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Customer story
Scaling company — Greece: critical marketing hire
A Greek company of about twenty people needed a marketing manager. There was no full HR team—senior leaders owned hiring. More than 80 CVs arrived for one role, and a fair, thorough process could easily have eaten two months. Lykos Hire ranked people against explicit criteria before interviews started. Client anonymized on the site.
Key takeaways
- 80+ applicants moved from inbound to decision in days, not weeks.
- About 80 hours of interviews and about 20 hours of scheduling avoided versus their estimate of a long manual path.
- Five finalists before the heavy interviewing; hire in about a week.
- Leaders got the critical hire without surrendering two months—anonymous Greek SMB on the page.
The situation
Leadership could not manually read every CV with care. A long interview chain would have clashed with business timing and still risked weak screening.
What we focused on
They set the role bar in Lykos Hire in about a day; applicants finished in about two days; by day five they had a shortlist of five and closed the hire in about a week.
Executives spent their time on finalists, not on opening-round chats with everyone.
What improved
Work that could have spanned two months compressed into days. They estimate about eighty hours of interviews and twenty hours of scheduling avoided. The hiring manager said the ranked shortlist lined up about 80% with how they would have picked the top names themselves.