UK recruiter made 7 hires in 2 months, on track to be Paraform’s first millionaire 

When Neil Patel left his recruitment job in the UK a couple of months ago, to start his own agency, inkorp, he knew exactly what he wanted: to recruit for early-stage tech startups in the US. But he had to build his client base from scratch.

How Vercel hires

Vercel's explosive growth (80% year-over-year revenue increase, surpassing $100M ARR last year) is impressive but unsurprising when you consider how they power much of your internet activity. 

Agave uses Paraform to solve their biggest growth bottleneck: hiring

They're modernizing software in construction, a massive $12 trillion industry that, surprisingly, remains stuck in the past. Most construction companies still rely on siloed, decades-old software systems. 

Relationships matter more than ever in recruitment

Many people stumble into recruiting. Josh Berger always knew this was his path.    At 19, when other teens were still figuring out their futures, Josh was interning at leading executive search firm Korn Ferry.

How Faire built a $5B business with ruthlessly disciplined hiring

Faire, a wholesale marketplace connecting independent retailers to small brands, has built a $5 billion business over the last 8 years. Founded in 2017 by ex-Square employees, they've grown to serve over 700k independent retailers and 100k brands as of March 2024, shaping modern retail culture by empowering rise of “shoppy shops”.

Northflank uses Paraform to hire across Engineering, GTM, and Marketing

When they were introduced to Paraform, Chase was skeptical. As a former VC, he had seen countless recruitment automation tools fail. But after using Paraform, both he and Will became strong advocates for the platform.

Areeb’s rapid growth on Paraform and making $140k+ by putting candidates first

When Areeb decided to give Paraform a try last October, he was stepping into uncharted territory. Most of Areeb’s recruitment experience was in Finland, EU and Middle East regions. He had never recruited for U.S. companies and didn’t know whether this new platform would live up to the buzz.

How this YC company hired 4 engineers in 1 month on Paraform

Before Paraform, Apriora’s team believed working with external recruiters was a risky investment. Their co-founder Aaron had dedicated significant time into building different relationships and searching for the right recruiter, with no guarantee of success until months in.

How Anduril hires (beyond the #DontWorkAtAnduril stunt)

“Don’t work at Anduril. It’s hard work, on hard problems, on hard mode. If that isn’t for you, then Anduril isn’t the place for you. But if you’re ready to transform U.S. military capabilities with advanced tech, we want to hear from you.”

How Brex hires – and why they don’t need referral bonuses to win

They've built a $300M+ ARR business. They were valued at $12.3B in 2022. The Brex Mafia is already a thing, and they're not even 10 years old. Their success stems from building an excellent corporate banking product, but also to the talent strategy that founders Henrique Dubugras and Pedro Franceschi wove into the company's DNA.

How Carma found their perfect Founding Engineer on Paraform

Tony, Carma’s Head of Engineering joined me on a Friday to talk about how he discovered Paraform, what it’s like to wrangle a two-sided marketplace in the automotive repair world, and—most importantly—how he managed to hire their founding software engineer, Elliott.

How DeepSeek built an unconventional talent org that pioneered its R1 model

DeepSeek’s R1 model outperformed OpenAI’s o1 on multiple reasoning benchmarks. 

How Figma hires—Who you hire shapes what you ship

Figma is known for many things, like powering the design systems of today’s most innovative companies. Or their product’s strong collaboration features. Or their passionate community of Makers and advocates.

The recruiter who said ‘hell no’ to Paraform—until she didn’t

Olga has done it all. From scaling ClassPass to tripling Chief’s headcount, she’s been at the forefront of talent acquisition for some of the most exciting and high-caliber companies out there.

How Statics hired a Founding Engineer in 28 days with Paraform's tech-plus-human approach

When Johnny Wang took Statics, his early-stage AI startup, out of stealth mode he did what most founders do: relied on external recruiters to source top-tier talent. It’s how he recruited for highly specialized roles in the past. 

Spotify's solution to the Great Resignation is to treat employees like adults. And it's working.

While Silicon Valley panicked about remote work killing productivity, Spotify ran a simple experiment: What if we didn’t treat our employees like children? 

Why Anthropic’s talent strategy will help them win the AI race

Anthropic is one of the world’s leading AI research labs. But compared to Google, Meta, and OpenAI, they’re actually the new kid on the block.

How Coinbase hires the top 0.1% talent

Most companies say they only hire the best. Coinbase actually means it, and they've structured their talent strategy to live up to it.

Notion's secret to hiring teams that build great product? The same rigorous focus on craft saved the company

The startup death spiral follows a predictable pattern: churning users, constant crashes, running out of runway. Most companies never escape this vortex. But Notion did something rare – they not only survived, but emerged as a $10 billion company. 

How a solo recruiter uses Paraform to grow his recruitment agency

As a solo recruiter running his own agency, Jose faced a common challenge: spending more time on active sales and company prospecting than actually recruiting. That changed when he discovered Paraform. 

