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Providing you with high-performers for staff augmentation via relationship recruiting!

Learning and development outsourcing is challenging, and we’re always ready to take on your full custom project. But if you've got to do the work internally, we can help by providing vetted top-tier L&D talent. We can quickly provide you with one teammate or build you a large team, locally or globally. We know the challenges you face and care deeply about your success.

Why Choosing SweetRush is the Right Decision!

(And Why Our Clients Trust Us!)

Why Relationship Recruiting is Important to You

Your need and our service is about people, and in an increasingly transaction-driven world, how we connect with you and the talent you are seeking matters.

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Why We Are Uniquely Able to Provide You High-Performers

Our brand, our focus on craft and our practice of relationship recruiting are reasons why High Performers choose to work with SweetRush and by extension you.

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Why SweetRush Plus NIIT Brings You Tremendous Value

After 25 years, SweetRush and NIIT have come together, and now we can source globally and handle your large-scale managed service and facilitation needs!

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We do this work ourselves.

We know first-hand the pressure you’re under. We are excellent matchmakers because we’re able to develop a true understanding of your needs and the talent who will fit those needs.

We’re culture-forward.

“Caring” is in our DNA and is at the heart of our practice of relationship recruiting. We’re good at what we do, and we care…. it's our winning formula.

We’re NICE!

And you deserve to feel good and work with people you like!

Some numbers that matter to you!

You are busy!

We usually achieve the perfect fit after submitting 1 or 2 resumes!

We fill roles

4x faster

vs. industry standards.

90

%

of clients become repeat customers.
(Our first client from 2001 is our client today!)

We’ve a data base of

~

95000

L&D professionals. 

Meet Rodrigo Salazar who heads up the Talent Agency team

The Talent Roles We Can Fulfill for You!

Our focus is on learning and development specialists

For more than two decades, SweetRush has built relationships with the L&D community's strongest practitioners — the instructional designers (LXDs), learning strategists, facilitators, project managers, multimedia wizards, and now AI specialists who love the work they do. When you partner with us, you're hiring from a network of vetted practitioners-partners who we've chosen to meet your specific needs.

Core L&D Talent

Experienced L&D practitioners ready to own complex projects from kickoff to delivery.

  • Instructional Designers
  • Learning Experience Designers
  • Learning Strategists
  • L&D Project Managers
  • Facilitators
See all L&D roles

AI Talent for L&D

AI specialists who speak both AI and L&D for strategy, training, governance, and implementation.

  • AI Prompt Engineers
  • Generative AI Learning Strategists
  • AI Curriculum Designers
  • AI Ethics Specialists
  • AI-Fluent IDs
Explore AI talent for L&D

Subject Matter Experts

Credentialed industry experts vetted for both deep expertise and the ability to teach.

  • Healthcare
  • Financial Services
  • Technology
  • Manufacturing
  • Niche Specialties
How we source SMEs

We likely have deep expertise in your industry.
Here are a few of the industries we support and profiles of experts.

Industries We Serve and Expert Profiles

Technology

From cloud certification programs to AI upskilling and technical onboarding at scale, we place L&D talent who speak engineering fluently.

See Technology talent

Healthcare & Life Sciences

Clinical certification, compliance training, patient-centered care, pharma sales enablement, and medical device education.

See Healthcare & Life Sciences talent

Financial Services

Regulatory compliance, risk management, advisor enablement, customer relationship training, and banker development.

See Financial Services talent
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Hospitality

Our hospitality talent knows how to design learning that scales across thousands of properties and millions of guest moments.

See Hospitality talent

Manufacturing & Industrial

Safety training, technical skills, frontline workforce enablement, and plant-floor digital adoption. We source talent who can walk the floor and design for it.

See Manufacturing & Industrial talent

Retail & Consumer

We place talent who know how to make training stick in high-turnover, fast-paced retail environments.

See Retail & Consumer talent
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Nonprofit, Association & Mission-Driven

This work is near and dear to us. We have deep experience in working with these organizations and we’re always motivated to support it!

See Nonprofit, Association
& Mission-Driven talent

Automotive & Transportation

Dealer training, service technician certification, EV transition learning. We place talent who can build programs for dispersed, hands-on workforces.

See Automotive &
Transportation talent

Autonomous Vehicles

We provide experts who bridge the gap between complex technical operations and the rigorous regulatory compliance required for the future of mobility.

See the Autonomous Vehicles talent

Why Staff Augmentation Makes Sense Even for Big Builds

You are under pressure to get work done, and if you need a few extra hands on deck, staff augmentation makes sense. But what about when you’re faced with a major effort that will require a lot of talent?

You have three options:

Option 1

Outsource the entire project to a vendor like SweetRush.

Option 2

Bring on W2 employees and commit to building a large in-house team.

Option 3

Turn to SweetRush to scale up a large group of vetted L&D professionals to work for you on a staff augmentation basis.

Here’s when option #3  just might make sense:

Congrats, that major initiative got approved! Now you need to get it off the ground and juggle resumes? Finding talent and building a team takes time, especially when it’s your second (or third) job. When you’re up against deadline pressure and not enough of you to go around, call on us to scale your team quickly.

