The hiring window is shorter than everyone thinks

A strong backend engineer who updates their profile on a Tuesday is often gone by the following Friday. Not because the market is thin. Because the market moves fast, and most companies don't.

The average technical hire at a growing company takes well over a month, start to signed offer. The best candidates are off the market in under two weeks. That gap isn't a minor inefficiency. It's the whole game.

The company doesn't lose because they chose wrong. They lose because they decided right, too slowly.

Most hiring managers read a slow process as diligence. Candidates read it as indecision. By the third week of interviews, the engineer who impressed everyone in round one has usually accepted somewhere else — somewhere that moved in half the time.

This is rarely a sourcing problem. Companies can usually find the right person. What they can't do, running hiring as a side process on top of a full-time job, is move at the speed that person requires.

Which is the actual opening here. Not a talent shortage — a speed shortage. The fix isn't more candidates in the pipeline. It's compressing the distance between "this person is good" and "this person has an offer."

— Aaron Pottinger connects growing tech companies with the recruiters who can close that gap before it costs them the hire.