Proof
The numbers behind the function.
Every figure below traces to a named external source or to our own tracked engagements since January 2025. The stories are public and the citations link out.
The stories
Four roles that should not have closed the way they did.
“We were sold on the first profile.”
“You have helped us hire great people, they are doing so well.”
“Your candidates get hired and we look good.”
The function in numbers
What the system does, measured.
The benchmark beside each number is the world everyone else works in. Ratios hold for aligned engagements; distant ones drift, and we say so.
Niche tech loses 1 in 3. We lose 1 in 9. A 3x better outcome, same market.
There is now one dropout for every three offers made compared with a typical dropout rate of one in five offers.Source ↗
The industry rule of thumb is 8 to 12. We send 2, and the filtering never lands on your calendar.
If you have 100 applicants, shortlisting 8 to 12 of them is a feasible goal.Source ↗
Agencies target 3 to 5 business days and often take weeks.
Across 175 roles, the median time from role opening to first shortlist in client review is 2 days.
Globally the load runs close to 4 and has grown over 40% in three years.
Technical roles require more, averaging 17.6 interviews per hire, a 52% increase from 2021.Source ↗
The industry curve points the other way; interview load keeps rising.
On one long engagement the share of the shortlist the client chose to interview rose from 20% to 49% over a year.
A flat fee earns nothing from an inflated offer; a percentage of CTC earns more.
20 of the last 21 tracked offers closed inside the client stated salary band.
Companies we have run hiring for
See it on your own roles.
Hand us the roles you are hiring for now, or watch the film first.