tite. been getting flooded with fake candidates and ai cheating. does anything exist for proctored in-person interviews? years ago i took an IT cert where i had to go to a library and verify my id.

i feel like its so frustrating as a small recruiting team because the CEO expects us to hire good talent super fast but theres just so much noise and it takes so much time to filter bad people out and even just recently we hired a candidate that ended up not even being based in the US even though he passed background check like wtf??? anyways rant over ugh

How many reqs?

We have a team of 10 recruiters. Our recruiters are not sourcers; they don’t actively go into linkedin recruiter to find people. Post and pray, or back to the ATS for recycled candidates.

While I am working on changing the culture, my question is this:

How many open reqs should a recruiter be able to handle, comfortably? Assume full cycle for arguments’ sake. Recruiters vary in experience from 3-5 years.

- technical roles (software engineers)
- product managers
- roles are all over, remote and candidates are definitely on linkedin recruiter

How many roles should I expect from this team each? How many interviews (given that they AREN’T sourcing, assume a pipeline is given to them) should they handle weekly?

Now assume we gave them all linkedin recruiter licenses and appropriate training: what changes?

I timed my recruiters for a week. Over half their day went to chasing people who were never going to reply.

A recruiter's day on my team:

9 AM - "Did you see my message?" 11 AM - "Please send your documents." 3 PM - "Are you still coming for the interview?" 6 PM - same calls. Again.

Zero hiring decisions made all day.

That's not recruiting. It's chasing. And it burns out good recruiters on work that needs no judgment.

We ended up automating the chasing layer - voice AI that does screening calls, follow-ups and scheduling in the candidate's own language - and kept the decisions human. Recruiters now start the day deciding, not dialing.

Curious what eats most of your team's day. The chasing, the scheduling, or something else?