Your toughest hiring challenges, solved faster and better!
The No-BS Talent Advisory
Not the Right Candidates?
👉Solve Your Trickiest Hiring Problems Now
Limited Internal Capacity?
👉 Rent our Fractional TA Experts
Not Sure Whether it’s a Fit?
👉 With Us You Make Informed Decisions
Our Services
No Worries! We got this! With MTL You Will Overcome Your Most Complex Business Challenges
MTL | Advisory
Talent Strategy
In-house a Fractional Head of Talent to support with Talent Strategy, Assessment Concepts, Corporate Culture Workshops, and more.
MTL | Search
World-Class Headhunting
We are global experts in Active Sourcing, the best-performing and most challenging talent pipeline when it comes to specialist recruitment.
MTL | Intel
Actionable Insights
Understand the competitive landscape via
in-depth research, including market analysis, talent mapping, and talent assessments.
What we offer
Let our team take care of or support you in any or all of the below:
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We provide flexible talent acquisition leadership on an interim or fractional basis to suit your needs. Whether it's setting up talent infrastructure like an ATS or HRS, crafting and executing hiring plans, or offering strategic guidance, we’re here to support your organisation every step of the way.
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Our People Due Diligence service offers psychometric assessments and team compatibility tests, giving investors and leadership teams valuable insights into team dynamics. This helps optimise team structures and supports smarter investment decisions.
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We are well connected across geographies, industries and functions. Our network and credibility give us access to market intelligence that you may otherwise not be able to uncover. Put us to the test!
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Irrespective of whether you have the intention to hire, we can provide an overview of all profiles relevant to your talent strategy.
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Whether confidential or not, the quality, relevance, credibility and channel of our outreach results in above average candidate interest and response rate. Let us do the heavy lifting for you!
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The ability to facilitate an introduction with a person of interest is often underrated. The professionalism and credibility of our headhunters gets you facetime with the people you need to talk to.
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Our headhunters are functional experts turned recruiter. Their ability to efficiently identify relevant candidates makes them every hiring manager’s darling. We make sure you only see the candidates you needed to see!
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Often neglected but key for making the right hiring decision, especially when strategically important roles are concerned: candidate assessment! We help you design interview screen cards as well as case studies that will expose unsuitable candidates.
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There is nothing more frustrating than losing a perfect candidate inches away from the finish line. Let us help you negotiate a win-win offer for both parties. Remember: Due to our pricing model, we have no incentive to drive up or inflate compensation packages!
Pricing
Our pricing is flexible and easy! Whether you need help with a mapping project or 360 recruiting support, we have a pricing model that suits your needs.
Inhouse a team of active sourcing experts for as long as you want
Full range of services
Ideal for companies looking to augment their in-house capacities
€3.900
Monthly Retainer
per month*
Outsource the tricky tasks to our team of TA experts
Full range of services
Ideal for project work, e.g. mapping, confidential outreach…
€150
Hourly Rate
per hour**
Let our headhunters find the perfect candidate for your vacancy
Dedicated headhunting team, exclusive and reserved for you only
Ideal for strategic vacancies that need 100% attention
25 % Fee
Commission-Based
per hire
* starting net price per month when subscribing to an annual plan with one assignment. Prices for monthly subscriptions are 25-35% higher and vary based on number of assignments.
** net price per hour when prepaying at least 100 hours, otherwise 175€ / hr.
About Us
Mettlesearch is a no-nonsense talent advisory specializing in solving complex hiring challenges. We excel in finding top talent for strategically important roles—whether in core corporate or technology functions—across industries like retail, tech, finance, and more. Our process is tailored for companies that need speed, creativity, and precision, particularly when internal teams lack the capacity or expertise to fill difficult vacancies.
Startups and SMEs benefit from our flexible approach, as we act as a fractional talent team on-demand. For larger organizations, we augment in-house Talent Acquisition, stepping in when workload spikes or the role is confidential. What sets us apart is our global reach and relentless commitment to uncovering the right candidates—even when other agencies give up. We’re not just filling roles; we’re solving hiring problems that impact business success.
Meet the MTL Team
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Miro Koehler
DIRECTOR
Leadership & Transformation
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Megan Owen
DIRECTOR
Leadership & Transfomation
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Fairouz West
CONSULTANT
Tech & Product
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Katharina Goyke
CONSULTANT
Sales & Marketing
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Dr. Shawn Rogers
CONSULTANT
People & Finance
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Alfred Waligo
CONSULTANT
Tech & Product
Key Performance Indicators
Time required to find and introduce a relevant candidate
Time between start of an assignment and signature of an offer
Expenses incurred to recruit and hire a candidate
FAQs
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Upon contacting us, we send out a brief survey to better understand the requirements. Upon receiving the answers to the survey, we schedule an intake meeting and in most cases we can present a first viable candidate profile within 7 days.
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We are so confident in our ability to guide and support you with our expertise and find relevant candidates for your vacancies that we wave the first month’s invoice of an annual subscription for new clients. As long as you cancel before the end of the first month or 30 day period, you will not be charged.
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We always find relevant candidates and we always advise our clients on how to best position a vacancy in the market. However, if the determined parameters do not attract the right candidates, our clients can always assign a different assignment to us or cancel their subscription altogether.
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An assignment is typically one or several tasks relating to one vacancy or talent initiative. E.g. you could ask us to do mapping, outreach and screening for a new finance vacancy. That would qualify as one assignment. If you added market research relating to a new sales vacancy, that would qualify as a second assignment (and require at least our ‘Permanent’ package).
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We at MTL are not a sales agency. Our priority is to deliver high quality headhunting services. We believe that a monthly fixed fee best aligns our interests with those of our clients. In addition it gives our clients full control over their hiring budget.
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Yes, upon request we also offer a hybrid retainer / commission model where we charge a 25% commission on the first year guaranteed compensation of the placed candidate.
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Yes, our monthly subscriptions can be canceled before the end of the month while yearly subscriptions can be cancelled by the end of a 12 month cycle.
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MTL is short for Mettle, which is defined as “the ability to cope well with difficulties; spirit and resilience”, which in turn describes our team’s competence and mentality very accurately.
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Everything! We have fixed recruiting: Starting with our price model, which aligns our and our clients’ interests, to our use of functional experts as recruiters, which results in much higher quality work and enhances our KPIs way above industry standards.