in 2020. It was during his time at Trinity that the idea for Mote took root. “I noticed that highly qualified graduates and students were unable to work in offices due to Covid yet there was a big demand from growing tech companies to hire,” he says. “So Mote was started in response to this, providing a service that connected remote companies with talented master’s students.
Roche describes Mote as a hybrid of traditional tech recruitment and a CRM tool for managing talent. “Very often companies don’t get the results they need from traditional recruiters as their systems are inefficient and many CRMs aren’t well equipped to handle sourcing campaigns,” he says. “Our system provides better results and a higher response rate – around 43 per cent – by using a data-driven tool to build a talent pipeline for growing companies based on their specific hiring needs.