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Client: Koru

Year: 2018

How Edify Helped Koru Revolutionize Early-Career Hiring Through Predictive Analytics

Driving Predictive Recruitment Innovation

Koru, a Seattle-based leader in predictive hiring, developed a groundbreaking recruitment platform designed to transform how companies assess early-career talent. Their proprietary Koru7 framework, which focuses on key traits like grit, rigor, and teamwork, provides a more accurate assessment of high performers than traditional metrics such as GPA or university reputation. Major companies like Deutsche Bank, Airbnb, and Reebok have used Koru’s platform to improve workforce quality and diversity while reducing the costs of poor hiring decisions.Our collaboration with Koru focused on strengthening and scaling their technical infrastructure to support their mission of revolutionizing how companies hire talent

The Challenge

As Koru’s recruitment platform grew in popularity, they needed a more robust technical infrastructure that could handle their expanding operations. The challenge was to scale the platform, automate operations, and refine their predictive analytics to ensure the platform’s continued success. Additionally, Koru wanted to enhance their online training capabilities, streamline their customer management system, and develop tools to improve job matching accuracy.

The Solution

Koru had a clear vision for the future of their platform: they needed to optimize every aspect of it to support an increasing number of both clients and candidates.

This involved building an enhanced technical infrastructure capable of seamless scalability, introducing automated workflows that could eliminate bottlenecks in their operations, and developing a data-driven job-matching system that would enable companies to identify top talent more efficiently.

The goal was to leverage the Koru7 framework—focused on traits like grit, teamwork, and rigor—so that companies could make more informed hiring decisions that moved beyond traditional markers like academic prestige.

Key features

Edify worked closely with Koru’s team to design and implement a series of solutions aimed at scaling their platform and improving its functionality:

Custom Canvas Instance: Deployed a custom Canvas LMS instance to scale Koru’s Impact Skills training based on the Koru7 framework.
Infrastructure Automation & SysOps: Automated infrastructure with Terraform and Ansible, providing ongoing SysOps support for system stability and efficient management.
Salesforce Customization: Extended Salesforce with custom endpoints and integrations to enhance client management and recruitment data handling.
Job Matching Application: Built a job-matching application to align candidates with job openings based on Koru’s employability framework.
Predictive Hiring Software Enhancement: Refined Koru’s predictive hiring software with machine learning models and secure data storage, improving predictive analytics and achieving up to 60% increase in high-performing hires.
Website Development: Developed a modern website to showcase Koru’s predictive hiring approach.

Technologies used

Canvas
Terraform
Ansible
Salesforce
HTML5
CSS3
Bootstrap
SASS
Node.js
OrientDB
Elasticsearch
Angular
AWS (S3, RDS, Lambda, EC2)
R
caret
Python

WHY EDIFY WAS CHOSEN

Koru selected Edify because of our extensive experience in enterprise software development and our ability to deliver cost-effective, scalable solutions.
We were able to match Koru’s existing processes and infrastructure while providing the flexibility needed to support their ambitious growth plans.

THE IMPACT

WE CREATED AN PERSONALIZED LEARNING PLATFORM AND THE STUDENT RESULTS WERE AMAZING!

With our help, Koru was able to scale their platform and improve operational efficiency, delivering measurable benefits to their clients, including:

30-60%

increase in high-performing hires, improving productivity and retention.

Greater diversity

in hiring, helping companies tap into broader talent pools.

Reduced costs

associated with bad hires, resulting in significant ROI for their clients.

Acquisition by CAPPFINITY

Koru’s success in predictive hiring culminated in their acquisition by Cappfinity, a global leader in talent recruitment and development, on December 20, 2018. This acquisition highlights the value of Koru’s platform and the impact of the work we contributed to their growth. Cappfinity’s expertise aligns perfectly with Koru’s mission of transforming recruitment through predictive analytics.

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Katsumoto Schopenhauer
Berkeley Computing, Data Science