The platform built from experience
TalentLab is our context-based decision-making platform. It brings together your people, your ecosystem, your strategy and your tactics, so every answer comes with the evidence behind it.
Understand your people. Understand the challenge.
Midfield Group helps broadcast and live production companies staff the commercial reality. We help you grow, and suggest whether you should build, borrow, bridge or buy, or, when the business changes, whether to reskill, redeploy, rent or release.
- A new productA product on the roadmap needs skills you may not have.
- A product takes offDemand grows, and the team has to grow with it.
- New technologyA shift such as IP, cloud or AI changes the skills you need.
- A new marketA new region, customer or standard brings new requirements.
- Someone key leavesThe skills they held have to be replaced.
- Projects peakSeveral projects go live at once and the team is stretched.
- A new manufacturerYou take on a new partner, and engineers need certifying on it.
- New technologyCustomers move to IP and cloud, and installs need new skills.
- Into managed servicesProjects hand over into support that needs people on call.
- A new regionWork in a new country needs people on the ground.
- Drop in the tenderAdd the tender, your proposal and call notes, and TalentLab reads them into the deal.
- See what it leaves outThe questions the tender does not answer, ready to put to the customer.
- Check the strategic fitDoes winning it move your unit towards its goals?
- Know if you can deliverEach capability the work needs, and who already holds it.
- Size the shortfallOnce your response says how many, see what is still short.
- A contract is lostThe work goes, and the team built for it is still there.
- A mergerTwo organisations become one, with two of some teams.
- A new officeA new location needs people and capabilities from day one.
- A product stopsThe team behind it needs new work.
- The wrong shapeAre we the right shape for the work we have now?
- BuildDevelop someone you already have.
- BorrowMove someone across from another team, region, office or country.
- BridgeBring in contractors for the work.
- BuyHire, when it matches your strategy.
- ReskillTrain people for the work that is coming.
- RedeployMove people to where the work is.
- RentTurn staff into contractors you can call on as the work goes up and down.
- ReleaseWe give you all the information you need to make the hardest choices.
Decide whether this works for you
Step 1: Understand your business
We sit down with you to understand what you want to achieve strategically, and how you want to get there. Then we pick one team or business unit to start with. That team is our proof of concept.
Step 2: Understand your questions
We agree the questions that team needs answered, and make sure TalentLab captures all the nuances of how you work.
Step 3: Set up the system
We find your people on LinkedIn, run a deep search of public sources, and build the structure of the team. You can add CVs, appraisals and any other data you hold. We tailor the ecosystem to what you care about, whether you are a domestic, European or global business.
Step 4: Walk you through it
We walk your teams through it with real questions, so you can see whether it works for you. If it does, we write a short scope of work to roll it out with you over time. It sets out which teams are involved and the people in them, and then we start.
Training wheels: the first month
How does the first piece of work run?
One team at a time. We get that team up to speed: why context matters and how to build it, how to ask questions on the AI rail, and how to work with everything else in TalentLab. Once that team is up and running, we move on to the next one.
Who is involved, and how long does it take?
A broadcast professional from Midfield Group who understands each type of team, working with your team’s leader. Each team gets its first month with us alongside it the whole time.
Ongoing
What happens once we are set up?
The training wheels come off. Your team asks its own questions and runs it as business as usual, and you can grow it to more teams and bring more stakeholders in.
Model 1: Self-serve talent acquisition
Your own recruitment team uses TalentLab to find people, drawing on the same picture of your teams, your ecosystem and the market.
Model 2: Embedded talent acquisition
We embed our people in your teams to do the sourcing, and help you build a new kind of sourcing capability into your business.
Model 3: Outsourced talent acquisition
When you have a requirement, you ask Midfield to fill it for you.
The learning loop
Does this know everything?
No. It knows as much as a vertical market specialist in broadcast and live production can know, and it keeps growing. As we work with new people, new things come up, and we bring them in.
What if an answer is wrong, or something is missing?
When TalentLab can’t fully answer a question, it knows which data is missing. Every evening we go out, find that data and add it. Your team can also rate answers and tell us where something is wrong, and we put it right.
Who owns the data and the conversations?
Your data and conversations are yours. Think of it as a library. The shelves and the books are ours, and we use them to enrich your conversations. What we keep is the insight: what we learn about how the industry works, never who you are or what you asked.
How does it get better?
Over time we map how each industry fits together: which skills go with which products, which companies work with each other, and where people move. Those connections make every conversation better, for everyone.
Build your context in one place
- We don’t tell you when to hire.We suggest a route based on your strategy, and teach you how to ask questions of all the context you have. The decision stays with you.
- We never score or rank a person.TalentLab helps you understand your people and your teams as a whole. Nobody is scored.
- One place to ask.Your people, your ecosystem, your strategy and your tactics sit together, so every question draws on all of it.
- Nothing lost in other AI chats.Every conversation is kept centrally, not scattered across different AI tools and forgotten.
- Knowledge that builds over time.Each conversation adds to what you know, so the next answer starts from more.
- Your data stays yours.Held apart from every other client’s, and never used to serve anyone else.
Fancy a chat?
A bid you need to staff, a product you need to build, or a role you can’t fill. We will tell you how we would go about it, starting with your business.
hello@midfieldgroup.co.uk