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“Thank you so much for your amazing contributions James! It was a real pleasure working with you and you’ve really made a difference for us.”
Zencargo is a London-based, digital freight-forwarding startup. It enables customers worldwide to book, manage and keep track of their international freight, harnessing analytics to drive intelligent supply chain decisions on the cloud. The company is expanding rapidly with well over 300 employees already.
Kandidate teamed up with Zencargo after it had raised £30M in a Series B round led by Digital+ Partners with HV capital in May 2021. With new offices opening in Europe and Asia after second-round investment, the company rapidly needed at least to double its number of employees. The freight-forwarding industry took a major knock during the Covid-19 pandemic, contracting 8.7% in 2020 – only intensifying the demand for great talent. Then the global freight-forwarding sector rebounded with double-digit growth in H1 of 2021 alone. With consumer demand expected to keep shooting up over the next four years, the pressure to hire keeps mounting in step with market forces such as geopolitical changes.
Zencargo prove to be quite the challenge! No less than 20 Kandidate team members supported our client’s hiring journey. A mixture of Embedded Talent Partners, Embedded Sourcing Partners worked alongside our broad-reaching Sourcing Team to complete the job.
Within 6 months, Kandidate filled 22 roles in Engineering: a great result considering the unprecedented struggle for talent in today’s marketplace. The strategic situation required Kandidate’s team to get busy fast. We hit the ground running with the Zencargo Employer Brand Programme, producing 14 blogs, 3 videos and a pipeline of stories giving the client a Banzai-level archive purposed for future recruitment needs. Kandidate sprinted through the toughest hires – Platform, Frontend, Backend and Fullstack – filling positions in record time. Deft deployment of social media delivery powered up the Talent Acquisition Training mandate. Finally, we made the migration from Workable to PinPoint ATS pivot as smoothly as possible.
On departure, we left behind a formidable team headed by two leaders well prepared to build on foundations we installed designed to help Zencargo hit key targets through the remainder of 2022 and beyond. Kandidate’s Embedded Talent Partners and Embedded Sourcing Partners prove their mettle at Zencargo and they remain primed for any possible imperatives should the client return in future, and with Zencargo £127,300 better off.
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