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Hiring Temporary Support

4 September 2026

Hiring Temporary Support

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What do you do when you’re looking to bring in temporary support?

Do you take a copy of your permanent spec and try to find the perfect match or, perhaps you look at your biggest challenges and understand what work your team can easily pass over with minimal training from their areas of responsibility?


What does your team focus on when you are hiring a temporary employee to work alongside them?

Are they looking for the full skill package or, are they looking for someone who can learn at pace but also fit well culturally within the team, be relied upon and be willing to help?

Each temporary hire is unique, and the important parts that we focus on when hiring is likely to be different when viewed from an operational vs. the team’s perspective (who, inevitably, will be the day-to-day point of contact for all those little process questions that pop up along the way!).

Having worked within the temporary market for over 10 years now (that’s a stat that scares me) around 8/10 I see clients initially start looking for the perfect, documented, skill set but hire the “wild card” without the direct experience of (in the case we’ll use systems as an example) the systems they initially wanted BUT in possession of all the transferable skills and the personality to fit the culture!

Temporary hires can have such an amazing impact on a business and a team, they can help in more ways than you initially expected when you hire the right person, so while this blog might be short but sweet it will hopefully be a good conversation starter next time you are looking to bring a temporary hire in!

If you are looking for further guidance on temporary hires, drop me a line at
jmahoney@theonegroup.co.uk

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THE ONE GROUP

Where we're from,
and how we got here

Twenty years of specialist recruitment in the East – and a lot of small decisions that added up.

TOG started in Peterborough in 2004 with a small team and a simple idea: that recruitment is a people business, done best by specialists who stay in their sector long enough to know it properly.

More than two decades on, we've grown into four offices across the East of England and Home Counties. We recruit for finance leaders, HR directors, engineering managers, tech founders, scientists, and the commercial teams that keep businesses running day to day. Between us, we've built up over 258 years of collective recruitment experience across our specialist divisions, and a network of more than 150,000 candidates we've placed, coached, or come to know across two decades in the region.

The founding principle hasn't changed. Recruitment as it should be.

OUR STORY

Key events timeline

2004

Doors open in Peterborough.

Our first office launches with a team of six on Lynch Wood. Cambridge follows the same year, giving us two offices before our first anniversary.

2015

Northampton makes it three.

Our third office opens with a team of five, quickly growing to eleven consultants covering the wider Midlands region.

2017

Peterborough moves across the road.

The team has outgrown the founding office. We move into Arena House on Lynch Wood, big enough for a growing consultant base and the back-office team that supports the whole group.

2018

Cambridge moves too.

Our second office relocates to Cambourne Business Park, giving the growing Cambridge team the space it now needs.

2023

Four offices, three counties, one very good year.

The Hertfordshire & Essex office opens in Potters Bar, extending our footprint into the Home Counties.

In the same year, we're named Business of the Year in Northamptonshire, and Employer of the Year in both Cambridgeshire and Hertfordshire at the regional SME Business Awards. Three counties, three panels.

TODAY

Still growing.

Four offices, more than 258 years of collective recruitment experience across our specialist divisions, and a network of over 150,000 candidates.

Same founding principle.

SPECIALISTS BY DESIGN

What we do

We're specialists, not generalists. Every consultant at TOG focuses on one sector and stays in it. Not because it's the only way to do recruitment, but because it's how you build the depth to spot the difference between a strong CV and a strong hire.

It's also why so many of our clients come back to us years, even decades, after a first placement.

01
Accountancy & Finance
→
 02
Human Resources
→
 03
Commercial Office
Administration, customer service, project management and more
→
 04
Technology
→
 05
Engineering & Manufacturing
→
 06
Scientific
→
 07
Sales, Marketing & Creative
→
 08
Executive Search
Across all of the above
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Beyond the recruitment itself, we produce annual salary guides, regional market reports, and the practical resources our clients and candidates turn to when they want a clearer view of what's happening in their sector.

THE WAY WE WORK

How we work

Four principles show up in every conversation and every process.
01

Be curious.

We stay interested in the market we work in, and in the people who work in it.

02

Keep it human.

We remember your kids' names and know how you take your coffee. That's just how we work here.

03

Make a difference.

We're here to help people build careers they love and businesses they're proud of.

04

Enjoy the ride.

Recruitment is a career, but it should be fun too. If it isn't, we've done something wrong.

WHAT COMES NEXT?

Recruitment
as it should be.

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