Keyword matching found you nothing good last time. Here's what we do instead.
Not "open to opportunities." Stack you like. Stack you're done with. Salary floor. Where you're willing to be. What the next two years should look like.
A human. Not a model. They've shipped real code. They know what "senior" actually means at a Series B vs a FAANG.
Three. We don't pad the list. If we can't find three that fit, we say so. The notes explain why each one made the cut.
We schedule. You talk to them. We push back if the offer is low. You take it or pass. We never pressure either side.
Stack. Level. Comp band. Location. One sentence about what makes this role unusual. That's it. Under five minutes.
They pull from active candidates and outbound. Every shortlist candidate has already been spoken to. No cold resumes.
With our notes. What we liked, what gave us pause, what salary they'll actually accept. No CV dumps.
Scheduling, follow-up, offer negotiation. 18% on hire. Zero if you pass. 14-day replacement.
Every search has a named matcher assigned. They're a former engineer, designer, or product person. They've been rejected by bad job posts. They've hired badly. They know both sides.
Matchers don't have a monthly placement target. They have a retention target. If a placement leaves before 12 months, that's a failure. So they don't force fits.
Name, background, email. Not a ticket queue. Not a shared inbox. The same person from brief to offer.