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The Recode HR Advantage

Fixed Fees, Top Talent

We use our tailored technology, comprehensive market data, and niche-specific recruitment experience to get you the perfect hire without the price dilemma. You will never compromise on quality over cost. Our recruitment fees are static, even if the candidate’s salary is not.

Investment-Safe Guarantees

We understand that each new hire is an investment in your team’s future. That’s why we offer a replacement guarantee at no extra charge, giving you total peace of mind that your investment is secure.

Personalized Branding Boost

We help you attract highly innovative and performance-proven candidates with our targeted digital marketing strategies tailored to showcase your unique company culture. It’s a personal touch that makes a difference.

Flexible Solutions

We’ve designed our services to be flexible and grow with you. Whether you need pipeline support or a full talent program, we’ve got you covered. Our scalable solutions ensure that we can meet your needs, no matter how they evolve.

Your Growth Is Our Mission

Drive your business forward with elite tech talent and adaptable services for your evolving needs.  

Empower Your Enterprise

Leverage our recruitment solutions to assemble robust teams that propel your business forward.

Industry Expertise

Benefit from our extensive knowledge across the tech landscape to strategically position your company for success.

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TaaS: Your Low-Risk Talent Acquisition Solution

Recode HR is North America’s premier Talent-as-a-Service provider, specializing in recruitment for high-growth tech startups and SMBs. We streamline the hiring process using data-driven methods, advanced technology, and our talent acquisition expertise to reduce time-to-hire and improve retention rates. With our fixed-rate service and an unprecedented three-year guarantee, we engage the upper 6% of Engineers and Developers who match the required skills and align with your company’s culture and mission.

Why Choose TaaS from Recode HR?

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Strategic Fit

Our expertise lies in performance-based hiring. By evaluating candidates’ past achievements and potential growth, we ensure perfect harmony with your company’s ethos and ambitions, leading to better retention and team synergy.

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Innovative Assessment

Our recruiters are trained to identify skills and potential. Through our proven methodology, we accelerate the hiring process, pinpoint exceptional talent, and align candidates with opportunities for advancement and learning that top performers actively seek.

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Guaranteed Compatibility

We concentrate on past performance and cultural fit to connect you with professionals eager to excel in your unique environment. Our service goes beyond filling positions—it’s about nurturing success for your business and your people.

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Shared Hiring Risk

We believe in the strength of our placements, so much so that we share the hiring risk with you. If a new hire leaves within three years, we find a suitable replacement at no additional charge. This commitment ensures stability and confidence in your hiring process.

What do you do?

We are North America’s top Talent-as-a-Service provider. We create recruitment strategies and run tailored programs for high-growth tech startups and SMBs. We help them engage the top 6% of Engineers and Developers who align with their culture and mission. Our fixed-rate service ensures transparency and predictability, while our unheard-of three-year guarantee underscores our confidence in our placements. Using data-driven methods, advanced technology, and expertise from our team of talent acquisition leaders, we remove friction and streamline the hiring process. This approach reduces time-to-hire and improves retention rates. Our services grow with your company, supporting your evolving needs. Our mission is to help companies hire smarter and build lasting teams.

What type of SaaS startups do you primarily work with? Are there any specific industries or company sizes you target?

We work with several mid-sized dev shops in Waterloo and AI and IoT startups across the GTA. We help our clients quickly build world-class Engineering teams and hire the best NLP, ML, CV, and Data People.

Can you elaborate on the data-driven methods you use in your recruitment process? How do these methods enhance the hiring process?

Our search professionals gather information on the ground every day. We use a suite of analytics tools and generate talent maps to get a clear picture of the geographic distribution, skills, job titles, compensations, current and past employers, and average tenure of the Engineers our clients need. This is how we identify the top 6%, and it helps our clients plan their hires with.

How do you assess and ensure that the AI Engineers you place are a cultural fit for the companies you work with?

It starts with knowing the company's culture, which comes from conversations with the leaders and employees. Typically, we speak with hiring managers and others involved in the hiring process to get a clear picture. We do our due diligence to learn what former candidates have to say about their experience, and we use all this information to help our clients pinpoint opportunities for improvement and attract employees who will thrive in their environment.

What key performance indicators (KPIs) or metrics do you use to measure the success of your hiring strategies and recruitment programs?

There's a lot that goes into making a great hire. Our most critical metrics are time-to-hire and time-to-fill, and once we have enough history with a client, we start to get a clear picture of quality of hire. Our goal is to attract the right people faster and process them quickly without friction. We help companies build teams of high-performing people who are happy and challenged by what they do and who support each other's growth.

How do you source and engage with the top 6% of AI Engineers? What makes your talent pool stand out from the competition?

