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The TA head was hiring 300+ technology roles a year and had almost no control over any of it. Time-to-hire was 90 days, long enough that candidates were frequently starting with a competitor by the time the offer came through. The team was nearly entirely dependent on a single agency, which meant they had no negotiating power and no visibility into the talent pool beyond what that agency chose to show them. Offer rejections were running at 22%, which everyone acknowledged was too high and nobody had diagnosed properly.

A full hiring funnel audit identified three root causes: weak sourcing strategy that created a single point of failure; a five-level offer approval process that added 8-12 days to every offer; and interview loops that weren't aligned to what the role actually required. A multi-channel sourcing playbook was built. Structured interviewing was introduced. Offer approvals were compressed from five levels to two. None of these changes required new technology, they required someone to make decisions that had been deferred for two years.

This reflects the type of challenge our consultants are built to solve, drawn from real industry experience. A European technology company was opening its first India GCC and had a specific problem: nobody in Hyderabad had heard of them. They were competing for the same software engineers as Amazon, Google, and Infosys GCCs, companies whose logos candidates recognised before the recruiter finished their first sentence. Salary wasn't the differentiator; they were offering competitive packages. The problem was that candidates couldn't evaluate an unknown company against a known one, so they defaulted to the known one.

We built the employer value proposition from scratch: 30 interviews with global employees to understand what was genuinely distinctive, and 20 with local candidates to understand what they actually cared about when evaluating an unknown employer. A LinkedIn presence was built with a 12-week content calendar that showed real work, real teams, and real career stories. Glassdoor was seeded with authentic reviews. A campus partnership was launched across three Hyderabad engineering colleges, not just placements, but technical talks and project sponsorships that built name recognition before recruiting started.

This reflects the type of challenge our consultants are built to solve, drawn from real industry experience. The site manager knew why people were leaving. Everyone did. The night-shift allowance hadn't been revised in three years. Two specific team managers were running their agents into the ground. New joiners had no idea what the next six months of their career looked like. The problem wasn't diagnosis, it was that nobody had the combination of authority, budget, and a structured plan to fix all three things at once. Annualised attrition was running at 38%, costing an estimated ₹2.8 Cr per year in replacement and retraining.

A structured root-cause analysis across five agent cohorts. Exit interview data, which was being collected but never analysed, was processed for the first time. Three primary drivers were confirmed: manager quality in two specific teams, below-market night-shift supplements, and a 90-day career path that existed on paper but wasn't being delivered. Each driver got a targeted intervention. The two problem managers were addressed directly, which required a difficult conversation with their department head. The night-shift allowance was benchmarked and revised. A 90-day structured onboarding plan was built and made mandatory, not optional.