The right hire. First time. Every time.

We are solutions Driven

In 1998, our current COO, Walter G Speirs founded Solutions Driven out of frustration with the recruitment services that were then on offer.

As a C-suite executive, Walter needed recruiters to operate how his businesses did: using data to make decisions, working to agreed timelines, and with clear end goals.

So he created a recruitment company that met his needs.

From a group of 7 people in an office in Glasgow, we’re now a team of over 50 spread across the world.

Led by CEO Gavin Speirs, our team covers Search services for critical and executive roles, Embedded recruitment for longer-term projects, and bespoke hiring services, depending on our clients’ needs.

Our ethos is based around using data, intelligence, and proven processes to guarantee recruitment results.

Our average right first time success rate is 97%, and we’re so confident we’ll deliver success, we offer a 12 month guarantee on all search placements.

Because of this, our team have worked with some of the biggest companies in STEM, delivering everything from entry-level engineers to CEOs in 60 countries globally.

25 YEARS

and really we’re just at the beginning…

The recruitment world has gone through many changes over the last few years, and companies need more from their hiring partners than ever before.

Recognising this, we’ve created Hiring Enablement. It’s a revolutionary recruitment approach that delivers 97% right first-time hiring success.

It’s the hiring strategy we’ve honed over 25 years that our team uses to hire more efficiently and effectively.

All while providing hiring teams with the resources, tools, technology, playbooks, and insights to improve their own hiring approach.

We wrote a book!

In The Hiring Enablement Playbook, we share how Hiring Enablement can help businesses like yours supercharge your recruitment strategies, achieving better results, hiring the best talent, and hitting DE&I metrics.

And how it’s done across Search, Executive, and Embedded Recruitment.

OUR CULTURE

A Great Place for Great People to do Great Work

We spend more time with colleagues than we do with our families and friends, so we believe it’s crucial to have as much fun as possible while we’re here.

We’ve been honing our internal culture for two decades, and if staff surveys are anything to go by, we must be doing something right. As well as an impressive Glassdoor score, we’ve got charity events, days away for top performing teams, company nights out, flexible working, games rooms and break out areas, an indoor garden, complimentary fresh fruit… there’s no place quite like SD.

Our Behaviours

Live and Breathe The Customer

Commercial integrity

Future focused

Grasp the thistle

The team factor

Well-Being Champion

A big part of why SD is a great place to be is because we put so much emphasis on our SD Behaviours. These principles inform everything from the way we treat our colleagues, to how we conduct our business, to the attitude we want to see every day.

That said, we value individuals as much as we do teamwork, which is why our deep emotional and behavioural intelligence assessments are used to ensure that every hire we make will add a new voice and way of thinking to our teams. We’re not an office of clones, but our collaboration is second to none.

YOUR RECRUITMENT SUPPORT

Our team have over 300 years of recruitment experience between them.

They’ve hired tech roles in Amsterdam, and CEOs for scaling start-ups in the US.

They’ve worked as part of small external teams sourcing critical candidates, and slotted into existing teams to provide sourcing support.

They’re armed with Solutions Driven’s ethos of providing value at every stage and come with a market-leading tech stack, and up-to-the-minute market intelligence on talent pools, salary benchmarking, and diversity.