the challenge.
Our existing relationship with the client meant we understood their immediate and long-range goals. The talent sourcing challenges the client faced were significant and mounting. Randstad Digital offered broader, immediate support, providing both niche talent sourcing reach and cost containment to boost the retailer’s global expansion.
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insufficient internal capacity
The client’s internal recruiting team was stretched thin. They lacked the bandwidth and faced challenges in meeting the urgent need to hire for a fast-growing pipeline of complex technology roles. As transformation initiatives picked up speed, the gap got wider.
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prohibitively long hiring cycles
Hiring timelines were untenable. Thirteen weeks per position was the average, and in the technology sector, that delay in time-to-fill is costly. Top candidates moved on. Important projects ground to a halt. Innovation slowed.
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limited market access & technical screening gaps
The organization needed to hire across different countries in Latin America and Poland. But without in-depth knowledge of the local market, existing talent networks, and recruiting infrastructure to effectively source in these regions, they were left starting from zero. Once the process started, hiring managers spent significant time on sourcing and technical assessments, time that should have gone toward strategy and leadership.
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cost containment pressures
Amid economic headwinds, the company needed to scale its technology workforce without paying the salary premiums that come with U.S.-based hiring.
What was at stake? Without addressing these challenges quickly and effectively, the company risked major delays, or worse, watching their entire digital transformation strategy fall behind.
the solution.
Our next step was clear: deploy our scalable, high-velocity talent solution that could remove bottlenecks and immediately accelerate hiring momentum.
Based on our strategic proposition, the partnership started with an exclusive offshore pilot program focused on permanent technology positions. The mandate was ambitious: fifteen positions to be filled, ranging from junior platform operations engineers to director-level data engineering roles. Seven countries across Latin America and Poland. All permanent hires.
To make this happen, we deployed a white-glove service model. At the center of our solution was Torc, Randstad Digital’s proprietary AI-driven talent platform and the Randstad Digital Talent Community. The Torc platform enabled rapid sourcing, automated technical vetting and direct access to specialized, pre-vetted tech talent across Latin America, giving us the speed and precision the client’s transformation required.
With the Torc platform as the acceleration engine, the client benefited from a suite of high-impact capabilities designed to elevate quality, reduce effort and improve hiring outcomes.
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specialized technical expertise
Our team brought deep, niche-aligned recruiting expertise tailored to the technology skill sets the company needed. They spoke the language of the roles they were filling: nuances of modern data platforms, cloud infrastructure, and contemporary engineering practices.
These capabilities enabled us to support a broad range of roles, including general software engineering, data engineering, AI/ML and data science, product management, and security engineering/cybersecurity, ensuring full coverage across the client’s evolving technology needs.
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advanced technical screening
Beyond sourcing and presenting candidates, the team implemented a rigorous screening layer using Coderbyte assessments for technical positions and specialized assessments for others. This ensured only truly qualified candidates reached hiring managers. No more wasted interviews. No more technical screening marathons.
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deep process integration: beyond vendor to true partner
Randstad Digital didn’t operate at arm’s length. Our team earned the trust to be directly embedded into the company’s recruitment ecosystem, managing the candidate experience end to end and fully representing the company’s employer brand while adding expertise and reach to their internal team.
As trust grew, we assumed responsibility for the full talent lifecycle, including onboarding and integration with the company’s HCM systems. Most telling of all? The company designated Randstad Digital as its exclusive partner for these roles, just weeks into the engagement.
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proprietary technology and global networks
Leveraging the Torc platform’s AI-enabled talent capabilities and the Randstad Digital Talent Community (including RD Poland), our team executed a comprehensive search across target markets. In just six weeks, we identified and hand-selected ideal candidates from this extensive pool of tech talent through an outreach and screening effort only possible with our global infrastructure and specialized resources.
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process optimization: transforming how they hire
Randstad Digital did more than execute on an existing process; we defined a new one. Our team provided guidance on streamlining workflows, setting realistic interview expectations, and implementing structured feedback mechanisms that the company adopted.
The company embraced these recommendations. “They've really taken our guidance on improving their recruitment process,” noted the team. And the results validated that shift.
the results.
The partnership with Randstad Digital yielded significant results for the client, demonstrating a substantial ROI in both time and cost savings.
dramatic time savings:
The pilot delivered eight placements in six weeks. For the first six hires, the team reduced average time-to-fill from 13 weeks to six, saving 54% of hiring time in the overall hiring process.
- Our structured screening process saved internal recruitment teams 169 hours, i.e., 21 business days.
- Our assessments saved hiring managers 119 hours, i.e., 15 business days.
Building on this early momentum, the partnership scaled rapidly, delivering 31 total placements over a 9-month period, demonstrating consistent speed and high-quality delivery at volume. Multiple placements were delivered within single quarters, consistently balancing speed with quality, even across highly niche and specialized roles.
That’s time redirected to innovation, leadership, and strategic work, not process bottlenecks.
significant cost savings:
By shifting roles to Latin America and Poland, the company achieved 60% average salary savings approaching half a million dollars for the first six hires. That meant an average cost of $48,347, compared to $121,167 for equivalent U.S. roles, enabling the budget to be reinvested into more hiring, more innovation and faster transformation.
quality and retention:
There has been zero turnover across highly niche and hard-to-fill roles, reinforcing the strength of our screening process and candidate alignment.
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