Smarter hiring for very high caliber talent
Beehive P2P is MENA's first DFSA-regulated lending platform, and a single recruiter runs all of its hiring on Whitecarrot, filling more than 90 high caliber roles across the UAE and Saudi Arabia while Whitecarrot's AI works through the thousands of applications that come in.
Beehive (an e& enterprise company)
Founded in 2013, Beehive is the first regulated peer-to-peer lending platform in the region. It connects small businesses that need funding with investors who want to back them, all under DFSA rules. It's a small team, and because everything is regulated, every hire really matters. One wrong hire can create audit risk or shake investor trust, so hiring here has to be careful, consistent, and well documented.
One recruiter, thousands of CVs
Before Whitecarrot, all of that hiring ran on a
- mix of inboxes,
- LinkedIn messages,
- and spreadsheets.
A single recruiter was doing everything by hand, reading through thousands of applications, setting up interviews, and going back and forth with hiring managers for feedback.
For a business growing this fast while maintaining the qaulity of hires without cutting corners, that way of working simply couldn't keep up.
And because Beehive is regulated, the problem went deeper than just being slow. There was no real record of who had been reviewed, or why someone was turned down. In a business that answers to regulators, that kind of gap is a genuine risk, not just an inconvenience.
Everything in one place, with AI doing the heavy lifting
Whitecarrot changed that by bringing the whole process into one place, with its AI taking the first pass on every role. Over the past year, that one recruiter has been able to open more than 90 roles across the UAE and Saudi Arabia, because Whitecarrot does the heavy lifting of working through the thousands of applications and surfacing the strongest people.
Hiring managers can also run their own junior roles directly, without waiting on HR.
| What changed | Before Whitecarrot | With Whitecarrot |
|---|---|---|
| Where hiring happened | Email, LinkedIn, and spreadsheets | One platform, end to end |
| Screening thousands of CVs | Done by hand | Whitecarrot's AI shortlists the best |
| Interview scheduling | Manual back-and-forth | Handled inside the platform |
| Junior roles | Waited on HR | Hiring managers run them directly |
| Compliance record | Nothing documented | Every decision logged |
| The recruiting team | One recruiter, overloaded | One recruiter, in control |
AI is going to kill a lot of the admin, repetitive work that is a part of recruitment. Anything that has a pattern, AI can replicate, and do it much better and faster. Whitecarrot is already on top of the game. It already does the AI CV review, which still so many other ATS platforms don't have.
Hiring that scales with the business, not with recruiter headcount
across the UAE and Saudi Arabia in the past year
screened by Whitecarrot's AI, not by hand
runs all of Beehive's hiring
For a regulated business like Beehive, hiring is really about trust. Every decision is documented, so there is always a clear record of who was hired and why. With Whitecarrot doing the heavy lifting, a single recruiter can now hire across two countries, keep everything in one place and on the record, and do it all without the company having to grow its recruiting team.
I'm kind of the biggest brand ambassador of Whitecarrot already.
Everything's in the same place. I don't need five million tools to do one thing. Whitecarrot really understands the region and they listen to us, our feedback is listened to and implemented very quickly.