This goes back to the talent maps we use. This is how we identify the top 6%.
It’s not our talent pool that stands out—all the people are out there—but how we help our clients identify and attract these people. None of our candidates have exclusivity agreements with us. This is what really enables our clients to stand out to their ideal employees and makes us stand out in the recruitment space.

What are your future plans for expanding or evolving your services? Do you plan to incorporate any new technologies or methodologies?

We’ve built our service offerings to assist companies at all stages and grow alongside them. We have an Elite Candidate Access service that helps clients reduce the time and resources they allot to hiring and keep expenses down. We deliver a shortlist of pre-qualified candidates, so all they do is review, interview, and hire.
We also created Talent360, which empowers your entire recruitment program. We craft the job descriptions, field the inbound candidates, review CVs, conduct highly personalized sourcing campaigns that use digital marketing approaches, manage the whole candidate experience, provide total interview support, assist with offer negotiations and onboarding, and continuously follow up with clients and candidates.

Finally, we have a Recruitment Process Outsourcing service for enterprise companies that need high-quality support with everything related to TA. We bring our tech embed
our people in their teams, and do it all, including monitoring compliance and conducting exit interviews.

We can deploy throughout your global enterprise or within a specific geography, division, department, or function. This is a bespoke process that guarantees a program based on your organization's needs.

We plan to offer consulting assistance in the future. We also want to support candidates who are hired by our clients with ongoing education and training and give clients even more value through workshops that help their hiring managers interview better and hire with more confidence.

Finally, we do excellent work in employer branding and helping candidates with their personal brand development—we will continue to provide those services in the future.

How do you differentiate yourself from other Talent-as-a-Service providers in North America?

You won't find another Talent-as-a-Service company of our calibre in North America. Our services are unique and built to grow alongside your business.

We offer fixed-rate recruitment services to protect our clients from unpredictable hiring expenses.

We leverage tailored technology to accelerate each step and make the process friction-free.

We make decisions based on data we’ve gathered on hundreds of millions of candidates, tens of millions of companies, and open jobs.

Finally, our search professionals are deeply experienced in the niche they support and extensively trained in Performance-Based Hiring. This is why we are able to build teams with total confidence in bidirectional fit and back each hire with an unprecedented three-year guarantee.

What advanced technologies do you employ to streamline the hiring process and ensure a good fit between candidates and companies?

We've created a very clean and scalable system and process. Our clients are set up with a secure hiring dashboard to review a shortlist of qualified, interested candidates who all have a proven track record of solving the problems that are meaningful to them.

From this dashboard, clients can request more information, reject candidates, and set up interviews, which is one of the many ways we eliminate friction from the hiring process.

We also scale up the hiring process by using technical testing, psychometric testing, aptitude and skill tests, and performance-based hiring techniques. This ensures a precise mutual fit between the employer's needs and the candidate's career goals.

What are some of the biggest challenges you've encountered in the recruitment process for AI Engineers, and how have you addressed them?

Time kills deals. The hiring process can't move fast enough, and many companies are pursuing a few top-level candidates. As a result, companies typically throw compensation at the problem or think compensation is a roadblock that requires them to forfeit quality candidates.

Our approach to recruitment and talent acquisition focuses on evaluating candidates based on their past performance and potential to excel in a specific role rather than relying solely on traditional criteria like years of experience or education. This method has been proven to improve hiring accuracy and create a better fit between candidates and companies.

We take a Bird’s-eye view of the entire hiring process and start from the beginning.
We craft job descriptions that are more than a list of skills and education qualifications; instead, we define the work involved and the critical deliverables expected from a top performer.

We use a multi-channel sourcing approach that combines proactive networking, advanced search techniques, and compelling recruiting messages to reach the best talent.

Our interviews dig deep into a candidate's past performance, looking for comparable accomplishments, career gaps, and learning opportunities. This approach allows for a more diverse candidate pool.

Our Process

Discovery

Your vision and values are unique, so our first step is to deeply understand your company’s culture and aspirations. Once we know your existing hiring practices, we tailor our approach to your processes.

Alignment

We pair you with a dedicated Account Director and grant access to your client portal. This becomes your hub for a curated shortlist, reflecting a mutual fit between roles and candidates.

Streamlined Selection

Your time is precious. That’s why our portal is your command center, enabling swift review or rejection of candidates, gathering further details, administering tests, and scheduling interviews. Speed meets precision when connecting you with elite talent.

Efficient Placement

Our expertise, data, and technology lead to a high success rate. Eighty percent of the candidates we present are interviewed, and one in eight are successfully hired. We’re so confident in our precise alignments that we offer a three-year guarantee on placements.