how this indian staffing firm with a social dna lands top talent
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Industry: Search & Staffing
Employee Size: 15
Social CEO Dharmesh Thakkar knows his way around social networks. With a near-perfect LinkedIn
profile, all it takes is 5 minutes to get to know the
founder behind Dots Connect – a new-age staffing firm.
It therefore came as no surprise when in 2009, he decided to take the path less travelled and model his own staffing company on his personal comfort with social.
So, Dots Connect
was born with a
social DNA.
Which quickly helped
founder Dharmesh
Thakkar move on from
being a 2-member team
working out of his home,
to renting an office
space within 6 months.
By 2016…
FUN AT WORK
TRAINING
He had a set of
very loyal
clients.His founding
employees were
still with him.
He grew to have
15 employees.
But how did
LinkedIn help the
team scale up?
By growing the business
1Found and connected with new
clients on LinkedIn.
2Led branding efforts by being a
social CEO.
3Used social recruiting tools like
LinkedIn recruiter and job slots to
source and hire.
LinkedIn Next Gen Recruiter
1Assessed hiring manager recruiting preferences by
looking at their LinkedIn profile and their past hires.
2Gained a deeper knowledge of company culture
and leadership thinking via company and career
pages of their clients.
Helping understand their clients better
PHP
UI/UX DesignerHTML
QA Mgr.
Mobile
Sales Manager
Product Manager
(Mobile, web,
analytics)
Java
Dots Connect
and filling a range of skills/positions their clients needed
The result was business growth
and higher efficiency
Reversal of
recruiting mix
4X RoI
RoI
4X
Efficient
selection ratio
of 1:5
Financial
investment in
recovered in just
6 months
Traditional Recruiting
Social Recruiting
60 %40 %
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“In a few years, LinkedIn will be the
only place to be. We believe in using
social to recruit the best talent to help
our clients stay cutting-edge in a rapidly
growing & changing environment.”
Dharmesh Thakkar
Social CEO
Dots Connect
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including executives from every Fortune 500
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