Recruiting the best and brightest talent from the smartest graduates to the most distinguished leaders is not easy

It’s refreshing to work with a supplier that puts service delivery above all else. Socium has been an invaluable resource in finding the best technical talent to help deliver our product to market, often in very tricky market conditions.  A top class, hassle-free service.

Problem:

As a growing start-up business with an expanding product offering, Oliva Health needed to restructure and re-articulate its MVP and bring it to market, and Socium were highly recommended by their network.

Struggling to identify and engage with ‘local tech talent’, Oliva wanted to strategically align with a proven talent partner that could provide a hassle-free, permanent solution to their ongoing team-building initiatives.

Oliva Health essentially needed to build an engineering team from scratch, build out a trusted local talent network and partner up with a provider that could take up the reigns in terms of programme management and delivery.

 

 

Solution:

Having failed to find any recruitment partners that could deliver local talent at the speed and scale needed, Oliva Health engaged with Socium to create their founding engineering team.

We moved the organisation to a ‘remote first’ mindset, widening the available talent pool and partnered with the C-suite team (CEO and VP of Product), Socium to build out a core team of 5 to drive the initial MVP.

Critical hires included;

  • Tech Lead
  • Senior Full-stack Engineer
  • Senior Front-end Engineer
  • Senior Back-end Engineer
  • Product Designer

Key results:

By implementing a remote-first working model and the inherent cost-savings associated. Oliva were also able to release their product to market ahead of time allowing them to free up extra capital for other strategic growth initiatives.

Cost savings

Our ‘Socium For Scale’ model allowed Oliva to spread the cost of their hires over several key milestones, ensuring they could manage cost flow at a critical time. There was also a significant time-cost saving as Socium managed the end-to-end development & ownership of the whole interview process, job spec build and onboarding of all remote hires.

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