DIY Hiring Trap

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I saw on 𝕏 recently some young business owner who said more or less:

“Why would I pay a recruiter when I can just post jobs and hire people myself?”

It's a fair question, especially as a young gun. 

Here's what I'd say to that question as the founder of a recruiting agency that's placed hundreds of roles for our clients...

The DIY Hiring Trap

You’re running a growing business, and a critical operations role is vacant: someone you need to track deliverables, wrangle contractors, and keep clients happy.

Everything’s stalling without them. So, what’s the next move? You fire up ChatGPT, punch in “operations manager job description,” and let it churn out a generic post…

“Detail-oriented team player wanted. Competitive salary.” You toss it on LinkedIn, Indeed, maybe ZipRecruiter, and wait for the magic.

Then the flood hits. Hundreds of applications pour in—half are unqualified, or bots, auto-applying with gibberish cover letters. The rest? Spray-and-pray types who didn’t even skim your post.

You carve out more hours for interviews: Zoom calls with spotty Wi-Fi, awkward silences, and candidates who oversell their “passion” but undersell their skills. Half defeated, you finally pick someone decent, cross your fingers, and onboard them.

Three months later? They’re floundering. Missing deadlines, botching client handoffs, and dragging your team down. You’ve lost weeks of productivity, your staff’s morale is tanking, and that “competitive salary” is now a sunk cost.

Want to know why even companies with full-time recruiting teams turn to Go Carpathian? Because sifting through this mess takes SO MUCH time, it swamps even in-house full-time hires.

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Why DIY Fails (and How to Fix It)

Here’s the kicker: elite talent, the kind that saves you money and drives results, isn’t scrolling job boards. They’re already crushing it somewhere else, not spamming resumes into the void. Posting and praying might snag you a warm body, but it won’t land the problem-solvers who keep your agency humming.

Picture a client I worked with recently. He was an agency owner grappling with rapid growth and a chaotic hiring process. He needed HubSpot developers and marketing support to manage implementations and expand client work, but his small team couldn’t keep up. Delayed HubSpot setups, missed deadlines, and a stack of unfinished SEO tasks were holding them back. They relied on random, last-minute hires that didn’t pan out. We stepped in with our four recruiting funnels: internal database, job boards, headhunting, and referrals, to snag the right talent quickly.

Within days, we placed a HubSpot developer with three years of experience building custom workflows. He jumped in, cleaned up a messy CRM migration in under a week, and cut the team’s implementation backlog by half, letting them shift focus to landing new clients.

Could our client have gone DIY with this hire? Absolutely not. The speed with which he hired this A-player just couldn’t have been matched by posting a job and praying to see good results.

If you’re struggling to find A-players for your team in the US, Latin America, Eastern Europe, or South Africa, why not see what’s out there by meeting with one of my recruiting specialists?

Worst case, you get to steal more of our playbook for finding incredible overseas talent.

Best case? You never have to worry about hiring A-players ever again.

What have you got to lose? 

Click here to book a free consultation with our recruiting specialists

Until next time,

Nathan

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