Landy Tech recognized they needed to move beyond the superficial and adopt a predictive approach to identify true on-the-job success.
Client Profile:
Landy Tech is a rapidly growing B2B SaaS company specializing in innovative marketing automation solutions. With a workforce of 150 employees and aggressive expansion plans, Landy Tech relies heavily on a robust, agile engineering and sales team.
Their commitment to rapid development and market responsiveness means talent acquisition must be both fast and consistently high-quality.
The Challenge: The Burden of Traditional Hiring
Before partnering with Serand, Landy Tech found themselves trapped in a familiar hiring dilemma. Their time-to-hire was extended, often exceeding 60 days for critical roles, and their recruitment team was overwhelmed.
- Resume Overload: Like many growing companies, Landy Tech received hundreds of applications for each open position. Their initial screening was highly manual, reliant on subjective resume reviews and keyword matching.
A key principle we work by is “Your hiring process is designed to find the wrong people” when it prioritizes CV aesthetics over actual potential. - Interview Fatigue: A large volume of candidates made it to the interview stage, only to reveal significant gaps in critical thinking or role-specific aptitudes not apparent on paper.
This led to wasted time for hiring managers and a frustrated candidate experience. - Suboptimal Quality of Hire: Despite significant effort, Landy Tech experienced challenges with new hires, including slower-than-expected ramp-up times and occasional misalignments with team dynamics.
They were unknowingly hiring for “comfort” instead of “different thinking,” often ending up with “vanilla” hires when they needed innovators.
The Solution: Serand’s AI-Powered Predictive Assessments
Landy Tech partnered with Serand to implement an AI-powered pre-employment testing strategy designed to assess candidates for inherent problem-solving abilities, cognitive aptitude, and critical cultural add, before in-depth interviews began.
Serand’s platform offered:
- Validated, Role-Specific Assessments: Customized tests that moved beyond generic skills to evaluate a candidate’s cognitive ability, critical thinking, and situational judgment specifically for Landy Tech’s engineering and sales roles.
- Bias-Reduced Screening: Serand’s AI provided an objective layer of analysis, helping to surface candidates whose potential might have been overlooked by traditional resume screening, which can be prone to unconscious bias. This empowered Landy Tech to avoid the pitfall of “judging a chef by their menu instead of tasting their food.”
- Seamless Integration: The solution integrated smoothly into Landy Tech’s existing ATS, ensuring a streamlined process for both candidates and recruiters.
- Focus on On-the-Job Success: Crucially, Serand’s AI focuses on predicting future performance and fit, aligning with Serand’s ethos of “Building AI That Predicts On-the-Job Success, Not Just Matches Keywords.”
This allowed Landy Tech to identify individuals with an intrinsic “energy source” – those who solve problems proactively and contribute to the team’s momentum.
The Results: Quantifiable Impact & Transformed Hiring
By implementing Serand’s predictive AI, Landy Tech achieved significant, measurable improvements across their talent acquisition funnel:
- 40% Reduction in Time-to-Hire: By accurately identifying top-tier candidates earlier in the process, Landy Tech dramatically shortened their recruitment cycle for critical engineering roles, from an average of 60 days to just 36 days.
This allowed them to onboard talent faster and accelerate product development. - 25% Improvement in Quality of Hire: Serand’s assessments helped Landy Tech identify candidates who demonstrated higher on-the-job performance ratings and quicker integration into team dynamics, based on a combination of cognitive fit and problem-solving aptitude.
This directly translated into faster ramp-up times for new employees. - Reduced Interview-to-Offer Ratio: The improved quality of shortlisted candidates meant fewer interviews were needed per hire. Recruiters and hiring managers spent their valuable time engaging with a more highly qualified and relevant candidate pool.
- Enhanced Team Dynamics: By focusing on “culture add” rather than just “fit,” Landy Tech successfully onboarded individuals whose unique perspectives and proactive problem-solving approaches significantly strengthened existing teams, aligning with Serand’s observation that “healthy arguments aren’t a bad thing. They’re a sign of a strong team.”
Client Testimonial:
“Serand transformed how we approach hiring. We moved from simply screening out candidates to screening in the right talent based on genuine potential. The 40% reduction in time-to-hire alone has been a game-changer for our aggressive growth targets. We’re now building a stronger, more adaptable team with a fraction of the previous effort.”
— VP of People Operations, Landy Tech
Key Takeaways for Forward-Thinking Organizations:
Landy Tech’s success demonstrates that:
Predictive AI is not hype; it’s a strategic imperative: Move beyond keyword matching to tools that genuinely predict on-the-job success.
Quality of hire impacts the bottom line: Faster time-to-hire and higher retention are direct results of better initial screening.
Challenge conventional wisdom: Like Landy Tech, be willing to question traditional resume-based screening to unlock hidden talent and build superior teams.
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