• Challenge:
  A tech start-up that initially focused on a niche product has just secured a substantial round of investment. With fresh capital and an expanded vision, the start-up plans to diversify into three new product lines over the next year. This ambitious plan requires them to rapidly and efficiently scale their workforce across various departments while maintaining the agile culture that has been their hallmark. 

Solution with Recruitment Consulting:

           Permanent Hiring:

• Strategic Workforce Planning: Artakain partners with the start up to meticulously design a hiring roadmap tailored to its unique needs, identifying roles critical for immediate recruitment and those planned for subsequent phases.
• Targeted Recruitment Campaigns: We propose recruitment drives for these pivotal roles, ensuring a swift integration of the brightest talent resonating with your vision.  

         Recruitment on Demand:

• Adaptive Hiring: Recognizing fluctuating hiring needs during this expansion phase, the "Recruiters on Demand" service is adopted. This elasticity ensures hiring can be amplified or scaled back depending on project phases or product launches. 

Solutions Employee Engagement:

• Onboarding Workshops: Stepping into a fast-paced startup environment can be daunting for new hires. We propose that onboarding workshops be introduced to immerse new team members into the start up's ethos, operational nuances, and vision. This ensures not just a smooth transition but fosters a sense of belonging and alignment with the company's strategic goals from day one.

The action plan helps in the startup’s aspirations for growth become actionable strategies ensuring every recruit feels like an organic extension of the team, propelling the company's vision forward with shared enthusiasm and commitment. 

Challenge
A legacy financial firm, renowned for its personalized face-to-face consultation services, is facing competition from digital-first finance startups. Recognizing the shift in customer preferences towards digital platforms, the firm decides to introduce online financial services. However, they are confronted with the challenge of recruiting talent that understands the digital landscape without compromising the traditional values that the firm holds dear. 

Solution with Recruitment Consulting:

Understanding the complexities of blending the traditional with the new-age, Artakain offers:

• Hybrid Hiring Approach: Artakain suggests a combination of hiring tech-savvy fresh graduates for innovative digital prowess and industry veterans for their wealth of experience. This ensures a balanced team that can drive digital transformation while respecting the firm's legacy.
• Role-specific Training Modules: Before formal roles begin, Artakain curates training sessions to bridge the knowledge gap. For instance, tech recruits undergo financial sector orientation, while traditional financial consultants receive training on digital tools and platforms.
• Cultural Assimilation Workshops: Artakain emphasizes the importance of preserving the firm's ethos amidst this transformation. Workshops are organized where new recruits are familiarized with the firm's history, values, and customer-centric approach.

Employee Engagement Solutions for the Transitioning team:

•  Fintech Expos and Conventions: Organizing visits to fintech events, where employees can understand global trends, emerging technologies, and best practices in the digital financial realm.
• Collaborative Brainstorming Sessions: Monthly sessions where teams from both traditional and digital backgrounds come together to ideate, share insights, and collaboratively solve challenges.
• Financial History Retreats: Taking employees on retreats to places with rich financial histories. Such trips serve as a reminder of the industry's legacy and the importance of merging it with the present.

With our SME recruitment consulting, the financial firm is not merely adapting to the times but is poised to redefine its future. By weaving traditional principles with modern-day solutions, we ensure the firm remains a formidable force in the financial sector.

Challenge:
A seasoned consumer goods company, once a frontrunner in the market, is now grappling with an innovation plateau, leading to stalled sales and a receding market share. 

Solution with Recruitment Consulting:

• Talent Pool Mapping: Our consultancy advocates for a robust talent pool mapping exercise, targeting individuals known for their innovative contributions either within the consumer goods sector or parallel industries. This approach not only allows the company to target and onboard innovation-driven talent but also:
  • Provides industry benchmarking to understand the firm's position in the innovation landscape.
  • Offers insights for proactive recruitment, fostering consistent inflow of fresh perspectives.
  • Guides strategic business decisions based on where the innovative talent resides.
  • Ensures the company remains updated on and adaptive to current market trends, repositioning as necessary.
• Refined Interview Process: Beyond just qualifications, our interview designs focus on assessing an individual’s ability to think out-of-the-box, their past contributions to innovation, and how they perceive and tackle real-world challenges. Scenario-based questions and innovation-driven problem-solving tasks become central to the interview process.

Employee Engagement Solutions:

• Field Trips to Innovation Hubs: To spur innovation from within, field trips to international consumer goods expos, innovation labs, and manufacturing tech conventions can be organized. Such exposure immerses the team in global trends and offers firsthand insight into groundbreaking consumer goods solutions, potentially sparking fresh product ideas.
• Ideation Workshops: We introduce specialized workshops where teams collaborate to brainstorm and develop prototype ideas. These workshops utilize cutting-edge ideation techniques, tools, and real-world consumer scenarios to ignite creativity and proactive problem-solving.
• Cross-functional Collaboration Sessions: Regular meetings foster collaboration across different departments. Insights from marketing, sales, or consumer feedback can provide invaluable perspectives to the product development teams, leading to products that are more aligned with consumer needs and preferences.

By harmoniously merging refined recruitment strategies with proactive employee engagement solutions, the company can invigorate its innovation engine, realigning itself with market demands and reinstating its position as a market leader.