When good candidates are falling through your hiring process
Interview feedback is slow. Hiring managers reject shortlists after briefing. Candidates drop after offers. If any of these sound familiar, the problem is the process — not the pipeline. We fix the process.
Discuss your hiring situationWhat broken hiring looks like in practice
Most firms with hiring problems do not have a sourcing problem. They have a process problem. The symptoms are visible in the data — but rarely diagnosed honestly.
A high HM rejection rate after shortlist usually means the role brief is not being translated correctly from hiring manager to sourcing, or the interview panel does not have a clear picture of what they are assessing for.
A low offer-to-join ratio usually means the candidate experience during the interview process was poor, the offer came late, or the compensation benchmarking was off.
Long time-to-fill often means there are too many rounds, feedback loops are slow, or decisions are getting stuck waiting for stakeholder alignment.
These are fixable problems. But fixing them requires an honest audit — not a pep talk about urgency.
What a hiring effectiveness engagement covers
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Audit
We start with the data. We look at your recent hiring activity — shortlist acceptance rates, interview-to-offer conversion, offer-to-join ratios, HM rejection patterns, and time-to-fill by role type. We identify where the process is breaking down and what is causing it.
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Redesign
We redesign the specific parts of the process that are underperforming. This might be the interview structure for a particular role family, the way hiring managers give feedback, the offer communication process, or the way candidates are briefed before interviews. We do not rebuild what is working.
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Implement
We support implementation over a 60-day period — training hiring managers, running a pilot for the redesigned process, and tracking whether the metrics are moving. We do not hand over a document and disappear.
Fixed scope, fixed fee
Hiring effectiveness engagements are priced on a fixed-fee basis. Scope is agreed before engagement starts. There are no variable costs or open-ended retainer commitments.
Typical engagement duration: 8 to 12 weeks.
We will give you a fee indication after a brief scoping conversation. If the scope does not justify the engagement, we will tell you that too.