Talend Leverages Internal Talent to Reach Employment Brand Celebrity Status

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In a rapidly growing company, it’s not enough to just hire quickly — you also have to hire the best of the best. Talend’s recruiting team knew that in order to do this, they would have to take their employment brand and candidate experience to the next level. Talend, a Bay Area-based software company, aims to simplify Big Data. Talend offers brands powerful integration software that enables them to gain instantly actionable insight into their organization, customers, and processes. And, given that big data is one of the fastest-growing markets in the world, Talend’s headcount is increasing at an exponential rate — the company already has over 500 employees based in the US, Europe, and Asia, and they expect to add substantially more in the upcoming year. But for sustainable, company-wide growth, it’s not enough to merely increase headcount. “Companies today aren’t just in a competition for talent, but for the best talent,” says Jon Stanners, Global Talent Acquisition Leader at Talend. And to do that, brands can’t just tell candidates how great it is to work there — they have to show them.

Talend is a Bay Area-based software company that aims to simplify Big Data. Talend offers brands powerful integration software that enables them to gain instantly actionable insight into their organization, customers, and processes. Given that big data is one of the fastest-growing markets in the world, Talend’s headcount is increasing at an exponential rate. The company already has over 500 employees based in the US, Europe, and Asia, and they expect to add substantially more in the upcoming year. Since 2006, more than 1700 enterprise customers worldwide have relied on Talend’s enterprise-ready solutions and services to help unlock business value more quickly. Privately-held and headquartered in Redwood City, CA, the company has offices in North America, Europe, and Asia, along with a global network of technical and services partners.

After building out a queue of content highlighting their excellent workplace culture, Talend partnered with Jobvite to empower the entire company to serve as employment brand ambassadors and recruiters. Stanners and his team equipped their employee celebrities with Jobvite access, which empowered them to share content like employee spotlights and company event highlights to their networks with coordinated hashtags and messaging. This allowed Talend’s recruiting team to greatly amplify its share of voice and better engage candidates. Jobvite continued providing benefits by making the pipeline easy to manage. Whether employees come from sourcing or employee referrals or inbound applications, Jobvite ensures they have a wonderful experience throughout the entire process. Jobvite’s data, reporting, and other features are valuable throughout the whole recruiting funnel. Even when the recruiting team decided that certain candidates weren’t quite a fit for Talend, they were still able to leverage Jobvite to ensure a positive experience and ultimately lift their employment brand.

• Talend saw a 67% increase in the overall candidate pipeline after the first nine months of using Jobvite.
• The company experienced a 36% increase in employee referrals, making referrals their number one source of hires.
• Talend reduced their dependency on staffing agencies, cutting the percentage of hires from agencies from 16% to 8%.

• 145% increase in referral hires.
• 67% increase in overall candidate pipeline.
• Reduction in dependency on hiring agencies from 16% to 8%.