FutureFit

FutureFit

by | Apr 26, 2023

Case Study - FutureFit

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Overview

FutureFit AI is a company that provides AI-powered talent development solutions to help organizations upskill and reskill their employees. The company was founded in 2019 and is based in San Francisco, California.

FutureFit AI’s platform leverages advanced algorithms to analyze employees’ skills, interests, and career aspirations and recommends personalized learning pathways to help them develop the skills needed for their current and future roles. The platform offers a range of learning opportunities, including micro-courses, coaching, mentoring, and more.

The company’s mission is to help individuals and organizations stay ahead of the curve in the rapidly changing world of work by creating a culture of continuous learning and development. FutureFit AI believes that investing in talent development is critical to staying competitive in today’s fast-paced and ever-changing business landscape.

FutureFit AI is an AI-powered talent development company that provides personalized learning pathways to help organizations upskill and reskill their employees. The company’s platform offers a range of learning opportunities, and its mission is to create a culture of continuous learning and development to help individuals and organizations stay ahead in the rapidly changing world of work.

FutureFit engaged GuruLink to help with the hiring of some critical hires for their growing team. This included roles such as a Machine Learning Engineer, Software Engineer, and Product Designer.

 

Challenges & Requirements

  • Creation and implementation of hiring process
  • Recruitment for multiple critical roles
  • Creating processes and documentation that can be used by FutureFit in the future
  • Implementation of ATS
  • Implementation of recruitment tools

 

 

Solution

GuruLink provided a Full-Time 40-hour-per-week resource to help with the 5 hires that needed to be made in a 3-month timespan. This was achieved in 2.5 months and additional roles were filled thereafter.

GuruLink’s recruitment team came in and helped create and implement the hiring process which is still being used today.

 

 

Results

  • 5 successful hires in the 3 month project deadline
  • Creation and implementation of ATS and other recruitment tools such as Gem
  • Hires consisted of a Machine Learning Engineer, Product Designer, and 3 Software Engineers
  • Provided list of candidates in ATS after completion of project to be used in the future
  • Creation and implementation of recruitment and marketing outreach and collateral
“I was very impressed by GuruLink.

Gavin and Paige were able to find opportunities that aligned with my personal interests for companies that are at the forefront of new technologies and industries. The process was very quick and guidance was given every step of the way. I would recommend them to anyone looking for a job.”

– Jeremy/Candidate

“Having applied to many jobs individually

and feeling like I was getting lost in a pile of resumes, GuruLink did the legwork of presenting my skills and experience to the employer for me and helped get me the IT job that I’ve always wanted. They have educated me on the company, prepared me for who I’d be interviewing with, what questions might be asked. They gave me the confidence I needed to go in and rock the interviews, and now the job. In a booming IT job market that can be hard to find valuable and interesting work, GuruLink found the job that’s right for me, at the salary that I wanted.”

– Dany/Candidate

“I would like to say thank you

Julia and Jibran for the great opportunity that they gave me. As a newcomer to Canada, I wasn’t expecting to get the same job that I have before in my home country. I am unfamiliar with the recruiting process here, and I always hear that we need ‘Canadian Experience’ even if it means taking a job not related to your previous occupation or education. But with the guidance and help of awesome recruiters like Julia and Jibran, I was able to get a job well suited to my qualifications and more than expected compensation. I am very grateful to both of them, and I hope that they can help more newcomers like me to have a great job in Canada and start a new chapter in their lives.”

– Marc/Candidate

Sama

Sama

by | Apr 26, 2023

Case Study - Sama

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Overview

Sama AI is a company that provides artificial intelligence and machine learning solutions for various industries, including healthcare, finance, retail, and more. The company was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Sama AI’s primary product is its platform, SamaHub, which leverages advanced algorithms and automation to help organizations achieve their AI and machine learning goals. SamaHub offers a range of services, including data preparation, annotation, and quality assurance, to help organizations improve their data accuracy and enhance their predictive models.

Sama AI’s mission is to democratize AI and make it accessible to organizations of all sizes and industries. To achieve this goal, the company employs a unique approach called “impact sourcing,” which involves training and employing people from disadvantaged communities to do the data labeling and other tasks required for machine learning.

