Hiring rare birds?

One month after launch day, we’ll help you calculate ROI by measuring our impact on two key metrics: response rate to outbound emails, and number of referrals. We’ll also survey new hires to assess the impact of the project on their decision to join the team.

From experience, we know that other metrics will be positively affected, including number of qualified applicants, candidate NPS, ratio of engaged employees, and traffic to careers page. However, attributing the project to these metrics with any amount of rigor is either expensive, a stats nightmare, or both, and for 95% of our clients we frankly don’t recommend trying. Real Talk, y'all.

Anywhere from $35K to $100K+. In our minds, we benchmark on the cost of hiring 2–3 senior engineers using agency recruiters. And we aim to provide 2–3X the value. For example, a recent early-stage client surveyed all new hires three months after we worked together. Fully half (6 of 12) of those new hires said they would not have joined the company had they not seen the work we did.

Ok, but still, we know $35–100K is a wide range. The reason is simple: for $35K we'll do all the things listed above, but some clients want more (or less) of certain deliverables. By far the biggest factor is the scope of the initial strategy work. In lieu of the 1-day workshop, clients with a global footprint often prefer to start with our EVP Discovery service, where we develop and socialize a strategy across many offices over 2–3 months.

More tactically, the scope of the careers page can also change the price, as can the raw number of job descriptions we update. Hop on a call with us and we'll be happy to lay out further details.

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This work intersects with some heady decisions in the realm of company culture and professional values. Assuming your company has at least moderate clarity on these things, here's what we'll need from you:
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– A group of ~5 leaders for a 1-day workshop;
– A single point of contact with PM skills for about 40 total hours over a six week period;
– Time from stakeholders to provide feedback on deliverables;
– When we launch the project, we'll run a 1-hour workshop with as many team members as possible.

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Our team is scrappy, we can adapt fast, and we're generally great problem solvers. So under most circumstances you can count on us to just plain get sh*t done. This said, here are some roadblocks we've hit in the past. Things will get hard if...
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– Your company has never ever done values work.
– You can't provide us a single point of contact.
– Your founders and/or exec team have major misalignments.
– You're a flat org and/or lots of people have creative veto power.
– Your marketing team won't allow recruiting-related material on social channels.

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Yea, totes. We're thankful that many past clients have volunteered—unprompted!—to act as references. Drop us a note and we'll share their contact info.

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