Permanent Placement Services

Persona’s permanent placement services help you make direct hires who stay. We source, vet, and match remote candidates with the experience, skills, and cultural fit to grow with your company, ready to join your team as full-time employees.

Hire a Permanent Placement

When To Use It

You're hiring someone you intend to keep for years, not months. Permanent placement fits when the role is foundational to your business and you want a direct hire recruiting partner who handles sourcing, vetting, and placement so you can focus on the choice.

What's Included

We define the role with you, source and vet candidates, present a shortlist, and coordinate interviews through to the offer. Your new hire joins your payroll as a direct employee.

Who It's For

Companies building out core teams, founders making their first key hires, and growing businesses that want permanent staffing without the overhead of an internal recruiting team.

Roles We Fill With Direct Hire Staffing

Operations Managers

Senior Customer Support Leads

Marketing Leads

Sales Managers

Finance and Accounting

Executive Assistants

How Our Permanent Placement Process Works

Step 1

Discovery

We start with a call to understand the role, your team, your tools, and the kind of person who'll thrive in your environment long-term.

Step 2

Matching

You'll review a curated shortlist of candidates, each thoroughly vetted by our team and matched to your role.

Step 3

Kickoff

Meet your top candidates, choose your hire, and set a start date. We coordinate the details, so your new team member is ready to contribute from day one.

Step 4

Integration

Your new hire joins your team directly. Want us to handle HR and payroll instead? See Full-Time Staffing.

Why Choose Persona as Your Permanent Placement Agency

Hire Talent

Built for Retention

We screen for long-term fit, not just immediate skills, which is why our direct hires stay.

Rigorously Vetted Talent

Every candidate goes through a thorough vetting process, so you can choose from talent ready to contribute.

Get Support Sooner

We can often place talent within a week. You’re choosing from a vetted shortlist, not waiting for a recruiting pipeline to be built.

FAQs

Direct hire staffing, also called permanent placement, means a recruiting partner finds and vets candidates who are hired straight onto your payroll as permanent employees. Unlike temporary or contract staffing, there’s no period where the person works through an agency first. Persona handles the sourcing and vetting, and you make the hire. For more background, see our guide to permanent placement.

We can often place talent within a week. Senior or specialized roles may take longer, and we’ll discuss the expected timeline with you.

Permanent placements are direct hires onto your payroll, with Persona handling sourcing and vetting. Full-time staffing can be structured either way, on your payroll or through ours.

Every candidate goes through skills assessments, communication testing, and interviews before they reach you. That thorough vetting helps you choose talent ready to contribute.

We place across operations, marketing, sales, finance, customer support, and executive support. If you don’t see your role listed, ask us — we likely cover it.