Recruitment and workforce
Cutting nine days out of quote-to-placement
An illustrative scenario based on patterns we see repeatedly in recruitment businesses between £4m and £12m turnover.
This is an illustrative scenario built from patterns we see repeatedly in this sector. It is not a named client engagement, and no figures here are presented as a specific client result.
01 — Context
Consultants were spending more than half their week on administration, roles took nine days to qualify and price, and the highest-value clients were served last because nobody could see the pipeline in one place.
03 — The intervention
Baseline the current cycle with real timings, rebuild the qualification and pricing steps around a single CRM record, automate the repetitive administration, and hold a weekly commercial rhythm against three numbers.
04 — The result
- Qualification and pricing reduced from nine days to under two
- Consultant administration time roughly halved
- Pipeline visible to leadership without a manual report
How this was measured
How this client arrived: Came direct
No standard measure has been tagged for this engagement yet, so the outcomes above are described qualitatively rather than as measured figures.
This is an illustrative scenario. The measures show how we would evidence the result on a named engagement, not a figure achieved by a specific client.
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