Transforming the startup growth journey through unparalleled People and Talent insight.

HR Resources
Interview Training
Employer Branding
Talent Acquisition
Talent
Analytics
TA Strategy

Your Network

Hiring within your own network is the absolute best and we love to see it! 🙌🏽
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But where does this network end? Eventually you'll plateau and need to expand broader. This process is also time intensive. A commodity most founding teams are always short of.

Hire a TA or HR Person
Hiring a TA or HR is great. But scaling down? 📉 Expensive!
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With the countless layoffs seen globally, the first to go is the Talent Team. And that comes at a cost, both economic and on employer brand.

Recruitment Agency
Agencies are good, if you have the 💸 budget!
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Founders are starting to realise that a $10k-$30k fee per hire is eating into their burn and shortening runway.

Harnessing our 30+ years of experience with brands like Atlassian, Canva, AWS, and Algolia.

Resource Docs
Modular, turn-key, outcome-driven, and fixed-price services. Reducing burn & maxing value 📈

Holistic Change

Meaningful change across People, Tooling and Process, without the lingering overheads!
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Health Check Service

Identify gaps and quick wins with our TA Health Check 🩺
Attract, Interview, Hire & Retain
Fixed-Price, essential services for critical talent needs. We set the stage for your success in securing and retaining industry-leading talent.
Our Services

A truly on-demand, global, strategic, Talent function.

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Core Services

For teams that appreciate a 'GSD' approach, are aware of their painpoints and know what they need.

• Shortlist-as-a-Service
• Interviewer Training
• Interview Questions & Measurement Rubric
• Career ladder

Core services
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Our Services

Solutions geared to highly specific business problems.

• Talent Health-Check

• Attract

• Hire

• Interview

• Retain

Bespoke Consulting
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Products

A first of its kind, off-the-shelf and on-demand TA resources.

Founders Pack
A resource hub of Templates, Guides, Policies and Training to lay the foundations of your People function.

• Talent Health Check

Products
Team

4 years in the maxing and the brains that made S2S happen.

Ankit Sharma

Founder & Chief Consultant

Ankit has a decade of experience in Talent Acquisition and Recruitment. Having supported companies like Amazon, Microsoft, Google and multiple VC backed StartUps across APAC, most recently, he worked for Atlassian, and was a Global Head of Talent for Search.io - an early stage StartUp based out of Sydney and SF, which saw a successful exit in late 2022.

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Data > Feels

We firmly believe in the power of data. It's not about gut feelings or fluffy assumptions for us - it's about concrete facts and figures.

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Inclusion > Diversity

In our worldview, Inclusion is the foundation of diversity initiatives We hold a deep commitment to promoting inclusive practices across all our engagements.

Experience > Process

We dare to challenge the conventional wisdom of the Talent Acquisition world that centers around process improvements.

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Talent Posture

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Unlimited requests

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24 hour t/o helpdesk

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Culture help

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Recruitment tools

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10 years experience

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Ankit Sharma
CEO

Built from the ground up to be 'off-the-shelf' for you to lift, shift and implement into your Talent and People function...

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Values Aligned

Training that aligns with your businesses' values, mission and vision.

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Ongoing Support & Shadowing

We stick by you, to help remove hurdles as you start your interviewing journey

Don't worry you are in good company...

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Start2Scale pays respect to the Gadigal of the Eora Nation and the Darug

The traditional custodians of the land on which we work, and recognise their continuing connection to land, water and community. We pay respect to Elders past and present, and to first nations people across the globe.