Recruit, train, deploy
Our recruit, train, deploy model tackles tech and digital skills shortages head-on - we source and train talent for your roles - no traditional bench, no generic training, just future-ready professionals.
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We don't just find tech and digital talent, we shape it...
Our recruit, train, deploy solution, also known as hire, train, deploy, addresses skills shortages by identifying high-potential individuals and training them to meet your organisation’s technical needs and values. It’s a strategic pathway to permanent hires, designed to accelerate integration, maximise impact, and build teams that grow with your business.
Acquiring and retaining the right tech skills is a growing challenge for organisations aiming to scale and innovate. Our solution offers a proactive approach - developing tailored talent pipelines that build the capabilities you need, in line with your tech stack, and unlock long-term potential.
Our team works closely with you to understand your unique challenges and deliver professionals equipped to thrive in your environment from day one.
Diverse talent. Inclusive impact. Skills that fit.
Recruit: We go beyond traditional sourcing to find untapped potential...
We collaborate with partners including the Ministry of Defence’s Career Transition Partnership, delivered by our sister company Reed in Partnership, to connect with career changers, returners, service leavers, and individuals from diverse backgrounds. Using advanced sourcing technology and expert insights, our recruitment process delivers fast, precise, and personalised candidate engagement to meet your technical and cultural needs, building your future workforce.
Train: Training built around your business...
Designed and delivered by our Microsoft accredited tech training company, Code Nation, each programme is tailored to your tech stack, ways of working, and team culture. Training begins before deployment and continues throughout, blending hands-on learning, mentoring, and real-time progress tracking. Experience faster productivity gains and stronger retention, backed by a strategic approach to workforce development.
Deploy: We deploy talent with purpose - into roles designed to grow with your business for the long term...
Our flexible model allows you to assess fit before committing, supporting off-payroll engagement that transitions seamlessly into permanent hire. Whether through augmented resource, outcome-based delivery, or direct placement, we build your future workforce, so they are ready to integrate, perform, and grow with you.
Our approach...
At Reed Talent Solutions, we don’t just train talent, we prepare people to thrive in your organisation. Every programme is tailored to your unique tech stack, values, and goals, ensuring alignment from day one.
With our model, you can:
Close skills gaps with precision
Access diverse, untapped talent
Reduce hiring and training costs
Assess fit before committing to hire
Ensure quality through accredited, tailored learning
Create social impact by opening careers to new communities
Why choose us?
We don’t just recruit, our team recognise potential and provide tailored training to help individuals thrive. Our inclusive sourcing strategy reaches early talent, career changers, returners, service leavers, and older adults looking to reskill. Every person is assessed for their potential, not always their background, and supported through a streamlined, accessible process designed to ensure the right fit for your organisation.
Our in-house experts from our training company Code Nation design and deliver accredited training tailored to your tech stack, culture, and goals. This includes Microsoft courses delivered via Microsoft certified trainers. With agreed outcomes and assessments, every programme includes mentoring, coaching, and continuous support
Whether you need outcome-based delivery, embedded teams, or trained–to-fit permanent hires, we offer flexible deployment models to match your workforce strategy. Post-deployment support, performance tracking, and ongoing development ensure long-term success.
We help individuals transition into meaningful careers while solving your skills challenges. Our model reduces time-to-hire, lowers costs, improves retention, and opens up opportunities for underrepresented groups.
Our team only work on recruit, train, deploy models and is highly experienced in supporting applicants, trainees, and hiring managers throughout the process - to ensure that they remain engaged and get the best experience. A dedicated client service manager will partner with your business, ensuring our service aligns with your objectives and delivers the planned outcomes.
We’re committed to supporting your equity, diversity, inclusion and belonging (EDI&B) agenda by creating pathways into tech for those who’ve traditionally been excluded. Ultimately helping you build a more inclusive workforce and give back to your communities.
We provide full visibility across the entire programme, from recruitment funnel, training completion and outcome management, so that together we can track impact and make data driven decisions.
Latest insights
FAQs
Recruit, train, deploy is a unique service, built solely on developing skills and accessing new talent for your business by finding new talent and upskilling or reskilling. Reed Talent Solutions will take responsibility for the recruitment of candidates and providing them with the training and upskilling required to enter specific roles within your organisation. Deployment includes various employment options depending on your needs from permanent placement, to flexible contract options, with full deployment outcome management provided.
Recruit, train, deploy – sometimes known as hire, train, deploy – works by delivering targeted attraction and sourcing to find new talent. After this recruit phase of the model, tailored and unique training programmes will then be drawn up to address an organisation’s skills gap. This phase of the recruit, train, deploy model will also include trainee support, mentoring, progress checks and a final assessment. The onboarding and deployment of a skilled diverse talent pool of employees will then take place.
Recruit, train, deploy models come with multiple benefits, including:
Closing the skills gap for your organisation through having a strategic approach to building skills and talent for existing gaps and future workforce needs
Recruit, train, deploy brings increased access to new and diverse talent pools through targeting attraction strategies and equality, diversity, inclusion and belonging partners
Reduced cost of acquisition, training, and management through tapping into new talent
Recruit, train, deploy brings assured quality and learning outcomes
Flexible deployment options enabling resource to be engaged when you need it, or retain skills longer term
Open the door to skills and careers for new communities and give back by improving lives through work
Recruit, train, deploy is a new concept and it requires organisations to move away from traditional – and often trusted – methods of recruitment. A hire, train, deploy model requires companies to look beyond traditional recruiter profiles and to develop a more rounded talent acquisition team. It is a brave new world, and one our experts can help you to fully embrace.
Recruit, train, deploy requires organisations to rethink how they approach recruitment. Traditional recruitment begins with a job advertisement, which attracts applicants who then go through multiple rounds of interviews and assessment until a candidate or candidates is employed. Recruit, train, deploy is a faster, simpler way of doing recruitment. Talented individuals are recruited and trained in advance. They are prepared to enter the workforce and then deployed based on what an organisation is looking for.
Recruit, train, deploy can be extremely cost-effective as it eliminates the need to hire employees who already have the required skill set. A recruit, train, deploy programme removes the burden of competing for professionals, ensures the quality of talent, and reduces the time and effort that other approaches require – all of which significantly controls and reduces costs.
Recruit, train, deploy and hire, train, deploy are effectively the same solution.
Recruit, train, deploy is widely used across a range of sectors, including technology, retail, healthcare, legal and financial services. These sectors benefit from recruit, train, deploy models as they have traditionally struggled to fill roles and often become stuck paying expensive contractors. Public sector organisations face challenges such as a highly competitive marketplace and lengthy approval processes. Recruit, train, deploy, with its ready-made pool of candidates, is the perfect answer to these problems.