People & Performance Partner for Growing Businesses Β· CareerVive
A confident, diverse team
Your people and performance partner

We don’t leave performance to chance.

Your People. Your Performance.

Your business performs when your people do. We get the right people in, build them into stronger leaders and teams, and free them from the work that holds them back. Whether you are scaling fast, stepping up a level, or moving in a market where agility wins.

Scroll
What we do

It always comes back to people.

Stronger people make a stronger business. We bring in the right ones, grow them into the leaders and teams you need, and clear the way so they can do their best work. Three ways in, one partner accountable for the result.

How it fits together

The whole picture, joined up.

The right hire, the right leadership, and the right way of working, run as one. They pull in the same direction, so the gains compound instead of cancelling out.

We streamline how the work gets done, and hand the repetitive work to systems and AI, so the hours come back to your people.

Then we keep them growing. Our performance frameworks develop people into the leaders you’ll need next. Performance management that sees them for who they really are.

And if someone is not the fit, we help them find their place through outplacement. They leave whole, and your name stays good.

Find the fit Recruit, onboard, and coach through ROC™, so people start in a role that’s right for them.
Grow them Frameworks and performance management that develop people into the leaders you’ll need next.
See them Performance management that sees each person for who they really are.
Why it matters

People stay when they feel seen, developed, and in the right role.

When someone feels seen, developed, and in the right role, they stay and they do their best work. That feeling is the thread through everything we run. we run.

The proof

We stay accountable for the result, and you see it.

We are accountable for whether it works. Here is what happens when someone stays with it, past the hire and into how the business performs.

7 days
to hire a Head of People for Pret A Manger
90%+
retention across 24 hires over two years at RDP Creative
4
countries we’ve built and retained teams across
RDP CreativeGlobalRecruitment
24 hires. Four regions. 90%+ still there.
Build and retain global capability across London, LA, APAC, and Hong Kong.
90%+ retention over two years across 24 hires, with clearer internal progression.

He doesn’t stop at filling roles. He mentors, supports, and equips people to thrive.

Wendy MatherCEO, RDP Creative
Pret A MangerEnterprisePeople Performance
A new Head of People, in under a week.
Replace HR leadership at speed, after a sudden resignation.
15% uplift in engagement scores by day 90, with the hire secured inside four weeks.

His support doesn’t end once the offer is accepted. He follows up to make sure both the person and the organisation are thriving.

Ivica PerosHead of People, Pret A Manger
Dallas HoldingsScale-upRecruitment
A Head of Finance against a narrow, high bar.
Hire to precise, hard-to-meet criteria, without resorting to volume.
2 months to fill a complex senior brief, with reduced ramp risk after the hire.

We needed precision in who we brought in. ROC delivered exactly that.

Shane ThakrarCEO, Dallas Holdings
MencapEnterpriseRecruitment
We fixed the hiring machine itself.
Strengthen internal trust in recruitment and speed up hiring, without outsourcing it.
End to end a clearer, repeatable hiring process the internal team could run on their own.

You’ve really helped us identify and improve our recruitment approach.

Glen HallHead of People Services, Mencap
When a hire doesn’t work out
What really counts is what happens when a hire doesn’t work.
Pret A Manger · Head of Finance

We placed a senior Head of Finance. They passed probation, then unravelled in month four. With a traditional recruiter, that’s a five-figure placement fee gone, non-refundable, and you start the search again on your own.

With ROC, it was already covered. Inside the same subscription, we sourced the replacement, ran the full onboarding and coaching again, and had the new Head of Finance performing by day 90. Pret paid no second fee.

That’s what accountable for the hire actually means, tested under the worst case.

The call

Tell us what’s been weighing on the business. Leave with a plan.

Thirty minutes. Bring us the thing that’s been sitting there. We’ll talk it through and tell you what we know works. Take our advice and run with it, great. Want us working alongside you, even better. Either way you leave with something useful.

Let’s talk
Free Thirty minutes You leave with a plan