Executive Search
Confidential, research-led searches for leadership and board roles. Market mapped, engaged discreetly, shortlists worth meeting.
Executive Search
HR Consulting
Talent Strategy
Recruitment Process Outsourcing
The right
people
change everything.
Hire exceptional talent and build the HR foundations that make it stay. Scale your team with Quantum Orbit today.
Connect with the market's strongest talent. We pair deep research with honest advice to place the people your growth depends on. Hires that don't just fill seats — they move the business.
One partner for the full people lifecycle. Our process keeps every search fast, structured, and honest at every stage.
Permanent Hiring
End-to-end recruitment for the roles your growth depends on — sourced, screened, and assessed against the brief, not the keyword.
Contract & RPO
Interim specialists, project teams, or a fully embedded recruitment function. Flexible capacity that scales with your plans.
HR Consulting
Policies, compensation, performance, and retention design. HR systems that let your people do their best work.
Statistics
Quantifiable impact across every engagement. We measure success by the speed and stick-rate of your hires.
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Time · Shortlist
3wks
Average time to a fully qualified shortlist.
Retention · 12mo
94%
Candidates still in seat a year after placement.
Placements · Total
500+
Successful placements delivered across 15+ industries.
Our Work
Proven placements
We partner with growing companies to solve the hires and HR problems that were holding them back — and drive measurable growth.
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//2025
//2025
Fintech Scale-up — Head of Engineering
A leadership search two agencies had stalled on for months, closed in three weeks with a shortlist of four — every candidate interview-worthy.
Manufacturing Group — HR Function Rebuild
Policies, compensation bands, and a manager playbook built from scratch. Six months on, attrition is down and hiring runs on a system.
Logistics Company — Five Operations Roles
Five open leadership seats filled inside a single quarter. Every placement is still in post today.
Our Method
Hiring, built like a system
Design, run, and measure every search through one structured pipeline. No guesswork — just process.
/01Discover
/02Map
/03Engage
/04Assess
/05Land
Market Mapping
Targeted research finds where the right people are today — including the ones who aren't looking.
Structured Assessment
Interviews and references scored against the brief. Short lists of qualified people, not long lists of maybes.
Offer Management
Honest broker between both sides through offer, notice, and counter-offer season.
Onboarding Support
Regular check-ins through the first year. A placement isn't done until it sticks.
Performance
Optimized for outcomes
We monitor every search like a live system — retention, speed, and repeat partnerships, measured in the open.
Retention12 MO
Stick rate
Candidates still in seat
94%
VelocityAVG
Search speed
Brief to milestone, typical engagement
SHORTLIST3 WKS
OFFER ACCEPTED6 WKS
IN SEAT10 WKS
LoyaltyNET
Clients who return
For their next hire
9/10
Our Approach
Built for the long term
We don't just fill seats; we build teams. Rigorous research, honest advice, and fast execution — judged a year later, not on offer day.
People First
Candidates are people, not CVs. Clients are partners, not accounts. Every search starts with what both sides actually need.
Total Clarity
Weekly updates, honest feedback, and a straight answer when a brief needs fixing. You always know where your search stands.
Fast Cycles
Speed without shortcuts. Structured process and deep networks deliver qualified shortlists in weeks, not months.
Engagement
Engineered for retention
Go beyond CV-matching. Five stages of structure behind every placement — click through the pipeline.
Understand the role behind the role.
We dig into the team, the context, and what success looks like in twelve months. That's the brief we hire against — not a keyword list.
Map the market with surgical precision.
Targeted research identifies where the right people are today — including the passive majority who aren't answering job ads.
Outreach that people answer.
Personal, honest engagement that treats candidates as people. We pitch the reality of the role, so interest is real from the first call.
Assess against the brief, not the vibe.
Structured interviews, scorecards, and references. You see a short list of qualified people — not a long list of maybes.
Land the offer. Keep the hire.
Offer management, counter-offer navigation, onboarding support, and check-ins through year one. Done means retained.
Industries
Quantum Orbit bridges the gap between your open roles and the market's best people. Fluent across the sectors where hiring is hardest.
Testimonials
Trusted by serious teams
From fast-growing startups to established groups, companies choose Quantum Orbit for the hires they can't afford to get wrong.
A shortlist actually worth meeting
Rating★★★★★
Comment
They filled a Head of Engineering role two other agencies had sat on for months. Every candidate was worth meeting.
Our managers finally have a playbook
Rating★★★★★
Comment
Quantum Orbit rebuilt our HR policies and hiring process from scratch. Six months later, attrition is down.
Honesty that fixed our hiring
Rating★★★★★
Comment
They pushed back on our brief, fixed our salary banding, and then delivered exactly the people we needed.
Five roles filled in one quarter
Rating★★★★★
Comment
We handed them five open operations roles at once. All five people are still with us today.
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Insights on people & hiring
Practical thinking on recruitment, retention, and building HR that works. Stay ahead of the talent curve.
The Real Cost of a Bad Hire
Salary is the smallest part of the bill. What a mis-hire really costs in momentum, morale, and management time.
Structured Interviews: A Practical Playbook
Unstructured interviews predict very little. A simple framework for interviews that measure what matters.
Retention Starts Before Day One
The decisions that determine whether a hire stays are mostly made before they start.
FAQ
Common inquiries
Everything you need to know about hiring with Quantum Orbit. Can't find an answer?
From critical individual contributors to C-suite leadership, across 15+ industries. If a role matters to your business, it's in scope — and if we're not the right partner for it, we'll tell you.
Our average is three weeks to a qualified shortlist. Complex or confidential searches can take longer — we'll give you an honest timeline up front and weekly updates against it.
Yes. Policies, compensation banding, performance frameworks, onboarding, and retention design are all core services — many clients start with a hire and stay for the HR foundations.
No — our services are always free for candidates. We're paid by employers, and our job is to represent you honestly and put you in roles that actually fit.
Completely. Your details are never shared with any employer without your explicit consent, and we never advertise your profile.
Join our talent network. When the right brief lands, you'll be the first call — and in the meantime we'll share honest advice on positioning your experience.
Contingent, retained, project-based, or embedded — the model depends on the engagement. Every fee is agreed transparently before work begins, with no hidden extras.
Yes. Every permanent placement comes with a replacement guarantee period. If a hire doesn't work out within it, we re-run the search at no additional fee.
Always. The first conversation is about understanding your situation and telling you honestly whether — and how — we can help.
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