Post by Talent Inside

The 20% fee isn't the most expensive part of using a recruitment agency. It's the bad hire you didn't catch. Because the recruiter who placed them knew your job spec. They didn't know your business. There's a difference. One gets you CVs. The other gets you the right person. Most agencies are running 20+ roles at once. Yours is somewhere in the middle of that list. They briefed up in 30 minutes and got to work. No context. No pattern recognition. No skin in the game beyond the placement fee. Scaling businesses can't afford that. Not because of the cost. Because every wrong hire slows everything down. Longer ramp. Team friction. Another search in 6 months. This is what Talent Inside is built around. Embedded when you're hiring at volume and need someone inside the business, living it. Project-based when you've got specific roles to fill and don't want a full-time hire to do it. Either way, one partner who actually knows what you're building. That's what changes the quality of the hire. Want to test a sharper hook, or does this feel close?