CUSTOMER STORY · VENTURE CAPITAL & STARTUP ECOSYSTEM
How Mainstage HUB reduced average hiring time by 40% with an AI-powered hiring workflow.
Mainstage HUB hires employees, contractors, interns, graduates and freelancers globally. CVViZ connected job creation, candidate reach, communication, screening and GDPR activity in one hiring process.
- 40% reduction in average hiring time
- Global hiring across varied workforce types
- Frankfurt, Germany
- AI screening, tracked email and GDPR workflows in CVViZ
G2
4.5/5G2 rating
SOC 2Type II
GDPRCompliant
VERIFIED CUSTOMER OUTCOME
40%reduction in average hiring time
Globalhiring reach
5workforce types
Mainstage Incubator U
Frankfurt, Germany
TRUSTED BY 1,000+ COMPANIES FROM 35+ COUNTRIES
THE COMPANY
An ecosystem helping ambitious entrepreneurs build and scale world-changing startups in the heart of Europe.
Mainstage HUB supports startups with customer acquisition, fundraising, marketing and ecosystem activities. Because the companies it serves grow globally, Mainstage also hires globally across several workforce types.
- Company: Mainstage Incubator U
- Location: Frankfurt, Germany
- Industry: Venture capital and startup ecosystem
- Hiring: Employees, contractors, interns, graduates and freelancers
CUSTOMER VOICE
Swen Wegner
CEO
Mainstage HUB
BEFORE CVVIZ
LinkedIn, campus hiring and a basic HRMS module left the hiring process fragmented.
Mainstage HUB used LinkedIn for lateral hiring and campus recruitment for fresh graduates. Spreadsheets and email carried much of the tracking work before the team moved to the basic recruitment module included with its HRMS.
CHANNELS
LinkedIn and campus recruitment
LinkedIn supported lateral hiring, while campus recruitment was used to reach fresh graduates.
TRACKING
Spreadsheets and email
Candidate progress and communication were largely tracked across spreadsheets and email.
EXISTING SYSTEM
A basic HRMS recruitment module
The included module lacked the smart recruitment automation Mainstage needed to speed up hiring.
“CVViZ is helping us create a Job Post, host our company Career Page and prioritize applications based on the AI-powered resume screening algorithm. Thanks to this, we got to talk to amazing talents and hire some of them as well.”
Swen WegnerCEO, Mainstage HUB
THE CONNECTED WORKFLOW
CVViZ connected candidate reach, communication, screening and GDPR work.
Mainstage needed to reach specialized candidates, keep communication visible, review growing resume volume and reduce manual GDPR work. CVViZ brought those activities into a single workflow.
CHALLENGE 01
Reach the right candidates
Startup incubation requires varied roles that can be difficult to find.
CVVIZ RESPONSE
Niche sourcing and multi-site posting
CVViZ helps find talent on platforms such as Behance, Stack Overflow and GitHub, and posts jobs across multiple job sites.
CHALLENGE 02
Fragmented candidate communication
The existing HRMS module did not show the complete email exchange between recruiters and candidates.
CVVIZ RESPONSE
Tracked email inside CVViZ
Recruiters can send and receive email in CVViZ and track opens and link clicks.
CHALLENGE 03
Screen every resume
Scaling across many roles made manual resume screening time consuming.
CVVIZ RESPONSE
AI screening and ideal-profile reranking
CVViZ screens applications quickly and supports reranking against an uploaded ideal candidate profile.
CHALLENGE 04
Manual GDPR activity
GDPR compliance work was handled manually, making it time consuming and tedious.
CVVIZ RESPONSE
A practical GDPR toolkit
CVViZ automates GDPR compliance-related activity in a few clicks.
WHY CVVIZ
A practical hiring system for creating jobs, hosting a career page and prioritizing applications.
Mainstage used CVViZ to bring sourcing, applications, AI prioritization and stakeholder communication into the same applicant tracking workflow.
“The smart automations that CVViZ Applicant Tracking System offer makes our life easy. For example, CVVIZ has an email integration, it is easy to send emails directly from the platform and also involve necessary stakeholders within the company.”
Swen WegnerCEO, Mainstage HUB
OUTCOMES
A faster hiring process for a global, mixed-workforce talent model.
Mainstage reported a 40% reduction in average hiring time while using CVViZ to reach, communicate with and prioritize candidates in one workflow.
40%
Reduction in average hiring time
The headline result reported by Mainstage HUB after adopting CVViZ.
Global
Hiring reach
Mainstage hires globally to support companies growing beyond their home markets.
5
Workforce types
Employees, contractors, interns, fresh graduates and freelancers are all part of the hiring mix.
AI RESUME SCREENING
Ideal-profile reranking helped Mainstage focus time on the most relevant applications.
As more resumes entered the platform, Mainstage found the ranking more useful. Uploading an ideal candidate profile and running the ranking again helped the team prioritize review time.
- AI-powered application prioritization
- Ideal candidate profile can be used for reranking
- Recruiter time focused on more relevant candidates
“The more resumes we received through the platform, the more accurate the rating has. Especially by uploading the ‘IDEAL’ Candidate profile and then running the ranking again, has helped us prioritize the time to spend. It helped us massively.”
Swen WegnerCEO, Mainstage HUB
CONNECTED EXPERIENCE
“Thanks to this, we got to talk to amazing talents and hire some of them as well.”
Swen WegnerCEO, Mainstage HUB
THE RELATED PRODUCT JOURNEY
Explore the CVViZ capabilities behind Mainstage HUB’s faster hiring process.
Connect application tracking, AI screening and candidate reach around the hiring workflow your team already uses.
CONNECTED WORKFLOW
AI Applicant Tracking System
Bring recruiters, hiring managers, candidates, interviews and feedback into one shared hiring workflow.
FASTER REVIEW
AI Resume Screening
Use role-aware screening to focus recruiter attention while keeping people in control of progression decisions.
APPLICANT REACH
Job Posting
Distribute jobs through supported paid and free channels and return applications to the same candidate workflow.
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
Mainstage HUB customer story questions, answered.
Mainstage HUB reported a 40% reduction in its average hiring time.
The team used LinkedIn for lateral hiring, campus recruitment for fresh graduates, spreadsheets and email for tracking, and later the basic recruitment module included with its HRMS.
CVViZ supported talent discovery on niche platforms such as Behance, Stack Overflow and GitHub, alongside posting jobs to multiple job sites.
Mainstage used AI-powered prioritization and uploaded an ideal candidate profile to rerun the ranking and focus review time.
Recruiters could send and receive email within CVViZ, see email exchanges, and track opens and link clicks.
The CVViZ GDPR toolkit automated compliance-related activities that Mainstage had previously handled manually.
BUILD A FASTER HIRING WORKFLOW
Bring sourcing, communication, screening and GDPR activity into one CVViZ workflow.
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G2
4.5/5G2 rating
SOC 2Type II
GDPRCompliant