Packt

As a online publishing business for the tech community, Packt had grown to over 500 people between India and Birmingham.

However their costs of hiring were substantial, too many hires were leaving and the CEO had just built a plan to expand the business by 50% while launching new product lines.

We were approached initially to help with building a new tech team to support the new product and then help grow the business in multiple other areas from the C team downwards as they reviewed each area and restructured the business.

This included hiring the new HR director, Marketing Director, Head of Tech, editorial, data science, publishing, Product managers at all levels.

Team work process. Back view of groupmates have discussion over notepad and documents, sit at work place, have happy expression. Positive Afro American female pose in coworking space with trainee

This is the perfect environment to get things done

Solution

After initially providing a exec level hire for the Tech team, we then looked at implementing an ATS solution and moving hiring away from their usual approach of agencies into a more structured approach whereby we did initial sourcing and candidate management, while at the same time, implementing briefing calls with the managers, giving them transparency on candidates and a joined up approach to communications.

Results

Over the last 3 years, we have hired over 40 people including staff in India at the same time as significantly reducing their time and cost of hiring by over 50%.

Agency use has been reduced to 10% of previous levels and a new top team was put in place.

Packt launched 2 new products, rearchitected their entire platform with a new team and have grown to 600 people while improving their employer brand in the market.