Experience for every stage of your next chapter
For more than 23 years, our experience has been built from different perspectives, spanning agency recruitment, in-house Talent and senior People leadership.
We've built internal talent functions, partnered with People teams, senior leaders and hiring managers, balancing commercial priorities with attracting, developing and retaining great people.
Everything we've learnt has shaped how we built The Next Chapter.
How we can help
Every business is different.
We don't believe in off-the-shelf solutions or recommending services you don't need.
Whether you're making a key hire, strengthening your Talent function, navigating change or simply need experienced support for a period of time, we'll take the time to understand your business first.
Because the right solution starts with understanding the challenge, not selling a service.
Recruitment Partnership
Recruitment approached with discretion, clarity and a deep understanding of context, culture and long-term fit.
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Executive and specialist hiring across a range of disciplines
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Permanent, interim and project-based appointments
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Targeted market mapping and talent identification
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Structured assessment and carefully curated shortlists
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Offer management and onboarding guidance
Recruitment is never treated as a transaction.
Having worked both within businesses and within specialist consultancies, we understand recruitment from both sides and what matters to everyone involved.
We take the time to understand the role, the team and the business behind the hire. From there, how we work is shaped around what makes sense for you, whether that's contingent recruitment, a staged approach or retained search.
Clear briefs. Curated shortlists. Open communication throughout.
For Individuals
Recruitment is about people as much as businesses. We’re always happy to hear from people considering their next move, whether you’re actively looking for a new opportunity or simply starting to think about what might come next.
We also offer practical career support, including CV writing, interview preparation, job-search support and outplacement, whether you’re looking for a new role, considering a career change or navigating redundancy.
Where We Add Value
Having built and led Talent functions in-house, we know that successful recruitment is about more than filling roles. We can help strengthen what's already in place or build what might be missing.
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Recruitment strategy and direct sourcing
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Hiring manager interview and assessment training
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Recruitment processes, guides and SLAs
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ATS selection and implementation
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PSL design and review
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Employer brand and candidate experience
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Internal mobility and referral programmes
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Recruitment reporting and insight
People Advisory
People decisions are rarely straightforward.
Working in partnership with an experienced senior People Leader, we support businesses with both the everyday People challenges and the bigger decisions that come with growth and change.
Sometimes that means navigating a difficult employee situation, reviewing policies, supporting wellbeing or developing managers. At other times it could be supporting wider change, looking at culture and engagement or helping put the right People foundations in place for the future.
Whatever the situation, the advice is practical, commercially aware and grounded in experience.
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Flexible senior People leadership and support
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People strategy and planning
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Employee relations and complex case support
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Policy development and review
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Organisational change and restructuring
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Culture, values and engagement
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Performance and leadership development
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Learning and development
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Mental health and wellbeing guidance, education and support
Experienced advice. Practical support. No unnecessary complexity.
Where We Add Value
Supporting Growth
What works for a business today may not work for the next stage in its journey.
As a business grows and evolves, its priorities change. What it needs from its people changes too.
That might mean growing a team, creating new roles, building an internal Talent function or changing the way recruitment is managed. It could mean developing managers, reviewing structures and processes or putting stronger People foundations in place for what comes next.
Sometimes the challenge is knowing what needs to change — and what doesn't.
We bring experience from having worked inside businesses ourselves, helping you look at where you are now, your wider business objectives and what needs to be in place from a Talent and People perspective to support them.
It doesn't always mean more people, more process or more cost. It's about putting the right things in place at the right time.
Support can be through a specific project, a retained partnership or an ongoing advisory relationship. How we work together is flexible and can change as your business does, without committing to additional internal resource before you need it.
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Talent and People planning
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Workforce planning and role design
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Team structures and organisational design
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Building and developing internal Talent functions
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Recruitment strategy and direct hiring models
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Recruitment processes, systems and infrastructure
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Supporting periods of growth and increased hiring
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People foundations to support future plans
The right foundations for whatever comes next.
Where We Add Value
When Plans Change
Business doesn’t always go to plan.
People move on, take maternity leave, become unwell, projects arise unexpectedly and priorities change. Sometimes support is planned months in advance. Sometimes it's needed tomorrow.
Recruiting permanently isn't always the right answer.
Traditional interim support isn't always the right fit.
Asking an already busy team to absorb more work isn't always sustainable.
That's where we come in.....
Whether it's maternity cover, sickness absence, bridging the gap before a new team member joins, delivering a recruitment or People project, or providing additional support during a busy period, we'll agree the right level of support together and adapt as your requirements change.
From a single day to several months, support is shaped around your business, giving you experienced senior Talent and People support for exactly the time you need it. This often provides a more flexible and cost-effective alternative to traditional recruitment or interim support.
Exactly what you need, for exactly as long as you need it.
About The Next Chapter
Built from experience, not theory.
The Next Chapter was founded by Katie following more than 23 years working across specialist recruitment consultancies and in-house roles.
Katie has built Talent functions from the ground up and headed up in-house Talent, alongside broader responsibility across People. This has included learning and development, appraisals, values and culture, alongside wider People initiatives.
Working closely with senior leaders, managers and teams throughout her career has given Katie a first-hand understanding of how business priorities, Talent and People decisions come together.
That experience shaped The Next Chapter.
Working alongside an experienced senior People Leader brings additional expertise across the wider People agenda, allowing us to provide Recruitment, Talent and People support depending on what a business needs.
Our approach is personal, flexible and straightforward. We take the time to understand the business first and go from there.
Let's start a conversation
It starts with a conversation.
Whether you have a specific requirement, need some additional support or simply want to talk through a challenge, get in touch.
We’ll take the time to understand what’s happening and go from there.
+44 7835 505 716