MoveUp recruitment agency

Introduce your business and what you do there.

I’m an HR generalist in the Ukrainian division of Logz.io, an Israeli product company. We do open source-based software for analytics management, overall machine learning, and data analysis in general. We have about 230 people all over the world.

What challenge were you trying to address with MoveUp?

We were looking for someone to help us to recruit employees, as we recently opened our office in Ukraine.

What was the scope of their involvement?

MoveUp is helping us to expand our team, specifically with IT employees.

Generally, we’ll send them the job description, which we also discuss in person. When everything is clear, they start looking for recruits within their sources. After that, if they find the appropriate person, they screen them for us.

Following that, if the person passes their recruiter screening, MoveUp will send them to us through an email system. We review them, and if we proceed with the candidate, we have our own specific recruitment process for each person. If the person isn’t suitable, we’ll explain why they aren’t a relevant candidate. They will then implement that information while looking for other candidates for that specific position.

What is the team composition?

I am usually in contact with Olga (General Manager), who’s our main point of contact. Sometimes, I’m in contact with her counterpart in Israel, as well as with the owner of MoveUp.

How did you come to work with MoveUp?

They have a great reputation within Israel and Ukraine because they are based in Ukraine. They have been in the market for several years now and I know several recruiters who worked for them. Several years ago, I myself was recruited to work with them which is how I know that the quality is very high because I went through the recruitment process. Based on their reputation and our past experiences with them, they were our first choice.

How much have you invested in them?

We’ve invested around $50,000.

What is the status of this engagement?

We started working with MoveUp in December 2018, and we’re continuing to work with them.

What evidence can you share that demonstrates the impact of the engagement?

We are happy with the quality of candidates coming through for each role. MoveUp makes the process really easy as they have a lot of experience, including experience with opening an office. We find their screening process to be particularly helpful—the best candidates get sent forward. 

How did MoveUp perform from a project management standpoint?

MoveUp is always in contact. I personally have a daily stand-up with them, because I monitor and implement the recruitment process in Ukraine, so each candidate goes through me as well. The team is always there to help us manage candidates and tasks that I can’t. Further, Olga is very communicative and always shares as much information as we need to be successful. We’ve never had any problems. 

What did you find most impressive about them?

They offer a really personal approach that shows how much they care about us as a client. They’ve built a really deep, thoughtful relationship with us. 

Olga is a developer herself, and she has her own start-ups. She knows how the industry works and knows her way around the people who work in the industry, which is very helpful and an asset to our team.

Are there any areas they could improve?

We have had a couple of misunderstandings, but nothing that impacted our relationship with one another or with our candidates, nor our reputation. Everything’s turned out really well, and if anything ever does go wrong, we’re always able to have an open discussion.

Do you have any advice for potential customers?

Give detailed job descriptions and discuss everything that you want to have in each candidate in detail. Just go with the flow and be nice.

Please describe your company and your position there.

Keymakr is a company that provides Data training service for Machine Learning and AI companies (600+ employees). Head office in Israel, developers and others in Ukraine.

For what projects/services did your company hire MoveUp?

1. Keymakr needed to expand developers team 2. Keymakr decided to hire Technical support team to provide better service for clients 3. HR manager

What were your goals for this engagement?

Keymakr’s requirements were super high and we needed to hire developers that are really good specialists and have specific knowledge while our budget was not enough high for this kind of specialists

How did you select this vendor?

I signed contract with a few companies , but only MoveUp has been giving me the qualified candidates that were fitting to our requirements.

Describe the engagement in detail.

MoveUp interviews candidates while trying to find out each detail about them before sending candidates to their customers. All the candidates were enough qualified and met out requirements. I trusted MoveUp for 100%

What was the team composition?

I was directly working with MoveUp agency.

Can you share any outcomes from the engagement that demonstrate progress or success?

One of the rules of this company that the recruitment process can not take more than 30 days. If I’m right the first PHP developer that we hired took to them about a week to find ( not including internal hiring processes of Keymakr)

How effective was the workflow between your team and theirs?

