Leading Financial Platform Taps Clear Point to Recruit New Hires
As the leading platform for alternative investments, CAIS is accustomed to providing deep expertise. They help advisors realize remarkable outcomes for clients every day.
CAIS’s newest offering is a modern learning system for advisors called CAIS IQ. With CAIS IQ advisors can get smart on exactly what they need to know about alternatives and more, in just minutes a day. When it came time to fill a series of new roles for this division focused on content curation and learning design, the team realized they needed an expert of their own.
“We had never made a hire like this before, so we didn’t quite know what we were looking for,” said Alessandra van der Meulen, the Director of People Experience at CAIS; however, van der Meulen and her team did know that whoever they selected for these new roles would need to be entrepreneurial, quick-thinking, and eager to absorb company culture.
To find candidates with the right mixture of soft and hard skills, CAIS turned to Carol Szatkowski and the team at Clear Point to help select and vet potential hires.
While van der Meulen had worked with many recruiters up to that point, she was impressed with Clear Point’s eagerness to understand the company’s unique needs.
“The biggest point that stuck out to me compared to other recruiters was Carol and her team’s desire to dig into our business and learn who we are,” she said. “Their questions were spot on and helped them narrow down the field and correctly pitch the business.”
This deep dive approach allowed the Clear Point team to find candidates with relevant backgrounds and interests that would fit seamlessly into CAIS operations, rather than taking a scattershot approach. As a result, they were able to identify candidates with backgrounds in content and learning development who also had strong writing skills and a grounding in finance.
Working together, Clear Point and CAIS were able to fill two critical roles with new hires who have “received praise from managers, their team, and the whole firm,” van der Meulen said.
When it comes time to hire again for this division, van der Meulen will turn to Clear Point once more, adding, “I would recommend Clear Point for any business looking for front-end, user experience, or learning-design roles.”