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The Invoice You Are Not Seeing

Qfyre TechLabs Brief - 1 page on why rate-card comparisons miss the actual cost of tech hiring.

  • The five invisible costs no vendor invoice shows: TA screening time, hiring manager interview time, offer drops and counter-offers, probation exits within 90 days, and re-sourcing the same role
  • What a standard vendor submission looks like next to a FYREScore-evaluated submission across 8 dimensions, from technical capability to a hiring confidence score
  • The real comparison to run instead of rate: interviews-to-offer ratio, time from JD to accepted offer, and 90-day retention on placed candidates
  • Why 58% of GCCs taking 45+ days on critical roles points to a quality-of-pipeline problem, not a sourcing problem
  • The reframe: what a rate actually includes, and why comparing it against a vendor sending 20 profiles for you to filter to 2 is not a fair comparison to either side

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Free Brief

The Invoice You Are Not Seeing

Why Rate-Card Comparisons Miss the Actual Cost of Tech Hiring

Every staffing vendor gives you a rate per hire or a margin percentage. That number is easy to compare, and it is also the wrong number to compare. The real cost lives in TA screening time, hiring manager interviews that should not have happened, offer drops, probation exits, and re-sourcing, none of which appear on an invoice. This brief makes those costs visible and shows the comparison that actually matters.

58%
GCCs Take 45+ Days
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Dimensions Evaluated
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