MoveUp agency is very open for contacting and answer as soon as they can. They never missed my calls or messages and always were in touch with me. They are open for feedbacks and want to learn more. Their specialists are working hard and want to bring really good results. I remember when we started to look for Technical support team we even didn’t have any requirements because this project was completely new for Keymakr. MoveUp agency was in touch with me for a few days in a row just to set up right requirements and start to recruit people. Also they helped Keymakr to understand costs and “how do this kind of teams work”

What did you find most impressive about this vendor?

I think the fact that I could trust this company and always knew that I would get good results.

Are there any areas for improvement?

I’m completely satisfied by their job.

Please describe your company and your position there.

Sosivio is a software company. We build a product that is considered the Next-generation cloud Observability platform which gives the client actionable insights by filtering out the noise and using lean & distributed AI to and in your applications and cloud native environments.

For what projects/services did your company hire MoveUp recruitment agency, and what were your goals?

Cloud Services are undergoing & exponential growth. Kubernetes has become the de facto standard for Cloud Orchestration introducing . Our industry needs tools to prevent critical failures from crippling cloud based products and their customers. is the only non-intrusive, proactive and observability tool on the market today.

How did you select this vendor and what were the deciding factors?

Every Observability company wants to be predictive, but to date, none have succeeded. Our non-intrusive & real-time architecture is the enabler to being Predictive. We look at all signals at the relevant time and provide actionable insights rather than overwhelm you with data. This is a fundamental change in the way Observability is done.

Describe the scope of work in detail, including the project steps, key deliverables, and technologies used.

We use a very advanced technologies written in GO language, and we are running many and complicated environments through distributed teams around the world.

How many people from the vendor's team worked with you, and what were their positions?

A three team leaders (Frontend, Backend and AI team leader) and project manager - all together 4 team members.

Can you share any measurable outcomes of the project or general feedback about the deliverables?

Our clients and the few partners we work with gave us very positive feedbacks which measured by fewer downtime incidents, significant save in resources and faster and more efficient access to root cause malfunctions together with predictive and solving mechanisms which saved the need of many professional services and expanses.

Describe their project management style, including communication tools and timeliness.

Slack, GitLab, Jira, Sqlת DNS

What did you find most impressive or unique about this company?

The team, the product and the fact it Recognizes major issues and fix them before they crash and together with Lean & Distributed AI Engines Data processing occurs on the edge and in real-time

Are there any areas for improvement or something they could have done differently?

no

Please describe your company and your position there.

Grasp Studios is an online course developer and publisher. We truly believe that every skill is teachable, every person can be taught and that with the right guidance, a great expert can become an even greater teacher. We are a team of content editors, designers, coders, project managers, marketing and monetization experts. I'm the CTO of Grasp Studios.

For what projects/services did your company hire MoveUp recruitment agency, and what were your goals?

We are building a company from scratch, our aim is to build a data driven company that will integrate new technologies, platforms, apis to the core system and will assist the team of content developers.

How did you select this vendor and what were the deciding factors?

Our chairman connected us to them, and we felt that MoveUp can assist us in finding talent.

Describe the scope of work in detail, including the project steps, key deliverables, and technologies used.

We are working closely together, building this machine from scratch. We had on official kick-off when we started but the iteration are weekly.

How many people from the vendor's team worked with you, and what were their positions?

An experienced full stack developer was our first hire, and we plan to hire more developers using MoveUp.

Can you share any measurable outcomes of the project or general feedback about the deliverables?

We are still in our build phase, but I can see major improvement and we are advancing the machine day by day. The hire from MoveUp is also very useful with our new team members (Junior full stack and Data analyst)

Describe their project management style, including communication tools and timeliness.

We have a weekly on Monday, and we do update meetings on Thursday. But the communication is really good and we handle a lot of it in Slack, Github, and Trello.

What did you find most impressive or unique about this company?

They were really professional and very agile with our requests. The personal chat is very good and assists us in hiring the right candidates.

Are there any areas for improvement or something they could have done differently?

Not really.

Please describe your company and your position there.

Looking for top notch Java Developers for one of our long term projects in Ukraine

For what projects/services did your company hire MoveUp recruitment agency?

One of our projects is quickly growing and we needed to hire top notch Java, Front End and Devops experts in Ukraine (Kiev and remote)

How did you select this firm and what were the deciding factors?

