Martin Dangerfield

Founder of immersive. We are a Full Stack Talent business, working in-house, to help organisations of all sizes to hire great people by delivering an embedded recruiting capability as a subscription model. We provide all the people, process and technology platform a business needs to start hiring with from day one. But more than this, we also deploy talent acquisition professionals on a global basis to transform your hiring process, lead hiring projects or augment your existing talent acquisition team.


Leading an immersive. project, my role as Talent Director was to review and develop the UNiDAYS approach to attracting, engaging and hiring amazing people to join them. As part of that project, we understood understand the candidate journey, what it means to be at UNiDAYS and delivered a demand based service that is engaged with the business and engaging for candidates and existing employees.

I led the talent acquisition team as to review and optimise the recruitment process, candidate journey and creative edge needed to provide best-in-class expertise and capability. Leading the London based team, we developed a new approach to hiring, based on the capacity and capability of a smaller more agile team. Completed a 'Discovery' exercise to map the end to end candidate journey optimising where possible. Part of a global Workday process optimisation project.

My role covered the following key aspects: • Development of People Policy, and related systems and practice, that support our culture (the way things are done around here), reflect our mission and values • Provided a framework, and support, for the leadership team • Ensured the People strategy met all the future needs of the business • Acting as senior adviser to Directors and Senior Managers - leading the ‘People’ aspects of the business • Led Global Hiring strategy and implementation

• An interim role to review the existing recruitment process and develop a candidate centric, direct hiring model in three key locations • Partnered with the Engineering team increasing pace and quality of hiring and developed a longer-term pipeline of skilled candidates • Developed a new route to market with direct hiring events in Hungary, Romania and Poland. • Led graduate hiring initiatives and an 'Always Hiring' mentality