Case Study: Simply Business saves recruitment costs and hires 43 Ruby engineers with Talentful

Saving Simply Business $130,158 on recruitment costs

Simply Business, one of the UK’s largest small business insurance providers, wanted to scale engineering hiring by 50% in 2019, with a focus on hard-to-fill Ruby engineer roles. However, it lacked a specialist tech talent acquisition function in-house, relying heavily on external agencies and having no established pipeline or hiring process for these specialist roles.

Talentful embedded a Client Lead and two Talent Partners with Simply Business to build a stronger tech hiring process, upskill internal teams, improve candidate and hiring-manager experience, and centralize reporting and sourcing. As a result, Talentful helped Simply Business hire 43 mid-to-senior Ruby engineers and save $130,158 versus a traditional agency model, later adding a third Talent Partner to support diversity, employer branding, and tech events.

Simply Business

Jennifer Gabrielle-Chapman

Head of Talent Acquisition