Ken Smith stopped wasting time on admin—and started making more hires

Ken Smith runs a small recruiting business with his wife, handling everything from sourcing to contract negotiation. As a team of two, finding new clients and balancing administrative tasks was always a challenge—until he found Paraform.

How Banquet Health hires hard-to-fill roles in record time on Paraform

Banquet Health had a problem most growing startups face: they needed strong engineers, but their recruiting process was eating up too much time and delivering subpar results.

Spatial Labs cut 70% of engineering costs with Paraform-hired engineers

When Spatial Labs launched their retail store, they had an emergency: They needed to ship an update to get the retail location to work and ship it now. 

How Vellum hires diverse engineering talent to support their growth

Vellum's co-founder Akash: “If you know your role isn’t going to be filled, you should probably call the Paraform people.”

Loom broke 3 big hiring 'best practices' and called it a talent strategy. And it worked spectacularly well.

One of their tactics was adopting async videos in unconventional ways, using using videos to give candidates more personal attention, not less.

How Recruiting From Scratch could stop doing BD (and place more roles with its dream customers)

Paraform lets Will’s agency focus on what they do best without the business development grind. It makes it easier to place candidates at their dream companies without needing to spend months networking.

How Paraform empowers UK recruiters to break into US startups

For UK-based recruiter Cam Farmer, Paraform has opened doors to top U.S. startups, delivering fast client responses and trusted logos that make his hiring process faster and more productive.

How Slack hired its way to a $27.7B exit

Why you should hire oddballs and ask weird questions

How DoorDash Hires "General Athletes" Instead of focusing on experience

The talent secrets behind the $78 billion delivery app

Silicon Valley didn't take Shopify seriously, so they built a talent ecosystem elsewhere. Now, they're harder to get into than Harvard.

And the "learner's organization" Shopify created in Canada persists even after going 100% remote.

How a solo recruiter earned $24k on Paraform, only two months after signing up.

Shreya's working on 10-15 active roles per week, on a client portfolio that would've taken years to build independently. She shares the story of her quick start on the platform.

How Harmonic 3x-ed their quarterly engineering hires, multiplying their top-of-funnel for difficult roles on Paraform.

Paraform helped Harmonic secure and manage a consistent pipeline of high-quality candidates, all on one platform.

How an agency recruiter secured off-market candidates, more clients, and $52k in bonus earnings this month.

Grecia Martinez loves being a full-time agency recruiter. But she also loves using Paraform to fill roles for clients she's interested in and expand her talent network.

How one recruiter earned $24k of extra income this month, in addition to his full-time business.

Nick Kimball uses Paraform whenever he wants to spend a few hours sourcing talent for interesting companies, while maintaining long-term clients at his agency.

A solo recruiter's 'slow and hard' approach has earned him 76k on Paraform in a month. Here's how.

David's high-touch, relationship-driven approach is not fast. It's not easy. But it works. And Paraform amplifies David’s skills by connecting him to clients he’d be best suited to help.

Sachin Bagri stopped doing biz dev, and 10x-ed his client base. Learn how he did it.

90% of his Sachin's clients are from Paraform. Instead of spending his time trying to get new clients, Sachin can focus on what matters: making the right matches.

Hire slow, win fast: Why Linear's expensive and time-consuming hiring strategy actually works.

Standard interviews are like speed dating — they can feel superficial and be misleading. So they do paid work trials.

How Anna Malayan placed a founding Growth Marketer at Pylon in 10 days

Anna achieved something that's almost unheard of in the industry: placing a critical founding hire at Pylon in 10 days, earning $19k in the process.

From tech layoff to $20k in a month: How Cameron Barnette placed an engineer in under 30 days on Paraform

What sounds like a quick win is actually the result of years of experience, combined with Paraform’s features.

Raise the bar or leave it: Netflix’s high-stakes talent strategy for high-performance teams

Netflix isn’t a family – it's a team. And on a team, you play your best or you get benched.

How Rim Tesfai of StackedSP matches high-quality candidates to high-impact roles on Paraform

Rim prides herself on matching exceptional candidates with visionary companies. Paraform opens up great opportunities for candidates she’s developed deep relationships with.

How Keeper hired their Head of Marketing in 3 weeks on Paraform

The team 8x-ed their volume of high-quality candidate while spending 10x less time communicating and calibrating with recruiters, to bring on their newest exec in 21 days.

Building the team that built a billion-dollar SaaS business: Why Zapier gambled on a contrarian talent strategy from Day 0.

Remote work paved the downfall of many startups. But Zapier (and its valuation) has only been on the rise. 

How Katelyn Ewe Made 2 Placements in 1 Month on Paraform

With Paraform, Katelyn has exceeded her recruitment goals and transformed her freelance career. She shares the key learnings that helped her thrive.

