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Modern Health is a Series D B2B mental healthcare platform that helps provide services to companies for their employees. Their mission to destigmatize mental health care, break down barriers to access, and give everyone the tools they need to build resilience, proactively engage in their mental health, and get the clinical support they need when they need it.
When the pandemic hit, the need for mental health support rose. Companies all over the world looked for ways to be able to support their employees through this, and many began turning to Modern Health.
This sent Modern Health into a hyper growth stage — in 2021 alone, they more than tripled their company size, with plans to double it again in 2022. Their recruiting team was lean, and they brought on two technical sourcers to help with growing the engineering, product management, and design side of the company.
The new technical sourcing team turned to Wellfound to begin hiring their team. They used Curated, a service on Wellfound that vets top tech talent for you and shows you a curated list when sourcing, and found much success in doing so, particularly with software engineers and engineering leadership.
So why did Curated work for them? For Modern Health, it came down to 3 things: the quality of candidates, the response rates, and the volume. When they began scaling their team, they needed to hire quality tech talent, fast. They found that the types of candidates they were looking for were onWellfound and Curated made it easy to find them while the information provided made it easy to know who to then reach out to:
“The types of candidates on Wellfound are interested in startups. They know what they’re getting into when they create their account. And there’s a lot good information there — I love the expected salaries, desired role, and skills, especially for engineers. It makes it so I know exactly who I’m messaging when I reach out, and the response rate is a lot faster than any other platform because of that too.”
Beyond the candidate quality and response rate, for Modern Health’s hyper growth, the volume of quality candidates was also key.
“It’s been great for really high volume sourcing. When I have positions that are evergreen or that I’m continuously hiring for like engineers, Wellfound is the place to go, because you know you’re always going to get a lot of candidates. I spend majority of my time sourcing there.”
Like many companies, the pandemic led Modern Health to re-evaluate their remote work culture. While the initial expectation was to switch to a hybrid environment, they made the decision towards the end of 2021 to be a fully remote-first company. The recruiting team in particular felt how that decision had a positive impact in growing the team — not just because of a bigger talent pool, but because that’s what they’ve found candidates want as well.
“The talent market has widened for us. Hiring has been really good because of it. It’s also what we’ve found that candidates want — most candidates I talk to want remote first or some type of fully remote position.”
With features on Wellfound that tell you whether a candidate is open to remote work or not, Modern Health was able to 3X their remote team as planned.
“Once I started using Wellfound, and in particular Curated, I loved it. It’s the best product for anyone looking for startup talent. Half of the offers I give candidates are coming from this platform. It’s a huge success story.”
Learn more about Curated or check out our other product offerings at https://wellfound.com/recruit/overview.
“It’s been great for really high volume sourcing. When I have positions that are evergreen or that I’m continuously hiring for like engineers, Wellfound is the place to go, because you know you’re always going to get a lot of candidates. I spend majority of my time sourcing there.”
“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.“
