Thinkific is the #1 platform for individuals and businesses to create, market, sell, and deliver courses online. Businesses trust Thinkific to help them scale because Thinkific offers the easiest course technology, the most control over your courses, and the top support team in the industry. Thinkific powers online learning for over 25,000 course creators in 164 countries and in 20+ languages. Thinkific’s team had been expanding rapidly but they realized they needed help finding the talent needed to grow the business.
When CEO Greg Smith, connected with Ilya and the VanHack team to address the talent shortage they were facing, things began to change. One of the major issues noted by Tia Fomenoff, Director of People and Culture, was that local hires were not always a great fit for a variety of reasons. In some cases, local talent perceived themselves to be over qualified or more concerned with salary making them a bad fit for the company. That’s when VanHack stepped in to address some of those challenges presenting the best handpicked candidates. The Thinkific team quickly noticed that the developers they hired through VanHack were easily integrated and much more appreciative of the opportunity.
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The candidates themselves were impressed with the results as well. Carolina Darksi, a recent hire and full stack developer, loved the diversity of the Thinkific team as team members were from countries like Japan, Korea and Russia. She was impressed with the many fun and interactive aspects of the company culture and the diversity of the wider Canadian culture. Another developer, Vinicius Magalhaes, had a similar experience after hearing about the experiences of friends and family in relocating to Canada.
Another reason for the easy integration of new candidates was due to changes made to the onboarding process. Amanda Nagy, People and Culture Specialist, helped develop an internal course which gave new hires the tools and resources they needed to get started immediately.
In total, Thinkific went on to hire 4 amazing engineers after realizing how easy the process could be. Thinkific team members were impressed with the speed, fit and quality of the candidates provided with CEO Greg Smith referring to VanHack as his secret weapon.
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