Success Stories
StrongMail Systems, Inc.
It’s All About Quality, Not Quantity
In order to provide the best, you need to hire the best. Attracting great talent has never been an issue for StrongMail, but proactively finding great talent that was the right fit was turning out to be a highly time-consuming process. Until they met Gild.
Gild, Inc.
How Gild, Inc. Ate Its Own Dog Food
Gild Source helped us find one-of-a-kind Ruby on Rails talent Jade Dominguez that the normal channels were simply incapable of reaching. Given Jade’s unique profile and background, Gild and Jade could not have found each other without Gild Source.
Rackspace
Hiring A Tech Evangelist, Building An Exceptional Developer Team
Using Gild Source, Rackspace was able to hire a developer who had incredible influence in the developer community and exactly the precise type of skills the company needed.
Tackk
Evaluating Tech Talent & Expediting the Hiring Process with Gild Source
Tackk was able to pre-qualify candidates to an extent that the company had previously only accomplished as part of the interview process.
Finding Hidden Talent
Using Gild Source to Find Top Developers Not on Job Boards or Professional Networking Sites
Gild Source provided the recruiter with comprehensive profiles of developers and an assessment of their coding ability, years of coding experience, and influence in the developer community.
Identify Skilled Developers
Using Gild Source to Find Top Developers Not on Job Boards or Professional Networking Sites
Gild Source’s candidate scores and rankings enabled the company to easily identify exceptional developer talent and know that these individuals would pass their tech test.
Testimonials
“The most significant difference we have experienced with Gild is the capability to assess a developer’s technical skills. Other sourcing tools simply provide a resume or profile summary. With Gild, in addition to that information, we are getting an immediate assessment of the candidate’s experience and skills, thereby allowing us to better target candidates and drastically improve our efficiency… Since we started using Gild Source, we’ve seen a seismic shift in the quality of candidates we’re reviewing. And by ‘seismic shift,’ I mean a five-fold increase in quality.”
—LJ Brock, VP of Talent Acquisition, Red Hat
“If you go back to 2008, everything was booming, then everything fell apart … we had a bit of a dip in our engineering staff and we’ve been needing to staff back up now that things are going better for the economy and the world – we’ve had some of these positions open for about a year—hiring was slow at best… I’m glad to see some movement finally. Empty chairs aren’t good for any of us, and we want to get those chairs filled. Like I said, I couldn’t have scripted it any better. We get this tool from [Gild], and then we get somebody in within a month, that’s pretty awesome.”
—Tim McQuillen, Founder & CIO, Strongmail
“I found myself truly engaged and interested in the projects, as opposed to numbing my brain scanning resumes for keywords. It really diversified the sourcing experience and helped me learn to contextualize the technologies I see every day as stuff people actually do.”
—Alexis, Recruiter, Rumble
“I’m a believer in Gild Source, and it is changing my regular workflow. Now I begin my searches on Gild Source and only switch over to LinkedIn or other social networking sites when I have to.”
—Brian Samson, Founder & CEO, HR for Startups and former Google Recruiter
