Logo and Business card design for a recruitment company

Information for the business: We match candidates with the right jobs

Type of logo: Pictorial mark (Important)

Brand name/slogan in logo: HireStage

Preferred colors: Blue

We are a recruitment company aiming to match the right candidates with the right employer. We match based on the people within the company, to ensure the candidate and employer work well together. Finding the right people for the right jobs.

When people look at our logo, we want these to show strongly:

Emotion: Happiness, optimism and self-appraisal(blue colour)

Company tagline: Finding the right jobs for you

We want the logo to be instantly recognizable. It has to be distinctive, memorable, and recognizable. Even if you have only seen it once, you should still be able to remember what it looks like after a period of time.

Show us the logo in black and white. Design with this limitation first to ensure that the logo is recognizable purely by its shape and outline, and not by its color. We want a strong logo that is memorable with or without the colour.

Lastly, the logo has to be clear and distinct in small dimensions. You have to be able to notice it from far away or as the Favicon.

Logo designs we like: Twitter, Google, DropBox, Facebook, Tinder, WWF

It needs to stand on its own (being recognizable without the words HireStage) and work on black & white. Something very simplistic but also captures us visually - see tinder's icon; the flame is recognizable whether it's black&white or colour, same with Twitter (bird), Facebook (f), Dropbox (box), etc.

Can you try to incorporate some word play on the design using HireStage // HigherStage (can be pronounced almost the same way).

Thanks!