Your first People team.

Minus the overhead.

Bring recruitment in-house, reduce costs and scale your hiring workflows with founder-friendly hiring blueprints.

No HR department required | No costly investment in a HR system

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Easy plug-and-pay workflows that elevate your talent brand.

  • Whether you’re building your first team or planning your next hiring season, we’ll help you bring recruitment in-house and set up workflows that save time, reduce costs, and grow with you.

    No HR leader yet? No problem. We’ll create founder-friendly systems your team can run confidently, so you don’t need to rely on expensive agencies or hire too early.

    Small People team stretched a little thin? We’ll clean up your workflows and help you deliver a smooth, consistent experience to candidates every time.

    Thinking about hiring a People or Talent lead soon? Our offerings are designed to set them up for success, so they hit the ground running. We can even help with designing your job description and advise on the best profile and timing for your People hire.

    Want to keep in touch with great candidates and future leaders? We’ll help you with simple tools and infrastructure to nurture those relationships for the long term.

    Whether you need light-touch tools or deeper people strategy support, we can work with you as much, or as little, as you need.

  • For NGOs, we offer reduced rates and support for high-volume employee, volunteer hiring and all of offerings. Whether you need light guidance or deeper advisory, we’ll work with you as much, or as little, as you need.

  • The Hiring Code is intended as a collaborative network of HR professionals who want to do meaningful, flexible work without the red tape. Whether you’re recently laid off, exploring freelance work, or looking to contribute on the side, we offer paid opportunities to:

    • Consult on live projects in your area of expertise

    • Contribute resources to our existing toolkits

    • Create new blueprint add-ons (L&D, DEI etc.)

  • Support your clients with proven tools and templates to make hiring smoother.

    • Access plug-and-play templates for job specs, interview guides, and workflows

    • Offer a more consistent and premium experience to candidates

    • Build stronger client relationships with our founder-friendly systems

    Low-cost, high-impact resources designed to help you hire faster and smarter.

Build with deep expertise. Maintain with Cloud & AI.

Make every hire a reflection of your brand.

What’s on Offer!

  • Structured Hiring Toolkits

    Structured hiring workflows, templates, trackers, and hiring health analyses so you can hire confidently and independently, without an agency.

    All within 2 weeks

  • People & Culture Strategy

    Retention audits; Culture & employee happiness assessments; Business aligned people OKRs.

    Custom project timelines & rates available

  • Lead Generation & Recruitment

    I specialise in recruitment and lead generation for People, HR and Recruitment roles across all levels.

    Custom project timelines & rates available

  • Fractional HR Advisory & Consulations

    On-demand HR support for small teams. Strategic hiring, retention, and scaling advice, without the cost of a full-time HR leader.

    Custom timelines & rates available

Affordable, Scalable and Fast

Clean up your hiring, stress-free.

Every workflow is custom-built for your business and delivered in a digital format that’s simple to maintain and scale. With Airtable tracking and future AI integrations, your hiring systems evolve as your team grows, without the overhead of building an in-house team too soon

High-touch support without annual contracts or big fees.

Save Money on Recruiting

Save more, hire with confidence.

Bring some or all of your hiring in-house, even before you hire your first People or Talent lead. Our founder-friendly blueprints make it easy for non-recruiters to run a seamless, strategic hiring process from start to finish.

Stand out to Great Candidates

Every interaction matters.

Give every candidate a five-star experience. We help you build a fair, consistent process that makes a lasting impression, even on the candidates you don’t hire. From editable workflows to values-aligned communication templates, every touchpoint reflects your brand.

Save Time. Add Structure. Reduce Chaos.

Track hiring health to hire smarter.

Our workflows cut bottlenecks, streamline collaboration, and help you hire faster, without sacrificing fairness or rigour. Plus, we’ll equip you with simple data tools to spot red flags, measure success, and continuously improve.

Low lift. Quick to Launch. Smart Hiring

About The Hiring Code

“Hi, I’m Kelly.

For over 12 years, I’ve worked in People and Talent roles at some of the world’s most respected companies, including Google and Stripe organisations known for their thoughtful, high-performing hiring practices. My experience spans designing global hiring workflows, enabling large in-house recruitment teams, and leading high-volume hiring across business and engineering functions.

I created The Hiring Code to make those same principles and systems accessible to small teams and mission-led organisations, particularly, the ones doing important work but without the luxury of a full-time People team. I believe hiring should be structured, fair, and human especially in challenging markets where candidates deserve clarity and care more than ever, and where the right process can unlock talent from all backgrounds.

My goal is simple: to help growing teams hire with confidence, reduce reliance on external recruiters, and build a strong foundation for their people and culture from day one.”

- Founder

Why The Hiring Code?

After years working with global leaders, I saw a gap for small and mission-led teams. Small and mission-led teams were stuck choosing between expensive recruitment agencies or DIY hiring without the structure they need.

The Hiring Code exists to change that.

We give founders and small teams access to practical, founder-friendly tools and advice that help you take control of your hiring and culture from day one. Whether you’re building your first team or planning your next hiring season, we’ll help you bring recruitment in-house with workflows that save time, reduce costs, and grow as you do.

Company Ethos

The Hiring Code is built on the belief that better hiring builds better companies and that every team, no matter its size or resources, deserves access to thoughtful, practical systems that support growth.

In today’s turbulent job market, it’s more important than ever to care for candidates by building fair, transparent hiring processes that treat people with respect and open up opportunities to talent from all backgrounds. The right systems create clarity for teams and fairness for candidates which in turn, ensures organisations make confident decisions that align with their values and long-term goals.

Core principles include:

  • Integrity over ego: Led by what’s right, not what’s trendy. People always come first.

  • Expertise applied with care: Proven practices from high-performing companies, adapted for the realities of small, resource-conscious teams.

  • Respect for individuality: Every company is different. Hiring systems should reflect each team’s unique mission, culture, and voice.

  • Empowerment over dependency: Hiring support should create confidence and independence, not reliance.

  • Designed to scale: Tools should be simple now, but ready for what’s next, whether that’s a first hire or a growing team.

At its core, The Hiring Code exists to make hiring more human, more intentional, and more accessible, especially for the teams building things that matter.