Build a hiring approach that can grow with your business.
We help growing companies find the right talent when a critical role needs filling, hiring is taking too much of your time, or your team needs extra recruiting support.
Whether as your fractional recruiting partner, or on a contingent basis, I work as part of your team—from finding and engaging candidates to guiding interviews and offers. You get experienced, hands-on support without adding a full-time recruiter, while we build a hiring process that works for your business.
Growth Is Powered by More Than Hiring
Hiring works better when business strategy, people strategy, talent, technology, and execution are connected.
What the Wheel Represents
The People Systems Growth Wheel represents the connected pieces behind successful growth: business strategy, people strategy, leadership, culture, operations, technology, AI automation, and talent. Hiring is not a standalone activity. It is connected to everything else happening in the business. When those pieces work together, companies can make clearer hiring decisions, build stronger teams, and create systems that support growth instead of reacting to it.
People & Talent Connect helps bring those pieces into alignment so hiring, recruiting workflows, and talent support are connected to where the business is going next.
Business Strategy
Where the company is going, what it is trying to build, and what goals need to be supported.
People Strategy
The plan for who the company needs, how teams should grow, and how people support the direction.
Leadership
The people making decisions, setting expectations, defining success, and guiding growth.
Culture
How the company works, communicates, makes decisions, and attracts the right people.
Operations
The processes, workflows, handoffs, and structure needed to make hiring decisions consistent.
Technology
The tools that support people operations, such as ATS systems, workflows, and reporting.
AI Automation
Practical ways to save time and improve consistency supporting recruiting workflows.
Talent
The people the company needs to find, evaluate, hire, retain, and grow.
What This Means for Your Company
People & Talent Connect does not just help companies fill roles. We help connect the pieces behind hiring so your company can scale with more clarity, structure, and confidence.
How We Help Growing Companies
What We Help Improve
Growing companies do not always need a larger recruiting team. They need the right hiring strategy, better visibility into the talent market, and recruiting systems that can support where the business is going next.
Define the role, outcomes, capabilities, and talent needed for success.
Hiring Clarity
The result is a more intentional, scalable approach to hiring—one that helps companies reach the right talent, make better hiring decisions, and build the recruiting infrastructure needed to support growth.
Use market intelligence and proactive sourcing to find people who may never apply.
Reach the Right Talent
Build for What’s Next
Create recruiting processes and systems that can scale with the business.
Strategic Hiring & Talent Services
Recruiting & Talent Acquisition Services
Source and engage talent for GTM, executive leadership, sales, technical, operations, and critical support roles, including hard-to-reach candidates who may not be actively applying.
ATS, Recruiting Technology & AI
Assess ATS needs, recruiting workflows, tools, reporting, automation opportunities, and AI-enabled processes so hiring can scale with less friction.
Hiring Strategy & Workforce Planning
Connect hiring priorities to business needs through role clarity, team planning, success profiles, compensation alignment, interview structure, and decision-making processes.
Talent Mapping & Market Intelligence
Understand the talent market before launching a search, including where candidates sit, what backgrounds to target, how compensation compares, and what it may take to attract the right people.
Hiring Process & Interview Design
Create interview guides, scorecards, evaluation criteria, candidate communication templates, and decision workflows that help teams hire with more consistency.
Culture & Employer Brand
Clarify how the company communicates its culture, values, candidate experience, and opportunity so the right people understand why the role and company matter.
Direct support across recruiting, hiring strategy, talent infrastructure, ATS workflows, and people systems for startups, fast-growing companies, and equity-backed teams.
01
Assess
Understanding what your business needs to grow.
How We Work
We start with the business need—not a predefined solution.
We look at what you’re trying to accomplish, where hiring or recruiting is getting stuck, and what capabilities will matter most as the business grows. From there, we determine the right mix of talent strategy, market intelligence, recruiting systems, process improvements, or hands-on support.
The goal is to solve the immediate need while building a stronger, more scalable way to hire going forward.
02
Align
Identifying the right priorities and market opportunities.
03
Build
Building the hiring foundation and people systems.
04
Execute
Providing the appropriate level of recruitment support.
Ways to Start
Start with the business need.
Whether you’re preparing for growth, struggling with a critical hire, or trying to improve how recruiting works today, we can help determine what needs attention first—and what doesn’t.
Talk Through Your Hiring Needs →
Start with an urgent hire
Support for GTM, executive, technical, operations, or critical roles that need immediate attention.
Start with a hiring process review
Clarify role definition, interview structure, candidate experience, decision process, and communication flow.
Start with ATS or workflow support
Review current tools, workflows, reporting, automation opportunities, and future recruiting system needs.
Start with talent mapping
Understand the market, identify target candidate profiles, and build a pipeline before launching a search.
Meet Machael Norris
Founder, People & Talent Connect
I started People & Talent Connect because growing businesses often need an experienced recruiting partner before they’re ready to build a recruiting team.
With 20+ years in recruiting and talent leadership, I’ve helped leaders hire across sales, technology, operations, and leadership roles. I know how much time hiring takes—and how much the right person can mean to your business.
My focus is understanding what you need, finding the talent that doesn’t always apply, and helping you move from an open role to a thoughtful hiring decision.
As your fractional recruiting partner, I work directly with you to manage the search, keep candidates engaged, and bring structure where it’s needed. That might mean sharpening the role, improving interviews, or making better use of your recruiting tools.
You get a partner who brings honest feedback, follows through, and cares about the experience of everyone involved.
