ActivoNEO · For business owners
Hire the Talent That Takes You Further
Find ambitious, high-performing people who bring more than experience.
ActivoNEO helps you identify exceptional talent worldwide, combining the right skills, growth mindset, operational excellence and AI capabilities to accelerate your business.
- Global talent
- Evidence, not keywords
- Growth mindset
- AI-fluent
- 5–10 person shortlist
We find people who don’t just do the job. They improve how the job gets done.
That’s the difference between filling a role and taking your business further.Too many CVs, too little evidence
Post a role today and you’ll get hundreds of applications, many written with AI and all sounding alike. Keywords, qualifications and years of experience tell you what someone has been. They rarely tell you what they’ll deliver.
Matching credentials doesn’t find the people who take ownership, improve how work gets done and put AI to work. That’s why ActivoNEO is a growth-focused talent partner, not another recruitment agency: we find people who deliver results today and build stronger capabilities for tomorrow.
Traditional hiring
Matches credentials
- Filters CVs on keywords, degrees and years served
- Hundreds of applicants, little evidence of results
- Polished, AI-written CVs that all look the same
- One question: does the CV fit the job description?
- Hires for the role you have today
ActivoNEO
Finds people who deliver
- Starts with the business outcomes you need
- Searches worldwide, including people not actively looking
- Assesses work evidence across five dimensions
- Checks the fit works for you and for them
- Hires for today’s results and tomorrow’s capabilities
What makes an exceptional hire?
Instead of CV keywords, qualifications and years of experience, ActivoNEO assesses every candidate across five complementary dimensions.
Skills & Results
Demonstrated expertise and measurable achievements.
Drive & Ownership
Initiative, determination, accountability and willingness to learn.
Process & Scalability
Ability to improve workflows, document processes and build repeatable systems.
AI & Technology Fluency
Practical ability to use AI and automation productively.
Team & Business Alignment
Complementary skills, shared expectations and mutual commitment.
Illustrative weights only. We adapt and validate the weights for each role, and assessment relies on work evidence and structured criteria, never subjective personality judgements.
Built for where skills are heading. The World Economic Forum’s Future of Jobs Report 2025 expects AI and big data to be the fastest-growing skill to 2030, with resilience, flexibility and agility, curiosity and lifelong learning, and leadership and social influence also rising in importance.
How ActivoNEO works
Four steps, from the outcome you need to a conversation with the right people. AI agents do the legwork around the clock; people make the decisions.
Define the business outcomes
We start with what the hire must achieve in the first 6–12 months, not a generic job description.
Find global talent
Our AI agents search worldwide and reach exceptional people directly, whether or not they’re looking.
Assess evidence and mutual fit
Candidates are scored on the five dimensions using work evidence, and the fit is checked for both sides.
Introduce a targeted shortlist
You meet 5–10 evidence-backed, interested people, each with a clear scorecard. Not 500 CVs.
See the evidence, not just the CV
Every shortlisted candidate comes with a scorecard showing how they rate on each dimension, and the evidence behind each score.
Candidate A · Head of Operations
Anonymised example scorecard| Dimension | Weight | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Skills & Results | 30% | 4.5 / 5 | Cut order-to-delivery time by a third across three sites |
| Drive & Ownership | 25% | 4 / 5 | Led a system migration end to end; taught themselves data reporting |
| Process & Scalability | 20% | 5 / 5 | Documented core processes and set up a weekly KPI review |
| AI & Technology Fluency | 15% | 4 / 5 | Uses AI tools for forecasting and supplier follow-ups |
| Team & Business Alignment | 10% | 4 / 5 | Wants a scale-up role; complements a sales-led owner |
Illustrative example, not a real candidate.
How we assess
- Work evidence over claims: results, portfolios and references
- Structured criteria, scored the same way for every candidate
- Practical work samples and structured interviews
- Fit checked in both directions, for you and for them
- Candidates consent before anything is shared
- Protected characteristics never take part in ranking
- You hold the interviews and make the hiring decision
More than a recruitment agency
ActivoNEO is a growth-focused talent partner. Every hire should move your business forward now and make it stronger for what comes next.
Results today
People who deliver from the start
- Proven expertise matched to the outcomes you need
- Ownership of results, not just tasks
- A strong fit with your team and the way you work
Capabilities tomorrow
People who make the business stronger
- Better processes and repeatable systems
- AI and automation put to productive use
- A growth mindset that lifts the people around them
Questions owners ask
How is this different from a recruitment agency?
Agencies typically forward CVs that match a job description. We start with the business outcomes you need, assess candidates on work evidence across five dimensions, check the fit works for both sides, and introduce a short list of people with a scorecard for each. The aim is a hire who delivers results and builds capability, not just a filled seat.
Can you find people outside my country?
Yes. We search worldwide, and we check practical requirements such as location, right to work, language, time zone and compensation before anyone reaches your shortlist.
Are the five weights the same for every role?
No. The weights shown are illustrative. We adapt and validate them for each role, so a hands-on engineer and an operations leader are assessed on what matters most for their job.
What roles do you hire for?
Executives and board members, heads of function, growth and commercial talent, operations and finance leaders, and technical specialists. If a role is critical to your growth, we can help.
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Start your search
Hire exceptional talent. Build a business that grows.
Tell us about the hire you need. Share these six things and we’ll come back with how we’d run your search and the kind of people we’d bring you.
- The roleWhat the position is and where it sits
- The business challengeThe problem this hire must help you solve
- Essential skillsThe capabilities that are truly non-negotiable
- LocationOn-site, hybrid or remote, and where
- CompensationSalary range, equity and benefits
- Desired outcomesWhat success looks like in 6–12 months
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