From 5 minutes of Googling per profile to 5 seconds. Per candidate. Per consultant.
A staffing consultant fills 5 to 15 vacancies per week. Each role gets 50+ applicants. Researching employers by hand is impossible at that volume. SourceLens analyses employer context automatically so your consultant instantly sees which candidates fit.
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Volume is no excuse for mediocre shortlists
An average staffing consultant in a Dutch agency:
5-15
roles per week
50+
applicants per role
3-7
industries in one week
20%
juniors gone within 6 months
Monday a logistics role at a DC in Tilburg. Tuesday a production worker in Born. Wednesday an admin role at an insurer in Amsterdam. The consultant has to judge for every role which employers in the candidate profile are relevant. With 50 applicants per role, that is not feasible.
So you skip employers you do not recognise. Or you scroll through the first 5 profiles and send those to your client. The junior next to you knows nothing about those employers anyway because they have been here 4 months.
Time-to-shortlist is your KPI. But nobody measures who you skipped.
A worker who spent 18 months at an Albert Heijn DC knows how large-scale logistics operates. A candidate with the same job title at a local butcher does not. Same title on the profile. Completely different level. For staffing where pace matters, that difference costs you placements.
What this looks like in practice:
- Juniors deliver shortlists you still have to double-check
- Clients receive profiles that do not fit, retention is under pressure
- Strong candidates disappear because a competing agency called them 2 hours earlier
- Multi-branch agencies see one location score well and another not
- When a consultant leaves, their employer knowledge leaves with them
In staffing every minute per profile counts. Multiply that by 50 candidates per role and 10 roles per week, and you can work out why your margin is under pressure.
5 seconds per profile. For every consultant. Same context as a veteran.
SourceLens automatically analyses the last 8 employers of a candidate. Industry, organisation size, contract type, region, type of work. No Googling, no guessing. One click on the profile, answer within 5 seconds.
What staffing consultants do with it:
- Instantly see whether a candidate has experience at comparable employers
- Direct industry context on multi-sector roles (logistics, industrial, admin)
- Match on organisation size: was the candidate at an SME or a multinational
- Contract history visible: did the candidate work via staffing agencies before or only in permanent roles
- Works for the whole team, juniors get the same context as seniors
5 dimensions that matter for staffing:
Industry
Logistics, industrial, admin, healthcare, retail. Match on the industry of the current role, not just on job title.
Organisation size
A candidate from a 5,000 FTE multinational fits differently than someone from a 30 FTE SME.
Region
Travel willingness becomes visible through the geography of earlier employers, not just home address.
Contract type history
Has the candidate worked via staffing agencies before, or do they come from permanent employment? Predicts acceptance of the contract.
Type of work
Operational, supervisory, support, customer-facing. The distinction becomes visible from the employers, not from the title.
ROI for your staffing operation
What a consultant now does in 5 minutes with Google and LinkedIn, SourceLens does in 5 seconds.
A new consultant has the same employer context as a 5-year veteran. From day 1.
One extra placement per consultant per week is for most agencies a payback period of a few days.
When a consultant leaves, the employer knowledge stays in the system. No restart with every new colleague.
Do the math
Scenario: agency with 8 consultants, 10 roles per consultant per week
“Our consultants fill 8 to 12 roles per week. Researching employers by hand is just not realistic. Since we use SourceLens our juniors have the same feel for employers as our seniors. Clients notice it in the quality of what we present.”
Patricia v.D.
Operations manager staffing agency (3 branches, 18 FTE)
Launch price for staffing teams
Starter
Launch price- Unlimited projects and candidates per seat
- 18 employer-analysis dimensions
- CSV export to any ATS (Bullhorn, Carerix, OTYS, Connexys)
- SAFE MODE: only URLs, no scraping of candidate data
- Works with LinkedIn Basic, Lite, Recruiter
- Chat support within 24 hours
Multiple seats for team licences on request. Multi-branch discount from 10 seats.
€89/mo is less than 1 hour of a consultant. One extra placement per month pays back a full year of licence.
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