Research Talent Hub

Our strategic HIRING SOLUTIONS will help you start a project, find mid-to-senior talent, craft a succession planning strategy, or scope the market for a new executive/non-executive appointment. 

We offer ON-DEMAND hires, EXECUTIVE SEARCH solutions, or PROJECT STYLE assignments (including bespoke Intelligence Studies i.e. Compensation & Benefits or Competitor Insights/Market Mapping). 

We tailor each project to specific requirements and adapt our rigorous Search Methodology accordingly.

We work in close collaboration with hand-picked clients to attract TOP TALENT, ensuring growth, team retention, and a competitive advantage. 

Our sweet spot includes market research agencies, innovation and cultural insights boutiques, transformational (brand-led) growth or innovation consultancies, ESG strategy firms, and emerging, fast-scaling res-tech start-ups and scale-ups (AI-powered insights platforms).

🟡 If you would like to discuss our search methodology and successfully completed assignments in more detail, please book a 30-minute video call with Joanna --> https://calendly.com/research-talent-hub/30min.

🟠 Some of the critical searches we successfully completed include:

• Strategic Insights Manager / Director
• Senior Researcher 
• VP Global Head of Research 
• CEO
• Director of Data & Intelligence 
• Head of Behavioural Strategy 
• Social Insights Manager / Director
• Research Manager 
• Strategy Director
• Research Director
• Head of Research (Insight Department)
• Commercial Director
• Head of Cultural Insights
• Associate Research Director
• Head of AI Innovation
• Advanced Analytics Head
• Cultural Insights Director
• VP Behavioural Insights
• Customer Success Manager

Talent Search Partners to Market Research, Innovation/Growth Strategy & Res-Tech Agency Founders/MDs

Career Coaching Hub

💗 I'm delighted to extend a special invitation for a COMPLIMENTARY Career Consulting or Career Coaching workshop. 

This exclusive package includes a 60-minute session following an initial 30-minute Discovery Call, totalling 90 minutes of personalised guidance, to a select group of candidates who commit to working EXCLUSIVELY with me through Research Talent Hub. Please ping me to find out more! 💗

What's the main difference between Career COACHING and Career CONSULTING?

Imagine you are learning how to ride a bicycle. 🚲

A Career Consultant would ride a bike for a while and give you 'How to Manual', aka a successful Job-Hunting strategy or tactics for writing a winning CV, LinkedIn Optimisation or how to wing that Interview!

A Transformational Career Coach would get you on the bicycle and walk alongside you, guiding you through the process until you feel confident enough to ride on your own!

CAREER CONSULTING might be better for you if you need to achieve your career goals quickly and with minimum fuss. I use various career consulting services that give you the tools for success.

CAREER COACHING is your longer-term investment to achieve your career goals. I will guide and inspire you so you can kick start achieving more of your personal and professional goals.

Transformational Career Coach 

Lipton Fleming (now Source)

Launched, developed and successfully run Market Research Agency focused recruitment practice at Lipton Fleming building on personal, long-established clients and candidates’ relationships in the market research industry.

Helped to plan and manage the careers of many talented qualitative and quantitative researchers and insight/social media intelligence & research operations professionals at all levels. 

I've met a lot of amazing and inspiring people in the industry. Thank you for allowing me to help you achieve your long-term goals: your success represents my success as a market research recruiter.

Made a lot of market research/insight/brand consultancies and media owners genuinely happy. I introduced amazing talent to their teams (I am very proud of this)! We've worked closely together to achieve it though (you have to) and had some great appointments as a result.

Market Research & Insight - Managing Consultant

Boyce Recruitment

Established and run a highly successful Market Research/Consumer Insight division to broaden Boyce Recruitment offering in the market place. 

I have successfully placed market research & insight professionals at all levels from Graduate Trainee to Managing Director into a broad range of consultancies, client companies and agencies in Research/Insight/Consultancy or Field/Operations/Data Processing positions. 

Provided market & career consultancy to clients and candidates within the market research/insight/analytics industry including market/salary/competitors assessment briefings and CV & Interview Surgery meetings.

Networked at various industry related events including Research Conferences or MRS Members evenings.

