ABOUT US
Your Recruiting Partner
Decades of Talent Acquisition Expertise
Better Talent was founded by industry veterans with decades of experience across all facets of business operations, including management, sales, design, construction, and software development. Having successfully scaled organizations from startup to market leadership, the team behind Better Talent understands the challenges businesses face when it comes to building high-performing teams.
Through years of experience, they recognized that the biggest challenge most companies face isn’t operations or marketing—it’s hiring and retaining the right talent. People are the foundation of any successful business, yet recruiting and leadership development remain ongoing struggles. That’s where Better Talent comes in.
Solving the People Problem
In the beginning, Better Talent started training clients on leveraging personality assessments as a proven tool for hiring and retention. However, fast-growing companies often lacked the time and expertise to implement these strategies effectively. They needed a solution that wasn’t just insightful but also actionable and efficient.
Recognizing that traditional hiring models were too slow, expensive, or risky for many businesses, Better Talent initially offered retained search services to help companies find the right behavioral fit for their key roles. However, this approach still left many small and mid-sized businesses without access to top-tier talent acquisition strategies.
Innovating Talent Acquisition
Determined to create a more effective solution, Better Talent reimagined how hiring should work across industries. The company first introduced a per-hire model for full-time positions, offering a cost-effective and efficient way for businesses to scale their teams.
Yet, hiring one key employee at a time didn’t fully solve the broader challenge. Many companies needed flexible staffing solutions beyond leadership roles, including part-time, seasonal, on-call, and contract positions.
Adapting to market needs, Better Talent built an outsourced talent acquisition team, providing a comprehensive approach that extends beyond traditional recruiting. This strategy ensures companies hire only for what they truly need—without overextending payroll or making unnecessary long-term commitments.
A Subscription-Based Talent Acquisition Solution
To make world-class talent acquisition accessible to businesses of all sizes, Better Talent introduced a subscription model. This approach provides companies with a dedicated talent acquisition team, offering expert strategy, support, and execution for a predictable monthly cost—eliminating the high fees and inefficiencies of traditional recruiting.
Now partnering with organizations across multiple industries and regions, Better Talent is transforming how businesses hire—helping them find and retain top talent faster and more cost-effectively than ever before.
ABOUT US
Your Recruiting Partner
Decades of Intense Vacation Rental Experience
Better Talent was founded by Steve Trover, a decades-long veteran of the vacation rental industry, who has been involved in all aspects of the industry, including management, sales, design, construction and software development. Having scaled from zero to 400 properties across four destinations, his company became the market leader in the #1 family destination on the planet: Central Florida.
As the former president of the Vacation Rental Management Association, Steve led the association’s push into the European Union. Steve also launched the first R&D process for designing and building purpose-built vacation homes, a process now used routinely in the industry.
With this depth and breadth of experience, Steve learned that the biggest struggle companies in the vacation rental space face is hiring and retaining talent, which is also usually the biggest expense.
The industry’s biggest challenge is identifying and leading the right people in the right roles. That’s where Better Talent comes in.
Solving the People Problem
When Steve stepped out of operations and started a consulting company, he immediately began leveraging personality assessments with his clients, which was one of his secrets for success in his own companies. However, he quickly realized the fast-growing companies he served weren’t able to commit the time to do it “right,” and the solution he was offering was still not solving his customers’ people problems. They didn’t have the time, the staff or the knowledge to do it well and concentrate on their core focus and daily operations.
He began offering retained search, personally setting job targets and finding the right behavioral fit, but soon realized the model was out of reach for many small businesses, not to mention it was also too long of a process with too much risk for those who could afford it. His passion and loyalty to his peers left him dissatisfied that there would still be companies left behind.
Innovating Talent Acquisition
Continuing his role as an innovator in the industry, Steve modified how his consultancy assisted with hiring and quickly invented the most efficient and cost-effective way to help the vacation rental industry — starting with a per-hire model for key, full-time roles.
That’s when he walked away from the consultant model and Better Talent was born.
Yet, the reality is that hiring one leader at a time still did not truly solve the people problem for as many companies as possible whose hiring needs extended beyond leadership positions.
Ever responsive to market demands, Better Talent built its own outsourced talent acquisition team and quickly pivoted to offering a comprehensive approach to hiring: addressing full-time, part-time, on-call, seasonal, and contract sourcing, even making introductions to consultants to solve a short-term need.
Better Talent turned traditional “recruiting” on its head and committed to offering a true people strategy, only advising companies they serve to hire for what they actually need without bloating their customer’s payroll with unnecessary full-time or part-time positions.
A Subscription-Based Talent Acquisition Solution
With a true passion and commitment to the industry, a subscription model was soon offered so vacation rental companies and beyond could afford an entire talent acquisition team that offers strategy, support, and expertise, so it feels like talent acquisition services and consulting all for one reasonable monthly cost.
Better Talent now works with over 300 vacation rental companies across 30 states and multiple countries to help hire better talent faster and at a lower cost.
