ROIKOI

Discover great people.

Overview
**Purpose:**
Hiring is hard and expensive. There are tools that show who people know and who’ve they worked with (LinkedIn, of course), but no tools that show who they actually think are ***great***. Studies show that hires driven by referrals stay at companies at least 70% longer than non-referral hires.
**Objective:**
Most companies have a referral program, but most employees don’t have the recruiting knowledge to understand which of their connections might be fit for open roles, other than job titles. Our goal was to figure out a scalable, accurate, and intuitive way to map each person’s top connections to a company’s needs.
**Approach:**
We began by meeting with recruiting companies, as well as HR staff (recruiters) at various tech companies in Austin to get a real understanding of their challenges and their current tools and methodology in hiring. We relentless prototyped, wireframed, and tested with these individuals throughout the entire development cycle

01_Research & Interviews

We began by meeting with recruiting companies, as well as HR staff (recruiters) at various tech companies in Austin to get a real understanding of their challenges and their current tools and methodology in hiring.

A lot of them operated in the same way, combing sites such as LinkedIn, making connections, inputting data into a rolodex in case one candidate didn’t make at Company X but could possibly one day make it at Company Y.

02_Plan

We began initially by not wanting to create just another massive searchable rolodex of prospects. ROIKOI actually started with the idea of generating leaderboards through a simple game of your network connections. The more people you actually wanted to work with, the higher on the leaderboard they’d climb.

This got a lot of great feedback from individuals because it allowed potential users to really search out not only great performers, but those that would make good cultural fits.

03_Exploration

The more ideas the better.

I believe in exploring with whatever tools make sense. Personally, in this stage, it’s about generating as many ideas that help solve your key issues for each user and as a whole. Whiteboarding, sketches, low fidelity mockups, etc. whatever you need to use to express your ideas clearly.

You never know what idea or avenue you might explore that might connect with someone else. Don’t throw away any idea you may think may be too stupid or difficult. I often joke it’s nice to get the bad ones out of the way too.