Case 1
New-graduate applications, 2.5× the year before.
Applicants +150% year over year / Global advertising company · Year-round
- Industry
- Global advertising company
- Hiring
- New-graduate hiring
- Challenge
- Volume and quality of new-graduate applicants
- What we did
- Split the scouting strategy by target university and role, and rebuilt how the company presents itself. Stayed on through improving applicant quality and reducing declined offers.
- Period
- Year-round
Case 2
Set out to hire 100 in a year. Hired 100.
Annual target of 100 met (100/100) / Social venture · 1 year
- Industry
- Social venture
- Hiring
- Year-round hiring (100 a year)
- Challenge
- Large-scale year-round hiring
- What we did
- Designed and ran the entire hiring flow, from building the candidate pool to offer acceptance.
- Period
- 1 year
Case 3
Keeping hiring in step with rapid growth: 6 engineers in 2 months.
6 engineers / AI/SaaS startup · 2 months
- Industry
- AI/SaaS startup
- Hiring
- Engineering hiring (LLM, backend, full-stack)
- Challenge
- Scaling up during rapid growth
- What we did
- Hired quickly through AI-assisted sourcing and several hiring platforms run in parallel.
- Period
- 2 months
Case 4
A startup’s first hires, with the system built from scratch.
A hiring system and the first few hires / AI startup · Early stage
- Industry
- AI startup
- Hiring
- AI engineering hiring (early stage)
- Challenge
- No hiring system in place
- What we did
- Built requirements, job descriptions, scouting, and the interview flow from scratch, and ran them.
- Period
- Early stage
Case 5
A candidate the market barely has, won in 2 months.
1 hire / Sensor × generative AI startup · 2 months
- Industry
- Sensor × generative AI startup
- Hiring
- Business role (sales with consulting experience)
- Challenge
- A role with very few experienced candidates
- What we did
- Introduced direct recruiting and stayed with it from operation to offer acceptance.
- Period
- 2 months
Case 6
Fewer declined offers: 90% acceptance through structured follow-up.
Offer acceptance 90% / Manufacturer · Post-offer follow-up
- Industry
- Manufacturer
- Hiring
- New-graduate hiring
- Challenge
- Turning offers into acceptances
- What we did
- Made post-offer follow-up meetings a system and supported candidates through to their start date.
- Period
- Post-offer follow-up