Very quickly, Remotivate was able to weed out unqualified candidates with their proprietary processes and hone in on an excellent candidate for the Jolly SEO co-founders.

The Remotivate team interviewed the most qualified 9 of the original 72 applicants and narrowed the field to 3 top choices for Greg and Morgan. From there, the Jolly SEO team helped select the final hire.

Greg remarked on how easy and efficient he found the process to be from their side: “It was very hands-off for us, and the quality of candidates was exactly what we needed. You saved us so much time.”

In just 4 short weeks, a winning candidate emerged, and T.R. Dougherty became Jolly SEO’s new Operations Manager.

Greg says that T.R. “really exceeded our expectations”, during Remotivate’s pre-hire “strategic test project,” real-world work examples like a 30-60-90 day plan and other strategic exercises designed to test a candidate’s real-world analytical skills.

Despite needing to pivot the role in the middle of the hiring process from the original “Head of Operations” to the final “Operations Manager” version, Morgan loved that the shift didn’t create additional costs for them.

“I liked the fact that when we needed to pivot the role, it didn’t increase the cost of the scope.”

Having been skeptical of recruiting firms in the past due to their “obscured” pricing strategies or “astronomical” fees, according to Greg, Remotivate’s flat fee strategy was like a breath of fresh air.

“The flat fee and the way that you organized it for different roles at different price points just made so much sense to us – we knew you would do a better job than us, so the ROI’s obvious.”