Optimize your recruiting for quality and cost.

Harness the collective networks of your teams, advisors, and investors to connect with top talent. Make your organization more resilient with a cost-efficient and responsive recruiting process that puts you in front of better candidates. 🚀

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What's the typical recruiting playbook?

📜

Post job
‍(and wait)

⌛️

Review (a lot) of poor applications

😖

Resort to low-yield cold messages

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Ready to try a better way?

Build a searchable collective network.

Find qualified candidates in minutes.

Vet and fine-tune your pipeline the easy way.

Switch to network recruiting

Your network already
knows your next hire.

As a startup founder or leader, you likely have built a strong network in your previous experiences. But you may find recruiting challenging and spend a lot of time on hiring activities.
The Swarm will help you organize your company collective network, nurture it, and use it to build the best team possible, faster and more efficiently than with traditional recruiting methods.
No more scrolling on LinkedIn for hours. Now you surface top candidates in minutes.
As a result, your cost-per-hire using The Swarm can be more than 10x lower than with inbound or outbound recruiting techniques.
It’s not about “how many people you know” anymore, it’s about “how many people all the people you know, know.”

How does network recruiting compare to inbound and outbound recruiting?

In recent years, while businesses have changed, the way we recruit has remained the same in many ways. Many businesses still build their hiring process around old methods — building a funnel of candidates and aiming to connect with as many people as possible — with the help of marketing technology and digital advertising techniques. These approaches are well-established but they also have many drawbacks, like higher costs and lower efficiency.

Meanwhile, competition for talent has been on the rise. In this new business landscape, we need new recruiting strategies. Network recruiting is of the newest and most exciting developments — a new way of organizing your recruitment efforts that draws on the network of people around you instead of traditional outbound or inbound recruiting.

Comparing recruiting models

Inbound

Outbound

Network Recruiting

Example of tools

LinkedIn, Indeed, Hired

Gem, Dover, Findem

The Swarm

Average cost per hire (see our calculator)

$6-12k

$6-12K

$2-5k

Cost factors

Time-consuming screenings
Slow and manual process

Low response rates
High placement fees

Efficient network intros
Low subscription cost

Hiring process

Post on job boards and wait

Spray and pray cold messages

Build a qualified shortlist with your network

Pipeline building timeframe

Once role is open

Anytime / Ahead of time

Combined time to close

60h

30h

15h

Quality of candidates

Poor

Fair

Excellent

Strength of connection

Null

Null to medium

Medium to high

Likelihood to close

Low

Average

85x more likely

Resulting employee retention

Average

70% longer

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Network recruiting is a team sport.

Make it easy for all of hiring stakeholders to connect your company with top talent.

Founding Team

The Swarm was built for a startup Founder, CEO, or CTO to tap into the connections of their team or company stakeholders and surface top candidates in minutes. No more awkward sourcing jams or scrolling on LinkedIn for hours.

Recruiters & Sourcers

Surfacing top candidates among your company’s connections is now easier than ever. Ask vetting from employees connected to a candidate, find candidates’ contact information in seconds, and keep notes and comments organize in The Swarm.

Hiring Manager

As a company grows, heads of departments become hiring managers. The Swarm makes it easy for them to access profiles relevant to them and take control of their own recruiting without wasting their team’s time or losing productivity.

Employees

Traditional employee referral programs put a lot of lift on individual employees to share job postings and source, vet, and introduce candidates. With The Swarm, employees can contribute to your recruiting efforts in mere minutes. No more awkward sourcing jams or "sourceathons." This is the power of network recruiting.

People & Talent Leaders

Talent Acquisition professionals can oversee the company network (we call it Network Graph) and maximize the potential of every connection. Tap into the power of the network to foster more quality referrals than ever before, keep control of candidate data, grow your Network Graph to lead your team to success.

The next step on your hiring journey.

Your network alreadyknows your next hire.

How does network recruiting compare to inbound and outbound recruiting?

Network recruiting is a team sport.

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Your network already
knows your next hire.