People. Purpose. Impact.
We hire people for businesses building teams outside their home market, and we stay responsible for them after they start.
What we do
Recruiting is where most staffing companies stop. It is where our work begins.
People right for the work, checked against the role before you see them.
Read moreA team your hires genuinely belong to. People who belong perform better.
Read moreGood people stay where they belong and their work visibly matters.
Read moreA team known for impact pulls in ambitious people by itself.
Read moreWhy it matters
Replacing someone costs far more than hiring them well in the first place.
Most companies can find candidates. What goes wrong comes later: excellent in interview, gone in five months, the same role filled three times.
So the placement is where our job starts. We are judged on whether people are still doing good work long after.
Our standard
Together, or not at all.
umma — community
Impatum means impact and أمة (umma): a community bound by shared purpose, not geography. The impact is only possible because the community is real.
We do not hand over a shortlist and disappear, and we do not place anyone we would not want on our own team.
How we work
Not the job title — the actual work, who they answer to, and what has gone wrong before.
Our network first; here the best candidates come through relationships, not adverts. Everyone is assessed against the standard we agreed.
You meet the shortlist and make the call. We tell you what we think, reservations included.
They join a team with a shared standard. We keep in contact, and act early when something is not working.
The ring closes when we stay.
Fit
We would rather tell you now than three weeks in.
Common questions
The things people usually want settled first.
With the role, not the logistics. Tell us what the person will actually do and what has to go right.
Most agencies are paid at the point of hire, so that is where their involvement ends. Ours carries past it.
We stay close to the people we place, so we usually know first and raise it while it can still be fixed. If it cannot be, we agree the next step with you.
A single role is fine. The four services work alone or together.
No. Employment rules differ by country and change over time; where a hire raises those questions you need a qualified professional, and we will say so.
No. We recruit people into teams for the longer term. For gig cover, another kind of agency will serve you better.
Send us the role and the market. We will tell you honestly whether we can do it well.
About
We recruit and oversee talent for companies building teams outside their home market. The name explains how we work.
The name
From impact — the force that leaves a mark. Not noise, but consequence.
From umma (أمة), the Arabic for a community united by shared purpose, not geography; shaped into -tum for a firm close.
Together: a community that makes an impact.
The order matters. The impact is only possible because the community behind it is real.
Im‑PAH‑tum
Three syllables, chosen to sound natural in Arabic, English and Kurdish — the languages the work is done in.
The mark
The circle stands for unity, community and momentum. The diamond at its centre is the impact itself.
It is drawn as two arcs rather than a closed ring, because a community is something people join, not something already finished.
The team
The market we work in
Where talent concentrates. It thins out quickly beyond them.
A role that draws a deep field in one of those cities may draw nobody two hours away. Sometimes the search must widen, or the role must move.
Graduate supply is strong; specialist experience is thinner, especially in newer technical fields. Closing the gap between a good CV and someone who can do the job on Monday is most of our work.
It runs on relationships. The strongest candidates are rarely reading adverts, which is why we search our own network first.
Contracts must be written, in Arabic or bilingual, and the Kurdistan Region has its own labour law. We are not lawyers — but we will tell you when a hire needs one.
Principles
The things we will be measured against.
Everything we do must leave a mark.
The أمة is the source of all impact. Bound together, we are stronger than apart.
To the mission and to each other. A commitment, not a contract.
A high bar for the work, the team and ourselves — every day.
How we work
Here to change the outcome, not to add a step to your process.
One team accountable from first brief to long after someone starts.
Reliable to the people we place and to the companies we place them with. Both, or neither.
If we cannot explain why we are putting someone forward, we do not.
The same bar for our own process as for the people we recruit. Slow rather than wrong.
We answer for our work in public, including when it has not gone our way.
If this is how you want your team built, we should talk.
Services
Four parts of one job: the right people in your team, and kept there. They work together or on their own.
We find the people, check them against the role, and hand you a shortlist you can act on.
Our own network first — here the strongest candidates are reached through relationships, not job adverts.
Companies hiring into a market where they have no team on the ground yet.
We build a team your hires actually belong to, instead of dropping them into an empty seat.
A new hire in a distant market is easy to lose: far from head office, often alone in their job. We build the identity that holds them.
Teams that keep losing good people in the first year.
We keep good people in the role by making sure the role is worth keeping.
We stay in contact with the people we place and with you, so problems surface as concerns, not resignations.
Companies that have already paid for the same role twice.
We help you become somewhere ambitious people want to work, so hiring gets easier over time.
A team known for real impact pulls people in by itself — and every good hire makes the next one easier.
Companies planning to keep hiring in the same market.
How we work
The role, the market, and what has to go right. If we cannot do it well, we say so.
We work our network and assess against the agreed standard. You hear from us throughout, not only at the end.
You meet a shortlist with our read on each person. You decide.
The hire joins a team with a shared standard, not a market where nobody knows them.
We keep in contact with them and with you, and raise problems while they are still a conversation.
Scope
Knowing where a service stops is as useful as knowing where it starts.
Tell us the role and the market. If it is not a good fit, we will say so straight away.
Contact
Message us on LinkedIn. It reaches us directly and is the quickest way to a straight answer.
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Before you write
Four things let us give you a straight answer instead of a discovery call.
Fit and process questions are answered in the common questions on the home page.
After you write
Your message goes to the people who would do the work, not to a shared inbox.
If it is a good fit we say so and ask what we need. If not, we tell you plainly.
The actual work: what the person will do, what has to go right, and what went wrong before.
This policy explains how Impatum handles personal information in connection with this website. We have kept it short because this website does very little with your data.
This website has no contact form, no newsletter sign-up, no account system and no login. We do not ask you to submit personal information anywhere on it, and we do not collect it.
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