Why we meet every candidate in person
The slowest part of our process is the part we will never cut.
We meet every candidate in person before we present them to a client. A coffee, a lunch, a walk around the block if that suits them better. It costs us time we could spend on volume. We do it anyway, and in an AI era we always will.
You learn things in a room that a CV will never tell you.
A CV tells you where someone has been. It does not tell you how they think, what they actually want next, or whether the role in front of them is a step forward or a sideways move dressed up as one. Those things come out in conversation and this is an easy and simple competitive edge to help you find better people.
Screening on keywords and resumes alone is fast but flimsy. It is how good people get missed and how the wrong people get through. We would rather go slow at the start than waste everyone's time at the end.
Every interview that does not lead to a hire is wasted energy. Ours, the candidates and our clients.
Face to face is a filter that works in both directions.
Meeting in person is not us assessing them. It is us earning the right to represent them. Engineers have been burned by recruiters who never understood them or their craft. Sitting down is how we show we are not that.
It means when we call a client and say this person is worth your time, we mean it. We have looked them in the eye & we know what they are after; and it'll save you (and them) that awkward interview, when you realise in the first few minuites, that it's clearly not a suit.
It sounds simple, and it is. We understand people deep enough to make the match obvious.
If you are building something special, or you are an engineer still looking for the right team, let's chat and meet face to face!
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