Transforming sports performance through great hiring

Hire like a pro with us by your side.

Identify the right candidate, faster.

As specialists in performance roles and structured hiring, we take the time to understand your unique needs and culture, and work closely with you to fully define your profile. A clear profile and hiring process allow us to quickly identify the right candidates for you. You'll spend less time speaking with the wrong candidates, and ultimately find the right candidate faster.

Filling your role is just the start of our relationship.

Relationships mean everything in the sports world. We are committed to delivering you the most outstanding hiring manager experience of your career and starting a sustainable journey as partners in recruitment. Our relationship continues even after the hiring process ends. We will stay in touch to ensure we've delivered you the best quality on the market.

Expand your network with game-changing talent.

Referrals are a trustworthy source of hires, but how will you contact the best talent in the world if they still need to be connected to your network? With us, you’ll build fresh connections to raw diamond talent and best-in-class experts. Use ATHLIN Talent to construct the most holistically skilled performance team, prepared to face any challenge coming your way.

Our Disciplines

  • Executive Management

    We cover Sporting Directors, Directors of Football, Performance Directors, Head Coaches, Managers, and all performance-related department leadership roles.

  • Physical Therapy & Sports Medicine

    This includes psychologists, nutritionists, all physiotherapy roles, and sports doctors.

  • Sports Science

    This includes first team and academy sports scientists and strength and conditioning professionals, as well as niche specialists in sleep and recovery.

  • Performance Analysis

    Expect from us professional support with finding your next analysts for First Team Opposition, Scouting/Recruitment, or Academy.

  • Scouting

    We can help with finding individual contributor first team and academy scouts, as well as player recruitment leaders.

  • Coaching

    We will find you qualified permanent and casual coaches across all levels and age groups, from first team to academy.

  • Interim & Specialist Staff

    Is a key member of your team unable to work? A league promotion is in the cards, and you want to make sure your athletes are set up for success with some extra support staff? Maybe you're looking to set up a new department and need the advice of an expert? We can help you find the people you need to keep your team in top form.

Our Services

  • With our Signature Search service, we will help you fill your non-leadership vacancy, either in a permanent or temporary basis, across any of our specialty areas above. We can handle the entire recruiting process for you, including role definition, hiring process design, sourcing and screening candidates, scheduling interviews and negotiating offers.

  • There are lots of reasons you’d need interim support:

    • maybe you have a short-term leadership post to fill before a permanent leader can start

    • you need a temporary task force to help your athletes prepare for a big event

    • expert consultants to set up a new specialty department

    Whatever you need, we know that time is of the essence. ATHLIN Talent can introduce you to a network of experts experienced with providing clients support on a short-term basis, so you can quickly find a solution to keep your team on track.

  • Our Executive Search is the most customizable and exclusive service we offer and ensures your most important leadership roles are staffed with the best. After an in-depth role building session together, we will build a long and shortlist of talents sourced especially for your vacancy, running an extensive check using our bespoke scoring rubric on each candidate to ensure a high likelihood of being a match. We can be as involved as you like, offering support with designing an objective hiring process, helping you map the market, conducting reference checks, and managing all interview scheduling.

  • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion starts with the hiring process. Using our years of training expertise, we can train your leaders and recruiting teams on market-leading objective hiring techniques to permanently level up your hiring activities. We can also help you map a candidate market of interest, produce salary benchmarking data, and help you build a hiring ramp-up strategy for upcoming high-growth periods.

  • You have a great hiring team in place and just need help building a long list of candidates? Want to find talent outside of LinkedIn but have no time to source on other platforms? Using a wide variety of sourcing methods, we can help you build your internal candidate database for your specialty or evergreen vacancies.