Developed a detailed knowledge of market research and market research recruitment issues through appropriate reading, seminars, networking events and practical experience.

Senior Market Research & Insight Consultant

Harrods

As Harrods Executive Management Trainee I was fortunate enough to work across different teams and participated in their structured post-graduate retail study programme. I enjoyed learning new skills and continuously adapting to the needs of diverse teams. I received an on-going training across different areas of the business including Recruitment & HR, Marketing, Sales, Seasonal Events & Project Management. 

Some of the things I’ve accomplished: 

Worked in Recruitment & HR division, gaining experience in interviewing techniques including Competency Based Interviewing. Learned HR policies & procedures including Discipline & Grievance, Sickness, Maternity & Absence and Equal Opportunities etc.

Undertook an independent project investigating the opportunities for marketing Whitehall’s beauty rooms. Analysed managers’ approach to acquisition & retention, financial performance, the appeal of rooms and competition. Recommendations included innovative concepts aimed at promoting beauty rooms.

Executive Management Trainee (Graduate Trainee Scheme)

I am not just a recruiter; I am a strategic partner, the antipode to your hiring headaches in the market research, insights, res-tech, innovation or ESG strategy, and brand-led growth consulting sectors. 

Proudly partnering with some of the world's most innovative companies, I specialise in CRITICAL, CONFIDENTIAL and CHALLENGING HIRES that drive progress in research, transformational business strategy, and innovation.

If you had to work on a 'no win, no fee' basis, the quality of your work would probably be poor.

Research Director, Consultancy Partner, Managing Director, Founder — whatever you do for a living, you and your team provide your clients with expertise so they don't need to do it themselves. You respond to their needs and deliver projects professionally. And you are held responsible for that service.

Recruitment is often not like that.

To be fair, a no-win-no-fee approach CAN work in recruitment - for relatively straightforward, low-level hires, your 'doers' in the team if you want it fast, and there is less at stake for a bad hire. 

But for strategic, high-level, senior, confidential or niche hires with fee generation or management - you need to approach it as you would do any professional project. You need to trust a skilled expert who will plan your project, deliver it and be accountable to you throughout the entire process. 

Also, it helps that I have over 15 years of knowledge and experience in strategic talent acquisition and career consulting/coaching in market research & insights, innovation strategy, brand growth strategy consulting, and increasingly in AI-led Insights Platforms & ESG strategy (and many highly inspirational, long-term partners!). You will be in safe hands. 

🟠 RESEARCH TALENT HUB 🟠

Our strategic HIRING SOLUTIONS will help you start a project, find mid-to-senior talent, craft a succession planning strategy, or scope the market for a new executive/non-executive appointment. 

We offer ON-DEMAND hires, EXECUTIVE SEARCH solutions, or PROJECT STYLE assignments (including bespoke Intelligence Studies i.e. Compensation & Benefits or Competitor Insights/Market Mapping). 

We tailor each project to specific requirements and adapt our rigorous Search Methodology accordingly.

We work in close collaboration with hand-picked clients to attract TOP TALENT, ensuring growth, team retention, and a competitive advantage. 

🟡 If you would like to discuss our methodology and successfully completed assignments in more detail, please book a 30-minute video call with Joanna --> https://calendly.com/research-talent-hub/30min.

Joanna Byerley

Donna Smith

You’ve always had ideas about your own digital projects, but you never learned to code. 

Read my About section.
Read a couple of my posts. 

Read your mind. Are you still afraid to do this even after reading my story?

If yes, maybe it isn’t meant to be. 

If you’re ready to take the leap, I’ve got good news. 

You’ve already taken the hardest step. You decided you’re going to do this. 

You’re going to bet against the odds. 

Yes, you can learn to code. 
Yes, you can build your own software. 
Yes, you can save time and make money by doing this.

Yes, programming is hard. 

Hard, not impossible. 

It’s also something that will set you free. You will never have to ask anyone’s permission to create something. You will do it. It isn’t going to be shiny and amazing at the beginning. Of course there are going to be a lot of mistakes. 

But over time, you’ll get better and better. 

You can only find your style by doing the thing. 
Not by reading articles, not by watching YouTube videos. 

Only by writing code. 

