July 15, 2022

Talent Sourcing FAQs

Category: General

Makena Partners started as a direct hire placement agency. Our clients recognized our ability to quickly identify the best available talent for their hard-to-fill roles through our dedicated proactive sourcing elements, so we decided to make that process available to our clients on a service-level basis. Unlike traditional onshore OR offshore RPO vendors, we provide a seamless platform to manage your intake of qualified candidates from us, all of whom must first pass through a series of screening processes before they can be presented to you. Our sourcing recruiters collaborate with you every step of the way, and your dedicated engagement manager ensures our efforts are always aligned with your hiring goals.

Category: General

While we can’t promise you an occasional misstep on a candidate send, rest assured that every profile we send you has passed our extensive vetting process. That means the candidates we send you, in almost all cases, were proactively targeted by a member of our sourcing team for your position, then contacted and screened by an English-first human being, and finally evaluated by your engagement manager prior to presentation. We are so confident in the quality of our candidates that we give you an “approve” or “reject” option in your client dashboard each time we send a candidate your way. If you don’t think someone we send you is a potential match, you can let us know by “rejecting” the candidate and providing us with feedback so we can hone our search to meet your requirements.

Category: General

That’s great, and we hope you’ll continue to! As former agency recruiters ourselves, we understand the value of the contingent search model. But we also know that it can get expensive, with the average fee for a technology hire in today’s market costing your company upwards of $25,000. We have found that we can help you achieve your hiring goals at a fraction of that cost without sacrificing quality, because the candidates we source for you are yours to keep, without any additional cost if you elect to hire them today, tomorrow, or in three years. Once we’ve sourced the candidate for you, it’s yours forever!

Category: General

The question of the day! As a talent acquisition professional, you know that every position you fill is different, with a number of variables impacting the speed at which you can hire. Fortunately, we’ve been in the business long enough to have some sense (based on our own historical data) of how many proactively sourced candidates it takes, on average, to fill a position. That number can be anywhere from 3-20, with the sweet spot being around 8-10. Generally, it takes anywhere between 45-90 days to fill a position with one of our candidates, again depending on a number of factors. You’ll be able to track all of the candidates we sent you through the web and mobile portal we set up for you once you get started.