We explored several vendors but eventually MoveUp team was the only one to deliver. Very service oriented, western mentality and great pool of relevant candidates They are much different then other local recruitment agencies

Describe the project in detail and walk through their service package.

Moveup assist us to hire Java and Devops experts in a very efficient ways in spite of high end requirements and long recruitment processes that we had.

How many resources from the vendor's team worked with you, and what were their positions?

Moveup has assigned a dedicated tech recruiter who was working closely with our hiring managers in a very successful and devoted ways from candidates sourcing through signing up and onboarding. She was supported by MoveUp back office and management team

Can you share any outcomes from the engagement that demonstrate progress or success?

MoveUp assisted us to hire 5 top notch Java developers and Devops experts within rather short period of time. They dont spam as with irrelevant candidates like

How effective was the workflow between your team and theirs?

We having very open and efficient communication channel with all people involved from MoveUp side. Their peer-to-peer candidates evaluation forms is very helpful giving clear indication of the candidates skills

What did you find most impressive or unique about this company?

They are service-oriented, have great interpersonal skills, and a high level of professionalism. Their team also has quality candidates, a western mentality, and very devoted."

Are there any areas for improvement or something they could have done differently?

Their rates a bit higher then average market rates but it defiantly worth it.

Please describe your company and your position there.

display.io works in in-app Adtech sphere and provides monetization solutions for app's developers/publishers. My position is VPO.

For what projects/services did your company hire MoveUp, and what were your goals?

Ongoing project. Goal: reqruiting service for permanent positions of QA engineer and PHP Full stack developer

How did you select MoveUp and what were the deciding factors?

We already had some positive work experience with MoveUp. The company works in the locations which we are intrested in, from the very first meeting MoveUp acted very professional and we managed to build a good personal connection.

Describe the scope of work in detail, including the project steps, key deliverables, and technologies used.

MoveUp provided for us full reqruiting service. After reqruiting request they were sending us information about candidates with CV and initial interview summary, highlighting for us the most relevant parameters. They were supporting us and the candidates on each recruiting step, organizing meetings (intreviews), sharing relevant information, helping with work agreement statements and etc.

How many people from the vendor's team worked with you, and what were their positions?

2

Can you share any measurable outcomes of the project or general feedback about the deliverables?

2 hired specialists perfectly match to the team. From the very beginning they started to contribute to project.

Describe their project management style, including communication tools and timelines.

For communication we used gmail and personal contacts. The communication was very profeccional, effective, and semi-formal, which helped to build a good connection and to get a good performance.

What did you find most impressive or unique about this company?

Very dedicated people with profeccional approach and good vibe

Are there any areas for improvement or something they could have done differently?

Within the process the company started to send us a detailed table with an initial interview summary, which was very helpful. I would recommend this approach as the best practice to use in the future.

Please describe your company and your position there.

We are a growing software company in the AdTech landscape.

For what projects/services did your company hire MoveUp?

We were looking to scale our already existing remote team of developer in the Ukraine.

What were your goals for this engagement?

We want to recruit from 2 to 4 new developers in a short period of time. Our goal was to reach high end developers and achieve this as fast as possible while keeping a level of quality in the process.

How did you select MoveUp?

We looked for various method to recruit talents in the Ukraine as well as being approached by multiple other companies. MoveUp's proposition and process struck us as the best option and most suitable for to our team DNA.

Describe the engagement in detail.

MoveUp team collected potential candidates, made initial filtering according to our requirements and then proposed them to our recruiters with a CV and.

What was the team composition?

Myself, CTO and our existing TL in Kiev worked with a recruitment agent and an account manger which helped us fine tune the process.

Can you share any outcomes from the engagement that demonstrate progress or success?

In a fairly short period of time (a few months) we were actually able to recruit more than we initially indented as the process went smoothly and we found really good candidates.

How effective was the workflow between your team and theirs?

Communication was great and constant which was a key property for in the workflow.

What did you find most impressive about this vendor?

They were able to get us quality candidates and kept a stable flow of CVs for us to choose from.

Are there any areas for improvement?

We had some small misunderstandings with the candidates at first but this was solved after further discussing our requirements with our POCs in MoveUp.