For Recruiting Firms: How to Cut Time-to-Submit So You Shortlist Before Your Competitors

In agency recruiting, speed wins deals. The firm that submits qualified candidates first usually gets the placement, and everyone else is working a req that’s already been filled. Yet most of your time-to-submit disappears into manual screening, chasing candidate details, and re-qualifying people you’ve already spoken to.

In this session, we’ll break down where time-to-submit actually leaks and how to build a faster screening and shortlisting process, so you get quality candidates in front of clients before your competitors do.

What we’ll cover:

• Where time-to-submit really goes, and the bottlenecks that quietly slow every req

• Speeding up screening without lowering the bar on candidate quality

• Building a repeatable shortlisting process that works across roles and clients

• Reusing candidate data so you stop re-qualifying the same people

• Tooling and automation that shave hours off every submission

• Measuring what matters: time-to-submit, submit-to-interview, and win rate against competing firms

Who should attend:

Agency and staffing firm owners, recruiting team leads, and recruiters who compete on speed and want to win more placements.

Outcome:

You’ll leave with a practical playbook to cut time-to-submit, so your firm consistently shortlists first and wins more of the reqs you work.