Techmate Talent's Transformation: Building a 20k Tech Candidate Database with Gem
Technology Category
- Application Infrastructure & Middleware - Database Management & Storage
- Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Cloud Databases
Applicable Industries
- Cement
- Equipment & Machinery
Applicable Functions
- Procurement
Use Cases
- Supply Chain Visibility
- Time Sensitive Networking
Services
- System Integration
About The Customer
Techmate Talent is a San Francisco-based talent search firm that specializes in helping technology companies hire top talent in demanding markets. The firm, co-founded by recruiting leaders Nathalie Pretzer and Alyssa Garrison, partners with early- to late-stage startups on their most demanding searches, including mid- to C-level engineering, product, and design roles. Techmate Talent also supports clients' recruiting operations and streamlines their strategies with comprehensive evaluations of systems and workflows. The firm has extensive experience in scaling engineering and product teams in various environments, improving processes, implementing new tools and systems, and bringing creative approaches to hiring challenges.
The Challenge
Techmate Talent, a full-service search firm specializing in tech recruitment, faced several challenges in their sourcing and recruitment process. The team found sourcing from LinkedIn Lite frustrating due to the lack of visibility on who had been contacted for what roles, and the manual nature of follow-ups. They needed a way to tag and filter prospective candidates to surface the most suitable talent when sourcing for open roles. They also required down-funnel visibility to track how the talent they sourced was progressing in their clients' hiring funnels. Additionally, they needed an efficient way to remember to follow up with prospective candidates when asked to circle back at a later date.
The Solution
Techmate Talent adopted Gem, a recruitment software, to overcome their challenges. The team now sources entirely from Gem for the first few months of a project, using the database of tech professionals they've built. Gem's custom fields allow the team to filter prospects by a wide range of attributes, ensuring they're reaching out to the right talent for their clients. With Gem's email integration, the team can make changes to a candidate's progress directly in the extension when a client CC's them in an update with a candidate, providing full visibility into where candidates are at each stage of the process. The team can also set follow-up reminders directly in the Gem extension, and add candidates directly to nurture campaigns that will auto-send at that time. Techmate Talent has built a database of over 20,000 tech professionals in Gem, which they use to source candidates, eliminating the need to start a search from scratch on LinkedIn.
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