About HivePo

HivePo is a modern recruitment technology platform built to help organisations hire with greater speed, structure, and confidence in a changing workforce environment.

The name HivePo reflects the model behind the platform.
Hive represents a connected network of experienced recruitment professionals working with focus, collaboration, and shared purpose.
PO stands for Process Outsourced, reflecting a more flexible and modern approach to outsourced recruitment delivery.

HivePo was developed by the team at Snorkel Talent, founded by Samantha Selwood, together with David Tiko, one of the directors and the designer and creator of the HivePo platform.

Together, the founders bring more than 50 years of combined recruitment and technology recruitment experience. Over that time, they have delivered hiring solutions across a broad range of industries, including technology, pharmaceutical, consumer healthcare, medical technology, construction, large format retail, FMCG, and other complex commercial sectors.

They have also worked across multiple recruitment delivery environments, including agency, RPO, MSP, and consulting. That experience provided a clear view of both the strengths and the limitations of traditional hiring models.

HivePo was created because the industry needed a better operating model.

Too often, recruitment remains fragmented, expensive, slow to scale, and overly dependent on outdated structures. Many businesses need a more flexible way to access recruitment capability without sacrificing visibility, quality, compliance, or commercial control. At the same time, experienced recruiters need better systems, better workflows, and better infrastructure to deliver strong results in a modern environment.

HivePo was built to address that gap.

The platform brings together experienced recruitment capability, structured workflows, commercial transparency, and modern software infrastructure in one system. It enables businesses to engage external recruitment support in a more controlled and scalable way, while allowing recruiters and specialist partners to operate within a professional framework that supports quality delivery.

Unlike a traditional recruitment business, HivePo is a technology-enabled platform designed to support outsourced recruitment processes in a more efficient and transparent way. It has been designed for modern hiring teams, modern recruiters, and modern businesses that expect better systems, better data, and better outcomes.

The platform supports multiple service models, including placement recruitment, retainer recruitment, embedded recruitment support, and outsourced project-based hiring. It is structured to support operational flexibility while maintaining administrative control, fee visibility, and process consistency.

HivePo has been designed using a modern technology stack and incorporates advanced AI-assisted functionality to improve efficiency across the recruitment lifecycle. This includes support for requisition analysis, candidate assessment, communication workflows, pipeline summaries, salary guidance, and process insights. The purpose of these capabilities is not to replace expert judgement, but to strengthen it with faster, smarter, and more consistent support tools.

This combination of industry experience and modern technology is central to the HivePo model.

The platform is designed to help businesses reduce friction in hiring, improve recruiter coordination, and create a more streamlined recruitment experience from requisition through to placement. It is also designed to present a more credible and scalable operating environment for recruiters and partners working across multiple clients and service models.

At its core, HivePo exists to modernise outsourced recruitment.

It was built by industry operators who understand how recruitment works in practice, where traditional models break down, and what businesses now require from a recruitment platform in a more complex and fast-moving market.

HivePo is built for organisations that want a more capable recruitment solution for the modern world.