Axeno Closes 27 Positions In Just 3 Weeks!

It is becoming increasingly common for companies to use coding competitions and online hiring challenges as a way to identify and hire tech talent. These are cost-effective and efficient ways for companies to find talented developers, particularly if they are struggling to attract candidates through traditional methods.

Small and medium-sized businesses, however, believe that it is difficult for them to compete with larger firms for highly experienced tech talent because of limited resources.

To dispel this fallacy, we'll look at a case study where a not-so-mainstream brand that is not a paymaster, employed excellent developers in a shorter time than anticipated.

The Main Facets

When Axeno Consulting needed to hire developers and coders, they used conventional means. Despite employing a tried-and-true method of hiring, the company encountered numerous flaws in the hiring process and had to manually cover up a lot of steps.

Axeno then made the decision to start looking for a partner that would be willing to both listen to their organization's needs and have the conviction to advise them on the ‘how’ and ‘why’ of implementing any certain hiring approach. Unstop stepped into the picture at this point to make hiring simple, quick, and transparent. 

The key aspects are as follows:

• Being a small-size company without a well-established brand name it was tough for them to build a talent pipeline.

• Their limited disposable resources were yet another significant concern.
• The recruitment team had to put high-priority tasks in the backseat since it took so long for them to manually review each applicant.

How Did Unstop Address Its Issues?

The Unstop team understood their demand and identified the best approach for finding and attracting the right candidates. Following its legacy of delivering impressive results, Unstop was able to meet the hiring expectations in just three weeks!

• The first step involved framing a hiring coding challenge, Axenothon 2022, with multiple stages to narrow down talented coders.

• The company received a shareable, custom microsite that listed all the company's relevant information, the coding challenge, and its takeaways. 
• The Unstop hiring platform gave them access to a 5.5M+ user base which was otherwise unreachable.
• The platform gave them everything they needed to run their engagement activity on a single platform - from launching the competition to offering letters.
• As an added bonus, the Unstop hiring platform provided them with powerful media coverage through all its social media channels and newsletters.

The Impact

By implementing these strategies, Axeno Consulting improved its recruitment process and met its hiring needs in a month’s time!

• The easy-to-access and share microsite helped Axeno gain traction in its talent pipeline by attracting as many as 16,000+ registrations and close to 10,00,000 impressions.
• The defined and clear job requirements and qualifications needed for the role helped the company to impart a positive employee experience, and thus a good brand rapport.
• Through just a single campus engagement activity, Axeno was able to prudently assess candidates on different levels through different rounds.
• Since the coding challenge was open to developers of all skill levels and was conducted remotely, it allowed Axeno to reach a wider pool of candidates and reduced the time and resources required to conduct in-person interviews.
• They capitalized on the advantages of hiring challenges by opening its door to all engineering students and working professionals.

Above all, the organization did not miss out on a qualified candidate resulting in improved quality of hire. Axeno Consulting ended up hiring 27 candidates in just 3 weeks at a package of INR 6-8 LPA. 

Unstop democratizes the entire recruitment process of an organization, making it easier and more efficient to identify and hire top talent. 

An extremely dubious assumption is that only established brands are able to successfully use hiring challenges to find and hire tech talent. However, this is not necessarily the case. 

Let us put it out in the simplest possible terms:

Hiring challenges are an effective recruiting tool for companies of all sizes.

Because, 

• They can be conducted remotely, which allows companies to reach a wider pool of candidates and reduces the time and resources required to conduct in-person interviews.
• They offer a more objective and consistent way to evaluate candidates, as the tasks and assessments are standardized and scored in the same way for all.

With these wholesome benefits, are we on the same wavelength if we say, “In the coming times more companies will opt for coding challenges and online hiring challenges on such platforms?” Contact us at coffee@unstop.com if you’d like to organize a hackathon or any other engagement for meeting your hiring targets. 

Remember, to be more effective, you need to go over the wall and do something other than the default!