expect talent - About Us
Expect Talent was founded by Managing Director, Samantha Rathling, a dynamic entrepreneur with a passion for excellence and quality. Samantha established the business out of a desire to change people's opinion's of the recruitment industry. Samantha has been working in recruitment for 6 years and has a background in Sales and Marketing in both mulitinationals and SME's across Europe. Expect Talent has established itself with a solid reputation in the marketplace, as a global recruitment specialist.
Established in 2005, our team is made up of Talent Managers and support staff, we never hire people from within the recruitment industry and do not incentivise our team with any form of commission structure, our Recruiters are purely focused on sourcing the best talent for our clients. Our team provide a consultative and personal service to our talented professionals, to help each person secure the right position in the right company.

- Permanent Staffing Solutions
- Contract Staffing Solutions
- Temporary Staffing Solutions
- Executive Search
- High Volume Projects
- HR Consultancy
- Career Guidance Services
- Job Descriptions
- Talent Management Strategies
- Customer Service
- Administration
- Sales & Marketing
- Multilingual
- Finance & Accounting
- Hospitality
- Engineering
- Operations / Production
- Senior Management
With headquarters in Ireland and offices across EMEA, we source the best talent from all over the world and place people into both SME's and multinational companies. Both our clients and our talented professionals are spreading the word about what we do, as over 95% of our new business comes through word of mouth, referral and recommendation. >
Testimonials
“Expect has provided us with quality candidates, who have been an exact match to the company’s requirements for a range of positions. They really understand our business and, it is clear that there has been extensive screening and interviewing of candidates to ensure a match to our own requirements. Expect have really delivered results, we get candidates that are spot on and the service levels combined with a personal approach makes life much easier.”
"“We have worked with Expect since 2005 to source candidates for our roles. Expect send us candidates that have been really well screened and who are fully informed about the role, the company and our location. We want to work with agencies that send us good quality CVs not large quantities of unscreened CVs. Expect have definitely met this requirement. We have successfully recruited numerous multilingual candidates through Expect and they are adding great value to our business.”
HR Manager, Premiere Global Services
"...if you are looking for a recruitment company that gives that bit more then you should look no further than Expect Talent""
"We were as sceptical as anyone else with regard to recruitment companies . Our eyes have been opened since working with Expect Talent. Our first communication with Expect led to a detailed assessment of our requirements, then we were presented with a shortlist of 2 excellent candidates, from which we chose the perfect candidate. We would not hesitate to recommend Expect Talent to anyone looking for new staff or a new job. They are a professional, helpful company who ask the right questions and get you the person you want."


