Silicon Valley-based HR-Tech Company announces pivotal move to Toronto to make hiring decisions faster and fairer for Canadians.
TORONTO – June 19, 2024 – Hireguide, a rapidly growing Silicon Valley HR-Tech company focused on improving a billion annual interviews, chose Toronto for its latest expansion.
Hireguide has already started building its Toronto team to support Canadian companies with navigating complex hiring processes. Hireguide has scaled from one to ten Toronto team members in the last 18 months. The company plans to double its presence in Toronto over the next three years.
Hireguide chose Toronto to access the abundance of skilled talent and prolific Canadian client base. Toronto is home to more than half of all Fortune 500 Companies as well as innovative scale-ups. The diversity of the region’s economy and talent base makes the Toronto Region the ideal location for a people-focused company like Hireguide to expand its services.
Time-zone alignment with the U.S. was another factor in Hireguide’s expansion decision, allowing the company to continue seamlessly serving its U.S. customers from Toronto.
Hireguide is a B Corp Company, a certification designated to for-profit corporations with a high social impact. Hireguide is making clearer and fairer interviews accessible to everyone, offering smaller companies the opportunity to apply to use Hireguide’s expert services for free.
Inclusive hiring is at the forefront of Hireguide’s values, making Toronto the perfect environment to make an impact. The Toronto Region has a skilled and educated workforce, with 67 per cent of the regional population having achieved a post-secondary degree – higher than any U.S. metro area.
The talent pool in the region is also among the most diverse in North America. Over half of the Toronto Region’s population is foreign-born, however, a startling lack of foreign-born workers are employed in their chosen profession. Skills-based, structured interviews offer fairer access to economic activity.
“The best companies know that you can’t just spot excellent talent, you need an excellent process to reveal it. We’re using AI and hiring science to do just that,” said Scott Parish, CEO and Founder of Hireguide.
Toronto Global, the Toronto Region’s investment attraction agency, was instrumental throughout Hireguide’s expansion journey, assisting every step of the way to ensure a smooth transition.
“Toronto Global has made doing business in Toronto so easy. They supported everything from setting up bank accounts, establishing a Canadian subsidiary, moving an Engineering leader from Ukraine, and introducing us to customers. It was a complete solution,” said Parish.
“Hireguide operating in Toronto will have a tremendous social and economic impact. Clearing up interview and hiring barriers in the region will allow for faster job growth, ultimately benefiting employers and workers alike. We are thrilled to have worked with an organization with such an imperative mission and look forward to seeing its continued growth in our region,” said Stephen Lund, CEO of Toronto Global.
“Congratulations to the HireGuide team on their expansion in Toronto. Our City is home to one of the most highly skilled and diverse workforces in the world. I am excited to see how Hireguide helps more workers find work and more employers find talent in our city and beyond,” said Oliva Chow, Mayor of Toronto.
Hireguide is a new company, but its impact is spreading. The HR-Tech company has helped over 5,000 Recruiters and Hiring Managers in global companies like Bell, Enbridge, Nike, and more.
Find hundreds of free interview guides, cheat sheets and training at hireguide.com. Book a demo to see the future of interviewing today.
About Hireguide
Great hires start with great interviews – they are the gateway to opportunity at work but resume based interviews are too slow, biased, and poorly predictive of performance. Hireguide is an end-to-end interview management system that helps companies make hiring decisions faster, fairer and twice as predictive of performance. Uniting AI and hiring science makes it easy to adopt best practices at every step. Hiring has always been a journey, finally it’s a smooth one.
Media Contacts
Hireguide:
Scott Parish
CEO & Founder
+1 415 818 2201
[email protected]
Toronto Global:
Julia Sakas
Director of Marketing and Communications
+1 647 926 3524