Their story

Solar technology company, SunDrive are creating unique solutions to reduce the cost of high-efficiency solar cells, whilst enhancing their performance and sustainability by utilising more abundant materials.

In October 2022, they secured Series A funding with a clear vision to establish a robust R&D framework and swiftly launch their pilot production line with the aim to be first to market with their solar technology. However, this ambitious vision came with the pressing challenge of rapidly scaling their team from 22 to 70 highly skilled individuals within a condensed timeframe.

Our solution

In response to SunDrive’s urgent growth requirements and diversity objectives, the Talent team came into the picture. Our proven track record in rapidly scaling businesses with top tech talent, coupled with our expertise in innovative sourcing strategies made us the preferred choice for SunDrive solar. The tailored solution we provided included:

• Hiring leader training: Setting SunDrive’s hiring leaders up for success and creating consistency in SunDrive’s recruitment strategy.
• Brand audit: Identifying the current state of SunDrive’s employer brand and opportunity to develop and amplify to support the next stage of growth.
• In-depth market mapping: Supporting the identification of talent in prime locations for SunDrive, we created a detailed market map of key competitors and talent across Australia and globally.
• Weekly and monthly recruitment analytics: Clearly articulating the progress made and any roadblocks faced across the talent function week by week and month by month.
• SunDrive job amplification: Leveraging Talent’s social media networks to amplify SunDrive’s most prominent roles with a cost saving of approximately 46%.

Talent is the RPO service provider for Yahoo in Australia and New Zealand for a Total Talent Management Solution (TTM) encompassing Permanent, Contract and fixed-term hiring across the business.

How we built a tailored Embedded Talent Acquisition solution for Finoa…

Finoa is a fast scaling digital assets management platform in the Cryptocurrency market.

They opened their Berlin HQ in 2020 after going through a successful round of seed funding. As a result, rapid growth was needed to meet growing customer demand, deliver new product options, and prepare for a series A funding round.

Finoa’s small and relatively junior Talent Acquisition (TA) function were struggling to source and attract hard-to-find talent, and had spent over 3 months trying to recruit key tech roles with no success. They needed expert help to find and attract the right people to the team, and somebody who could upskill hiring stakeholders across the business. Ideally, a partner who would become ingrained into their business to help them build better processes and strategies for their growth – and that’s exactly what we provided.

Here’s how we did it…

A Target-Meeting Hiring Plan

Difficult-to-fill tech roles presented a major challenge for Finoa. We created a tailored hiring plan designed to meet a minimum target of 12 hires within platform engineering.

We reached out to over 1200 people with matching skill sets in platform engineering. This resulted in 6 new hires for the team (after 3 months of Finoa struggling to hire anyone).

One of our other projects involved candidate searches for a data science team lead and backend engineers (Node.js and Golang). Overall, we reached out to over 2500 candidates via targeted means. We hired 14 candidates for these key positions in 5 months, exceeding initial targets and the timeframe set.