Realistically, your internal recruiters won’t be able to find the high-performance niche players you need. They don't specialize in L&D and don't have a huge database of trusted talent at their fingertips. This is our community, and that is why we can build an awesome team for you quickly.

The Process You Can Expect When We Work Together

We do this work and truly know the pressure you’re under. It’s our responsibility to know your unique needs and the unique skillsets of the talent we source for you. You can expect to be surprised at how amazingly on target the resumes we submit will be!

Here's what it looks like when you partner with SweetRush Talent Agency.

Enterprise L&D Staffing & Facilitation Services

You Need to Scale! We Have You Covered!

Need 40 IDs? Not a problem! We’ll quickly build your team, and the SweetRush Talent Agency Dashboard will help you manage all your talent. Budgeted hours, hours remaining, rates, job descriptions and more… all the data you need to manage a large team, at a glance.

Need to manage 200 facilitators across 30 countries in 15 languages?

Also, not a problem.

Our parent NIIT MTS is a world leader in large-scale facilitation, with a global network of 2,500+ vetted instructors delivering training in 40+ countries to over half a million learners every year.

Through our managed delivery platform, we can plug your program into a proven engine that handles:

design element

Facilitator sourcing and vetting — matching certified instructors to your content, audience, and language requirements

Scheduling and logistics — coordinating sessions across time zones, classrooms, and virtual platforms (ILT and VILT)

Quality assurance — standardized rubrics, learner feedback loops, and continuous facilitator performance management

Real-time visibility — dashboards showing utilization, fill rates, learner satisfaction, and program ROI

Whether you're running a one-region pilot or a global rollout across multiple business units, we scale up — and back down — without the fixed overhead of building it yourself.

Consolidated Training Report

Target vs actual enrolments

Target vs actual enrolments

Need the best Big4 / MBB Consultant?

No worries, you're in good hands!

Our NIIT family member, The St. Charles Group, is the pre-eminent consultant for the Big 4 / MBB. Give Rodrigo a shout and he’ll make the intro and ensure you the expert you need.

Awards! And Why You Should Care

Your team and you will feel good when your peers judge your work to be the best—award-winning. It's validating. When you do extraordinary work, your learners, the lines of business and the C-suite all feel good. And L&D shines. Together SweetRush and NIIT won a remarkable 259 Brandon Hall awards in 2026!  So, let's do award-winning work together and feel good!

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FAQs
In so many ways! We do this work ourselves and with 25 years of Learning and Development experience, we intimately understand the nuanced roles you need to fill. We focus deeply on relationship recruiting rather than just making transactional placements. We are uniquely capable of attracting and placing high performers. Plus, our talent doesn't work on an island; they are backed by the collective intelligence of our entire SweetRush ecosystem, meaning we stay close and work hard to ensure your ongoing success.
Statistical average to fill a role is around 44 days, and we average 14. Because of the way we work (relationship recruiting), and our large database of specialized talent (over 100,000), we’ll provide you higher-quality candidates and typically the right candidate will be found in the first 2-3 resumes we share (which will save you a lot of time and hassle).
Some data points for your consideration: typically staff augmentation is priced hourly and remote work allows for talent to be sourced in less expensive geographic locations. And as part of NIIT we can source globally! For most engagements we hire talent as W2 employees, so the hourly rate includes taxes and HR compliance - which we know is important to you. It's in our interest and just good business for us to price competitively and offer you a cost-effective solution, which we do.
Part of relationship recruiting is listening with genuine empathy. We take the time to deeply understand your team's unique culture and dynamics, not just the skills required on paper. This allows us to find the right high-performer with whom you’ll feel great working with.
We know you’re busy, so we take on the heavy lifting of sourcing and vetting. Because we maintain an active network of trusted L&D professionals, we can often fill positions incredibly fast—sometimes within days. You will only need to interview a carefully selected shortlist of candidates, often as few as one or two, keeping your time investment limited while yielding the best results.
Yes we can, and would be happy to help you create or refine your job descriptions. We feel strongly that an accurate job description is vital for clearly defining your needs and attracting exactly the right talent. We have a lot of experience crafting job descriptions that are readable, clear and hone in on what’s important.
Temporary talent is perfect when you need immediate and specific resources but don’t have an opening for an additional W2 employee, or if you only need the talent for a defined amount of time. We specifically look for professionals who demonstrate a high level of "ownership"—meaning they are agile, consultative, and ready to hit the ground running to get things done without needing extensive onboarding.
We fully support "try before you buy" scenarios, where temporary talent is engaged with the potential to transition into a full-time role. It’s always ideal to let us know upfront if this potential exists so we can strategically place top-tier talent who are actively open to the possibility of finding a permanent home with your team.
Yes, and this is one of the greatest strengths and differentiators of our service. Every consultant is assigned a dedicated SweetRush Talent Manager who stays close throughout the engagement. We consistently check in with both the talent and your team to offer mentorship, prevent burnout, and ensure our placements are highly successful.
Because we stay in such close touch, we usually catch and resolve early signals of friction before they become real problems. It's rare, but if a placement doesn’t work out for any reason we will end that talent’s engagement and work with you to understand the "why": Was there a cultural misalignment? Did they lack a specific expertise? We understand you are under pressure to get the work done and we will prioritize efforts to secure the right fit so the project stays on track.

We listen,
consult, solve.

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