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Recruitment · HR · Managed teams — Pakistan

Talent isn’t found.
It’s navigated.

Talentcompas recruits your people, runs your HR, and builds your dedicated teams in Pakistan — for companies at home, in the Gulf, and across the West. With service standards we put in writing.

10,000+ pre-screened candidates Rawalpindi HQ — DHA Business Avenue Pakistan · Gulf · UK · EU · US
The Talentcompas Standard

Promises, in writing.

We’re a young firm with an old-school word. Every engagement starts with five commitments — in the contract, not the brochure.

Shortlist in 5 days

First shortlist within five business days of a signed contingency brief — or we tell you why, in writing.

90-day guarantee

A permanent hire who leaves inside 90 days is replaced free. Once per role — the only small print: the invoice was paid on terms.

One-day replies

Every message answered within one business day. Usually much faster.

No fill, no fee

Contingency search costs nothing until the day your hire signs.

No ghosting. Ever.

Every candidate hears back. Every client hears the truth, early.

These aren’t marketing lines — they’re contract terms, each applied to the practice it belongs to (one-day replies and no-ghosting apply to everything). If we ever miss one, you’ll hear it from us first. Read how we work →

What we run for you

One partner. Four practices.

Hand us a single role or an entire department — the accountability is identical. One contract, one account lead, one standard.

How we work

The Compass Method.

The same four moves run every engagement — a single search, an embedded recruiter, or a forty-person managed team.

Step one

Orient

A structured intake: role scorecard, success profile, compensation range, dealbreakers. The brief goes in writing and you sign it off.

Step two

Map

Market scan and calibration — two or three sample profiles within 48 hours, so we align on reality before the real search begins.

Step three

Navigate

Search, structured interviews, assessment. A shortlist with evidence: every candidate arrives with an assessment note and salary expectation.

Step four

Land

Offer management, references, resignation support, and onboarding check-ins at day 7, 30, and 90.

Why we feel different

What we refuse to do.

Most agencies compete on activity. We compete on discipline — and discipline is mostly about what you won’t do.

We’re a young firm, and we won’t pretend otherwise: no invented statistics, no stock-photo teams, no borrowed logos. We’d rather show you our work on a call than decorate a website. What we can promise from day one is the conduct — and conduct is what you’ll remember us for.

  • CV blasting

    No forty-CV email dumps. A shortlist of three to five, each with an assessment note and a salary expectation.

  • Junior gatekeepers

    The person who takes your brief is the person who runs your search. No account-manager relay race.

  • Ghosting — in either direction

    Candidates get answers. Clients get bad news early. Silence is this industry’s disease; we don’t carry it.

  • Briefs we can’t fill

    If we’re not confident, we decline and say why. Your time is the most expensive thing we touch.

  • Invisible fees

    One number, agreed before we start. It never changes mid-search.

For international clients

Global standard.
Pakistan economics.

Pakistan is one of the world’s most underrated talent markets: a large, young, English-fluent professional workforce — at employment costs that change what your budget can build.

We run the whole corridor for you: sourcing, employment, payroll, compliance, equipment, and retention — so working with a team in Rawalpindi feels like working with a team next door.

  • 10,000+pre-screened candidates across technology, finance, operations, and industry — growing weekly
  • UTC+5full-day overlap with the Gulf, half-day with the UK and Europe, morning handoff to the US East Coast
  • 4+1four practices and an Employer of Record spotlight — one accountable partner, one contract
  • Day 1a named account lead, WhatsApp-native communication, and an agreement written in plain English
Commercials

Simple models. One number, agreed first.

Pricing depends on role, volume, and market — but the shape is always one of these, and it’s always in writing before we start.

Model
Built for
Fee basis

Contingency search

Standard permanent roles where speed matters and you only pay for results.

% of annual salary, on hire

Retained search

Executive, confidential, or hard-to-fill roles that deserve a dedicated project.

Staged retainer

Embedded recruiter (RPO)

Sustained hiring — three or more roles a quarter — without per-hire agency fees.

Flat monthly

People Operations

Outsourced HR: payroll, compliance, onboarding, helpdesk.

Per employee / month

Contract staffing & manpower outsourcing

Staff on our payroll, working under your direction — EOBI, PESSI and labour-law compliance included.

Payroll + fixed service charge

Managed Teams & EOR

Dedicated offshore teams or individual hires we legally employ and run for you.

Per seat / month

Build–Operate–Transfer

We build and run your Pakistan operation, then hand it over when you’re ready to own it.

Monthly + transfer fee
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