Sama AI is an AI and machine learning company that provides a platform for organizations to improve their data accuracy and predictive models. The company’s unique approach to impact sourcing also helps to democratize AI and provide opportunities for people from disadvantaged communities.

Sama AI engaged GuruLink to help with the growth of their technical team. While Sama AI had a recruitment team in place, they needed a solution to help other TA team members focus on other critical areas of the business such as Machine Learning and Backend Engineering. GuruLink was engaged to help continue the growth of their Frontend Team.

 

Challenges & Requirements

Sama AI was experiencing growth and wanted to engage GuruLink to focus on frontend engineering (FE) so that their other talent acquisition (TA) teams could focus on non-technical roles such as sales, machine learning, and backend engineering. The company had a pre-existing FE team that the engineering manager was mandated to grow based on the funding they had received. Sama AI had a TA team in place but was still figuring out exactly what was required for the FE team.

We had successfully working with Sama on a Contingency engagement model for well over a year. When GuruLink joined in an On-Demand capacity we helped with the hiring process for the FE team, which had a lack of interview process and needed streamlining of screening and evaluating candidate criteria. During GuruLink’s time with Sama, we helped to increase salary bands, perform market analysis, and create dashboards for the hiring process.

  • Building out the FE team with the engineering manager at Sama
  • Lack of interview process (implemented and optimization)
  • Streamlining screening and evaluating candidate criteria
  • overhaul of entire comp structure and levels for a lot of the engineering team

 

Solution

As a 6 month project, GuruLink provided a Full-Time resource at 40 hours per week. During this time, GuruLink and Sama also engaged in a Hybrid model which allowed the GuruLink team to work on hard-to-fill roles while keeping costs down. This recruiter was responsible for full-cycle recruitment.

  • Research & Requirement Gathering
  • Identifying, Qualifying, and Screening Candidates
  • Shop based recruitment
  • Creating & streamlining processes

 

Results

  • 6-month project duration
  • 9 successful hires which included from Front-end Engineers, ML Engineers and a Software Development Manager
  • Cost-per-hire of $22,077.78
  • Total savings of $124,300
  • Savings of 38.7% compared to our previous contingency agreement
  • Built out the majority of processes for candidate interviews, including suggesting various process automations
  • Offer Acceptance ratio of 90%

 

“I was very impressed by GuruLink.

Gavin and Paige were able to find opportunities that aligned with my personal interests for companies that are at the forefront of new technologies and industries. The process was very quick and guidance was given every step of the way. I would recommend them to anyone looking for a job.”

– Jeremy/Candidate

“Having applied to many jobs individually

and feeling like I was getting lost in a pile of resumes, GuruLink did the legwork of presenting my skills and experience to the employer for me and helped get me the IT job that I’ve always wanted. They have educated me on the company, prepared me for who I’d be interviewing with, what questions might be asked. They gave me the confidence I needed to go in and rock the interviews, and now the job. In a booming IT job market that can be hard to find valuable and interesting work, GuruLink found the job that’s right for me, at the salary that I wanted.”

– Dany/Candidate

“I would like to say thank you

Julia and Jibran for the great opportunity that they gave me. As a newcomer to Canada, I wasn’t expecting to get the same job that I have before in my home country. I am unfamiliar with the recruiting process here, and I always hear that we need ‘Canadian Experience’ even if it means taking a job not related to your previous occupation or education. But with the guidance and help of awesome recruiters like Julia and Jibran, I was able to get a job well suited to my qualifications and more than expected compensation. I am very grateful to both of them, and I hope that they can help more newcomers like me to have a great job in Canada and start a new chapter in their lives.”

– Marc/Candidate

Unbounce

Unbounce

by | Apr 26, 2023

Case Study - Unbounce

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Overview

Unbounce is a well-known Canadian software company and success story based in Vancouver, BC with over 200 smart and ambitious people doing their best work to achieve bigger and better outcomes.

Unbounce was originally founded in 2009 and grew their brand and customer base organically and bootstrapped all the way until their Series A funding of $52 million in July 2020. As an early pioneer and one of the first SaaS landing page products Unbounce has evolved into a suite of smart marketing tools to help companies grow their business and turn visitors into customers.

