How can you benefit from Embedded Recruitment?
How can businesses benefit from embedded recruitment?
Tech businesses are everchanging and building high-performing teams is crucial to business growth. However, the challenge lies in sourcing top talent in a fast and simple way - that’s where embedded recruitment comes in.
In this article, we will delve into what embedded recruitment is and how using embedded recruitment can unlock the potential for success within a scaleup.
So, what is embedded recruitment?
Essentially, it’s recruitment as a service. It’s when specialists temporarily join a business to handle the entire recruitment process - from writing job descriptions to interviewing candidates. Unlike traditional recruitment agencies or consultants, the in-house experts immerse themselves into a company’s culture, goals and overall hiring requirements. They become an extension of the team and bring specialised knowledge and expertise to the hiring process.
The benefits of using embedded recruitment:
Deep understanding – Not only do embedded recruiters adopt your brand to boost candidate engagement, but they also understand the tech startup and scaleup landscape and the challenges that come with such a fast-paced environment.
Reach – Recruitment specialists have access to a wide pool of talent, including highly skilled candidates that are not actively seeking new opportunities. Not only this, but embedded recruiters also have access to widespread sourcing tools in comparison to external recruiters, giving startups and scaleups access to an even wider breadth of candidates.
Speed – Time is of the essence for tech businesses looking to trailblaze and stay ahead of the competition. Resultingly, embedded recruitment streamlines the hiring process, using expertise and candidate screening techniques to secure top talent quickly.
Flexibility – As tech continues to advance and scaleups experience rapid growth, their talent requirements may evolve. Do critical positions need to be filled soon? Is there a big drive for mass recruitment? An embedded recruitment model is set up to meet changing business demands.
Personalisation –Embedded recruitment is agile, adaptable and collaborative, working alongside scaleups to develop a tailored strategy and branded candidate assets that meet a scaleups unique needs.
Where has embedded recruitment worked successfully?
Various scaleups have already reaped the benefits of embedded recruitment services like Adaptor.
For example, Bitweave, a specialist in secure software engineering and data science, were struggling to attract the right talent for their roles. They onboarded Adaptor to fill Engineering, Project Management and Data Scientist roles. Consequently, Adaptor crafted new job descriptions to fit the roles, designed a full onboarding package in their branding and handled the end-to-end interview process to save internal resource. Not only did Bitweave save a staggering 50% on recruitment fees, but their team also grew from 7 to 38 members in an 18-month period.
Similarly, Rhino.Fi is a multi-chain platform whose Marketing and Tech teams were at peak capacity, showcasing the need to hire more people. Adaptor conducted over 350 first interviews to find the right candidates to fit Rhino.fi’s roles. With Adaptor’s help, Rhino. Fi successfully acquired 18 new team members in the space of 8 months.
In conclusion, using embedded recruitment allows tech scaleups to grow consistently by minimising the challenges around recruitment. Embedded recruitment significantly enhances the hiring process, bringing industry knowledge, extensive networks and agile working ways so that top talent is sourced, secured and retained.