About usThe problem: one desk, run across six systems

Founded by people who had run a desk across six systems.

We had worked in recruitment. We were tired of typing the same worker into one screen after another. In 2019 we started building the system we had wanted all along.

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Founded 2019By people from recruitment.
Built with recruitersIn the room from day one.
UK basedAnd built for UK rules.

Six systems. One worker, typed six times.

Kay D. Active

Typed in once. Everything else hangs from her record.

Applied and registeredDone
Right to work and documentsIn date
Booked, Thu 06:00, Depot 2Confirmed
Timesheet, 40 hoursApproved
Pay and the client's invoiceIn this week's run
Every message, on her recordLogged

One system. One worker, typed once.

The screen is drawn from the real product with made-up data.

Our story

We built the system we wanted when we ran a desk.

Anyone who has run a temp desk knows the morning. A worker is in the spreadsheet under two spellings. The client's request is somewhere in an inbox. The documents are in a folder nobody has opened since they were scanned.

Then the same hours are written on paper, typed into payroll and typed again onto an invoice. None of it is difficult. All of it is slow, and every retyping is a chance to get it wrong.

TalentCore started in 2019 with one rule. A worker is typed in once, and the same record carries them from application to booking, through compliance, onto a timesheet, into pay and onto the invoice.

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The year we started: 2019
Systems a desk used to run across: 6
Times a worker is typed in now: 1

How we buildThe problem: software that takes the decision as well as the admin

Humans, augmented with technology.

The software does the admin and the chasing. People do the judgement and the relationships. Three habits keep us honest about which is which.

Three habits
Recruiters in the roomBuilt with working recruiters
The software chases. People decide.A person's yes, recorded
Off until you switch it onManual first
Where we build
UK basedBuilt for the rules you work under

Recruiters in the room

TalentCore has been built with working recruiters from day one. A screen starts as a job somebody does at a desk: fill the 6am, chase the timesheet, check the licence. We build the screen around the job, then watch somebody use it.

The words on the screen are the words used on the desk.
The first thing you see is what needs you today.

TalentCore for recruiters

Needs you Wednesday 11 November

1
06:00 at Depot 2 needs coverOne no-show. Three workers fit.
OpenFilled
2
13 timesheets still to come inPayroll closes Monday at 10:00
To chaseChased
3
A Class 2 licence runs out FridayDev C. is booked for next week
ExpiringChased
4
A bank detail change is waitingNothing changes until it is reviewed
To reviewReviewed

The software chases. People decide.

We automate the ringing round, the reminders and the arithmetic. We do not automate the decision. Mira can rank who fits a shift, but a person chooses who is asked. No offer goes out until somebody confirms it.

Offers, bookings, timesheets and bank detail changes all wait for a person's yes.
The yes is recorded, with who and when.

Meet Mira

Off until you switch it on

A recruitment business should not have to change how it works to suit its software. So the portal features and the automations are switches, off until you choose. You turn on a client's portal when that client is ready. You confirm each HR rule when somebody has decided it.

Manual first. Automation is a choice, made one client at a time.
The rules the system runs on are written down where you can read them.

Settings, branding and help

Optional features Example Foods

Client Portal AccessTheir own view of bookings, invoices and workers
Timesheet ApprovalThe client approves hours before invoicing
Booking RequestsClients ask for workers online
Worker Accept / DeclineWorkers answer assignments in their portal

The problem: software written for another market

Built here, for the rules you work under.

We are based in the UK and we build for UK recruitment. Right to work, agency worker rules, holiday pay, driver hours and the statutory minimums are part of the product, not a bolt-on written for another market.

CHECK Kay D. Thu 06:00, Depot 2

Right to work valid on the day
Pay at or above the legal minimum
Not already booked that day
Site induction in date

Clear to book.

What we built

One desk, where there used to be six.

Where to go next

Who it is for

Tell us how your desk runs today.

We have run one. Write to us and a person who knows recruitment will write back.

Talk to us info@talentcorecrm.com