Unbounce has helped customers generate (literally) billions of leads, signups, and sales. With easy-to-use builders designed for any skill level, AI-powered features to help you launch quicker, and an award-winning customer service team, Unbounce gives you everything you need to get great results and grow your business.

As one of Canada’s fastest-growing tech companies with offices in both Vancouver and Berlin, they help marketers pair their expertise with AI insights to create and optimize the highest-converting marketing campaigns possible using the Unbounce Conversion Intelligence™ Platform.

Whether you need help building landing pages (Smart Builder), crafting high-converting copy (Smart Copy), or optimizing your conversion rates (Smart Traffic), Unbounce’s platform is designed for any kind of business.

Unbounce has a workplace of over 200 smart and ambitious people doing their best work to achieve bigger and better outcomes.

 

Challenges & Requirements

Unbounce came to us, as many of our new client relationships do, as a referral from someone we’ve worked with for well over a decade.

We were first introduced and the end of Oct. 2002 and Unbounce needed to make some challenging hires before year end, specifically a Front-end Engineer, an Engineering Manager and _____________.

To complicate things further they had just lost one of their internal recruiters and their other internal recruiter was going on vacation for 2 weeks.

We we required to fill some challenging roles, very quickly, without the optimal support of the existing internal team for our training and ramp up.

 

Solution

We ended up proposing and engaging on a Recruiter on Demand model for an 8 week project leading up to the end of the year. The plan was to do the initial 6 weeks at 40 hours per week and then down to 20 hours per week for the last 2 weeks of the project.

We were able to deliver on the mandate in a total of 6 weeks.

 

Results

  • Created marketing collateral for outbound email campaigns
  • Identified and recommended ATS optimizations and process automation opportunities
  • Sourced XXX Candidate (Max, need help here polease
  • Successfully filled 3 difficult to fill roles in 6 weeks, 2 weeks shorter than projected
  • Cost-per-hire of $13,051.50
  • Total cost savings of $65,845 vs Contingency
  • Offer acceptance rate of 100%
  • Fill rate of 100%

 

Testimonial

“Our team partnered with GuruLink to employ a ‘recruiter on demand’ while we were working on finding the right candidates for a few key roles. Working with GuruLink was quick and easy, with open and efficient communication. We really appreciated the transparency and understanding when it came to the best option for us as well as GuruLink’s flexibility around our needs. Max was the recruiter working with us for a little under two months with mostly full-time hours. In that time frame, Max was able to help hire a few new members for our teams. He showed up with a great work ethic, transparent and quick communication, as well as a caring and hands-on attitude. It was great working with him and all our hiring teams really valued his expertise and guidance.”

— Monika Karatodorova, Talent Acquisition Lead

“I was very impressed by GuruLink.

Gavin and Paige were able to find opportunities that aligned with my personal interests for companies that are at the forefront of new technologies and industries. The process was very quick and guidance was given every step of the way. I would recommend them to anyone looking for a job.”

– Jeremy/Candidate

“Having applied to many jobs individually

and feeling like I was getting lost in a pile of resumes, GuruLink did the legwork of presenting my skills and experience to the employer for me and helped get me the IT job that I’ve always wanted. They have educated me on the company, prepared me for who I’d be interviewing with, what questions might be asked. They gave me the confidence I needed to go in and rock the interviews, and now the job. In a booming IT job market that can be hard to find valuable and interesting work, GuruLink found the job that’s right for me, at the salary that I wanted.”

– Dany/Candidate

“I would like to say thank you

Julia and Jibran for the great opportunity that they gave me. As a newcomer to Canada, I wasn’t expecting to get the same job that I have before in my home country. I am unfamiliar with the recruiting process here, and I always hear that we need ‘Canadian Experience’ even if it means taking a job not related to your previous occupation or education. But with the guidance and help of awesome recruiters like Julia and Jibran, I was able to get a job well suited to my qualifications and more than expected compensation. I am very grateful to both of them, and I hope that they can help more newcomers like me to have a great job in Canada and start a new chapter in their lives.”

