Lunatech Labs D2H
Lunatech was founded in 1993 in the Netherlands as an IT consulting, product research and development establishment, composed of a team of adept self-managing software engineers assuring a solid foundation that led Lunatech to climb the success ladder and maintain their stable growth. With a focus on quality, efficiency and innovation following their rule of simplicity, the company has developed a reputation for producing software that improves productivity and helps their clients gain a competitive edge.
Focused on Java Virtual Machine (JVM) solutions they work to an interactive development process, and build applications in a number of short iterations. This provides great visibility to the customer and it greatly improves the end result because the product and expectations can be adjusted along the way. LunaTech are proudly partnered with Google Cloud, Red Hat and the Scala Center and the company’s recognition for its work garnered trust from an impressive portfolio of clients such as Audi, DHL, UPS etc..
Lunatech having a multi-cultural set up and fostering a philosophy that diversities contribute to the richness of the team by bringing unique perspectives to the table, offers an extensive relocation package and opportunity to software engineers with different cultural backgrounds, to relocate and work from the Netherlands.
Challenge
Given the market condition in the Netherlands – a highly competitive market with a shortage of skillful engineers, our client made a decision to expand its talent pool outside of the borders of the Netherlands and offer an extensive relocation opportunity to foreign engineers, while simultaneously not having previously explored and gained inside about foreign markets.
Additionally, given the demographic tendencies in the Netherlands’ workforce characterized by a deficiency of young professionals while offering appealing benefits, our main focus needed to be put on finding graduated software engineers below the age of 30.
Scala is a functional programming language and one of the languages used for machine learning and big data engineering, peaking demands across the globe for the skill in limited quantities.
To successfully satisfy our customer’s needs, the potential new hires had to be experienced and skilled professionals in the field of Scala or Java. Having in mind the requirements given by our customer, the recruitment cycle consists of 5 steps involving, pre-screening calls done by International Growth Agency’s team, initial call with LunaTech’s team, technical assignment, and technical assessment review all culminating in the final interview.
Solution
The chosen model of collaboration and successful hiring was IT recruitment as a service leveraging IGA’s unique Desire2Hire (D2H) model. To make sure that the success was guaranteed as part of the D2H model, IGA’s team did a thorough analysis of the requirements, prepared and presented a strategy while committing on expected results within a previously estimated time frame for each quarter.
As a crucial part of the strategy, IGA created a unique employer value proposition, communication strategy and a key employee perks and benefits package. For each of the two desired profiles we created an ideal employee persona with the scope of augmenting the number of fitting candidates that fulfill all of the requirements per position.
Results
For the purpose of delivery and after a thorough market research, the chosen talent pools were Europe (22) Africa (6) Asia (4) totaled in 1250 fitting candidates approached in 1.5 years divided in quarters.
Maaike BurgeatCorporate Recruiter @ Lunatech Labs
The collaboration between IGA and Lunatech Labs started in 2021 and since then it’s been a success! We are very satisfied and it is a pleasure to work with IGA and the team.
We are happy with the outcome, with good, motivated engineers joining our teams.
