Delights Clients, Enhances Recruiter Offering, Expands Team and Takes Home Top Awards.
Kick-starting last year with a $14M Series A funding announcement from leaders like Google and Randstad that brought the company out of two years in stealth mode and into the limelight, AllyO saw rapid momentum, welcoming a 250 percent increase in enterprise clients year over year and growing their relationship with several others. Companies entrusting AllyO with their recruiting needs include IDT, MasterBrand Cabinets, National Safety Apparel and Prophix Software, in addition to a Fortune 500 technology company, international coffee chain and an independent global energy company.
By year-end, AllyO helped clients reach optimal staffing levels without additional spend while decreasing time to hire by up to 70 percent. Able to focus energies on higher touch, higher value activities, multiple AllyO clients managed up to 83 percent more requisitions, engaging new and existing employees at a greater rate, all while delivering on business goals.
AllyO also helped its clients reach out to employees in need, including those affected by natural disasters like Hurricane Michael. Through constant and continued outreach, these clients gained insight into sentiment trends across roles and locations, strengthening its position for future hiring.
Powering these client success stories, AllyO continued to advance its product offering, rolling out a series of new releases throughout the year. These include the recent integration with WhatsApp Business, with AllyO becoming the first AI recruiter available on the popular WhatsApp platform. In effect, this partnership opened up a wholly new communication channel for global employers to find and engage with previously untapped candidates.
Last fall, the company introduced Talent Pool Engagement and Employee Referral features, working to broaden recruiting’s reach and build a deeper talent pool. Over the summer, AllyO announced the availability of New Hire Check-In and Calendar Integration & Interview Scheduling, cutting down on the administrative burden and speeding up the hiring process.
In addition to expanding product, AllyO also grew its team to 70 full-time employees, welcoming seven new members to the leadership team. Back in February, Shobhit Gupta joined as head of Business Strategy & Operations, along with Nick Possley, head of Data Products & Engineering. Ani Sanyal and Victor Pavlov came onboard in March as head of Worldwide Sales and Bot Systems Engineering Manager, respectively, with Dana Polyak, head of Customer Success, starting in April. This growth continued into the summer, with the hires of David Bernstein as head of Partnerships and Bennett Sung as head of Marketing.
In the midst of everything else, AllyO managed to attract attention from seemingly every corner of the talent acquisition space and taking home four coveted awards. The company’s season of winning started with recognition as a Human Resource Executive® Top HR Product of 2018, which looks at products based on the level of innovation, value added to the HR function, intuitiveness for the user and ability to deliver on what it promises. Shortly after, AllyO received a nod from analyst firm, Gartner, in its annual “Cool Vendor for Human Capital Management in Talent Acquisition” report.
Two more wins followed, taking home the top prize in Staffing Industry Analysts’ Collaboration in Gig Economy “Shark Tank” Competition and gold from the Brandon Hall Group Excellence in Technology Awards for Best Advance in Emerging Talent Acquisition Technology.