Proactive recruitment for software companies

The IT industry has the toughest competition for candidates due to IT buyers’ digitalization budgets and too few education spots over the past 10 years. As an IT product company, it is crucial to secure top candidates in all areas, from product development to quality assurance and testing. The traditional recruitment model, which focuses on hiring available active job seekers and recruiting reactively for each role, is no longer sufficient to meet these demands. You risk missing your growth targets and losing the chance to hire the right employees.

To overcome this challenge, we must adopt a data-driven and proactive strategy in recruitment and talent acquisition. We help our clients establish this by building and maintaining relationships with potential candidates even before there is a specific job opening. This work results in a pipeline of pre-qualified candidates, allowing you to match your needs with candidates’ availability. The candidates are continuously engaged, so that you remain top-of-mind when they are ready to make a move.

Stay ahead – recruit proactively

The traditional recruitment model is reactive and relies on candidates applying to your company. In many cases, this can work, but due to the high competition for passive candidates in the IT industry, it becomes challenging to hire candidates with the right experience and skills at the exact moment when a need arises.

We help software companies stay ahead by continuously engaging with pre-qualified candidates even before they decide to change jobs. This way, you remain top-of-mind for candidates when the timing is right for them. As a result, you will have candidates available as soon as you have established the need internally and received approval from HR to start a recruitment process.

  • Counter long decision-making processes with a pipeline of candidates who are interview-ready when your internal process is complete
  • Hire the most suitable candidates, not just those who happen to be available when you get HR approval
  • Reduce consulting costs by minimizing the time between identifying a need and recruiting the right candidate
  • Transition from consultants to permanent hires using your candidate pipeline

Proactively match your needs with candidates’ preferences & availability

The majority of today’s talent market is passive. Candidates are open to career moves only if they find something better, if their preferences align with what you offer and if their availability both personally and professionally matches your current needs.

That’s why, since 2011, we have collected data on candidates’ preferences, availability, and timing. We know when they finish their assignments and projects, and help our clients in the consulting industry match project requests with a pipeline of pre-qualified candidates.

  • Plan your recruitment and reduce the time from need to hire by knowing which candidates want to work with you and when they are ready to start
  • Ensure you have the right messaging in candidate dialogues by using data on what would motivate them to switch jobs
  • Gain insights into the candidates in your pipeline to improve your recruitment strategy over time

Here are some of the roles we have experience recruiting

Since 2011, we have been building our network and candidate database within the IT industry. Read more about them here:

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