Recruitment Process Outsourcing for Hard-to-Fill Tech Hires

A digital incubator firm that invests in multiple industries, including healthcare, needed to rapidly meet demand across the firm’s portfolio of companies.

The business needed an RPO partner with experience delivering a high volume of hard-to-fill IT positions that could effectively partner with the business to achieve its aggressive growth plans. Learn how Sevenstep put in place a flexible plan to deliver nimble enterprise RPO first for the portfolio companies, then—at the request of the client—for its headquarter operations as well.

Challenges
Approach
Results

Challenges

Hiring Volume: 100 – 700 hires

Geography: United States

Roles:

Project Manager, Product Manager, Software Engineer, Software Q&A Engineer, UX/UI Engineer

Specific Challenges:

The Head of Talent needed to scale the internal team to meet demand across the firm’s portfolio of companies
Technology jobs were critically important to support the surge of digital transformation initiatives such as Telehealth that were accelerated by the pandemic
Hiring within a highly competitive talent market and segment, e.g., the technology industry in the Greater Boston area

Approach

Solution Type: Project RPO

Geography: End-to-end

Highlighted Strategies:

Sevenstep created a flexible contract approach intended for scale; forecasting volume was difficult due to the start-up nature of many of the companies; initial estimate was for 200 hires in 2021
Geared initial model to on-demand; Sevenstep embedded its processes into the existing applicant tracking system (ATS), complete with Sevayo^®
Insights for actionable talent and business intelligence as well as reporting capabilities; implemented a Rapid Response Team

Results

Filled over 100 critical hard-to-fill roles within the first six months of the contract
Scope expansion included management of all of company’s hiring needs internally and across portfolio companies for between 50-400 positions annually

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A Digital Innovation Firm with a Focus on Healthcare Doubles Hard-to-Fill Technology Hires Across its Portfolio of Companies

A digital incubator firm that invests in multiple industries, including healthcare, needed to rapidly meet demand across the firm’s portfolio of companies.

Filled over 100 critical hard-to-fill roles within the first six months of the contract

Scope expansion included management of all of company’s hiring needs internally and across portfolio companies for between 50-400 positions annually