Who to hire next. And where to find them.
Give TalentSling your company’s name, website and location. It researches the business, plans the roles you need now and over the next five years, and maps the colleges, training providers and other local routes to the people you need. Every role gets a one-page hiring pack. Then it keeps watch.
- Plans from €199 a month
- A one-page pack for every role
- Built for Ireland and the UK
Hire now
Next 12 months
1–2 years
3–5 years
Bench Joiner
Makes bespoke kitchens, staircases and commercial joinery at the bench from drawings and cutting lists, to a finish customers pay a premium for.
Who to look for
A time-served or qualified maker who reads drawings confidently, works accurately to fine tolerances and takes pride in finish.
Must have
- Bench joinery or cabinet making experience
- Reads technical drawings and cutting lists
- Safe use of fixed and hand-held machinery
Behaviours
- Careful and methodical
- Asks when unsure
- Shares know-how
Qualifications
- Carpentry and joinery, level 3 (desirable)
- Wood machining certificate, level 2
- Machinery safety training (essential)
Compliance and checks
- Right-to-work check before the first day
- Machinery and dust safety training, with records
Gaps in local training
No local full-time furniture making course. Offer the college a live project.
Where to find them locally
- Aire Valley CollegeCollege · about 2 milesOffer placements to level 3 learners finishing in June.[email protected]
- Pennine SkillsApprenticeships · about 9 milesAsk them to shortlist apprentices for a September start.01924 496 111
- West Riding Woodworkers’ GuildProfessional body · about 3 milesPost the role and sponsor a meetup.
Routes to employment
- Bench joinery apprenticeship: productive in 12–18 months
- Career changers from site carpentry: 3–6 months
- Returners, with flexible hours at first
Where to advertise
- Woodworkers’ Guild jobs board: free for members
- Aire Valley College careers service: free
- Show the pay range; say site carpenters are welcome
TalentSling · researched 9 Nov 2026 from public sources. Check contact details, pay and legal requirements before relying on them; this is not legal advice.
An example: Harrow & Lane, a joinery workshop in Leeds. The company and every organisation shown are made up.
Hiring is hard, and much of the cost is legwork
Before anyone is interviewed, someone has to work out who the business needs, who trains people like that nearby and where they look for work. Most companies pay for that research inside an agency fee, or fit it in between other jobs.
83%
of 420 Irish employers in ManpowerGroup’s 2025 Talent Shortage Survey said they were struggling to find candidates.
15–25%
of a hire’s first-year salary is what recruitment agencies typically charge for a permanent placement.
€9,000
is about what a €45,000 hire costs at Reed’s standard permanent fee of 20%, under its published Republic of Ireland terms.
In Ireland, TalentSling Starter at €199 a month comes to €2,388 a year: about a quarter of one agency placement. It plans every role you need, and keeps working after the first hire.
Pay experts for judgement, not legwork.
The research behind every hire, done for your company
TalentSling works for one company at a time, so everything it finds is about your business and your area.
Your company, as the web sees it
An audit of your website, job listings, company register entry and news, turned into a profile and a state of play: strengths, challenges, hiring activity, growth signals and risks.
The roles you need, over five years
Each role placed on a horizon (hire now, the next 12 months, one to two years, three to five years) with its priority, headcount, the reason and the evidence.
Your local landscape
Colleges, universities, training and apprenticeship providers, professional bodies and public employment services within travelling distance, and how employers reach them.
A hiring pack for every role
The ideal candidate by skills and behaviours, qualifications and levels, compliance and checks, local sources, routes in, where and how to advertise, and gaps in local training.
A hiring plan
What to do first, the relationships worth building, gaps in local training, an advertising playbook and the risks to plan for.
One page per role, on paper
Every role downloads as a one-page A4 PDF for the hiring manager, and all your packs download together.
From a company name to a pack for every role
The audit usually takes a few minutes, and the packs for a typical company ten to twenty. It all runs on our servers, so you can close the page while it works.
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Tell it about your company
Your company’s name, website and location. That’s all it needs to start.
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It researches the company
Your website, job listings, the company register and the news become a profile and a state of play.
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It plans the roles
The roles you need now and over the next five years, each with the reason and the evidence.
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You check it
It pauses so you can correct the profile, change the roles and add any it missed. Or let it run on autopilot.
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It maps your area
The colleges, training providers, professional bodies and public employment services near you.
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You get the packs
A hiring pack for each role and a hiring plan for the company, ready to download and share.
After the first run, it keeps watch
Hiring needs change. Add, refresh or remove roles whenever you like, and refresh the company after a big change, such as a new site or a merger.
On a schedule, the watch checks for changes that affect your hiring: your own job adverts and news, local employers, new courses, funding, pay and the law. It follows the topics your audit suggested and any your team adds.
- Each update says why it matters and what to do about it
- Act on it in a click, or dismiss it
- Your team gets an email when something matters
Updates
Checked 10 November · watching 6 topics, from the audit and your team
HighSource checked
Aire Valley College adds a CNC programming short course
A ten-week evening course in CNC programming for joinery, from January.
