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Trim is on a mission to transform users' financial lives. By analyzing thousands of data points about each of its users, Trim creates personalized, multi-year financial plans for them. The results: tangible improvements in Americans' financial health, helping users get out of debt, negotiate bills, fight fees, and more.
Trim was seeing a lot of traction—they’d signed up with several hiring partners, they had administrators helping coordinate interviews, and they were talking with lots of candidates.
At some point, there were too many candidates. Too many engineers who don’t know what they’re looking for. Too many engineers who are talking to 30 different companies and can’t keep up. Too many engineers who don’t actually connect with the mission Trim works to fulfill every day.
It was time to refocus. They brought a head of talent acquisition in-house, on-site. They reduced the number of hiring tools they used significantly. And they began to trade on their core differentiators. Source Curated became a key product they relied on.
“It's been a really good strategy to go after candidates who are at mission-driven startups that don't have funding. With Source Curated, we can reach out and say, 'Hey, Trim is a mission-driven startup. We're set to be profitable by end of year. We're doing great things, there's stability here, we're growing, and it's a healthy culture. We're also eager to bring in experts in one skill and invest in teaching them others.”
—Suzie Ross, Head of Talent Acquisition
On average, Trim’s team goes from outreach to hire in under a month on Curated. Over nine months, Curated helped Trim's team hire four engineers (and counting).
Being such a small team, Trim also faced another challenge. They didn’t have many resources to devote to sourcing, and they were looking for a specific engineering profile: full-time, full-stack, open-source software engineers who want to work in an office, five days a week. They leaned on their AngelList account manager for support.
“She [Trim’s AngelList account manager] joined our Slack. She made it easy for me to be in contact and really got to know what we're looking for. She sends us a list of about eight personalized candidates each week, and I typically move forward with at least five to six every time. She asks for feedback, she reads what I share, and she calibrates. I just think that's amazing.”
—Suzie Ross, Head of Talent Acquisition
“She [Trim’s AngelList account manager] joined our Slack. She made it easy for me to be in contact and really got to know what we're looking for. She sends us a list of about eight personalized candidates each week, and I typically move forward with at least five to six every time. She asks for feedback, she reads what I share, and she calibrates. I just think that's amazing.”
“We tried outbound prospecting and cold emailing to reach potential candidates. We even tried LinkedIn direct messages, but there was not enough intent on the candidate side… with Wellfound we have candidates who have the intent and actually want to work at an early stage startup. They’re more aware of the risks and benefits.”
“What we’ve found through Curated is better candidates, faster sourcing, less headache, and overall better results. To sum it up, here at Trace, what we give our customers is time back; what Wellfound did for me as the hiring manager is much the same — it gave me time back. There’s so much noise on the other platforms, we didn’t find that on Wellfound.”
“My sourcer met with me, understood the job, screened every single candidate, and only sent me candidates that were worth considering. I was very picky, so they continued to work with me to refine the search. It was amazing service. Through that process we've got two viable candidates that we could extend offers to. We actually extended on this morning who's going to work out.“