– Marc/Candidate

Thin Air Labs

Thin Air Labs

by | Mar 20, 2023

Case Study - Thin Air Labs

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# of Hires

Cost per Hire

Total Savings

 

Overview

Thin Air Labs is a prominent venture capital firm and growth studio based in Calgary, Alberta, that is dedicated to creating meaningful value for humanity by supporting early-stage startups in their global expansion. Beyond providing financial resources, Thin Air Labs offers comprehensive assistance in critical areas such as talent acquisition, product development, design, and product discovery.

Thanks to the extensive relationship between Managing Director James Lochrie and GuruLink, the latter was engaged to assist in building the foundational team for Thin Air Labs. GuruLink was instrumental in recruiting skilled professionals to fill key roles such as Software Engineers, Funding Catalysts, and Product Managers, among others.

 

Challenges & Requirements

  • Recruiting for a nascent organization in an unexplored market
  • Creating interview and HR processes to optimize candidate selection with maximum efficiency
  • Implementation of ATS
  • Building a team of diverse and educated talent

 

Solution

At the inception of the project, Thin Air Labs engaged GuruLink to provide a fractional recruitment specialist for 20 hours per week, who was responsible for sourcing, contacting, interviewing, and closing potential candidates for various roles. Additionally, GuruLink was tasked with developing an effective interview process and crafting marketing materials to facilitate entry into a new market. During the implementation of the Applicant Tracking System, the team opted to utilize the Lever platform. Furthermore, GuruLink helped establish crucial HR processes for the company.

Over a span of 11 months, GuruLink played a pivotal role in securing 11 highly qualified professionals for Thin Air Labs, including Funding Catalysts, a Lead Software Engineer, Software Engineers, and a Director of Product, among others. Through its proven recruitment strategies, GuruLink maintained an outstanding 85% closing rate, demonstrating exceptional talent acquisition prowess.

 

Results

  • Successfully filled 11 roles over an 11-month time span
  • Cost per hire: $8,676
  • Total Savings: $277,212
  • Created and streamlined an internal interview process that Thin Air Labs continues to use
  • Developed targeted candidate outreach and follow-up campaign templates

 

“I was very impressed by GuruLink.

Gavin and Paige were able to find opportunities that aligned with my personal interests for companies that are at the forefront of new technologies and industries. The process was very quick and guidance was given every step of the way. I would recommend them to anyone looking for a job.”

– Jeremy/Candidate

“Having applied to many jobs individually

and feeling like I was getting lost in a pile of resumes, GuruLink did the legwork of presenting my skills and experience to the employer for me and helped get me the IT job that I’ve always wanted. They have educated me on the company, prepared me for who I’d be interviewing with, what questions might be asked. They gave me the confidence I needed to go in and rock the interviews, and now the job. In a booming IT job market that can be hard to find valuable and interesting work, GuruLink found the job that’s right for me, at the salary that I wanted.”

– Dany/Candidate

“I would like to say thank you

Julia and Jibran for the great opportunity that they gave me. As a newcomer to Canada, I wasn’t expecting to get the same job that I have before in my home country. I am unfamiliar with the recruiting process here, and I always hear that we need ‘Canadian Experience’ even if it means taking a job not related to your previous occupation or education. But with the guidance and help of awesome recruiters like Julia and Jibran, I was able to get a job well suited to my qualifications and more than expected compensation. I am very grateful to both of them, and I hope that they can help more newcomers like me to have a great job in Canada and start a new chapter in their lives.”

– Marc/Candidate

Dapper Labs

Dapper Labs

by | Nov 20, 2022

Case Study - Dapper Labs

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Total Savings

 

Overview

Dapper Labs is a Vancouver-based unicorn that is behind CryptoKitties, NBA Top Shot, NFL All Day, UFC Strike and the Flow blockchain. Dapper Labs created the Flow blockchain to help bring NFTs and new forms of digital engagement to fans around the world by paving the way to a more open and inclusive digital world that starts with games and entertainment.

Founded in 2018, Dapper Labs has raised over $600M+ and some of its investors include the likes of Andreessen Horowitz, Coatue, Google Ventures, Kevin Durant, Michael Jordan and many others. Dapper Labs was named one of 50 world’s most innovative companies and the #1 gaming company of 2022 by Fast Company.

