Case Study: Verana Health achieves measurable Quality of Hire and reduced attrition with Searchlight

Verana Created a Performance-Driven Hiring System to Raise their Talent Bar with Searchlight

Verana Health, a digital health company that aggregates real‑world data from more than 20,000 providers, was doubling in size and faced a board-level question: how to scale hiring without sacrificing quality. SVP of People and Culture Ann Watson brought Searchlight into Verana’s tech stack to provide a representative, objective metric of hiring quality and visibility into why some hires succeed while others don’t.

Searchlight implemented its Predictive Talent Solution and Quality of Hire Analytics, integrating with Verana’s ATS and HRIS in four weeks and adding candidate assessments, reference checks, and onboarding guides. The Searchlight system let Verana set a Quality‑of‑Hire OKR (score above 8), surfaced predictive traits of top performers, created a leading indicator of attrition and performance, automated a three‑hour manual reference process, and helped reduce first‑year attrition—enabling higher‑quality hires and clearer reporting to the CEO and Board.

Verana Health

Ann Watson

SVP of People and Culture