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Arctic Shores
Behaviour-based assessments for recruitment
- 21-100 employees
- B2B
- Artificial Intelligence
- Recruitment
- Data Analysis
- Central Retail District, Manchester, UK
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Company mission
To give every individual the opportunity to show their potential, and every employer the means to see it.
Our take
With the vision to creating a more diverse and fulfilled workforce, Arctic Shores combines neuroscience, AI, and game technology to help companies make more objective and informed hiring choices, and people make better career decisions.
The company's science-backed and user-centric psychometric assessments disrupt the candidate selection process by putting more value on "soft-skills". The tests generate behavioural insights, and can be used to reduce the barriers to entry for talent, widen hiring pools, increase excellence, and save both time and money for recruiting companies.
Arctic Shores has attracted customers including the likes of BBC, PwC, Siemens, and Capita, and has partnered with other innovators in the space including SmartRecruiters and Teamtailor. Considerable funds raised by the company will enable it to expand into Europe, delivering more productive, engaged recruiters, and faster, fairer hires to companies throughout the region.
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Benefits
- Private medical and mental health cover with Vitality for all our Explorers, as well as 2 mental wellbeing days each year
- Aviva pension scheme, offering 3% employer and 5% employee contributions (calculated on full salary)
- A laptop, monitor, and anything else you need to work comfortably and productively
- One "Own Day" each month – a day for you to work on a personal project, to read, research, or develop new skills
- Flexible & remote working
- 28 days holiday per year, plus public holidays. You'll also get an additional day for every year's service at Arctic Shores, up to four years
- Personal Development budget
- Share Options scheme
- Cycle2Work scheme
- Hubs in central London and Manchester
Company values
- Making a difference: We can’t change everything. But we can contribute to a world of work that’s truly fair and inclusive, and do our bit to build a better society.
- Growing together: We invest in our ability, learn from our setbacks, and always celebrate the people behind our progress. By growing together, we go further.
- Exploring, always: Changing the way the world sees potential takes curiosity, drive, and bravery. With that explorer’s spirit, we break new ground.
Funding (2 rounds)
Jan 2023
$7.3m
SERIES B
Sep 2019
$5.5m
SERIES A
Total funding: $12.8m
Leadership
Robert Newry
(Managing Director)Previously Director of Operations at Ricoh HK for 2 years. Co-founded NewField IT.
Safe Hammad
(CTO)Previously worked as a Senior Technology Analyst at Goldman Sachs, and as a Software Developer at Bank of America Merrill Lynch.