The best three
out of a thousand

Every screen below is real and clickable, on invented data. Nothing here is a mockup. Go and press the buttons.

She read fifteen CVs instead of a thousand. All thousand got read against the same list, at the same standard, in the same hour. Not CV twelve on Monday morning against CV seven hundred and eighty at nine at night. Same attention, all the way down.

All fifteen answered the same six questions. Same clock, one retake each. So she is comparing like with like, not a good phone call on Tuesday against a rushed one late on Thursday.

Tom came 41st on his CV. His resume says team leader, not program manager, so the keyword screen pushed him down. It also says he ran the supplier transition across eleven sites. Nobody rings candidate forty-one. She never would have, and neither would you, and he is the one her client is seeing on Thursday.

Nadia scored higher than three of the six who went forward, and she is not going. A person read the transcript, saw her strongest answer was about a job she left in 2019, and held her. The system put her up. It does not get to decide.

And it says when somebody stopped

One candidate answered two of the six questions and stopped. He shows as 2 of 6. Not scored, not presented, not chased. That is a fact about him, not a gap in the list.

Her client wrote the six questions. So when the answers come back, they are answers to what he actually wanted to know, not to a recruiter's standard set.

He does not wait a week for her write-up and then take her word for it. He gets the six, and if he wants to know how the third one handles a difficult client, he watches her say it. In her own face, in her own words.

Then he tells her which three he wants to meet.

Six questions. Ninety seconds, ninety, sixty, sixty, forty-five, forty-five. One retake each. Six and a half minutes of talking, at the kitchen table, at nine at night, instead of a sick day for a ten o'clock phone call.

Current and expected salary go in a form before recording opens, because nobody should burn forty-five seconds of their answer saying a number.

The last question is what made you apply for this one. It is the only thing a CV cannot carry, and it is the answer that moved Tom from 41st to 4th.

• The candidate's side · the salary form, six timed questions, a real countdown, the offer they sign.
• What the client gets · the brief he edits and approves, the six, the offer he authorises.
• Her back office · every role, client and candidate.
• What is actually running · and where it stops and waits for her.

Nothing moves without her

It reads a thousand and puts fifteen up. It scores thirteen and puts six up. Both of those are suggestions sitting in a queue. She approved every one, and she overruled it twice on this role alone. One of those overrules worked. The other finished last, and it is still in there.