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Customer story
Financial services recruiter — Netherlands
A Netherlands firm recruiting for financial services clients ran a careful, ATS-led shop with eight specialized recruiters. Volume was pushing them toward “hire more recruiters.” Instead they added Lykos Hire next to the ATS and asked it to absorb first-pass screening first. The agency stays anonymous on the site.
Key takeaways
- Eight recruiters; about 200 applications cleared in about two days in the wave they cited.
- Shortlist: about three weeks down to about two days. Hire: about two months down to about five days.
- About two hours less manual screening per recruiter per candidate.
- Same team absorbed more demand—financial-services positioning, no agency name on the public page.
The situation
Hires were taking about two months; even getting to a shortlist took about three weeks. They could add headcount—or get more from the same eight people—without dulling placement quality or loosening client standards.
What we focused on
Lykos Hire was live in about a day beside their ATS. In the first push, roughly 200 applications were screened in about two days; strong candidates reached client conversations within a few days with the bar unchanged.
Routine screening work dropped so recruiters could stay in front of clients.
What improved
Time-to-hire fell from about two months to about five days; time to shortlist from about three weeks to about two days, as they tracked it. They credit roughly two hours saved per recruiter per candidate on manual screening work, and they met higher demand without an immediate hiring round for more recruiters.