The context
Connecting businesses to thousands of banks. Yapily's mission is to create a new open world, breaking down long standing barriers surrounding financial institutions, enabling scalable and secure access to financial information and payments.
In 2017, as a 2-man band, Yapily’s founders knew they needed to build a great team. But common with many startups, they lacked the time to do that all themselves. Growing from 2 – 100+ people in the last 4 years, their challenges have changed but the need for good talent has stayed constant.
With continued rapid growth planned, finding great people quickly that align with their culture is key. Yapily are proud of their innovative and collaborative startup approach, and it’s essential new talent reflects those qualities just as much as technical skills.
"Across the business whenever we need an urgent hire we'll go to ISL and they’ll get it for us. You can rely on them to quickly understand your needs."
Responding to initial budget constraints of a startup, we started working with Yapily on our on-demand plan (our version of traditional contingency recruitment).
Spending time to understand the skills and traits Yapily’s founders most valued, we qualified candidates against the brief, sending only CVs that we knew were equally aligned in both skills and traits.
The Results
From hiring their first employee in 2017 to continuing to recruit key roles after their 2021 Series B, we’ve helped to build a tech team that is equally strong in values as in skills.
Speed and trust
Streamlining their interview process, we reduced their time to hire. We filtered talent by taking on the responsibility for the first stage interview and technical challenge. Candidates that passed these stages where then interviewed by Joao, CTO. At this point, if successful, Yapily were confident to offer candidates. Time to hire was reduced by more than half.
Cultural add
As they’ve grown, keeping that startup feel and level of innovation has become even more important to them. People who can bring a startup energy and collaborative approach has been key. More than ever, we’ve drilled down into how someone works and what motivates them, rather than their skillset.
The retention figures confirm the strength of the match. Over two thirds of people we’ve placed over the last 5 years are still happily working there.
Adapting
The ways in which we’ve worked with Yapily through their journey, from startup to growth, have evolved to reflect their needs and changing business. From optimising the interview process to working alongside an internal recruitment team, adaptability has been key.
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