About Essential
Specialist marketing recruitment. Without the usual recruitment noise.
Essential Resourcing is a founder-led marketing recruitment, search and advisory business based in Manchester, working across the North West and UK.
It was built around a fairly simple idea:
Helping Businesses Make Better Hiring Decisions.
That means getting clearer on what you actually need, reaching the right people and doing more than matching keywords on a CV.
Positioning
Specialist enough to know the market. Human enough to have a proper conversation.
- Founder-led from brief to decision
- Specialist experience across marketing, PR, communications, digital and agencies
- Agency-side and client-side market knowledge
- Permanent Recruitment, Retained Search, Fractional Leadership and Market Intelligence & Advisory
- Straight advice on the brief, salary, market and process
- Fewer CVs. Better conversations. Better hiring decisions.
How it works
Fewer roles. Deeper work. More accountability.
Essential isn't trying to be everything to everyone.
It's a specialist recruitment, search and advisory business built around marketing and the disciplines around it, with David directly involved in the work.
That means properly understanding the problem behind the hire, challenging the bits that don't stack up and getting behind the evidence before somebody reaches your interview room.
And sometimes it means telling you not to recruit yet.
Founder-led
Essential is the business. David is the person doing the work.
The brief isn’t handed to somebody you’ve never met once the call finishes.
David stays involved in the market research, candidate conversations, feedback and eventual decision.
Meet David WalshNext step
Got a hiring problem you're trying to work out?
Tell David what you're trying to solve. He'll give you a straight view on whether Essential can help — and which route actually makes sense.