Why it matters Closes the CNC training gap: a route to grow your own CNC machinist.
Refresh the local landscapeDismiss
MediumCheck first
Large furniture maker opening in Wakefield
A national furniture maker plans a 200-job factory two miles from your planned second workshop.
Why it matters It will compete for joiners and CNC operators around Wakefield.
Refresh the Bench Joiner roleDismiss
LowSource checked
Demand for estimators rising locally
Adverts for joinery estimators in Leeds have doubled since the summer.
Why it matters Worth planning the estimator role sooner.
Add the Estimator roleDismiss
Research you can check
AI is quick at research, and it can be wrong. So TalentSling shows where each fact came from, and holds back what it couldn’t confirm.
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Public information only
It reads public sources: your website, job listings, the company register, the news, and the sites of local organisations.
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Every fact has a source
Facts link to the page they came from. An organisation is marked as checked only when the research actually read its site.
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Contacts from the source
An email address or phone number appears only when it came from the organisation’s own website. Nothing is guessed.
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Skills, never personal traits
The ideal candidate is described by skills, experience, qualifications and behaviours, never by age, sex, race, religion or disability.
For the company you are, where you are
Two examples, with made-up companies, of what TalentSling looks at.
A joinery workshop in Leeds
About 30 staff, lead times growing, two senior joiners near retirement and a second workshop planned. TalentSling would plan the bench joiners and CNC skills it needs now and the apprentices it needs next, find the college and apprenticeship provider that train them nearby, and point out that no local course teaches CNC programming for joinery.
An engineering firm in Navan
A precision engineering company of 60 staff, winning more work and short of machinists. TalentSling would plan the CNC machinists, quality engineers and maintenance technicians it needs, map the apprenticeships of the local Education and Training Board, nearby universities, and Intreo for people changing careers, and say where to advertise each role.
A plan for the size of your company
Every plan includes credits each month for research, places for your team, and a watch on the roles that matter.
Starter · up to 75 staff
€199 a month
35,000 credits a month. Watches 5 roles, and checks for changes monthly. 2 team places.
Growth · 75–250 staff
€499 a month
85,000 credits a month. Watches 15 roles, and checks for changes fortnightly. 10 team places.
Scale · 250+ staff
€999 a month
170,000 credits a month. No limit on roles watched, and checks for changes weekly. No limit on team places. A named contact.
Prices before VAT. A company audit uses about 2,055 credits and each role’s pack about 1,200. Contracts too? Add LegalSling and save up to 14%.
Two ways to start
Start now
Create an account, choose a plan and enter your company’s name, website and location. Your first roles are ready the same day.
Create an accountSee it first
Book a 30-minute walkthrough and we’ll run TalentSling on your own company with you, so you can see what it finds before you choose a plan.
Book a walkthroughFrequently asked questions
What is TalentSling?
TalentSling researches your company’s own hiring. From your company’s name, website and location it builds a profile of the business, plans the roles you need now and over the next five years, maps the local colleges, training providers and other routes to those people, and builds a one-page hiring pack for each role. Then it keeps watch for changes that affect your hiring.
Who is it for?
Owners, managing directors, and finance and HR leads at companies of roughly 20 to 250 staff or more, in Ireland, Northern Ireland and Great Britain. It works for one company at a time: your own.
Does it replace a recruiter?
No. TalentSling does the research: who you need, where people like that are trained and how to reach them. The judgement stays with you, such as who to interview and who to hire. With the research done, you can decide which roles to fill yourself and which are worth an agency’s fee.
Where does the research come from?
Public information only: your website and careers pages, your job listings, your entry in the company register, recent news, and the websites of local organisations. Facts link to the page they came from, and contact details are shown only when they came from the organisation’s own site. What you tell TalentSling about your company stays private to your workspace.
Can I try it for free?
TalentSling starts with an audit of your company, which uses about 2,055 credits, so it needs a plan. If you’d like to see it first, book a 30-minute walkthrough on your own company by emailing [email protected].
How much does it cost?
Plans start at €199 a month before VAT (£199 in the UK, $239 elsewhere) for companies of up to 75 staff, with 35,000 credits a month. A company audit uses about 2,055 credits and each role’s hiring pack about 1,200. A yearly plan costs 10 months. See pricing.
What does a hiring pack include?
The ideal candidate, described by skills and behaviours; qualifications and their levels; compliance and checks; local sources with contacts; routes in, such as apprenticeships, career changers and returners; where and how to advertise; and gaps in local training. Each one downloads as a one-page A4 PDF for the hiring manager. The compliance section is general information, not legal advice.
Does it post job adverts?
No. Each pack says where and how to advertise the role: the job boards, professional bodies and local channels to use, with tips on the title and wording. You post the advert wherever you choose.
Can my team use it?
Yes. Your company shares one workspace. The owner and admins invite people and choose whether each gets TalentSling, LegalSling or both, and everyone with TalentSling sees the same company, roles and updates.
Pay experts for judgement, not legwork
TalentSling does the research behind every hire: who you need, where people like that are trained near you, and how to reach them. Create an account and choose a plan, or see it on your own company first.