Why is everyone lining up to work for a green owl? How Duolingo created a "talent vortex" to fuel growth.

Growth is hard. Hiring for growth is even harder. But some companies have cracked the code, and Duolingo is one of them. 

How Luis Pedemonte Placed a Head of Marketing in 3 Weeks with Paraform 

Within 3 weeks of using Paraform, Luis achieved his first successful placement — a Head of Marketing at Keeper, a Y-Combinator backed startup.

Monad

In just 1.5 months, Monad used Paraform source, screen, and sign an engineering trio (front-end, back-end, and infrastructure) of systems-level thinkers.

Sheer audacity: How SpaceX built a relentless team that redefined an industry

The hiring principles that set SpaceX up for success are rooted in the same sheer audacity that helped the company launch nearly 400 rockets. But you don’t have to be rocket scientist to a build similarly driven team.

Hiring Killer Operators: Lessons from the early days of Uber

Discover how Uber's team of top-notch operators propelled the company to success. Learn invaluable hiring lessons from their journey and tips for hiring your own killer operators.

Nina Issa placed engineering talent in two weeks using Paraform

Paraform’s streamlined and detailed process enables Nina Issa of Growth League to place the best candidates way faster for her clients. Learn how she does it.

Continuity Partners placed 4 candidates in 1 month using Paraform

John Keenan and his team at Continuity Partners doubled their number of annual placements by doing business development with Paraform. Learn about how they do it.

Finding the right people takes time: OpenAI’s hiring playbook

Good hiring processes take time. OpenAI embraces quality over speed when needed, ensuring every hire furthers their mission. Learn how they hire top talent.

Hustle Hunters placed top engineering talent in just one week with Paraform

Header image for blog post Hustle Hunters used Paraform to build trust with founders and place top engineering talent in just one week

Hightouch

How the talent team at Hightouch leverages Paraform to increase quality top of funnel by 5x and fill difficult positions.

Decagon

Founding Engineer and Founding AE are some of the hardest roles to recruit for. The founders of Decagon did it in under 1 month on Paraform.

Terradot

Scientists and researchers aren't easy to find. This climate tech startup built 20% of their team on Paraform.

Vellum (YC W23)

How Paraform helped Vellum (YC W23) hire 2 great founding engineers while also nailing diversity

Nvidia's $2 Trillion Recruiting Playbook

Four easy-to-scale recruiting strategies employed by Nvidia.

Agency Review: How SourceMultiplier Leverages Paraform

In this post, we speak with SourceMultiplier, a recruiting agency, about how they use Paraform.

Coining MFG (PrecisionX Group)

How Coining MFG (now part of PrecisionX Group) hires high skilled machinists and technicians on Paraform

Airbnb: Recruiting for Culture

A blueprint for optimizing your startup's cultural DNA from day 1.

Stripe's recruiting philosophy: seeking impatient, curious optimists

Learn how Stripe built one of Silicon Valley's best teams

How Cheri made 2 placements in 1 week on Paraform

Learn from Cheri what's it like being a recruiter on Paraform and how you can find success like she did

Rippling Recruiting: how they hire ex-founders

4 essential elements for exponential staffing, from the playbook of an HR disruptor

How Marcus Uses AI to be a 10x Recruiter

Practical AI use cases and advice for independent recruiters.

How Scale AI maintains high talent density

4 actionable lessons we can learn from how Scale AI recruits the best talent and maintains a high talent density

5 Traits of Highly Effective Recruiting Teams: Agency Edition

How Devashree and her team at Solve runs an effective recruiting team to fill roles on Paraform

Finding the right niche as a recruiter

How Louis Smith, founder of Benchmark Group, leverages his recruitment niche to make placements on Paraform.

How Superhuman hires talent

Superhuman… fitting name for this company. Let’s dive deeper into how they built their super team.

Ramp's approach to hiring (optimizing for velocity)

What if we told you Ramp becoming one of fastest growing SaaS companies ever was 100% intentional (designed & executed)?

How to scale your recruiting agency

Everything changed when I discovered Paraform and has since become my go-to platform for recruiting.

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Beam

Before we discovered Paraform, our hiring process was somewhat hit or miss...

Recruiter spotlight: Bobby

Making his first SDR hire on Paraform in 2 weeks

Atomus

We found candidates that we were really happy with on Paraform...

Recruiter spotlight: David

How Paraform brings more business for David and his agency

Recruiter spotlight: Brooke

How Paraform gives Brooke the flexibility to recruit on her own terms

Recruiter spotlight: Angie

How Paraform changed the way Angie thinks about recruiting

Recruiter spotlight: Brianna

Brianna and her team’s experience recruiting on Paraform

Recruiter spotlight: Shantanu

How Shantanu made his first hire on Paraform

Recruiter spotlight: Sparsh

How Paraform became an essential part of Sparsh’s recruitment arsenal