Thomas Lee Recruitment
- Client Name: Mark Hopkins
- Sector: Engineering
- Inception: 01 February 2016
- Isotope Partnership: Traditional
Success Story
Stello Talent was founded in the early part of 2022 by Monika Pawlak who, after years of working across the engineering industry (specifically across the space market), felt like it was the right time for her to start to build a business that would work for her & her growing family. Don’t get her wrong, employment worked for her – she didn’t have a bad word to say about her previous employer, it’s just she wants a little more control, a little more freedom & a little more say around the direction of her career. The solution? To build a business that worked for her, her growing family & their goals for the next 5-15 years. A journey that started in 2022, this is her story.
Client Name: Monika Pawlak
Company Name: Stello Talent
Sector: Engineering
Inception: March 2022
Isotope Partnership: Traditional
Looking Back
A lot of recruiters will mull over the idea of starting their own agency for years &, sometimes, take little to no action in making that idea a reality.
Not because they don’t want to “do it”, but rather because “life” gets in the way – & whether they mean it to or not, circumstances mean that the idea of starting their own agency has to go on the back burner. Sometimes that can be for weeks, in other cases months & in some instances – years.
For Monika, this was a journey she knew very well – she’d thought about the idea of building her agency for some time prior to opening the doors of Stello back in 2022 &, like so many exceptionally capable recruiters in her position, couldn’t quite put her finger on why it took her so long to get to a stage where she felt ready to make that leap.
Professionally she’d felt very capable of starting her own agency for a long time – her experiences within her previous employer had made that clear to her. She was brought in, like so many capable recruiters are, to help drive a vertical that the business had been struggling with for some time. It was an opportunity she jumped at – the opportunity to put her own stamp on a vertical she was very passionate about. Whether she’d thought that this would be the role that would pull her to start her own agency, no one knows but it certainly acted as a great test run for her.
A test run in not only the logistic around building a market from the ground up but also a test run to see if she enjoyed it the journey – which is such an important question to ask yourself prior to starting your own agency.
& then in the early months of 2022, the timing just started to feel right for Monika. Personally her family was at a stage where she felt she needed that additional flexibility that being your own boss would bring, that added freedom to build a business around her life & not a life around a business.
Building such a business comes with its own challenges – balancing the ever growing demands of building a successful agency with the demands of a little family – but it’s a challenge that Monika has successfully navigated since the turn of 2022. & a journey we’re so pleased to be a part of.
Support Areas
We have been so lucky over the years to work with so many agencies across the engineering market & while all require a slightly different approach, a slightly different manner – we understand the foundations that are required to support a business like this. Adding that personal touch is, well, the fun bit!… With that in mind, here are just some of the areas of support Isotope are lucky enough to work with Stello Talent across:
Visual
Logo Design
Business Cards
Compliment Slips
Letterhead
Social Media Banners
Email Signature
Website
Stello Talent
Here are just some of the landmarks Stello Talent have enjoyed since opening their doors.
International focus
placements across the globe
Work/life integration
building a business that works for her
Paraform partner
supporting startups
Visual
Good to Know
Stello Talent was the first brand that we were lucky enough to build across the space industry which, for the creative gurus here at Isotope HQ, was an industry we’d been fixated on working with clients across for some time. The brand went through various iterations before it landed on the fantastic visuals you see today & it was a project that the team still talk about now!
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I transitioned to Isotope after a few months with another company and I wish I’d come across Max and the team at the very beginning of my journey.
The whole team is more than just the back-office support – the marketing team are creative wizards, who with very minimal input can put brand visual together, fantastic social media posts, presentations and more.
The accounting team is knowledgeable and always on top of things, with monthly management meetings so I know exactly where the business is heading.
Max offers support and advice whenever needed to move things forward and because he took time over a year ago to understand why I set up my business and how I want it to grow, he genuinely gets it, providing valuable guidance.
Opting for Isotope has proven to be the best decision I’ve made. If your primary focus is excelling in recruitment and ensuring that all other aspects are expertly handled, then the clear choice is Isotope.
Monika Pawlak - Stello Talent
Isotope
Commentary
Running your own recruitment agency can be tough, there’s no getting away from that. Anyone who suggests otherwise is either lying to you or hasn’t been on the journey themselves. It’s one of the many reasons I have such admiration for the clients we work with who, much like Monika, leave very secure employed roles to pursue the exciting prospect of running their own agency. Ever since we first spoke with Monika about her ambitions for what Stello was going to be we know she could do it & we’re chomping at the bit to support her in her journey!
Max Jones - Director, Isotope Capital