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Research

Sprint

5 weeks

Hiring without the spreadsheet

A twelve person lab replaced a shared spreadsheet with a simple pipeline and clear owners for each stage.

Client

Tidewater Labs

Sector

Research

Duration

5 weeks

Result

Time to offer: 41 to 27 days

Illustration of a hiring funnel with stages narrowing to one

The situation

Tidewater hired six people a year, and every search felt like the first one. Candidates sat in a spreadsheet nobody fully trusted. Offers took 41 days on average.

What we did

  • Defined five stages and one owner for each.

  • Set a rule: every candidate hears something within three working days.

  • Wrote scorecards so interviewers compared like with like.

The numbers

Time to offer dropped to 27 days. Two offers that would have been lost to slower rivals were accepted. Interviewers reported that the scorecards cut debrief meetings from an hour to twenty minutes.

Package used: Sprint, 5 weeks, two add-ons. In the calculator that scope lands around €8,700. Prices on this site are placeholders and every client in this case note is fictional.

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