So what’s keeping you from starting today?

Only you can answer this.

Chief Motivational Officer 

You are a non-technical SaaS founder with a plan. 

Technically not a founder, because you have only an idea. And you haven’t brought this idea to life. Yet. But you can’t wait much longer. 

You need someone to create an MVP of your SaaS for you. 

So you can validate the idea and start moving forward.

Am I correct? 

If you’re still reading, my guess couldn’t have been too off. 


I’ve built 2 MPVs for clients in the past. You can look at my recommendations for a review of client #1. Client #2 wanted to remain anonymous. You could be #3. 

You can also check my Featured section to see what projects I’ve built in the past. 

If you’re interested in me building your MVP, send me a DM.

Let’s see if your idea really is as good as you think.

SaaS MVP Developer

SkillSnippet - Microlearning Platform

Hand on your heart. When did you stop learning new things?

When you stop learning, you stop making progress.
When you stop making progress, you’re stagnant. 
When you’re stagnant, you’re not moving. 

And when you’re not moving, you’re as good as dead. 

I’m a fan of life-long learning. That’s why I created Skill Snippet. 

It’s a microlearning platform designed to help people quickly gain practical skills. You can start by giving something 15 minutes a day. Or half an hour. 

If you feel like it, give it an hour every day. 

Can you imagine where you’ll be in a year?


Click on the link in my Featured section and sign up for the Beta testing list.

Maker

SaaS landing page boilerplate (Next.js)

Are you an Indie Hacker at the start of your career? Have you developed a project? Want to put it out there for the world to see? Great! 

I’ve developed and launched a FREE Next.js SaaS landing page boilerplate. 

You can: 
- quickly build a responsive landing page
- modify the code however you want
- save time releasing your project

Not bad, right?

The template includes:
1. SEO page optimization
2. basic deployment scripts
3. responsive UI components (React-Bootstrap, React-Icons)

Check it out on the link in my Featured section.

If you need any instructions on how to deploy it/set it up, my DMs are open.

And don’t forget to star the repo if you find it valuable!

I’m 49 years old and I started programming 3 years ago. You think it’s too late to start? Well I don’t think so. 

Learning to code when you’re older is tough. Especially when you don’t have a clear idea about what you’re trying to build. 

You feel like: 
→ you will never learn to code
→ you should have started sooner
→ you’ve missed out on so many things
→ you will never be able to build the products you want

You know what? It’s normal to think like this.

Programming is difficult, yeah, but it’s not impossible.

You will gain the ability to build whatever you want. Your life will change.

I went into programming because I had so many ideas I wanted to build.
Some people told me I should find someone who will build the projects for me. But that wasn’t an option. My mind was full of ideas. I knew I wouldn’t build them unless I learned to code. 

When I first started 3 years ago, I didn’t know anything about code.

→ HTML? 
→ Python?
→ JavaScript?  

I didn’t know what language to learn.

I had no idea:
→ what these words mean
→ what I should even start with
→ what a large or small project is
→ how to think about what I wanted to build

Anybody can learn to code if they build knowledge over time.

Some people disagreed with me. They said it’s something you can or can’t do. They wouldn’t try it, because they thought they wouldn’t understand it. It’s definitely an issue of confidence. People feel like they can’t do it.

You can learn anything with enough dedication.

People see code for the first time, it scares them away. Happens all the time.

It’s hard at the beginning. It’s scary, and you might want to give up.

Have you ever seen a page of JavaScript? Exactly, it’s overwhelming.
You don’t know where to begin. So you don’t start at all.

Another problem is with people wanting to learn it fast.

They watch YouTube videos about others building a $1M SaaS platform during a weekend. Or 10 different tools in 10 weeks. Of course there are cases like this, but for most of us, it takes time.

Everyone has their own pace. It took me two years. Why?

The first project I attempted was too complicated for me. So don’t start too big.
It comes down to learning the basics. A simple to-do application means you can apply that knowledge to something bigger. 

Interested in seeing what projects I’m working on? Check my Featured section. 

Need any help with starting your programming career? Send me a DM!

Struggle to find ideas for your first project? Happy to help :)

Want some of my motivation? You’ve got a taste.

taplio

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