Case Study: WaterSmart achieves 108% staff growth in 6 months with Jobvite Hire

Drought in California Leads to Flood of Application

WaterSmart Software, a startup that helps utilities and consumers track and reduce water use (its platform has saved over 1.7 billion gallons), faced a surge in demand during California’s drought as business tripled in 2014. That attention brought a flood of applicants that overwhelmed a small hiring team relying on manual Word/Excel tracking, creating an urgent need to scale recruiting quickly and efficiently.

WaterSmart adopted Jobvite Hire’s centralized ATS with social sharing and collaborative workflows, enabling employees across the company to source, track and evaluate candidates in one place. Within six months the company grew from about 12 to 25 full‑time employees (a 108% increase), added multiple interns, cut time‑to‑hire to roughly 55 days, and established a scalable, data‑driven recruiting process to support further growth.

WaterSmart

Jeff Lipton

Director of Marketing