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The labor market for technical professionals is tight, fast-moving, and highly competitive. For TalentCore Recruitment, this long meant operating under constant pressure, with extensive manual search work and limited scalability. The move to NIXZ Recruit marked a turning point in how the agency finds, evaluates, and presents candidates to clients.
Until early 2024, TalentCore relied on a largely traditional sourcing model. Consultants manually created complex search strings, searched across several platforms, and built longlists candidate by candidate. This approach required a significant time investment per vacancy and made it difficult to scale output without adding more consultants. Results also varied strongly depending on individual skill and experience. Senior consultants were able to deliver quality faster, while junior team members needed more time and guidance. For highly specialized or newly emerging roles, even experienced consultants struggled to quickly identify the right profiles, leading to longer vacancy durations and growing pressure from clients.
TalentCore Recruitment is a Dutch recruitment agency with a strong focus on IT, data, and engineering roles. With a team of twelve consultants, the company serves both scale-ups and established organizations. TalentCore’s strength lies in deep profile knowledge and a personal approach toward candidates and hiring managers. At the same time, rapid growth increasingly put pressure on existing processes, which began to limit further expansion.
The search for a more scalable and consistent solution led TalentCore to NIXZ Recruit. The ability to start directly from a vacancy description fundamentally changed the workflow. Consultants no longer had to translate a role into dozens of manual filters, but could instead focus on describing the role accurately and completely. NIXZ Recruit transformed this input into a full sourcing strategy and candidate pool within minutes.
“For the first time, our starting point became the role itself, not the tooling. That completely changed how we work.”
Sanne de Vries, Team Lead
The transparent explanation of why candidates matched made it easier to trust the results and quickly move forward.
Beyond sourcing speed, TalentCore saw a clear improvement in shortlist quality through AI-driven assessments. Candidates were evaluated not just on keywords or job titles, but on overall relevance, depth of experience, and alignment with the client’s context. This resulted in more balanced shortlists with fewer but stronger candidates. Consultants could clearly explain to clients why someone was included and how they compared to others. Hiring managers noticed the difference quickly, reporting fewer irrelevant profiles and more meaningful conversations during interviews. This consistency helped position TalentCore as a strategic partner rather than a transactional supplier.
With sourcing largely automated, the role of consultants shifted significantly. Time previously spent on repetitive search tasks was reallocated to analysis, interpretation, and client interaction. Consultants used NIXZ Recruit to explore alternative profile definitions, test assumptions about the market, and discuss trade-offs with clients in real time. This enabled more honest and data-driven conversations about availability, salary expectations, and feasibility. Internally, consultants experienced greater ownership of the process and more satisfaction in their work, as their expertise was applied where it added the most value.
Within three months of adopting NIXZ Recruit, TalentCore achieved measurable improvements. Average time-to-shortlist dropped from ten days to four, while the number of candidates presented per role decreased without impacting placements. In fact, the placement ratio improved, as candidates were better aligned from the start. The reduced workload pressure allowed the team to handle more vacancies simultaneously without sacrificing quality. Today, NIXZ Recruit is embedded in TalentCore’s standard way of working and plays a central role in supporting sustainable growth and consistent delivery.
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