Renewal by Andersen | Esler Companies Centralizes Recruitment to Drive Business Transformation

Business Challenge

Esler Companies, the holding company for leading Renewal by Andersen affiliates in Arizona, Colorado, Greater Philadelphia, and Southern New England, recognized that its traditional talent approach could not keep pace with a rapidly evolving talent landscape. As the full-service window replacement division of Andersen Corporation—owner of one of America’s most trusted window brands for over 115 years—Esler needed a modern, scalable talent strategy to support continued growth.

To enable this transformation, Esler Companies set out to build a network of talent acquisition partners and a Centralized Recruitment Team, supported by a strong technology partner. The company’s key challenges and requirements included:

• Building a list of top-tier talent to ensure access to high-quality candidates across multiple regions.
• Filling the hiring pipeline at a rate that scales with growth, so recruiting capacity could keep pace with business expansion.
• Streamlining the process for hiring managers and recruiters, reducing friction, manual work, and time-to-hire.
• Finding a user-friendly applicant tracking system (ATS) that recruiters and hiring managers would readily adopt.
• Maintaining long-term relationships with candidates, enabling ongoing engagement, re-engagement, and talent pooling for future roles.

How Lever Helped Solve the Challenge

Esler Companies set a strategic initiative to build a sophisticated talent acquisition function and transition to a recruiter-led hiring model. To support this shift, they selected LeverTRM as their talent acquisition platform.

LeverTRM enabled Esler Companies to:

• Equip hiring teams and recruiters with an intuitive platform – LeverTRM’s user-friendly interface made it easier for teams to source, manage, and hire candidates efficiently.
• Gain at-a-glance insights across large candidate volumes – The platform provided clear, actionable visibility into hundreds of candidates at once, allowing the team to move quickly and make informed decisions.
• Automate candidate nurturing – Automated communications and workflows kept candidates engaged throughout the hiring process, improving the overall candidate experience and reducing manual follow-up.

“We put a strategic initiative in place where we wanted to develop a talent acquisition team and get really smart about hiring and move into a recruiter model,” says Christina Schmit, Director of Talent. That led the company to Lever — the perfect match.

With LeverTRM powering their talent acquisition transformation, Esler Companies achieved remarkable results:

• Eliminated the candidate black hole — every applicant now receives timely communication
• 125 hires per month on average in 2019, scaling the company at an unprecedented pace
• 100% follow-up with applicants for high-volume roles
• Time to fill decreased by 46% — dramatically accelerating the hiring process
• 10x more candidates in the hiring pipeline
• Engineering team size grew by 50% in just 6 months
• Full-time staff increased by 150% in 1.5 years

By centralizing recruitment and leveraging LeverTRM's powerful platform, Esler Companies transformed from an outdated hiring approach to a modern, data-driven talent acquisition operation.