Finding An AI Workflow Engineer Candidate with Catalyst^™-Match

In today’s competitive hiring landscape, recruiters are tasked with finding candidates who possess both traditional technical skills and adaptability to emerging technologies. A recent search exemplified this challenge: the role required a seasoned full-stack web developer, with further expertise in emerging AI tools.

These hybrid skill sets are in high demand, but such high-quality candidates are often difficult to source quickly. The client, a major player in the entertainment industry, where brand prestige and urgency added a layer of complexity. The right candidate not only needed to meet the technical requirements but also be a fit for technical management of household-name media companies.

Tandym was looking to fill a highly specialized AI Workflow Developer role requiring a narrow and hard-to-find skill set. The ideal candidate was a software developer with a traditional background in information architecture development or software engineering that would be developing AI workflows for existing processes.

However, the candidate also needed to be adaptable and eager to develop new AI tools, which are rapidly becoming essential across clients’ technical processes. On top of these requirements, the client was looking for candidates that work with high-profile entertainment and media brands.

The recruiter faced a dilemma: find a candidate for a well-established business to wear multiple hats that required niche, specialized, skillsets.

Assessing the full technical skill set of a candidate is often easier said than done. With AI tools launching and evolving at a rapid pace, the terms defining candidate requirements also change frequently.

Anticipating this challenge, the team at Tandym was able to build several searches within
Catalyst^™-Match to compare different candidate profiles. The candidate needed specific
experience with YAML, Java, and integrations with platforms like Airtable. Additionally, the
candidate would be tasked with transforming existing process into AI-enabled decision making
engines, requiring a cutting-edge understanding of this new space.

Catalyst^™-Match surfaced quality candidates from outside of the entertainment industry, helping the recruiter to find candidates who wouldn’t have presented as obvious fits otherwise.

The shortlist of candidates with the required underlying knowledge and technical ability more than compensated for the skill gap and specific client needs.

“Catalyst^™-Match made a significant impact in this scenario. With AI evolving rapidly, many
clients are eager to enhance their tech stacks with cutting-edge talent. In what would normally be a lengthy and challenging search for niche AI expertise, Catalyst^™ swiftly pinpointed the right candidate saving valuable time and meeting the client’s high-demand requirements with precision.” – Ruth Lozano, Tandym Recruiter

Tandym successfully delivered a highly qualified candidate to a client seeking rare and specialized skills for a new business within an already well-established organization.

This example showcases the power of Tandym Catalyst^™ to not only find specialized
candidates in emerging industries. It allowed Tandym Group to do it in record time for a
company pivoting their strategy looking to bring in the best of the best for their venture. This is one of many stories where Catalyst^™-Match helped recruiters find qualified candidates for
niche roles at scale and within minutes.