Scaled From 200 to 1,400 Interviews Per Month Without Adding Staff
UK Staffing Agency · Recruitment & Staffing, United Kingdom
Results at a Glance
- Interviews per Month: 200 → 1,400
- Cost per Interview: £65 → £4.10
- Placement Rate: 31% → 68%
The Challenge
- Mid-size staffing agency in Manchester handling recruitment for 40+ client companies - 8 recruiters could only conduct 200 interviews per month, creating a bottleneck - Without an ai recruiting platform, high-volume clients were threatening to switch agencies - Positions stayed open too long, damaging client relationships
The Solution
- Deployed The Cognitive as their ai recruiting assistant across all client accounts - Automated candidate screening sent AI interview links directly from job postings - AI adapted questions per role type and generated standardized scorecards - Scorecards matched each client's evaluation criteria - Recruiters reviewed results and forwarded qualified candidates to clients
The Results
- Monthly interview capacity jumped from 200 to 1,400 with the same 8 recruiters - Cost per interview dropped from £65 to £4.10 - Placement rate nearly doubled from 31% to 68% - Won 12 new client accounts in 3 months by offering faster turnaround - Zero additional headcount needed - See AI interview pricing for high-volume hiring teams. - Read more: AI phone screening replacing recruiter calls
We pitch clients on 48-hour candidate shortlists now. Before, it took two weeks. The AI interviews are consistent enough that our clients trust the reports without needing their own screening round.