Vio.com Founder & CEO Oz Har Adir Recommends Alooba For Hiring Great Data People

In terms of problems we were trying to solve when we engaged with Alooba - it was just really hard to find good candidates! We would end up disqualifying most candidates through a lack of relevant skills and with Alooba, that was absolutely a totally different experience.

Vio.com recently engaged Alooba’s hiring expert service Alooba Match to help scale out their analytics team. Like a lot of business leaders, Har Adir had a pretty negative view of traditional recruitment agencies, and so he was happy to try a new data-driven approach to hiring that Alooba Match offered.

We were very quickly quite surprised with the quality of candidates we would get from Alooba. We ended up hiring eight different analysts via Alooba in about a year's time, which is quite extraordinary for us because we actually have almost never used a recruitment agency for any role.

Behind this success was Alooba Match’s unique approach to hiring. Rather than relying on CVs and tick-and-flick interviews, Alooba thoroughly validates candidates’ job critical skills through advanced skills assessments and technical interviews. Hiring science has come a long way, and Alooba is at the forefront of this breakthrough.

With Alooba’s skills experts conducting the technical interviews, candidates can’t just bluff their way through the interview like with traditional recruiters. This means by the time an Alooba Match candidate was presented to the Vio.com analytics team, they'd already been battle-tested.

Any recruitment agency can flick over some CVs and hope for the best. But the problem is that talk is cheap - anyone can put anything on a CV. Ensuring candidates have the right skills for the role is one of the best ways to ensure longevity and ultimate on-the-job success.

We ended up hiring eight different analysts via Alooba in about a year's time, which is quite extraordinary for us because we actually have never used a recruitment agency for any role. The guys who’ve been here more than 2 years now are all very capable.

Vio.com are generally risk-averse hirers - the old adage of ‘hire slow, fire fast’ is only half true for them. They do hire carefully, but it’s to avoid needing to fire someone in the first place. Part of the challenge of hiring is that it’s always hard to know how well the candidate will perform once they actually start the job. A CV only tells you so much, so the detailed candidate data that comes with each Alooba Match candidate gives great insights into what to expect from them.

We would know very quickly the strengths and the weaknesses of candidates, so we knew where to focus our own interviewing processes on. The Alooba team would know what the candidates are after, what they appreciate, what they don't appreciate, and on the other hand, we would get a very clear profile of the technical capabilities - where are they strong, where are they not strong. It saves a lot of validation on our end and everything we've seen from Alooba, was then reaffirmed either in our recruitment process or later in the work itself.

When it comes to hiring, the world really is your oyster. The common narrative in the last few years has been about a talent shortage and a ‘war on talent’. For smart companies like vio.com leveraging Alooba Match, this is not the case at all.

With Alooba Match’s global talent pool to select from, there was no need for Vio.com to just fight it out for a handful of candidates in Amsterdam. By hiring the best person no matter where they are on earth, Alooba Match’s approach has flipped the hiring market on its head.

I liked that Alooba was able to recruit very international talent. We found people in Brazil, in Russia, in India and in other parts of Europe - it’s a very global talent and very capable.

Traditional recruitment can be a very expensive exercise to engage in. With fees in some markets being up to 25% for an individual contributor role, Har Adir was keen to partner with a firm that would offer a high quality service, at an affordable rate.

It was definitely worth our time and financial commitment, which has also been very reasonable. Certain sources will claim to bring you amazing candidates and would ask an arm and a leg. It was never the case with Alooba. It's reasonable terms, and excellent candidates.

Ultimately, results are everything, and Alooba Match simply works.

We've ended up recruiting eight different analysts or analytics leads through Alooba and I highly recommend them. So if you are looking to hire a good analyst, the guys at Alooba definitely have an excellent source, and know what to do, so I highly recommend them!