Dapper Labs engaged GuruLink to help with their extremely fast-paced growth and recruitment needs that spanned multiple areas. At the time that GuruLink was engaged, Dapper Labs had only 1 recruiter and 1 coordinator working across over 50+ openings, many with multiple hires.

 

Challenges & Requirements

  • Massive volume of hiring across a variety of different roles
  • The recruitment process required optimization and improvement
  • Needed recommendations on new sourcing tools and process
  • Lack of ability to measure key metrics in order to effectively manage the recruitment team and understand key pipeline metrics and velocity
  • Internal communication was breaking down and the process and decision-making were ad hoc
  • The company lacked internal knowledge of recruitment tools, and process automation, and was under-utilizing their existing tools
  • Inconsistent, ad hoc, and lengthy internal recruitment/interview processes between departments
  • The internal recruitment team was significantly under-resourced

 

Solution

As an ongoing project, Dapper Labs has needed a variety of different resources as the company and recruitment team has grown. During this time, GuruLink has provided a Recruitment Manager, both senior and intermediate recruiters, sourcers, and coordinators to help facilitate the capacity across the team as more internal resources were brought in.

Given the overall volume of hiring and aggressive growth plans, we worked with Dapper Labs in a Hybrid RPO capacity and as such in addition to providing on-demand resources also provided contingency search services for many of their roles.

At the onset of the project we started with 2 fractional resources and eventually ramped up to 7 full-time resources including a Recruitment Manager, 2 full-time Recruiters, 2 full-time Sourcers, and 2 Recruitment Coordinators. As the project progressed we also played a key role in scaling out the internal TA function and eventually helped to grow the internal team to a team of 12.

In addition to helping optimize the hiring process, creating outbound collateral, creating a metrics-driven recruitment culture, and helping scale out the internal TA function we also helped bring in new tools such as Gem and TalentWall and integrated these into the processes for both sourcing and recruitment.

The RPO team through GuruLink worked on a wide range of requisitions at various levels on the Creative, Engineering, Product, Marketing, Customer Support, and Design teams. The roles spanned from junior level all the way to executive and C-level.

During our time with Dapper Labs (which is still ongoing as of Aug. 2022) the company has grown from 129 people to over 500 people.

 

Results

  • 24-month project duration
  • Over 150 successful hires
  • Cost-per-hire under $12,000
  • Built out the majority of the internal Talent Acquisition team (10+ internal individuals)
  • Offer Acceptance ratio of 94%
  • Recommended and helped implement Gem for top-of-funnel sourcing and outreach management and metrics
  • Total savings vs contingency of $1,746,714 (or $20,077 per hire), equating to a 6.99% of the candidates’ average 1st-year salary

 

“I was very impressed by GuruLink.

Gavin and Paige were able to find opportunities that aligned with my personal interests for companies that are at the forefront of new technologies and industries. The process was very quick and guidance was given every step of the way. I would recommend them to anyone looking for a job.”

– Jeremy/Candidate

“Having applied to many jobs individually

and feeling like I was getting lost in a pile of resumes, GuruLink did the legwork of presenting my skills and experience to the employer for me and helped get me the IT job that I’ve always wanted. They have educated me on the company, prepared me for who I’d be interviewing with, what questions might be asked. They gave me the confidence I needed to go in and rock the interviews, and now the job. In a booming IT job market that can be hard to find valuable and interesting work, GuruLink found the job that’s right for me, at the salary that I wanted.”

– Dany/Candidate

“I would like to say thank you

Julia and Jibran for the great opportunity that they gave me. As a newcomer to Canada, I wasn’t expecting to get the same job that I have before in my home country. I am unfamiliar with the recruiting process here, and I always hear that we need ‘Canadian Experience’ even if it means taking a job not related to your previous occupation or education. But with the guidance and help of awesome recruiters like Julia and Jibran, I was able to get a job well suited to my qualifications and more than expected compensation. I am very grateful to both of them, and I hope that they can help more newcomers like me to have a great job in Canada and start a new chapter in their lives.”

– Marc/Candidate

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