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Last week, one of our clients (a home services founder) hired the first candidate we showed him.
That sentence catches most people off guard.
But honestly, it shouldn't, because it happens about half the time with our placements at Go Carpathian. Roughly 50% of our clients hire from the very first set of candidates we show them.
Most founders can't picture that.
They've been hiring for eight weeks. Four rounds of interviews. Twelve candidates. Still no hire.
The math on most hiring processes is brutal.
You post a job. You get 200 resumes.
You filter down to 20. You interview 8.
Two ghost you. Two want 40% more than your budget.
One bombs the second round.
By the time you have a finalist, you have spent eight weeks of your own time, and the role is still costing you money every week it sits open.
I call this the Hiring Marathon. It is the single biggest reason founders burn out on growing their team.
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Book a call by Friday. Make a hire. We’ll give you $1,000
That’s 2 tickets to Europe. Yours the day your new candidate signs. (Cabo works too. We’re not auditing.)
This is the last week to claim your tickets. Spots are limited.
So why did our client say yes to the first person?
This specific client runs a growing home services business. And the candidate we introduced him to wasn't the first resume in the pile. But, she was the first person who already fit.
That means:
She had several years of home services experience. Not adjacent, not transferable. The actual industry.
She matched the job description the founder gave us.
She was inside the budget. No 40% surprise on the offer call.
She was ready to start immediately. No three-month notice period, no maybe.
She was already vetted and interviewed by our recruiters before the founder ever saw her.
So when the founder got on the call, he wasn't screening a stranger. He was confirming a fit we had already confirmed.
He met the candidate, ran his own gut check, and the vibe was right. One conversation. Done.
That is the difference. We don't send a pile of maybes. We send a short list of close matches. He only needed to meet one to know.
And he's not the exception.
About half of our clients hire one of the very first candidates we show them. That happens by design, because the filtering is done before you ever open your calendar.
Here’s a Little Sneak Peek Behind The Scenes...
We source from four channels (regional job boards, headhunting employed talent, region-specific content, and referral partners).
We vet for English, time zone overlap, role fit, and high-agency behavior before the first introduction.
We also look for industry-specific experience when it matters, like it did here. By the time a candidate is in front of you, the marathon is already over.
The pushback I hear most is, "if it is that fast, the bar must be low."
The opposite is true. The bar is high. We’ve just got the added advantage of having an existing elite talent pool.
And, you get to meet three incredible candidates from our pool just 2-3 days after your initial Discovery call.
What Changes When The Hiring Marathon Ends?
You get your evenings back, the role gets filled while it still matters, and the person doing the job is glad to be there. That is what hiring is supposed to look like.
If you have a role that has been open too long, that is the situation we solve.
Reply to this email or book a call with our recruitment specialists below, and we will show you why so many of our clients hire from the first batch we show them.
And, if you book a call with us by the end of the week, we’ll send you a $1,000 Delta gift card as soon as your hire is made.
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Until next time,
Nathan
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