hand-picked
adjective
HR (also handpicked) ukusused to describe someone who has been carefully chosen for a particular job or activity:
The 74 year-old has ceded day-to-day control of the company to a hand picked team of managers.
be handpicked for sth/to do sth The 35-year-old Australian citizen was hand picked for the post.
be handpicked by sb Many boards were hand-picked by the very executives they were supposed to oversee.
a hand-picked successor