Cloud Nation was winning more projects and needed extra delivery capacity, fast. With a new-born employer brand and no internal HR, every new hire landed on the founder's and leads' desks. That meant long interview rounds, less time for client work, and growing pressure on the team. Classic outsourcing and headhunting felt expensive and often overlooked the soft skills that are so important in client-facing consulting work.
What they needed:
Cloud Nation was looking for engineers with a clearly defined skill set who could reliably win new projects and work autonomously with senior clients. With no internal HR department, a young employer brand, and the need to avoid major budget shocks, they needed a solution that was both effective and predictable. We tackled this with a tailored “outstaffed recruiting unit” setup, and it was great to see it deliver true diamond teammates for Cloud Nation.
A standard headhunting package wasn't a fit for Cloud Nation. Instead, we built a setup that reflected their reality of a small team, hiring needs triggered by spontaneously incoming projects, and tight hiring budgets. Together we designed a solution that gave the founder control, transparency, and confidence in every hire, without overloading their schedule or PnL.
The subscription model proved to be the right choice, and outstaffed recruiting department with fixed monthly costs. We offered an agile hiring focus and workload, collaborated alongside client's weeklies, results- & progress clarity through real-time reports out of our CRM. Beyond recruiting, we also structured foundations for future employer branding improvements, as they came directly from real-life voices of the workforce. How we did it:
Volume
hires delivered
Budget
of hiring budget saved against a generic headhunter fee of ~10k per hire, keeping us at 50% cheaper than market
Time
hours of founder and senior teammates secured for billable client work, ~50 per each hire
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As a consultancy, it is particularly important for us to find talented employees. Oliva Talent Management does an excellent job and finds outstanding experts for us at a fair price.
Überzeugend war für mich die echte Nähe zum Kerngeschäft sowie die hohe situative Marktkenntnis und Kompetenz. Ich erhielt einen kontinuierlich gepflegten und aktualisierten Pool an Talenten, der laufend an unseren konkreten Personalbedarf angepasst und qualitätsgesichert wurde. So konnte ich jederzeit aus einer relevanten Auswahl direkt passende Profile auswählen, und durch die hohe Flexibilität wurden Aufwand und Kosten optimal an unsere interne Businessdynamik angepasst.
It is a pleasure to work with Oliva Talent Management. The whole team quickly catches on to our requirements and puts them into practice. I would especially like to thank Viktoria, who was our assigned recruiter. She is great.
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