What Happens Between Placement and Payroll
For many recruiters, the job feels done at placement.
The role is filled, the offer is accepted, and attention quickly moves on to the next brief. But in reality, placement is only the midpoint of the recruitment lifecycle, and what happens next is often where the most friction, risk, and inefficiency sits.
This “in-between” stage rarely gets talked about, yet it has a direct impact on candidate experience, client trust, and operational stability.
The Hidden Cost of Bad Recruitment Systems
Most recruitment businesses know when something isn’t working, but few can quantify the cost of it.
Bad recruitment systems rarely fail in obvious ways. They don’t usually crash or stop teams from working altogether. Instead, they quietly slow things down, introduce friction, and create inefficiencies that compound over time.
For recruiters, that hidden cost adds up faster than many realise.
Salesforce Agentforce & Data Cloud — What This Means for Business Leaders
Salesforce’s ongoing expansion of Agentforce and Data Cloud represents more than another product update. It signals a shift in how enterprises should think about CRM platforms: from systems of record to systems of intelligent action. For leadership teams, these enhancements are not just technical news — they have strategic implications for operational confidence, data governance, […]
Because Retention Isn’t a Reaction — It’s a Relationship
When people leave, most companies react.They start talking about counteroffers, culture, or pay — as if one conversation could undo months of quiet frustration. But by the time you’re reacting, you’ve already lost them. Retention isn’t something you fix after a resignation. It’s something you nurture long before it happens. It’s built in the small, […]
Year-End Fatigue in Recruitment — and How Jarvis Lightens the Load
Year-end fatigue in recruitment hits differently. Unlike most industries, recruiters don’t get to wind down — Q4 is your sprint to the finish. Targets, invoices, onboarding, and compliance all pile up just as your energy starts running out.
But this is where Jarvis earns his keep.
You Can’t Afford to Underpay Your Best People: Replacing Them Costs More
Compensation isn’t just about numbers. It’s about respect. When an employee knows they’re being paid fairly, they show up differently. They think longer-term, collaborate more openly, and invest in the company’s goals as if they’re their own.
Re-Humanising Recruitment Technology: Building Tools Recruiters Actually Love
For all the talk about innovation in recruitment tech, too many systems still forget who they’re built for.
The Unsung Art of QA: A Developer’s Secret Weapon
Perfection isn’t an accident — it’s tested
The Invisible Workload: Why Recruiters Need More Than Coffee to Survive Q4
As the year-end surge hits, recruiters spend more time maintaining records than nurturing relationships. Burnout doesn’t always announce itself as exhaustion — sometimes it’s subtle: slower replies, missed reminders, small mistakes that snowball.
Just A Recruiter’s Very Intelligent Sidekick: The Story of Jarvis
There’s a quiet kind of chaos that fills a recruiter’s day. Emails pinging. Candidates calling. Clients changing their minds five minutes before an interview. Somewhere between the compliance checklists and the coffee refills, recruiters perform a daily balancing act that would make a tightrope walker nervous. It’s not easy being the heartbeat of hiring. At […]
