What you read here is the role, the company size and the time to hire. We do not round
numbers and we do not drop timeframes. The company names are missing because these companies did not consent to
being named – in the first call we go through every case.
Anchor case Special-purpose machinery · 50+ employees
14 days to the hire
- Sought
- Field service technician
- Starting point
- Installed base at customer sites, service contracts falling behind, the role had been posted on a job board for months.
- Result
- 31 applications, one field service technician hired – fourteen days after launch.
CNC machinery · 80+ employees
25 days to the hire
- Sought
- CNC service technician
- Result
- One qualified CNC service technician, hired after 25 days.
Machinery · 50+ employees
4 hires in the first month
- Sought
- Service and maintenance technicians
- Result
- 44 applications in the trial month, four hires from them.
Materials engineering · 50+ employees
8 hires in four months
- Sought
- Machinists, logistics, marketing lead
- Starting point
- Three divisions at once, each with its own candidate market.
- Result
- Over 100 applications and eight hires across four months.
Intralogistics · industrial group
45 applications hired after 30 days
- Sought
- Field service technician
- Result
- 45 applications, one service technician hired after 30 days.
Precision machining · 15 employees
3 candidates for two roles, in the first month
- Sought
- CNC machinists
- Starting point
- Two open machinist roles in a small company with no HR department.
- Result
- Three qualified candidates in the trial month – one role more than planned.
Metal forming · 60+ employees
18 applications first hire in under a month
- Sought
- Welder
- Result
- 18 qualified applications, the first hire in under a month.
Metal and plant engineering · 200+ employees
2 fitters in the first month
- Sought
- Assembly / field fitters
- Starting point
- Two assembly roles that had been open for over a year.
- Result
- Both roles filled within the trial month.
Pump technology · 20+ employees
1 hire despite a narrow requirement profile
- Sought
- Service technician, narrow profile
- Starting point
- A profile the company itself considered unfillable – pump technology plus field service plus on-call duty.
- Result
- One qualified pump-technology service technician hired.
Steel construction · 75+ employees
30 days to the hire
- Sought
- Project manager
- Result
- One qualified project manager, hired after just under 30 days.
Machinery · 12+ employees
4 weeks to the hire
- Sought
- Service technician
- Starting point
- A small company with no HR department; management handled recruiting on the side.
- Result
- One qualified service technician hired in under four weeks.
Machining and grinding · 25+ employees
2 hires 30 days each
- Sought
- Miller and turner
- Starting point
- Two separate profiles, filled one after the other through the same channel.
- Result
- One miller and one turner, each hired after 30 days.
Machine factory · 20+ employees
3 apprenticeships filled in 45 days
- Sought
- Apprentices, technical trades
- Starting point
- The training year was about to start with three places unfilled.
- Result
- Over 60 applications in 45 days, three hires for the training intake.
Sheet metal processing · 50+ employees
4 hires across three role profiles
- Sought
- Machine operators, warehouse staff, driver
- Starting point
- Three different profiles from the same regional candidate market.
- Result
- One machine operator, one driver and two warehouse staff hired.