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Twenty-five years in specialist engineering recruitment, written up as articles you can actually use, plus real stories of what changes when hiring runs on one process instead of a dozen.
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Hiring strategyFeatured
Speed is the whole game: why the fastest shortlist wins specialist engineering hires
In a market where the best commissioning engineers are holding three conversations at once, the business that shortlists first usually hires. Time-to-shortlist, not time-to-fill, is the number that actually decides it.
Charlie Rowe
Commercial Director, Source Centre
19 May 2026 6 min
Case studyIllustrative
From 14 agencies to one process: how a power & commissioning contractor took back control of hiring
9 days → <48h
Time-to-shortlist
14 → 6
Agencies, now tiered
12 → 1
Invoice formats per cycle
100%
Compliance gated at submission
22 April 2026Read case study
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