to ensure compliance with labour laws and regulations?

Our focus is to streamline recruitment processes by prioritizing employer branding:

  • Use proactive sourcing strategies to tap a wider talent pool
  • Automate repetitive tasks and use technology to modernize recruitment workflows to save time
  • Develop clear job descriptions and use skills assessment tools to screen candidates
  • Establish inclusive policies and practices to implement diversity-focused recruitment strategies
  • Regularly review and update recruitment processes to ensure compliance with labour laws

Recruitment Designed for Retention

Hiring the right person is only successful if they stay, contribute, and grow. Our recruitment approach is designed with retention in mind.

We focus on long-term fit by aligning strengths with role requirements, ensuring values alignment, and supporting onboarding as an extension of the recruitment process. Early engagement signals, manager readiness, and clear performance expectations all influence whether new hires feel confident and connected.

By treating recruitment as the first stage of retention, we help organizations reduce costly mis-hires and build teams that thrive over time.

Our Recruitment Focus Areas

Our recruitment support is grounded in practical, people-first HR expertise, including:

Each focus area is designed to strengthen hiring outcomes while supporting culture, compliance, and leadership capability.

Who We Support With Recruitment

Our recruitment services are best suited for:
  • Existing True North HR clients
  • Growing businesses without internal HR teams
  • Organizations that hire infrequently but want to hire well
  • Companies prioritizing culture, engagement, and retention
We do not operate as a traditional recruitment agency focused on high-volume placements. Our role is to support thoughtful hiring through strategic HR partnership.
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Organizational Design
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Fractional HR

On-demand HR leadership to support consistent, informed people management decisions

Recruitment

Structured recruitment support that helps you hire effectively and thoughtfully

Compensation

Balanced compensation practices that support fairness, motivation, and business needs

Pay Equity

Objective pay equity support that reinforces fairness and organizational credibility

HR Policies

Clear HR policies that create alignment, consistency, and shared expectations

Organizational Design

Role and structure alignment to improve workflow, clarity, and performance

HR Audit

A clear assessment of HR practices to identify compliance and process risks

Coaching

Practical coaching that strengthens leadership effectiveness and decision-making

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Recruitment Services FAQs

No. We provide recruitment support as part of broader HR services and do not operate as a placement-based agency.
Recruitment support is typically delivered within an ongoing HR partnership to ensure alignment with your people strategy and workplace practices.
Recruitment is integrated with workforce planning, organizational design, onboarding, and retention strategies.
Yes. We work alongside leaders and internal teams to strengthen hiring processes and decision-making.
Absolutely. Clear, engaging job design and employer messaging are core components of our recruitment support.

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