Case Study

Management at a large organization had realized that its internal, overworked HR department lacked the bandwidth for tackling some of their high-level, niche roles. Managers were spending a huge amount of time screening and interviewing, with no luck. The roles had been open for a year. So they turned to the Idea Entity Recruiting team.

Our recruiting team responded with an inquisitive approach to understanding their culture and a tailored recruiting process that focused on candidates who were both fluent with technology and were a natural team fit. Through our Empathetic Recruiting model, our team was able to identify a handful of candidates who had both the technical expertise and the attitude to thrive within the organization. We did this in less than a month.

“Our recruiting is different. We work with empathy, and ask tons of questions of both our clients and our candidates. This is hugely important in our processes,” explains Elif Baydar, the Manager of Business Initiatives at our Bellevue office. “We take the extra time to understand what’s not on a job description and take extra care with both our candidates and our clients. Most companies dread the hiring process. Believe it or not, we can make them like it.”

Instead of flooding corporate mailboxes with resumes, our team worked side by side with the company’s internal HR team as facilitators. Three candidates were interviewed. One was hired within 10 days; another other joined the team a few weeks later. In the words of one manager, “They clearly strived to place only the top candidates in front of me – looking beyond keywords to find people that will fit our unique group. I think they have spoiled me for other recruiters.”