Hiring is the most important people function you have, and most of us aren’t as good at it as we think.
We’ve worked with Socium for a little while and they continue to be our most important and valued talent partner. Their Teams as a Service solution is perfect for organisations that need to add technical talent but don’t want the compliance headache of managing the process themselves.
Problem:
TravelPerk’s existing recruitment PSL was simply failing to deliver against their extensive and growing technical requirements. TravelPerk had little faith that the existing recruitment supply chain could deliver the specialist niche talent they needed…at speed.
With the completion of a recent round of Series D funding, all hiring targets were being ramped-up aggressively and all timelines compressed, so the speed of delivery was absolutely paramount. A rapid expansion of their tech team was essential for TravelPerk to not only solidify their status as the “World’s fastest-growing SaaS start up’ but also to leverage their service into new markets, territories and locations.
Solution:
Under an exclusive agreement TravelPerk commited to giving Socium 20 jobs on a ‘retained’ basis. A 4-month programme was agreed, with additions after proof of delivery. Socium worked across multiple territories and assisted TravelPerk with building out a brand presence key regions, to engage with locally based talent.
Socium also offered up additional auxiliary support including;
- Podcast with VP of engineering
- Slack/HR/CMS integration
Key results:
Our strategic solution and refined hiring process meant TravelPerk were able to add 12 top technical candidates in the first 4 months of the programme. This was a sizeable 105% uplift in placements against what the complete previous PSL had achieved in the previous 12 months.
Cost savings
Due to heavy pressure from investors, and ambitious growth targets TravelPerk moved quickly to engage Socium and have made cost savings to date of £18,150.
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