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What does aha! Talent Experts really do?
Short answer: we build hiring systems for businesses that hire constantly, and we run them with you until they work.
Longer answer, including the part that changed this year.
What we stopped doing
For years we filled roles. A client sent us a job, we ran the search, we handed back candidates. It worked, and we were good at it, but it had a ceiling: the moment we stopped, the hiring stopped. Nothing we built stayed behind.
So we stopped. We no longer offer recruiting, we do not fill roles, and we do not take a percentage of anyone’s salary. If that is what you need, we are not the right call.
What we do instead
Two things.
Fractional Head of Talent. A senior hiring leader working inside your business for three months. We build automated sourcing and screening, employer branding assets and recruitment campaigns, inside the tools you already run. Month one is the build. Months two and three are operating it and tweaking it with your team. Your managers still run the interviews; we do not sit in on them. Starts at $25,000, scoped per client.
The DREAM Hire Engine™ hiring system build. The full system on our platform: a branded career site, a 24/7 chatbot, one-way video interviews, one dashboard to decide in, automated onboarding, and five AI recruitment specialists your team can use for any role, any time.
Most clients start fractional. Some stop there, because what we build inside their own tools is enough. Others move up to the full system. The real difference is whose platform it runs on.
What runs underneath both
The DREAM Hire Framework™ is the method behind every system we build:
- Define — what the role actually needs, and what success looks like in the first 90 days
- Reach — where your candidates already are, and how to get in front of them there
- Engage — keeping candidates warm without anyone chasing them by hand
- Assess — a consistent read on fit, so the shortlist is short and right
- Motivate — the first 90 days, so the hire you worked for actually stays
Where AI fits, and where it does not
AI handles the sorting: writing the job ads, screening the applications, scheduling, and the follow-up that never happens when everyone is busy.
It does not make the hire. Your managers still meet the people — they just meet a shortlist instead of a pile. That is the point. Not fewer humans in hiring, fewer hours spent on the part that was never a good use of a human.
Who this is for
Businesses that hire constantly rather than occasionally: multi-unit and franchise operators, restaurants and hospitality, retail and service brands, care and health, warehouse and logistics — anyone running high-volume hourly hiring across more than one location.
If you hire twice a year, you do not need us.
And the quick wins
We also run AI Quick Wins: short engagements that put one working AI workflow into your business, hiring or not. Different problem, same principle. Build the thing, hand it over, make sure it runs.
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