Built for the contract-recruiter business model
Contract recruiting is its own thing — you’re not a permanent placement agency and you’re not embedded RPO. You’re parachuted in for 3 to 9 months, sourcing for a specific role or function, billed by the hour or by the month. The Contract Recruiting snapshot is built around that engagement model.
- Engagement workspace — each contract is a self-contained workspace: pipeline, hiring managers, calibration notes, sourcing channels, weekly reports. Easy to context-switch.
- Billable-hour tracking — recruiters log time per engagement, per activity type. The system rolls hours into a weekly invoice with breakdowns the client expects.
- Weekly client digest — candidates sourced, interviews scheduled, offers made, hours used — auto-sent every Friday to the client’s hiring manager. Builds trust and reduces “what have you been doing?” calls.
- Pipeline-handoff export — at engagement end, the snapshot exports the candidate pipeline to the client’s ATS. Clean handoff, no data orphans.
- Recruiter productivity dashboard — see your team’s hours per engagement, candidates per recruiter, and effective hourly rate.
Where contract recruiting wins
Hiring managers love contract recruiters because you’re surgical. You’re brought in for a specific need, you deliver, and you leave. The snapshot makes the experience even sharper: the hiring manager always knows what you’re doing, when the next interview is, and who’s in the funnel.
The weekly digest is the secret weapon. Most contract recruiters under-communicate during the middle of the engagement. With the snapshot’s auto-digest, your client gets reassured every Friday — and that’s what produces 6-month and 9-month renewals.
Compliance for contract recruiting
The snapshot ships with EEOC-compliant intake, optional self-identification fields, FCRA-style consent for any background-check workflow, and per-engagement data retention rules. When the engagement ends, candidates the client onboarded get handed off cleanly; candidates the client did not get retained per your firm’s retention policy.
For confidential searches (which contract recruiters often run), the snapshot supports a hidden-role mode where candidates don’t see the client’s name until they’re at the offer stage.
What this typically replaces
For contract recruiters, this commonly replaces a Notion-plus-Calendly-plus-Toggl rig or a generic ATS (which doesn’t handle the engagement-based billable model well). Your team gets a unified workspace per engagement. Your billing is clean. Your clients get the weekly transparency that drives renewals. Your handoff at engagement end is professional, not a forwarded spreadsheet.