The pressures of needing to identify and recruit exceptional tech talent at scale and in steady numbers means that a multi-dimensional talent acquisition strategy is the optimal way to deliver this.

Talent Acquisition at Scale

Growing teams quickly while maintaining quality is a challenge faced by scaleup companies, typically moving rapidly from 15+ to 250+ people. This is a major shift from a founder-led startup, with hiring based on networking or an exclusive recruitment partner, to a scale-up where this recruitment strategy is no longer able to provide a sufficient pipeline of candidates or have the capacity to repeat the recruitment process for larger numbers.

A single-channel recruitment pipeline, idea, approach or recruiter – a company careers page, an employee referral program, a niche job board, LinkedIn Recruiter - is unlikely to be sufficient for talent acquisition at scale.

Scaleup Recruitment Specialists

High-growth companies with a raft of hiring requirements from team leadership roles to the specialist software/AI/data engineers needed to build out teams, will need to partner with experts in their sector - using them either to focus solely in niche areas and/or ‘top up’ the activities of existing methods.

Specifically, expertise in identifying, assessing and shortlisting AI engineers and mid-senior software developers - that is driven by in-depth interviewing and the skill to move at pace - is particularly valuable. 

High Volume Recruitment Solutions

Richard Wheeler Associates (RWA) brings many years of experience in precisely these areas.

We have proven to be an effective, reliable partner both to scaleup CEOs/CTOs and in-house talent acquisition consultants - dovetailing professionally to complement the strong methods (including AI-driven tools) that are already in place.

RWA has driven the hiring for multiple scaleups over the years including McAfee and Clearswift, now global cyber security companies, Diffblue, msk.ai and Passiv - AI, biotech and cleantech scaleups.

In each case we have recruited significant numbers of exceptional calibre engineers, and at pace. We aim for an offer per 2 shortlisted CVs. 

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