Performance-Based Recruitment

Most recruitment is paid on activity, and incentives shape behaviour: when a firm is paid to submit, the rational move is to submit more. That is where the fifty-CV shortlist comes from, and why so much hiring manager time goes on filtering rather than deciding.

A performance-based model inverts it. Our commercial outcome follows the placement, so sending you a weak profile costs us. It also buys you a conversation most agencies avoid: when a role is priced below the market, or the specification rules out everyone who could actually do it, we say so, because we do not get paid for the submission either way.