About A global staffing and RPO group
A global staffing and RPO group operating in nine markets. Consultants validated talent by hand, which made coverage a function of how many consultants there were and how many hours were in their day. In staffing, every vacancy left uncovered is a fee nobody collects.
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They had already built one
Before Orbio was in the room, the group had spent millions building its own agentic recruitment platform. The return was not there.
That is an awkward position for a vendor to walk into, and a clarifying one. Nobody in that building was going to be impressed by a demo. The only argument that would land was a measured one.
02
So they measured it themselves
In the first market, validations per consultant went from 20 a week to 113 — by week two. Twenty-eight people validated in five hours, against a consultant's best day of eight.
In the largest market, validated placements per consultant rose from 43.5 to 60, with assisted utilisation at 70% against a 58% baseline. In the capital region, productivity was up 54% by week three.
None of those figures are ours. The client ran the comparison and reported the result.
03
One process that travels
Nine markets, nine processes, nine languages: anything built for one of them had to survive the move to the next. Screening, scheduling and talent communication now run multilingually across all nine, on one set-up rather than nine.
The real test of that is day one in a new market. First placement after go-live: under 24 hours. Seventy-five thousand applications have run through the nine markets so far, and one of them now runs its entire high-volume operation on the platform, adding end-clients weekly.
04
Capacity, not headcount
Consultant productivity rose several-fold in the first weeks, and nobody was added to make it happen. The same consultants covered more, because the part of their day that used to be hand-validation stopped being hand-validation.
What Orbio runs
- Multi-language screening, scheduling and talent communication across nine markets.
- One market now runs its whole high-volume operation on the platform, adding end-clients weekly.
Results
- Validations per consultant went from 20 to 113 a week — in week two.
- 28 people validated in five hours, against a consultant best day of 8.
- Validated placements per consultant up from 43.5 to 60, with assisted utilisation at 70% against a 58% baseline.
- Productivity up 54% in the capital region by week three.
- First placement in a new market: under 24 hours from go-live.
- 75K applications across nine markets.
The impact
20 → 113
validations per consultant per week
First market, week two — measured by the client.
43.5 → 60
validated and placed per full-time consultant
Largest market, week one, with assisted utilisation at 70% against a 58% baseline.
<24 hours
to first placement after go-live in a new market
What's next
Having measured the gain themselves, the group chose to expand with Orbio rather than continue with the platform it had built — across five-plus markets, and into RPO globally.