Navigating the Changing Tides of Tech Recruitment: The Future of Hiring
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Use Kay: AI Co-Pilot to predict performance gaps, generate insights, and automate workflows. With Kay,achieving high engineering outcomes is easier than ever before.
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Ensure timely, high-quality project delivery that aligns with business objectives. Predict and address skill and performance gaps before they impact delivery.
Foster team growth through coaching, feedback, and career development. Improve PDPs, set clear OKRs, conduct data-driven appraisals, and execute more impactful 1:1 meetings.
Build high-performing teams by hiring the right talent and assigning them to the right projects. Provide targeted learning opportunities where necessary to further develop team skills.
Streamline engineering workflows to enhance efficiency and product quality. Automate repetitive tasks to reduce manual effort and improve speed.
Free up more time to focus on solving complex technical problems, rather than getting bogged down by administrative and manual tasks.
The only platform built to match, manage, and maximize engineering outcomes.
This feature breaks down your engineering roadmap- looking at upcoming projects, timelines, and complexity- to identify the types of roles, seniority levels, and skills you'll need to deliver on time. It provides a structured mapping of workload to capacity.
Outcome: Engineering managers can avoid resource shortages and plan hiring or team shifts before problems arise.
Using real-time data on current team workload, skills, and roadmap requirements, Notchup forecasts upcoming gaps—whether in skills, team size, or role coverage.
Outcome: You can act early to upskill, hire, or restructure before project execution hits a bottleneck.
This feature tracks behavioral and engagement signals (like drop in performance, lack of collaboration, disengagement) to alert you about team members at risk of leaving.
Outcome: You can step in early to retain key talent or prepare for a smooth handover, reducing team disruption.
Generates budget forecasts based on predicted hiring needs, market salary data, contractor vs. full-time mix, and ramp-up periods. Integrates with roadmap timelines for cost-phase alignment.
Outcome: Lets you go into quarterly or annual planning with clear cost visibility—backed by data, not guesswork.
Access a curated pool of pre-vetted engineers from across the globe, already matched against your tech stack, cultural needs, and experience requirements.
Outcome: Instead of starting every hire from scratch, you get qualified candidates in hours- not weeks.
Automatically generate structured interview plans: assign panel members, create evaluation templates, and schedule sessions based on availability.
Outcome: Reduces calendar chaos, standardizes candidate assessments, and improves coordination across teams.
Based on your roadmap and current team, Notchup drafts role-specific job descriptions that reflect required tools, expected outcomes, and alignment with company culture.
Outcome: Saves you from writing generic JDs and improves applicant quality and relevance.
Side-by-side candidate comparison across skills, behavioral attributes, past performance signals, and team fit - presented through an AI-generated talent scorecard.
Outcome: Removes bias and guesswork, helping you choose the right hire based on deep-fit metrics, not just gut feeling.
Automates repetitive steps like candidate outreach, follow-ups, status updates, interview reminders, and feedback collection.
Outcome: Streamlines hiring operations so your team can focus on evaluating talent- not managing manual workloads.
Analyzes current skills, project needs, and individual development goals to recommend personalized learning paths or mentorship opportunities.
Outcome: Enables proactive upskilling that’s aligned with actual delivery requirements- not one-size-fits-all training.
Provides you with conversation guides, data insights, performance highlights, and prior action items to structure your 1:1 meetings for maximum impact.
Outcome: Makes your check-ins more strategic and less administrative- building stronger relationships and resolving issues early.
Set Objectives and Key Results that align with company goals and cascade them across your teams. Track progress in real-time with performance and delivery data.
Outcome: Creates alignment, accountability, and focus- ensuring everyone knows what success looks like and how they contribute.
Review submitted work (code, tasks, deliverables) with context on project goals, sprint priorities, and past performance. Built-in feedback options streamline quality checks.
Outcome: Speeds up approvals and ensures consistent delivery standards without micromanagement.
Visualizes team structures, roles, collaboration patterns, and workload distribution. Identifies inefficiencies, underutilized resources, or overburdened engineers.
Outcome: Gives you the full picture so you can rebalance teams, address inefficiencies, and support better delivery.
Quickly shift engineers between projects or squads based on current needs, availability, and skill match. All transitions are tracked and communicated seamlessly.
Outcome: Enables fast, confident resource decisions that reduce idle time and prevent burnout - without the usual operational chaos.
Uses behavioral signals and communication data (e.g., feedback patterns, engagement scores) to flag early signs of friction or collaboration breakdowns.
Outcome: Gives you the chance to intervene early and resolve conflicts before they impact morale or performance.
Consolidates delivery data, peer feedback, skill growth, and engagement signals into a well-rounded performance view - no more relying on subjective judgments alone.
Outcome: Leads to fairer, more actionable reviews that motivate growth and reduce attrition.
Identifies slow squads, flags delivery risks early, and injects matched talent within 24 hours.
Identifies slow squads, flags delivery risks early, and injects matched talent within 24 hours.
Maps the codebase touncover weak ownership, flag risk zones, and recommend domain-fit engineers.
Turns live team signals into smart 1:1s, AI-powered feedback, and scalable mentorship programs.
Optimize team allocation, predict bottlenecks & ensure workload balance.
Get AI-powered insights for meaningful conversations with your team.
Automate team progress tracking & skill development plans.
Tailored learning paths to upskill engineers & future-proof your team.
AI-driven assessments to identify high performers &improvement areas.
Predict attrition and accelerate team growth by 75% with proactive hiring.
Notchup empowers tech leaders to hire smarter and faster with AI. Achieve 80% faster hiring cycles, 0% mis-hires, and fully aligned, high-performing teams without the usual hiring friction. See how fast your next engineering team could come together.
Optimize teams based on your exact needs whether it’s specific skills, delivery goals, or domain fit. Notchup surfaces the right talent and insights, so your next high performing team is always within reach.
Turn interest into action with smarter candidate engagement. Notchup’s AI ensures every interaction feels timely and personal so top engineers stay informed, excited, and ready to convert.
Say goodbye to slow hiring cycles. Hire elite engineers quickly with AI-powered shortlisting.
Automate planning, hiring, and team operations, saving you 10+ hours per week on admin and meetings.
Save thousands in talent acquisition costs while improving team quality with pre-vetted candidates.
Spot potential issues early, preventing attrition and boosting productivity across teams.
Make unbiased, data-backed hiring and performance decisions to enhance team effectiveness.
Find out how Notchup’s AI-driven hiring transforms talent acquisition for lasting success.
Notchup's dedicated team helped us deliver projects 20% faster. Their consistent, high-quality resources were essential for our on-time sprints.
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Notchup's dedicated team was instrumental in delivering a user-friendly and viable MVP for ARMD. Their flexibility in scaling our team up or down as needed hasbeen invaluable.
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Notchup helped us scale from MVP to a European unicorn with theirperfect blend of talent, certifications,and compliance—all in one place
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