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Case Study: Strengthening Hargreaves Lansdown’s Hiring Capacity with a Bespoke RPO

Posted June 15, 2026

If you’re looking to increase your permanent hiring capacity and get the right people on board to achieve your goals, but your talent acquisition teams are stretched, you might need a partner that has the agility to fulfil your needs with a solution completely tailored to you.

This is exactly what Hargreaves Lansdown, a leading British financial services company based in Bristol were searching for.

They needed a partner who completely understood their business to work as an extension of their talent acquisition teams to help them overcome a period of increased hiring demand and get them the permanent talent they needed.

Building on our existing relationship, Sanderson were able to effectively implement a tailored RPO solution that seamlessly integrated with the existing TA team and hiring community.

The Challenge

Hargreaves Lansdown approached Sanderson to help address capacity challenges in their talent acquisition team, driven by high volumes of technology hiring. With a trusted existing partnership and strong integration already in place, Sanderson was able to step in quickly as an extension of their team, delivering a tailored solution at pace while maintaining quality.

The Solution

Building on our existing partnership with Hargreaves Lansdown, we set to work launching a tailored RPO solution to support their talent acquisition strategy during this period of increased hiring demand.

We implemented a fully embedded RPO model, designed to seamlessly integrate with the existing TA team and hiring community that focused on:

  • Collaboration with hiring managers
  • Detailed onboarding processes
  • Enhancing candidate experience

The Result

Fill in the form below to read on and discover how we successfully helped them achieve results like delivering 15 hires in under 5 months across 6 different tech stacks supporting both legacy and greenfield product teams and reducing their time to hire from 60 days to an average of 34 days.

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