Scaling toward a launch date? The hiring plan should be ahead of it.
Sherwood Recruiting comes inside your company, builds or fixes the recruiting function, makes the hires against your calendar, and hands it back working. Not an agency. No placement fees. One senior operator who has done it for a vehicle launch.
Built for teams whose plan is ahead of their recruiting
The launch that cannot slip
A vehicle, an aircraft, a plant, a program. The date is fixed and the roles are not filled. The hiring plan needs to be built backward from the date, this month.
The search that has stalled
One role, open five months, two agencies deep, a hiring manager who has stopped reading resumes. The problem is usually definition, not supply.
The company with no recruiter yet
Thirty to two hundred people, a founder doing the sourcing, an ATS at its defaults. The next hire should be a function, not a headcount.
Three ways to work together
The launch team build
Twenty to fifty hires against a launch calendar. The engagement starts with the date, not the requisition list. Three to six months, embedded three to five days a week.
The stalled-search reset
One role that has been open too long. Two weeks: profile rewritten with the hiring manager, direct sourcing pass, shortlist of five, close plan. Fixed scope, fixed length.
The first hire in talent
Stand up the ATS, the loops, the scorecards and the employer story, make the first ten to twenty hires, then hire the person who runs it. A function, not a headcount.
Every engagement is scoped to the plan and priced to the scope, never per hire. Book a call with the number of hires and the date; the scope comes back within a day.
Book a 30-minute callThe AFEELA U.S. launch at Sony Honda Mobility, January 2025 to June 2026
First dedicated recruiter in the door. Hiring had run through an HR manager and outside agencies for every role. From day one, every open search came in house and no agency was used again. Forty-seven of forty-eight offers were accepted because every candidate heard the whole picture in the first conversation.
One senior operator, by design
Sherwood Recruiting is Larry Sherwood Jr. Not a team of sourcers under a name: the person on the call is the person doing the work. Talent acquisition leader, SHRM-CP, two decades across automotive and mobility, most recently the AFEELA U.S. launch at Sony Honda Mobility.
The mark is the Sherwood family arms, a chevron between three stars, carried since before the name was a firm.
Bring the number and the date
Thirty minutes. The scope comes back within a day. If the fit is not there, you leave with a straight answer and a plan you can run yourself.
Book a 30-minute callPrefer to write first?
Send the number of hires and the date. Larry replies within one business day.