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- We call every applicant within 24 hours." I hear it almost every day in sales calls, and it is always meant as a strength. We looked at more than 50,000 calls to see what that promise actually gets you. This is the share of candidates who pick up, by time between application and call attempt: Within 15 minutes: 53% 4 to 24 hours: 34% 24 to 48 hours: 37% More than 48 hours: 33% Call inside the first fifteen minutes and half of them answer. Call inside your 24 hour promise and you only reach a third. That is half of your candidates
- A recruiter can now see everything a candidate was ever sent, in one click. Introducing the candidate timeline in Ringtime. Until now every interaction lived on its own. A call here, an SMS there, an answer somewhere else. To see what one person had received, you clicked through campaigns. You searched on a phone number. You rebuilt the story by hand. At ten candidates that is annoying. At screening volume it stops happening. Our customers said it plainly. Mid screening run, they lost the overview. So we assembled it for them. Open a
- Ask an AI team where the next % of improvement comes from. Most will point at the models, the architecture, ... We did too. Lower latency. Better voices. Squeezing the last couple percent out of the agent. Then a lively Slack thread rewrote one text. The warmup message we send before we ever reach out. Result: 4% more people picking up the phone leading to 2% more conversions in the end. Aka 6 additional candidates were placed the next month. More than the technical work we'd been grinding on. We were staring at the model. The gain
- Two days before every prospect meeting, I write the person an email by hand. It is the least scalable thing I do all week. To be clear: it is not a reminder. The calendar invite already does that, and nobody has ever read a calendar reminder and decided the meeting deserved their Tuesday. The email says two things. That I am looking forward to the call. And one thing I prepared: a question about their business, or something I noticed on their site that I want to check with them. 5 lines max. Typed by me. Sent to one person. Since I
- Ringtime is genomineerd voor HRtech Startup of the Year. 1 jaar terug, Bijna dag op dag, hadden we de eerste brainstorms over wat Ringtime zou gaan worden. Ondertussen 50.000 gescreende kandidaten later voelt dit als een validatie dat we op het juiste pad zitten. We’re just getting started! Stemmen kan tot 31 augustus en het is absoluut mijn bedoeling om iedereen om te kopen met een pintje in ruil voor een stem 🍺
- An agency owner told me his team responds to every applicant within the hour. So we applied to some of their jobs. Hour 1: nothing. Hour 6: nothing. Hour 26: the first and only call He wasn't lying on purpose, he just had no way of knowing. Leadership sells the promise. Candidates experience the reality. In the conversations we've had, those two rarely line up. So we built a responsiveness audit. Three things: - time to first contact - attempts within the first 24 hours - The follow up afterwards - what happens to an application that
- I did 35 cold calls this morning. 28 of them went to voicemail. The people who picked up to tell me no were the best part of it. I keep score on a post-it. A 1 is a voicemail. This morning my sheet was almost one long row of 1s. Before every call I read up. Who is this company, which vacancies have been open for weeks, who owns recruitment there, why am I calling them today and not next month. That part is the work. The call itself takes thirty seconds. Then the phone starts ringing and my expectation climbs with it. Every time.
- Greenhouse's CEO named this year's hiring problem the "AI doom loop": candidates mass-apply with AI, recruiters screen with AI, and nobody can tell who actually wants the job. 254 applicants per role, applications per recruiter up 412%, spray tools for a candidate cost only about $20. The interesting part is in his own company's research. 22% of job seekers use bots. 63% say they are routinely left in the dark after applying for a job (that is up from 51% in 2024).
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