Scale Your Team by 5X Without Breaking a Sweat

The Talent Revolution

Tom's Notes:

By the time Dan Caines joined the team at LumiraDX in 2019, they’d grown to 300 people and were looking to uplevel their talent acquisition strategy. Dan helped grow the team by 150 people in one year as the sole recruiter. He made the last 50 hires in a single quarter. When COVID hit, the company shifted focus from R&D to manufacturing and distribution almost overnight.

LumiraDX currently employs about 1500 people worldwide, a whopping 500% increase from the time he joined the company in fall 2019.

Using just a few basic digital tools like video interviews, team interviews, and tracking SLAs for metrics like response time, they cut their time to hire in half.

Keeping agency spend down and “getting under the skin of the business” have always been key focal points for Dan. He made a conscious decision early on to learn about the business from the inside out, from entry-level to senior roles. This in combination with implementing candidate feedback has helped speed up the company growth massively since 2019.

That boots-on-the-ground point of view proved invaluable when recruitment ramped up in 2020, enabling Dan and a small team to scale LumiraDX from a headcount of 300 to 1500 employees globally.

He also used word of mouth 'drip feeding' strategy to help build their brand in the industry and spread the word about what they were doing. Dan also started to look at the future of recruiting at LumiraDX through a data-driven lens which is now what guides their efforts. What's next for them? Bringing on a more robust HRIS and ATS to handle their data and recruitment load more efficiently.

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